Posts Tagged “origami”
Above photos are supposed to be my artistic version of the black water dragon origami but the shoplifted camera I used just won’t give them justice (my old Sony Ericsson K790c camphone has just given up on me). This coming Chinese New Year is going to be the year of the Black Water Dragon so I thought you’d be looking up dragon origami folding instructions. Here’s a youtube video to help you out. It’s just a simple dragon origami because I myself had been bleeding my brains to death trying to do a decent Satoshi Kamiya dragon.
On a completely different note, I still have a LOTR trilogy reading backlog which my day job keep getting on the way so I haven’t even gotten past the second chapter of book one and one of my colleagues whom I asked to smuggle at least three 3 Haruki Murakami books from the Philippines is coming in two days and coincidentally, the Charles Dickens Great Expectations Tagalog Translation Project has just officially started. Please congratulate me for having just written the longest single sentence on this blog. My high school English teacher, if he’s still alive and I’m hoping that he still is, would probably call that a run-on sentence — red ballpoint pen galore!
I’m supposed to experience my first dessert rain today but the weather forecast may have came from PAGASA. Sayang lang ang pagpapauwi ng maaga!
If you have been a regular on this blog, you have probably realize how much I’m into origami and that I love folding papers to turn them into different animal models. Last week, while browsing through Pinoy Exchange forums, I stumbled upon the origami works of Satoshi Kamiya. To give you an insight, here’s an origami book compilation of his advanced origami models – Works of Satoshi KAMIYA. Or better yet, here’s someone else’s successful folds of the Bahamut (Divine Dragon) and an Ancient Dragon.
But what really caught my attention was this Chocobo Origami (google FF7). Here’s how the yellow bird is supposed to look like, photo from here.
Just to end the lengthened discussions about the Mendoza’s manila hostage incident, Venus Raj and her MAJOR MAJOR answer to the Miss Universe 2010 pageant, my conscience told me to compose and publish here any random entry. Immediately! So here goes nothing…
Just the other day, a bride to be seek my help in folding a thousand hummingbird origami she intended to hang somewhere on her wedding day. She didn’t (hasn’t yet) given me any origami instructions so I checked the internet step-by-step origami hummingbird instructions to give me an idea. What the search engines gave were altogether shocking – 34 basic folding steps. HAHAHA!
I found at least three different hummingbird origami versions but of course, I had to pick the ones that resemble (as closely) a real hummingbird (like the one in the photo above, source: OrigamiHow). I tried following the three variations and believe me, they’re not that easy (read: COMPLEX, DIFFICULT, HARD). In the past, I have folded different origami crane versions, giraffes, tiger, rabbit and many more animal origami but I’ve never encountered one as complex as this. I can’t even follow up to the fifth step. HAHAHA!
I found this hummingbird origami vidio instructions on Youtube but the poor video quality just made the whole thing more confusing.
Check the links below for hummingbird origami instructions from the easiest to the more complex ones; from the simplest to the more elaborate.
- Origami Hummingbird by Peery Bailey
- Hummingbird Origami by Kalei Anne Lundberg
- Sword-billed hummingbird origami
- Hummingbird Origami folding instruction
- Hummingbird Origami by Collin Weber
But just to let you know Miss Bride-to-Be, I’m not giving up to your challenge. Just teach me how to do it step-by-step. 
