http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:NaciremaDiputs&section=today deviantART RSS for by:NaciremaDiputs en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:52:11 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://NaciremaDiputs.deviantart.com/journal/27861326/ http://NaciremaDiputs.deviantart.com/journal/27861326/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:20:49 PDT Folding & Papercraft category, but I keep getting an error saying the category is currently closed for submissions.

This makes me very sad. I was already sad from the removal of the Origami category and being pushed into a hodge-podge category where most of the work is unrelated to origami in any way other than its made from paper.

Sigh.

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I ordered three new origami books this week. All three books are about Origami Aircraft that can really fly. I'm thinking of making my own Airforce and then flying them off the roof.

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Alas, I am not a photographer. I took dozens of pictures. I tried using different lighting, both natural and artificial. I tried every setting my camera has available. I even tried using different cameras, but to no avail. The elusive nature of the beast will suffer no picture to be taken.

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This makes me sad.

There is as much history and culture tied to the name of my craft as there is to the art itself. Simply calling it "Folding" feels like they are generalizing the art form too much.

Maybe I'm being silly, but I've spent a long time getting my friends and family to take my art seriously and this just feels like a set back to everything I've tried to accomplish to get people to see the beauty of Origami.

Oh well...

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Anyone know of a good source for paper that might work for this model? I need to be able to make very large squares at least 50cm to a side. I'm not opposed to wet-folding, I know finding large pieces of foil-backed paper is rather difficult so I'm trying to keep my options open. Any help is appreciated greatly!

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One of the most famous origami designs is the Japanese crane. The crane is auspicious in Japanese culture. Japan has launched a satellite named tsuru (crane). Legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart's desire come true. The origami crane (折鶴 orizuru in Japanese) has become a symbol of peace because of this legend, and because of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was exposed to the radiation of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as an infant, and it took its inevitable toll on her health. She was then a hibakusha -- an atom bomb survivor. By the time she was twelve in 1955, she was dying of leukemia. Hearing the legend, she decided to fold 1,000 cranes so that she could live. However, when she saw that the other children in her ward were dying, she realized that she would not survive and wished instead for world peace and an end to suffering.

A popular version of the tale is that Sadako folded 644 cranes before she died; her classmates then continued folding cranes in honor of their friend. Sadako actually folded more than 1,300 cranes before her death. She was buried with a wreath of 1,000 cranes to honor her dream. While her effort could not extend her life, it moved her friends to make a granite statue of Sadako in the Hiroshima Peace Park: a young girl standing with her hand outstretched, a paper crane flying from her fingertips. Every year the statue is adorned with thousands of wreaths of a thousand origami cranes. A group of one thousand paper cranes is called senbazuru in Japanese.

The tale of Sadako has been dramatized in many books and movies. In one version, Sadako wrote a haiku that translates into English as:

I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the world so that children will no longer have to die this way.

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...so anyone know where I can get a good deal on a 2+ gHz Pentium M? Dell wants over $700 for the part alone. I may need a new 60 gB SATA HDD as well...

This is also going to cause a delay in the production of the diagrams and crease patterns I was creating for dragon I designed. I was nearly done with that project when this happened and the files were stored on the drive that has failed so two weeks worth of work are now a complete loss. I'm still planning on making some diagrams, but its going to take much longer than anticipated.

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All comments are welcome and greatly appreciated!

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[EDIT: I removed the picture inserts because they aren't working. The pictures are available in my gallery though. I apologize for my lack of HTML skillz, as I was too busy folding paper to pay attention that day in class.]

I'm still not 100% satisfied with the design yet. I want to move the front legs forward and try to isolate the back edge of the wing to separate it from the hindquarters more. The variations shown above are mostly the same, except I was trying different things with the head and front legs. I've been trying to form a couple of spikes behind the head but the paper gathers heavily in that area and suffers from paper spread a little.

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I'll try and post a picture or two tommorrow!

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I think I'm going to like it here! Feel free to leave me any comments, critiques, or feedback! I'll try to upload some more of my work soon! I'll be doing an origami christmas tree in about a week, so I'll try to get some pics up asap!

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