Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Zombie peaches

When a whole batch of peaches went mouldy simultaneously, I removed the mouldy parts and produced the Fruitbowl of Doom (TM). There's something deeply sinister about a fruitbowl with so much mangled fruit. Luckily I ate them before they could attack.

Cards

Two cards with adaptations of the same fretwork design. Both are based on the card that didn't quite work. For the top one, I took the original fretwork, simplified it a bit, and stuck it onto black card. For the bottom, I created the fretwork out of two seperate pieces of card, thus reducing the complexity of the knife-work, but making it more fiddly to construct. The bottom card is the one I sent to Harold for his 90th.

Electra60

I'm quite proud of my Electra60.

They look good in soft focus...

And on the stairs...

And you can do trick shots with them.

Modular collection

Clockwise from top: One Electra30 from here. One magic cube from here. One firework from here (probably) . And one dodecahedron produced with the 108 degree module from here.

Paper thanks to Anna again. Incidentally, if you want to keep an archer quiet for a while, just hand them the firework. Almost all of them go into a trance-like state, turning it over and over in their hands. Dynamic origami is cool.

Black paper box

Origami based, rather than true origami. Traditional design, but with added cardboard inserts for stiffening.

Top: Origami paper Anna brought back from Hong Kong. Says Yuzen Chiogami on the front of the packet.

Bottom: Black textured paper from the ream I bought at the paper shop in the Designer Warehouse.

Origami shelf


At the end of term I gave away all the origami on my bookshelves. It seems to have respawned.