Monthly Archives: June 2012

Uncanny, and a Dragonfly

Ancient pine, in emerald, shine bright, shine weak. Oriole song, in clarity, sounds less, sounds more. Every year, ten thousand sames, ten thousand differences. The mirror in the sky gathers no dust. ~~~ Tall drift of a bull reed cluster, … Continue reading

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Fly By Dragon

Perched on High Dragons go Roar Dragon in Flight by Charles Esseltine: http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/dragon_ce_25.pdf And, as always, the rest:

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Pine Wind and Bicycles

Under the hum of streetlights, bicycle flutters gather, the sheer grey range reconstitutes as starless black. From the faraways and thoroughfares voices wail, near and distant, chatters of sirens rattle through night black. Through park lands peach blossoms twirl, and … Continue reading

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Fiery Dragon

Fiery Dragon by Kade Chan:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadechan/4038835985/in/set-72157619583685876 (diagram can be downloaded from there as well). This is my first attempt at complex origami, and while it’s not the best fold ever (but the one in the link, damn that’s good), I’m … Continue reading

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Plum Blossoms on a Tigers whiskers

The rivers, they all flow to the east. The mountains, they all face to the south. Lotus flowers are oblivious of the mud, a tiger bats a plum blossom tumble of twenty years. ~~~ Lines in the hall, of robes … Continue reading

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Minature Origami

Bird Design: http://www.origami.cz/Compose/vrana.html Dragon Design: http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-dragon.html Crane designs can be found everywhere. This one is for scale And as always, the rest!

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Dragons and Dinosaurs (of paper)

Marc Vigo Anglada’s Snake Dragon: http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/snake-dragon.pdf David Chan’s Elasmosaurus: http://web.archive.org/web/20070222130846/http://www.origami.lt/diagramos/elasmosaurus.pdf Fernando Gilgado Gómez’s Bebé Diplodocus: http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/diplodocus_baby.pdf Just me having fun. ~~~ And as always, the rest!

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Jade Fist, Mountain Peaks

Emerald sky hinges on the distant edge, days filled with vigorous hoeing, idle sitting. Half tame tigers take food from my bare hands, and yet, the mountains are still mountains. ~~~ A dragons laugh, a tigers roar. Eight fractures ripple … Continue reading

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Eagles!

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Blue eagle by Joseph Wu: http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/diagrams/eagle-1.pdf Green eagle by TP Kong: http://www.angelfire.com/ks3/origamikong/Photo_diagrams_Eagle2.html As always, the rest:

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Four Little Buddha’s

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