Sunday, June 22, 2008

ORIGAMI.

Check out the art of Robert J. Lang. He is an origami specialist, Origami is of course, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of square paper. Lang takes the artform to another level. Interested in trying? He even provides the fold lines to follow. Good luck!
Robert J. Lang氏のアートをチェックしてみて下さい。彼は日本の伝統的なアートである折り紙のスペシャリストです。このアートの目標はたった一枚の四角い紙をできればのりやはさみなどを使わずに、幾何学的な折り目や模様を使って、オブジェを作り出すことです。Lang氏の作品は普通の折り紙アートとは違います。やってみたいですか?折り線まで書いてくれました。Good luck!

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OK, now it's your turn! はい、次はあなたの番!
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4 comments:

Jimmy! said...

There was a New Yorker article about Origami, or more like the WORLD of Origami, I usually never read those 10-15 page articles in the NYer but this blew me away, I didn't realize how crazy THAT world was. Imagine that? A bunch of mathematicians folding paper into the most amazing sculptures you'll put your eyes on? Yeah, do it, NO, SERIOUSLY, IMAGINE IT, NOW!!!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_orlean

airin said...

(@口@)........︽⊙_⊙︽

nka0338 said...

You should look up David Huffman. Before he died in 1999, he was a professor of computers at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He pioneered and developed computational origami and developed some of the most amazing origami ever seen. His interpretation of the art is unlike anything seen before. It will blow your mind.

joetron2030 said...

Funny, I was just going to mention the New Yorker article, too!

It was such a good read, but Susan Orlean always makes what would seem like the most mundane subject interesting. She wrote a great article about 10 years ago about Orchids that became the source for the movie "Adaptation".