Origami

My parents-in-law received this and shared it with me.

I found instructions on the wayback machine, also known as the internet archive (which is housed in an old Christian Science church). I needed some help at the end and this video  helped me put it together.

I am not sure why some places call it a gyroscope ("a device consisting of a wheel or disk mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction). I like the name modular spinner better.

Origami

Mailings arrived from both the local botanic garden and Scripps College about an upcoming origami exhibit and along with that there would be a set of talks. We had heard about “Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes” at other times so we chose “From Paper to Steel: Origami in Other Media”. Even though it was only two days after A.'s surgery, we were all able to enjoy both the talk and mini-origami workshop afterward.

Bird unfolded

The speaker is someone who has been interested in origami since childhood, but went off and got a Ph.D. in physics before figuring out how to make a living from his hobby. I enjoyed hearing about that and about the process of making the sculptures in the garden.

A little game - can you figure out the title of this piece?

These are only a sampling of pieces in the garden (I resisted posting every picture I took, but I can send you more if you are interested). It is amazing to know that they all started off as paper!

If you want to see our speaker at work you can check out this short video.

Or a longer video.

And here is his personal website.

I was inspired to check out some his books from the library and get out my origami paper again.