Avid noticers of this blog will realise that, since 2011, I have been rapidly expanding my abilities as a folder. Like most people, my first ever origami experience (apart from largely unsuccessful paper planes) was an origami crane (Tsuru) – taught to me as a boy of 11 yrs by a Japanese exchange student. A […]
It is always interesting to receive the latest JOAS Tanteidan Magazine: On the cover was a model I immediately knew I had to try – Yoo Tae Yong’s “Quokka”. As far as I am aware, this is the first Quokka design, and wow, what a beauty. The model is fully featured – in proportion to […]
To celebrate the release of his lovely new book of modular polyhedra (must get me one), Fergus Currie offered an early morning (for me at least on the opposite side of the planet) workshop on how to fold his second stellation of a cuboctahedron: I set an alarm, awoke at 1am and folded along with […]
A group of mates has, periodically over the last few decades, gotten together in a smoke-filled room to play a board game. Not any old game, but “Dogfight” – a dice-based, card controlled WW1 battle of the airspace over Europe. Although most of the players were well passed their fifties, we squabbled like little kids, […]
This started as pure procrastination – I had marking and reporting to do but …. Folded from a “live guide” photodiagram series produced by Daniel Brown, as part of a channel in a discord from another planet, irresistible as it is yet another variation of eastern dragon I knew I HAD to fold, This little […]
