Prehistorigami
Posted: June 10th, 2011, 10:28 pm
WARNING: Shameless self promotion to follow...
As many you have probably read earlier in the forum, I've been hard at work to make a temporary exhibit for our local museum, the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, based on origami. We've called it "Prehistorigami: Ancient Animals in Folded Paper," and it opened a couple of days ago. In case anyone's interested in the coverage, you can read what our local paper, The Spectrum, had to say about it (I tried to emphasize to the reporter that I did not create all the models in the exhibit, but he used that word anyway!), and a local web site made a video of me folding a Triceratops with a short voice-over interview:
Next week I hope to take pictures of the exhibit and post them to Flickr or someplace similar; I'll post here when I get that done, too.
Anyway, basically no one in southern Utah knows anything about origami, so I (and our board, who OK'd the project) thought this would be a great way to introduce the locals, as well as all the tourists that come through our area on the way to/from Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Las Vegas, to the art while simultaneously providing what I hope is a unique way of learning about various extinct animals.
As many you have probably read earlier in the forum, I've been hard at work to make a temporary exhibit for our local museum, the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, based on origami. We've called it "Prehistorigami: Ancient Animals in Folded Paper," and it opened a couple of days ago. In case anyone's interested in the coverage, you can read what our local paper, The Spectrum, had to say about it (I tried to emphasize to the reporter that I did not create all the models in the exhibit, but he used that word anyway!), and a local web site made a video of me folding a Triceratops with a short voice-over interview:
Next week I hope to take pictures of the exhibit and post them to Flickr or someplace similar; I'll post here when I get that done, too.
Anyway, basically no one in southern Utah knows anything about origami, so I (and our board, who OK'd the project) thought this would be a great way to introduce the locals, as well as all the tourists that come through our area on the way to/from Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Las Vegas, to the art while simultaneously providing what I hope is a unique way of learning about various extinct animals.
Actually, I'd love to get into narrating audio books...