How have you come to Origami

Sadarac · Post by **Sadarac** » October 2nd, 2008, 7:50 am

hmmmm... well when i think about it my first origami project was part of a mini-elective when i was in 3rd/4th grade. of course before that i had made paper airplanes but just a simple dart. THEN I got a paper airplane book and I combined ideas from a few of the planes to make a hand full of EXTRemly good paper airplanes( they have to be folded exactly to work) so then i didnt fold paper for a few years. but then my geometry teacher taugt us how to make a cube from six squares and i re-started. now for a few weeks i have been attempting a handfull of hard models and creating a frew of my own. now i search for origami books .......... "where are you ODS???"

Moonspinner · Post by **Moonspinner** » October 2nd, 2008, 5:26 pm

One day I was bored. I discovered a book full of traditional origami in some forgotten corner of my room, and I folded all the models in it.

The day after I was bored. I decided to google origami. Thus my eyes were opened to work origami can be.

Things developed from there.

Zoraz · Post by **Zoraz** » October 4th, 2008, 2:59 am

When i was 11, i got Origami in Action for my birthday...ive been hooked ever since, and recently got a copy of Origami Design Secrets.

ilyennevnincs · Post by **ilyennevnincs** » November 5th, 2008, 5:57 pm

When i was 10 or 11 my father taught me the flapping bird, and after that i always liked origami. In the first class of my secondary school i became a big fanatic.

Sorry for bad language...

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » November 6th, 2008, 7:10 pm

i used to work at a bookstore/coffee shop..and found origami omnibus...ok actually, when i was like 10, my mom gave us kids these really cool activity books with all sorts of stuff in them, it contained the crane diagram. i could not get it or some reason. so then time went by and when i was 20, working at the bookstore, i found the omnibus and was like..holey shirts!!!!! i didnt know you could make things like THAT!! and this was before i was internet savvy.. 1999 or so... welp, employees were allowed to "check out" books, so i took it out for an exteneded stay, heh. very inspriing, especially the llama from that book, must have folded that thing a million times. the book is now with a sibling of an ex-gf. i hope she becomes as inspired..it seems like she was. OH!!! and the kepler's star!! how could i forget!! i even got into the origami database with my picture of one! hahaha!!! ya! :D

oriman 217 · Post by **oriman 217** » December 22nd, 2008, 6:17 pm

7 Origami Zoo

Post by **Daydreamer** » December 22nd, 2008, 6:36 pm

So I guess what you want to say is that you got into Origami when you were 7 years old thanks to the book Origami Zoo by Robert J. Lang and Stephen Weiss?

Or maybe you have 7 copies of Origami Zoo at home?
Or maybe you visited an Origami Zoo when you were seven? Where could such an Origami Zoo be found?

Full sentences would leave much less room for speculations...

oriman 217 · Post by **oriman 217** » December 22nd, 2008, 7:13 pm

Sorry. When i was seven I rented Origami Zoo from the library

ptrckngn · Post by **ptrckngn** » December 29th, 2008, 4:59 am

My friends were making origami ninja stars and i really liked it so i tried to make some and then i got so addicted to origami that i folded for like 3 hours a day.

SilverRazor · Post by **SilverRazor** » March 9th, 2009, 8:19 pm

I was fascinated by Ryujin 3.5 complexity and awesomeness so much that I got a dream to fold it someday myself

foldymole · Post by **foldymole** » March 9th, 2009, 10:16 pm

I've always known about origami, but only started about 2 years ago. I had time on my hands (yes, unemployed!) and wanted to do something "artistic". I love art, but never really enjoyed painting that much. Origami was one I'd never tried, so I ended up with a book by Rick Beech, and was hooked. The thing that really got me interested in being as good as I can was a picture of Eric Joisel's rat in Nick Robinson's Origami Encyclopedia. Just blew me away, and I found the instructions online. And being online really opened my eyes to what was possible with paper.

My only regret was that I didn't start when I was a young 'un! But everything happens for a reason.

Never looked back, and this is my Joisel Rat.

spiritofcat · Post by **spiritofcat** » March 10th, 2009, 6:54 am

At the age of 6 or 7 (1990 or 91) my aunt gave me a book called Tricks and Games with Paper by Paul Jackson.
Among other things, that book taught me the water bomb and the flapping bird.

From then on I was very keen to learn more, and I aquired other similar books (Tricks and Games #2, Advanced Paper Aircraft II & III, Fold your own Paper Dinosaurs, etc.), and then finally Origami Made Easy by Kasahara.
Throughout my childhood I folded just about everything from that Kasahara book and taught a lot of the simpler things to my friends too.

My enthusiasm for origami fluctuated through my teenage years(1996 onwards), but never really went away.
I collected a few other books. Most notably Robert Harbin's Origami and More Origami. The Gondola being the model that I most love from those two books.

Also I inherited the book The Complete Origami Course by Paul Jackson from my Grandmother, but I didn't find much of interest in it other than the wonderful water bomb based inflatable goldfish. It's still one of my favourite models to this day.

My first real origami renaissance came in my first year or university (2002).
I was studying computer science, but I was very good at it, so there wasn't much to interest me in the first year lectures.
At that point I started folding dinosaurs of my own design from pairs of bird bases.
I was quite pleased with my achievements, and was really starting to get an itch for more complicated designs.
I was a member of deviantART at the time, and so I looked for other Origami artists on there and found Pepius.
More specifically, I found his diagrams for a Royal Dragon.
This model introduced me to the wonders of the blintzed bird base, and once again I went on a designing spree, making all sorts of multi-limbed creatures from this many-flapped base.

I stayed with that level of design for a couple of years, always taking my paper with me wherever I went, folding during train journeys, seminars and weddings. Along the way I found and purchased Secrets of Origami by Robert Harbin, but haven't really folded much from it.

At the beginning of 2009 I discovered that one of my nieces now has a deviantART account, and so I decided to get back into DA, and by extension, back into my development as an Origami artist.
From there I ran into Blue Paper, and found my way into this forum, and the world of Origami on Flickr.

As it stands now, I've ordered Robert Lang's Origami Design Secrets from my local bookshop, and it should arrive in the next week or two.
In the meantime I've been reading it on Google Books, and also been getting into tessellations a bit.

There you go, that's my life story as related to Origami.

Ben385 · Post by **Ben385** » March 10th, 2009, 8:17 am

When I was 3, I began to fold from complete origami by eric kenneway, with the help of my dad. When I was 7, I was able tpo fold the most complex model in the book solo, Max Hulme's jack in the box. I am now 13,
And I fold from Tanteidan, insects and Satoshi Kamiya.

Wizmatt · Post by **Wizmatt** » March 10th, 2009, 2:36 pm

I had always been aware of origami since I was small and I enjoyed making paper planes. When I was 12 one of my friends folded a crane at school, so when I went home I found an old japanese book we had with some traditional designs and tried to fold them. At school the next day I showed my friend the crane I had folded, but he had folded an even better model. So to better him I went to the library to see what books they had and I found Complete Origami by Robert Lang. I've been hooked ever since then.

Queenzi · Post by **Queenzi** » March 10th, 2009, 6:09 pm

Well, when i was about 10 i think, i came across an origami book. I liked the look of it and have heard of it before, so i brought it and it kinda escalated from there... i took a break for about a year but recently found time for it again

i'm only 14! Plenty of room for improvement

edit//
Found my first book on amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Origami-B ... 25&sr=8-35
^^ some of the models in there are actully quite hard for a newbie book

The lotus flower in particular i have never had the patience to do properly.

I think what i love about origami is the lack of tools you need and the wide variety of paper

origami paper is some of the most beautiful paper i've ever seen. Plus i've always liked construction, shapes, working things out and so on and origami gives me all of that! I find it particularly satisfying to be sitting in school folding from memory, plus the reactions i get are wonderful!

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