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Maddwraph

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does anyone do this stuff? its so cool. i bought a book yesterday called "origami on the flip side" because i want to learn it. complex stuff, but very awesome.

Im brasilian, but live in the united states. Really enjoying martial arts.

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I have been considering taking it up myself. I like finding simple random ways to enrich myself, and I saw this 2006 calandar we sell at Borders that has one origami design every day of the year. I think that will be a cool way to learn, and plan on buying it closer to the end of the year. (If I buy it now, I'll crack it early...my self control only goes so far.)

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For origami lovers out there here are some books to consider...

Origami Made Easy - Kunihiko Kasahara - Japan Publications -1973 -I SBN 0-87040-243-6

The Best of Origami - Samuel Randlett - EP Dutton & Co - 1961 - LCC 63-15776

The World of Origami - Isao Honda - Japan Publications Trading - 1965 ISBN 0-87040-383-4

The Origami Handbook - Rick Beech - Hermes House - 2001 -

Creative Origami - Kinihiko Kasahara - Japan Publications - 1977 - ISBN 0-87040-411-3

Origami with Dollar Bills - Duy Nguyen - Barnes & Noble - 2004 - ISBN 0-7607-6030-6

Kirigami Fold & Cut-a-Day Calendar - Accord Publishing - 2005 - ISBN 1-57939-181-8

Papers can usually be found at most any larger arts and crafts supplier.

I hope that this is of some help. :D

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My question is, what do you do with all the little figures once you make them? Do you keep it or can you reuse the paper?

My kids leave these things littered all through the house! If you thread a loop to them you can hang them as Christmas ornaments or whatever.

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My mom knows how to do so many (then again, she is Japanese). I don't remember any of what I have learned. She does make the cranes stringed in a row with really pretty paper. That's pretty cool. I'm pretty sure you guys know what I'm talking about.

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."


"We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

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I just bought a book about oragami yesterday! It got it second hand, but it's in pretty good condition. I think I'm going to try to get together my own paper. I think we have some think colourful stuff around that I can cut with a paper-cutter.

"Don't tell me what I can't do."

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What to do with them? Well, the really good ones are a work of art. During the Tall Ships 2000 in Boston, one of the many I visited was a Japanese ship. I was wandering around on deck when happened to peek in an open door and there across the room on a shelf sat a beautiful array of origami and nearby a sailor busily folding another. One of the origami that immediatly caught my eye was a large exquisite and highly detailed Godzilla. The sailor looked up and noticed what I saw. The next thing I knew he scooped it off the shelf and told me to please take it. I tried to refuse but he would not listen to any argument. The godzilla now sits in it's own sealed glass case in my living room as a fond rememberance of that day.

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