Origami

2004 November 6
by David

We watched a fairly depressing live-action film at Anime society last night called Hana-bi (meaning ‘fireworks’), written, directed and acted-in by the omni-skilled Takeshi Kitano. I won’t bore you with the details right now but sufficed to say it didn’t have the happiest of endings, still, a brilliant film.

A little later on a few of us reconvened to practice the ancient art of origami (paper folding) and I got a few pics:

Origami
Colored origami paper from Muji

Origami
Helping hands

Origami
Solitary crane

Of course we couldn’t quite rival the proper Japanese origami masters who can make models like this in their sleep:

Origami Master

…now there’s skill.

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16 Responses leave one →
  1. 2006 April 3
    pikaboo permalink

    how to fold a ” dragon “

  2. 2006 April 6

    Hmm, the dragon was made by a pro – no idea how he did it!!

  3. 2006 August 28
    Guilherme permalink

    These guys who make origamis must be very patients, i suppose…

  4. 2006 August 28

    Very patient!!

  5. 2007 November 13
    Willow permalink

    That some complacated dragon, i made an ameture one n it luks more like a think chicken :S
    who eva did tht man i wish i was u

  6. 2008 January 1
    Cedric permalink

    Wow!!! Do you know or rather, do someone know where could I get the diagram for that dragon? I love its appearance!!!

  7. 2008 March 10
    Dave permalink

    dude that was awesome, could i get the instructions on that thing? XD

  8. 2008 April 22
    Aaron permalink

    That man has incredible skill. It must have taken years of paperfolding to be skilled enough to make something like this.

  9. 2008 May 18
    kai kikuchi permalink

    Iam japanise and i love to fold origami

  10. 2008 June 27
    rjsdc permalink

    dont you know him?? he's only JOSEPH WU!! the great origami artist..

  11. 2008 July 2
    art permalink

    WOW thats soo cool!!! i mean i cant even fold a simple crain!

  12. 2008 September 6
    buzb74 permalink

    Hi, could you tell me who the origsmi expert is who made the dragon, or could you tell me where I can find more pictures of this identical dragon.

    |Regards

  13. 2008 September 6

    The expert is Joseph Wu – you can find his website here – http://www.origami.as/

  14. 2008 September 17

    Sweet… i don’t think there would be any instuctions for that because those diagrams were hard to come up with and i doubt that they would want to share the knowledge with you. but there is this one website that can show you…sorry it’s in pdf form…just google ‘dragon in flight’ and it’ll pop up. they have a youtube video for that too.

  15. 2008 October 20
    Aliya permalink

    hey can you please teach me how to make the dradon. i love origami and love to learn more. someday i would LOVE to be an origami pro but i am far from that. please teach me i am a quick learner. Aliya

  16. 2008 December 31

    da? bys mi troche wzorów na sk?adanie np tego smoka lub cos innego?

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