Kraken Origami

[Rumba Rue]

Take a look at this!

Kracken

[MadL]

Ah Kracken!!

can naught access from this point ("personal storage"), will ha'e t' take a gander from home tonight.

is it better then the origami swans??

[Captain Tito]

very fine work to the artist!

[Red-Handed Jill]

There's a fair amount of "wet folding" - you don't want to attempt that unless you're REALLY good.

(I used to work with a guy who was a world-class origami artist. He used to make some amazing stuff for us.)

[Misson]

Hey Jill...I'll bet you think the folding pattern is interesting. (When I see them I tend to try and figure out how the folds produce the result.)

[Red-Handed Jill]

Heh - too right. I'm a semi-novice origami practitioner - couldn't begin to do anything like that kracken. But I think I've got parts of it figured out, though.

[Misson]

Yeah. You must have to have really good coordination and small fingers to make some of the folds in those patterns. Fortunately, you don't have to have any of that to construct it in your mind.

Off into left field of the topic...I used to live next to this lovely old woman who lost her job because they told her she was too old. She was very depressed about it that so I used to make her origami swans and lanterns and stuff to cheer her up. I even bought a kit on how to make balloon animals and things. (Bet you never thought ol' Mission capable of things like that, didja? It's called good bedside manner, it is.)

[Red-Handed Jill]

I'm flabbergasted!

And actually, the ex co-worker of mine who was a world-class origami artist is a big guy, with big hands. You'd think that would be problematic, but it wasn't.