Sorting Through Two Years of Origami (Part 2 - Squid Story)
A few months ago, I dumped all of the origami I folded during university on my floor and began sorting through them. However, I only got around to sharing about a third of them. It’s about time I shared the next batch.
More Interesting Folds and Their Stories
Squids, and Giving My Clubmates a Heart Attack
This squid design is one of my best designs so far. One week, all of the Cal Origami officers were busy, so I volunteered to teach at the week’s club meeting. When I teach at Cal Origami, I like to teach things that are personal to me and can expose people to interesting ideas. However, for this meeting, I had no idea what I wanted to teach since I had already taught several of my favorite models that semester. After thinking through my options, somehow I got my heart set on teaching one of my own designs. The problem was, I had no new designs at the moment. Simple enough, I thought… just make a new design! So I revisited an idea I had in the past for an origami squid that didn’t quite work. After playing around with the paper, I saw an idea, and it worked! I managed to complete the design and take a nice photograph at around 3am the day before the meeting, just in time for my fellow officer to put together an Instagram announcement.
Little Terrier Dogs by Co-instructors (designed by Francisco Javier Caboblanco)
Some terrier dogs folded by my co-instructors as demos for class.
Flip-Flop Cranes
Some flip flop cranes. I think these are designed by Brian Chan? But I’m not sure because he didn’t release diagrams. IIRC Albert Tran found a crease pattern in a discord server, and then we went ham folding them.
Bacteriophages
I folded these bacteriophages. I think I folded them for class, but I can’t remember why, or if we actually used them. What I do remember though, is they are extremely similar to Miguel Romero’s bacteriophage design, which was published a few weeks later in the East Bay Origami Convention e-book (aka the EBOC E-book). EBOC is a convention that Cal Origami organizes. It’s funny how sometimes two designers will independently create similar designs. Although, I refrain from calling this bacteriophage “my design” because it’s rather crude and uses a common base. Miguel’s is much more refined than mine.
John Montroll is a Genius
Some things I folded that made me realize that John Montroll is a genius.
- Starfish designed by John Montroll
- Crane with legs, from Montroll’s five-sided square base, inspired by this blog post
- Montroll’s Dog Base, from a crease pattern in Origami Design Secrets.
Lobster, designed by Michael LaFosse
A lobster I folded for class.
Stay Tuned for More!
I’m tired now, so this post is ending here. I have around 19 more photos left. Parts 3, 4, 5, etc. incoming!