Re: Origami Art

[QuietiManes]

Re: Origami Art

There\'ve been a couple posts in the past linking some amazing origami works of art. Along the same vein, I wonder how this stacks up. Personally I like it alot more than say a picture of a can painted in different colours or a can of an artists feces that tends to explode when the pressure inside gets to be too much from the organic matter decomposition still going on inside.

In the end I just found this website funny and figured I\'d share so here it is.

Origami Boulder

The responses the \"artist\" gives in the FAQ and the \"letters from dumb dumbs\" are great, IMO. It took a while to read them all but it was well worth it, laughed out loud many times. Although, I guess you\'ll need a certain appreciation for this type of humour. This should be fairly safe to see at work, there are a couple curse words though, but very few. Mostly from the ranting angry site visitors.

PS-the middle option should read \"It\'s art for the masses, I made a similar version of coloured art last time I was sitting on the toilet! I can sell you an email about this performance art for $2.99, cheaper than origamibuilder.com! (It\'s an art that anyone can do.)\" But that didnt fit, much fustration trying to figure out how to do the poll stuff followed, if anyone saw this thread go up a few times and be deleted right after that\'s why lol

 

[Ogrebane]

Yes this is the sort of art I could get into. In fact when I was trying to write a tute I ended up with quit a few of these. Funny stuff.

 

[Starfall]

This is already lots of years old... But still funny. Origami is nice - except if you are drowning in a flat full of tiny, folded paper animals.

 

[Modderrhu]

Yep, that\'s art alright. It has a truly rustic oriental charm to it. Those lines and forms, rigid yet supple, masculine and coarse, yet sexless and mute. Tonality contrasts suggest an eclectic mix of the old and new, upright and flexible. :wow:

Damn, I really love that bamboo display stand. It even comes with packing material to keep it from being damaged - how incredibly thoughtful of him. Would just hate to have it damaged by some dumb dumb post office official.

Interesting to see a reference to Jakob Nielsen, though I don\'t expect it\'s \'our\' Jakob Nielsen.

 

[Logan]

I have a blackbelt in origami....

I used to do a lot of origami as a kid.
My flapping bird was rubbish though.
Only one wing flapped for some unfathomable reason.
My inflatable frog was quite good however.

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by Modderrhu

Interesting to see a reference to Jakob Nielsen, though I don\'t expect it\'s \'our\' Jakob Nielsen.

I noticed that too....Very funny.

I don\'t know if its art or not, but it made me smile....Thats gotta be worth something!

 

[Modderrhu]

Aye, I must admit it made me smile too, supervike, but for the wrong reasons. It\'s a good look inside the psyche of CMON to check the results of this poll, and to look at the scores of 1-deserving minis - super evil chaos warrior, anyone? What a jaded and sarcastic bunch we are. :innocent:

Actually, if you half close your eyes and look at these origami boulders, and you just see light and shade, then it could be quite artistic. But not quite in the way our paper rustler expected - I see the same thing at the paper-recycling plant we take all our waste to.

 

[Avicenna]

I think it is our very own Jakob he is refferring to...

dont you worry that you consider him to be \'ours\'? :]

 

[Modderrhu]

No, not really. There seem to be a number of Jakob Nielsens who have made their presence known on the internet - the mini painting Jakob even has a link on his home page to another. So, the \"our\" was merely a qualifier. Hmmm, doesn\'t stop him from being \'ours\' though, now does it?.