Another lily kusudama

I wasn't pleased with my first attempt to turn lilies into a kusudama (you can see it here ), so I tried another way to assembly the flowers and I love the result!





Did you know....

...that origami doesn't just cover immobile things, it also covers moving objects? Origami can move in clever ways. This technique is called Action Origami and includes origami that can fly,or the ones that use kinetic energy of a person's hands which applied to a certain region on the model can move any flap or limb. Bangers are models that make a noise when flicked down hard.
Action origami is normally perceived as a tool built to amuse but some are designed to inspire wonder.

Yami Yamauchi has designed some action origami.
He is an origami enthusiast, a teacher, and an innovator who has created many, many models that have inspired and delighted origami followers. He teaches and promotes origami at schools, in community organizations and motivational seminars. Yami Yamauchi was the 2006 receiver of the Ranana Benjamin Award from Origami USA honoring his contributions as a teacher. This honor goes to an origami teacher, particularly those who work with children, for outstanding contributions in the teaching of origami.
"Within a single sheet of paper exists unlimited beautiful forms, which you will enjoy, ORIGAMI." -Yami

"Life is Beautiful", pictured above, was a collaborative effort with John Andrisan (mathematical graphics), Joe Hamamoto (folding) and Peter Kuo (Chinese caligraphy).



In this video you can see a demo of 9 origami action models designed by Yami Yamauchi.
1) Jacob's Ladder
2) Super Jumping Frog
3) Doodlebug
4) Fireworks
5) Magic Wallet
6) Magic CD Case
7) Little Blow Top
8) Dreidel
9) Spinning Top



PS: aimee, thanks again! :*

Lily Kusudama

A stunning kusudama made from 24 lily flowers






Here is the tutorial for lily flower:


And the assembly part:

Did you know?

Ten Things to Try If You Get Stuck:

Everyone hits an origami brick wall sooner or later, but don’t panic –here are a number of alternatives for you to try:

•  Ask a friend to fold the model with you.

•  Forget what you were folding, and make something else.

• Look at the next drawing and bodge it.

•  Re-read the text more carefully.

• Throw away the model and start again.

•  Try it again with a larger square.

•  Have a cup of tea before coming back to it.

•  Leave it overnight before coming back to it.

•  Leave it a week before come back to it (and so on).

• Write to me and ask for help

Spiky star and Sunken Sonobe Buckyball

Here are some more origami items that I made couple of days ago.


SPIKY STAR:


Here is the tutorial:


SUNKEN SONOBE BUCKYBALL




And the tutorial:


Enjoy!

Did you know? 
that origami is also present in the fashion world?

Origami Fashion is being prototyped at the Design Laboratory at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London, UK.

In origami fashion, a person takes a piece of material and through a series of simple folds, transforms a two-dimensional layer of fabric into a three-dimensional accessory.

The art of origami has inspired lots of fashion designers. Here are some of their stunning work:

Origami Bucky Flower Ball

The first one is made from different colored paper, but the second one is made only from white paper, and I painted her, I wanted to look more like frangipani, which is my favorite flower :D

Did you know?

Origami Australia built an origami house big enough to walk into, complete with origami furniture and decorations. They used over one square kilometre of paper and over 15,000 separate creases resulting in 395 bricks. Over 2,000 man hours were needed and 4,512 cups of coffee!

Origami House in the great outdoors - photomontage by Matt Gardiner

Jun Maekawa's penguin, Flowers folded by June Sakamoto & Kay Eng- traditional lily, Yamaguchi's narcissus, Ted Normington's Daffodil. The vase is Verdi's vase. Sushi Tray by Matt Gardiner, Makoto Yamaguchi's sushi folded by Matt

Flowers & Sushi, Chairs & Table, crane arrangement in frame on wall by Brenda Saunders

more pictures: www.papercrane.org/index/Projects/78

My origami collection

Origami, or paper folding, is a great tradition in Japan. It's very popular among both young and old people, and it has spread to other countries beyond Japan.
Origami is one of the simplest form of art because the only materials that you need are your hands and paper.
It's extraordinary how you can magically transform an everyday material into a living, breathing creation.

The possible origami creations are endless, from flowers to birds, from cars to clocks, from dung-beetles to elephants, but I like especially the geometric shapes.

Here’s a list of things you never knew about origami

• The word origami has only been in use in the English language for 50 years.
• You can fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.
• You can solve quadratic and cubic equations by folding paper.
• The oldest known origami book, Hiden Senbazuru Orikata, was written in 1797.
• The largest origami crane was 65 metres by 36 metres. The smallest was folded from a 0.25 millimetre square piece of audio tape by Akira Naito.
• The simplest origami model has only one fold, the most complex more than 200 folds. 
• There are more than 200 varieties of origami elephant.
• You can make origami models from food, metal, mesh, money, and of course, paper.
• Poppadom (People Out Practising Paperfolding and Dining on Masala) is a society dedicated to folding origami while eating curry.
• Saburo Kase both created and taught origami, despite being blind.

And now, my collection....

   

These are origami stars 

Did you know?

The tradition among many in the origami community is that if you fold 1000 of the traditional cranes or stars, you'll get a wish. This has taken on an additional meaning since World War II when a Japanese girl who was suffering from leukemia as a result of the radiation exposure from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. She started folding cranes in the hopes that she would be able to recover. She did not finish before her death, but her classmates carried on with a wish for peace and to mourn the loss of everyone who lost their lives as a result of the atomic bombs. The Children's Peace Monument was put in place in her memory in Hiroshima and every year millions of paper cranes are left at the monument.

I only got 100, so I have a lot of work to do
Sooo, if you had the chance to make a wish that will come true, what it will be?