Amazing origami mushroom video

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2009/11/24 @ 6:07 am
Category Art & Design, Craft, General

I’m not sure if this isn’t more rightly called “paper sculpture” than origami. True it uses only one sheet of paper and there are no cuts, but, well…watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. Besides getting to see the mushrooms themselves, which are almost photo-realistic, it’s worth it to see how a master with 20 years of experience moves his hands. [via Boing Boing]

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6 Responses to Amazing origami mushroom video

Maha on November 24th, 2009 at 8:00 am said:

That IS amazing. The finished mushroom looks so life-like.

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Anonymous on November 24th, 2009 at 4:01 pm said:

O…….M……G……–So cool!!! Definitely paper sculpture rather than origami.

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malachus on November 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pm said:

I’m not sure what you guys are considering the difference between “paper sculpture” and “origami” to be.

Origami comes from root words meaning “fold” and “paper”. Although crumpling isn’t what one generally thinks of as “folding”, it is a process that creates a series of creases in the paper. Creases are the results of folding paper. So, by my logic, crumpling is just a method of folding.

To approach it from the other side, all origami is paper sculpture, so the only way to argue that this is “paper sculpture rather than origami” is to argue that this is not origami…

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- Andy L on November 24th, 2009 at 10:23 pm said:
  
  “Origami” is usually understood to consist of a series of precise, planned, individual folds and creases.
  
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  malachus on November 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pm said:
  
  Understood by whom?
  
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Toadstool on November 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am said:

I thought when he put it on his head he was going to go, “See, I’m a mushroom!”.

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