Visit to Kami Paper – Melbourne In-between 8OSME and Folding Australia conferences, there was a free-day. Jo and I decided to explore some of the suburban street art, go to Lume patisserie and “accidentally” visit a couple of paper shops. Kami paper in Melbourne is like nothing I have ever seen – such a variety of papers in the one place, […]
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8OSME – Melbourne, July 2024 An unmissable opportunity presented itself where both OSME and Folding Australia conferences were to be hosted in Melbourne, Australia, one following the other. Having never attended an Origami conference (of any flavour) before, I jumped at the chance, but had little idea, really, what was ahead. My wife and I got an Air BnB on […]
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Future Folds: Panel discussion and Exhibition Coupled to 8OSME, RMIT Design Hub is currently hosting an exhibition of important origami works called “Future Folds”. The opening event featured a panel discussion with Tomoko Fuse and Robert J Lang. Panel discussions can be wonderful if the alchemy is right – the right combination of guests and questions. I am not sure we […]
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Origami Flapping Crane by Jeremy Shafer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8LNg7eOhrY

Square Field Crumple I bought some new shirts yesterday – interleaved inside was some lovely white tissue. I folded it into 3rds, then half to get a square, then half, then half and kept going until I had a small, multi-layered square about 8cm on the side. Next I crumpled that so the centre of the square was […]
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