Comments for The Fitful Flog

Comment on Frangipani Box Redux by mawar

mawar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:48:27 +0000

Oschene,

I find it hard to fold the paper when the line is a curved line. Is there any tools to do so?

Thank you.

Comment on Catch a Falling Star by b

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:38:00 +0000

one thing that does make it a little easier is to imagine red lines where there are currently grey lines ajoining the tips of the centre star (to make a slightly smaller pentagon inside the red pentagon that is already there.

Or is this giving away too many of your secrets??

Comment on Lead Foot Melvin and the Smart Waterbomb by Janice

Janice — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:11:28 +0000

Okay, so you’re not rich and famous, but this smart waterbomb is beautiful. This housewife (very un-rich) appreciates it!

Comment on Emma’s Dress by Vinita

Vinita — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:29:27 +0000

Amazing folding Nathan! Whoever destroyed your work must be punsihed…But you did a commandable job.

Comment on Origami Rose Nation, Rising! by aneli

aneli — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:47:35 +0000

GAH!!!! i got it until the locking part…

then again… everything up to that point is pretty self explanatory… :/

Comment on Still in Alpha by Frith

Frith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:48:52 +0000

Nice. I found this site when researching an experiment into an ‘octagonal’ rose.

I have a question though. The basis of these types of roses is a twist fold, and my original theory was that this twist can only be performed if the opposite sides of the polygon are parallel (square, octagon…), but you have done it with a pentagon.

So my question is this: can you perform a twist fold with any regular polygon? Or what might the criteria be do you think?

Comment on Zhoubi Bowl by va

va — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:59:28 +0000

this is an awesome model. thanks for sharing. i love it.

Comment on Perspective by oschene

oschene — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:57:07 +0000

An interesting observe — several of the more irritable members of the Roman church feel that the Hokey Pokey was invented by Jesus and they aren’t overly happy about it. One wonders what these sensitive chaps would make of Dutch prog-rockers, Focus, playing their signature tune, Hocus Pocus. We do know that our Savior once attended a wedding where wine was served by the firkin (this was the pre-metric firkin, too). It only stands to reason that Jesus would have been participating in a goofy group dance. Was it the hora? The electric slide? Rabbits are not kosher, so we may safely assume it was not the bunny hop.

When does something cease to be itself and become something other? I am thinking about wood and bogwood and lignite and petrified wood. At what point does the stone forget its wood nature? When would bronzed paper forget its paper nature?

Oprah? What the hell? Is this what you left me for – a twitchy Dutchman? Oh, the ignominy….

Comment on Perspective by Joel Cooper

Joel Cooper — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:33:26 +0000

I think our friend Owesen did something along those lines some time back, perhaps making a maquette from a casting of origami rather than waxifying the piece itself.
I was trained for cire perdu in those temps perdu many years ago. What you suggest might be possible if the mask didn’t fall apart when saturated with melted wax. But then the end result wouldn’t be paper anymore, would it. It just seems wrong.
By the way, doesn’t that image of the Lego Jesus look a bit like he’s doing the Hokey Pokey. Not that he never did the Hokey Pokey, for all I know he invented it. He could even do it on water. That would be way cool.

Comment on Perspective by oschene

oschene — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:44:59 +0000

This weekend, I saw a story in the paper: my old droogie, Berthel, had some of his work recreated in Lego. He’d be crazy over that, but hell, it’s better than what the freaking Mormons did.

I must confess to a most inconsistent passion for the semi-permanence of bronze. I wear a piece of Roman military bronze around my neck, just because I love the idea of a long-forgotten hand, casting it — probably using the same method you describe here. Makes me wonder — if you dipped a Cooperian mask in paraffin wax, could you then make the cire go all perdu? (I remember discussing cire perdu with Mr. Petzel, Florence Temko’s husband — he was a silversmith. I knew of the method from Johnny Tremain, but had no clue how it actually worked.)

Of course, it would be wrong, to strive for immortality in this way. That wouldn’t stop it being cool. Way cool.