Japanese snow monkey

Who was it that ask me to do a monkey? Initially i thought its quite impossible to make a realistic monkey cos not really distinct in shape and features, so quite difficult, at least i can imagine how a paper elephant or horse can look like... but a paper monkey? quite tough... Hideo Komatsu thinks otherwise and proved me wrong. This is a japanese snow monkey... tough fold, can be better though, try again when i have time...

Hideo Komatsu

Hideo Komatsu is a master of origami... his animals have a certain likeness and realism... luv them... two of them here... the Kingfisher and the giraffe... super tough... especially the giraffe... i didn't seem to get the the legs and neck right though... need more practice... the precrease (preparing the paper before the actual folding) took like 45 mins to one hour...

This is the giraffe precrease... a blurry intersection of lines... the giraffe turned out fine, except for the legs, abit too thin... must be something i did in between...

But the kingfisher is super neat... a super clever model. He modelled the wing part with a fan fold spread out at the ends... super smart fold. Love the wings, its probably one of the best birds i folded... probably the best winged animal so far. The wings i have folded previously were just angled fan folds, just creasing in and out to suggest the wings, something to examine when folding winged creatures next time, addition to my "arsenal" haha... amazing model, in queen-pig terms, HEART the kingfisher...

Bunnies or rabbits...

Nothing to do... as usual... wats new... haha...got down to rabbits... one by Fumiaki Kawahata, the other by Hideo Komatsu, and one by Pinky :P
White one is created by me one year ago, blue one is by kawahata, and the pink which is my favourite is by Komatsu... much much tougher than the other two... but... i luv bunnies...

For Queen-Pig's reference..

Found my long lost squirrel diagrams buried deep within my computer... my com's in a utter mess and i shall format and clean my lappy up once FYP is submitted... just in case i deleted something important...

Anyways, two different diagrams by two different folders with very different approaches. The Western approach by Michael la Fosse (American) and the Eastern approach by Hideo Komatsu (Jap). The focus is different, both look like squirrels, but for Hideo (yellow squirrel), his focus was more on the tail, making it more 3-D, limbs and other features are simplified, for Michael (Green squirrel) his focus was more on details and forms than making it 3-D. Michael model is flat if you noticed, whereas for Hideo's its "airy, bloated", and cannot be flattened.

Both are folded from A4 paper and equally challenging. Not tough, but will be a handful for most. Which do i like more? My vote goes to Hideo... Simply luv the tail...

it's guestblogger gingin today

Hi everyone. reporting today is guestblogger gingin, employed to blog for mr (im-so-talented-how?!) pinky while he goes to bath..

went to causeway point today after meeting pinky. decided to give munchy donut a try but really. its nowhere near donut factory... the donut is too soft, jus like a bread texture, while the filling was too wet and dun seem to set on top of the donut v well.. we were slightly disappointed but oh wells.... krispy kreme is the best. really.. wins even donut factory but donut factory is good enuf...

pinky did 2 horses last nite...

horse #1 aka the blue one was christened - chan, with fond resemblance to the namesake, fitty (rain) chan.

horse #2 aka the grey one is named horsey... cos... its a horse.

personally i tink this is better but cos its the 2nd time pinky is makin it so naturally its much more lifelike.

lastly, today he made a white horse for me... my 白马王子!!! haha

i didnt get a pic of jus the white horse alone, thou i took pics of the 3 horses together...
pretty rite... i like this pic... quite majestic in a sense... heh..

and then... pinky attempted to make gandalf from LOTR... last i heard (seen) its in recess.. its really tough and pinky said he is taking a break.. its tough to him. to me... it simply did not make any sense... sincerely.. its too difficult for me already but pinky is determined to conquer it... good luck!!! gingin will be jiayou-daqi-ing for u! by feeding u chips.. haha

after that... pinky proceeded to play the piano...

played 月亮代表我的心 (his mummy's fav song) and took a vid...

p/s: all pics and vids taken by gingin hoh...

after tat had yummy dinner at woodlands checkpoint. had bbq fish and char kuay teow... wah. super nice. heh.. *burps* opps..

and to backtrack abit...

went shopping at taka... pinky bought some v nice peices of shirts and a vest.

pics taken in the fitting rooms...

hard at work solving rubic's cube at starbucks...

=the end=

gingin: how's tat pinky?

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