Origami

Balloon Interpretations Of Masterpieces

Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Jeff Koons, Mona Lisa, Video, Origami, Airigami, Larry Moss & Kelly Cheatle, Masterpiece, Balloon Animals, Slideexpand, Campbells Soup Andy Warhol, The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Balloon Art, Arts News

What do you get when you mix sculpture, puppetry and origami? Rochester, New York duo Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle have developed 'Airigami,' the not-...

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When Paper Makes Waves

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Origami, Paper Sculpture, Sculpture, Paper Folding, Daniele Papuli, Cartoframma, Italian Art, Performance Art, Arts News

Italian artist Daniele Papuli makes site-specific installations out of thousands of strips of paper, transforming the medium into something soft and i...

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New Google Doodle Honors Origami Master

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Akira Yoshizawa, Google Logo, Akira Yoshizawa Google, Video, Google Akira Yoshizawa, Slidepollajax, Google Doodle, Origami, Akira Yoshizawa Origami, Google Origami, Technology News

Google's home page on March 14 featured a colorful doodle resembling folded paper, honoring what would have been the 101 birthday or origami master Ak...

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WATCH: Light-Up Jellyfish Take Over Aquarium!

Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Installation Art, Jellyfish, Video, Origami, LED Art, Public Art, Vancouver-Aquarium, Vancouver, Jelly Swarm, Aquarium, Aquatic Life, The Creators Project, Joseph Wu, Arts News

A recent installation at the Vancouver Aquarium from Tangible Intervention and artist Joseph Wu brings the wildlife outside of their constructed habit...

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WATCH: Crazy, Choreographed Stop Motion Animation!

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Partizan, Art, Origami, Video, Shapes, France, Stop-Motion Animation, Paper Art, Video Art, Partizan Production Company, Geometry, French Arts, Animation, Arts News

Stop motion animation has experienced a renaissance in a big way, thanks to artist-driven sharing websites, such as vimeo. With this influx of content...

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Origami and Fractals: Shadowy Worlds Between Art and Mathematics

Jane Chafin | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Fractals, Erik Demaine Marty Demaine, Art, Origami, Ibm, Benoit Mandelbrot, Nova, Between the Folds, Origami Fractals, Fractals Hunting the Hidden Dimension, Science, Math Origami, Vanessa Gould, Arts News
Jane Chafin

I watched two short documentaries this week about visuals that exist in the shadowy world between art and mathematics. The first film is from the PBS's "Nova" series, Fractals, Hunting the Hidden Dimension. The second is Vanessa Gould's 2009 documentary Between the Folds, a fascinating look at the history and evolution of the world of paper folding.

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Hawaii Sailor Finds Message In A Bottle From Japan (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Weird Japan, Origami, Video, Weird Hawaii, Kauai, Message in a Bottle, Jon Moore, Saki Arikawa, Weird News News

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii -- A sailor participating in a beach cleanup in Hawaii found a message in bottle that had been dropped in the o...

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One Piece Of Paper. Fold. No Cuts. 'Between The Folds' Is A Thriller.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vanessa Gould, Origami, Between the Folds, Entertainment News
Jesse Kornbluth

One piece of paper. Folded. No cuts. Yes, origami. On a rainy day when you were a kid, you made a bird. Now? Please. You have put away childish t...

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Extreme Origami Club Flourishes At MIT

The Boston Globe | Joseph P. Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extreme Origami, MIT Origami, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Origami, Mit, College News

An influx of talented young folder has solidified the MIT's reputation as a hotbed of "extreme'' origami, a branch of the ancient art form that draws ...

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There's Art Right at Your Fingertips!

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pangolin, Gil Talmi, Kronos Quartet, Jeff Zeigler, Erik Demaine, Einstein, Experience Music Project Museum, Eric Joisel, Mozart, Michael LaFosse, Origami, Jonathan Schneider, Kamiya, Sculpture, Orchestra, Film, Music, Art, American Beauty, Documentary, Grammy Awards, Arts News
George Heymont

Two fascinating documentaries explore the kind of creativity that sets some artists apart from others. The conceptual gifts these artists have managed to harness put them in another realm of creativity.

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Keeping the "Fun" in Fundraising: Chickens in Love

Joel Arquillos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chickens in Love, Origami, She & Him, 826la, Crystal Antlers, Fiona Apple, Echo Park, Judd Apatow, Cold War Kids, Tim & Eric, The Submarines, Fundraising, Echoplex, Impact News
Joel Arquillos

Students created their own bands, wrote the lyrics to a song, and recorded a video of themselves performing their composition with the help of musically-inclined tutors.

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Team Earth Campaign Brings Together Harrison Ford, the President of Guyana, CEOs, and a Life-Size Origami Forest

ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Jagdeo, Walmart, Slideshow, Johnson & Johnson, Green News, Harrison Ford, Conservation, Green Living, Origami, Greenwashing, Starbucks, Sustainability, Guyana, Un, Deforestation, Copenhagen, Harrahs, Team Earth, Conservation International, Green News
ThienVinh Nguyen

As a "global sustainability movement" that'll include just about everyone - from educators to scientists to businesses to non-profits and little kids - Team Earth's first campaign centers on tackling deforestation.

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