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Hey everyone. I have been folding pretty regularly with OrigaMIT over the past several months, and am part of an organization that uses origami and other paper craft to support linguistic development in economically developing countries.

Hope you like the pics. I am a relative newcomer to the world of origami, but have benefited greatly from being around such great artists. I will try to post whenever I finish something new. Thanks for looking.

Lang's Black Forest Cuckoo Clock
Folded from a 1 foot by 10 foot piece of elephant hide



Yoshizawa's Gorilla (in a boat)
Folded from single square of handmade abaca and papyrus paper made in Kigali, Rwanda



Yoshizawa's Rabbit
Folded from 2 inch square of Origamido Duo paper





Kamiya's Smiladon
Folded from 28 inch square of homemade duo paper (one sheet mulberry, one sheet unryu w/ mc)







Kamiya's Pheonix
Folded from 28 inch sheet of mulberry paper







Thanks again for looking. I have a couple more models completed that I need to photograph, and I will post them as soon as I do.

Great stuff! Particularly nice job on the Smilodon, that is a lovely fold.

i agree the smilodon is great.

Awesome models!! Where do you get a 1 by 10 foot piece of EH?

I got a huge roll of EH for christmas. Maybe he cut it from a roll like that

I actually took four smaller sheets and taped them together. Lang describes how to do this in Origami Design Secrets so you won't see any tape seams. There are a couple times that you are folding through the seams so it's not the greatest way to do it, but it works.

I would have loved to have a roll of EH. Were do you get something like that?

No idea. My dad got it for me.

Awesome stuff, man!

Thanks a lot.

Senor, I see you are from Boston. Have you ever been to any OrigamMIT meetings?

http://origamit.scripts.mit.edu/

Yeah, I go to the meetings every now and then. I met this dude named Erik there and we get together to fold sometimes.

Haha lame, why can't you just make your name OrigamiMark and make it easy for everyone lol.

Been working on a lot of new models. Hopefully I will get pics up soon. In the mean time, here is a koi I just finished. I blended a little Lang and a little Lafosse, and am pretty happy with the result. The model is about 6 inches in length and is folded from a single sheet of Origamido paper.

that fish looks good

OrigamiErik wrote:Haha lame, why can't you just make your name OrigamiMark and make it easy for everyone lol.

I thought about it, but decided that Origami<name> as a username lacks originality.

/burn

Nice koi!

amazing skill!