origami

when fashion goes wrong: katie holmes's pegged jeans

Photo via Splash I don't know what it is about pants, but they seem to be a very provocative subject. Wasn't it just a year ago that Mischa Barton's high-waisted pants were making me tremble in abject horror? I'm still suffering from post traumatic stress disorder caused by the resurgence of the skinny jean. And this morning when I spotted Katie Holmes's pegged boyfriend pants, I wanted to shriek. And it's not just Katie either. Reese and Summer Roberts and jeez, a public freaking announcement i...

Web Snob Weekly Round Up, Week of 7/28/08

Bag Bliss + tBF: Warning you about the harm of shopping for a knockoff. A Few Goody GumDrops dishes on how to have a flawless face on High Defintion TV Save time and money with Stiletto Jungle's favorite bargain beauty finds. Allie is Wired has the scoop on Jessica Simpson's country girl Elle cover. Discover Wang's World at Bag Snob Beauty Snob has the latest on La Mer It's all in the fold, according to Coquette, with the latest trend of origami fashions. Fashion, evolved discovers the very revo...

Web Snob Weekly Round Up, Week of 7/28/08

Bag Bliss + tBF: Warning you about the harm of shopping for a knockoff. A Few Goody GumDrops dishes on how to have a flawless face on High Defintion TV Save time and money with Stiletto Jungle's favorite bargain beauty finds. Allie is Wired has the scoop on Jessica Simpson's country girl Elle cover. Discover Wang's World at Bag Snob Beauty Snob has the latest on La Mer It's all in the fold, according to Coquette, with the latest trend of origami fashions. Fashion, evolved discovers the very rev...

[29] (5 recent saves , 6 total) Etsy :: formae :: Necklace ORIGAMI, sterling silver

lookingood saved 53 minutes ago at 04:04 PM PDT on Jul 30, 2008 Victoria1 originally saved 23 hours ago at 05:56 PM PDT on Jul 29, 2008 Description: Very original pectoral in sterling silver matt with polished drops pendent. Exclusive design - gr. 75 Formae jewels are inspired by nature, by movements of the sea and wind. The folds and coils of metals are worked like cloth and modelled like pottery. The natural materials intertwind gold and silver reproduced the lights and colours of Sardinia. P...

Musical origami

"Fold Loud" by JooYoun Paek merges the ancient art of origami with digital music control to create a calming interface for sound - Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies. Users can fold multiple Fold Loud sheets together to produce a chorus of voices. Opened circuits made out of conductive fabric are visibly stitched onto the sheets of paper ...

My next gadget? I wish

I've been thinking about what the best format is for my next laptop for a long time. My good friend Zack blogged about his views and some of our discussions on his blog a while back. I think many of us have been thinking about this since the release of the Newton. A few things got me thinking about this again. The announcement a few weeks back of the iPhone 3G for one. The debate has been raging in the trade papers and blogs. Even Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame recently dropped the gauntle...

How to make origami newspaper pots (for starting seeds).

A simple, cheap and eco-friendly way to start your seeds is to sprout them in fold pots made out of newspaper. Eric on geocities shows us the entire process in this tutorial. You’ll want to keep your paper pots on a tray while you’re waiting for your seeds to grow. When they’re ready for planting, simply pop the entire thing in the ground.

Origami Wall-E

Click To Play Brian Chan figured out how to make this origami Wall-E from a single uncut square of paper. It looks like a 2 hour project for someone with decent folding skill. My mind is officially blown. Images and the Wall-E folding pattern are available on Brian's site. I found the above time-lapse video on MIT's TechTV video site. The site looks like a YouTube for hackers and is also well worth checking out. Brian Chan's Origami Wall-E Wall-E Folding @ MIT TechTV

Origami Balloon Lights Tutorial

Folding Trees has a tutorial on how to make these decorative origami balloon lights. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Origami Lights

I heart paper lanterns. They make everything prettier and shinier and awesomely better. So I decided to make some in the simplest way possible. Origami Waterbombs are SUPER EASY to do and can be whistled up in huge numbers while you're say, catching up on season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. These pictures are of the finished lanterns, as I took a whole series of 35 step-by-step Origami 'how to' photos then discovered a nice simple instructable on the subject. Doh. Essentially what you do is make y...