Origami News

Nov 12th 2009 at 9:00AM The packed social calendar around the holidays can confound even the most organized shopper.

Seeing as most ergonomics guides tell you not to tilt your keyboard up, a laptop stand may not be such a good idea for the desk, but AViiQ's "Portable Laptop Stand" has other uses.

I've had a lot more luck staining paper than painting it, so I tried that again this year.

Activities start at 5:00 p.m. See a robot located in in Japan at the Tsuyama Robot Project that will be controlled via live computer and video feed from Warehouse 21.

There are several ways to avoid the gloom of the daily grind most people are regularly exposed to.

For folks interested in the intersection of arts and science, the PBS series Independent Lens is presenting a fascinating in-depth look into origami titled Between the Folds .

Tribal fashions come and go - seriously, every spring - so it's exceptionally impressive when a designer manages to give the whole tribal trend a refreshing twist.

From Broome County Public Library: LIBRARY INVITES TEENS TO FOLD ORIGAMI CRANES The Broome County Public Library invites area youth to be part of a project to make 1,000 paper cranes.

Magician Rob Lake's show Sunday at the Wichita Theatre Performing Arts Centre might have included the same ol' card trick - classics of the magic repertoire - but Lake delivers that card trick with a young, hip edge that made the show thoroughly entertaining.

If you're a big fan of paper creations but want to avoid all those nasty paper cuts, the Tour de Force S/S 2010 collection is perfect for you.

GEORGE TOWN: The 12-year-old boy who apparently died from a rare heart condition had been folding lucky stars to give as a gift to one of his schoolmates.

Paper craft: Students displaying their creative Origami designs to instructor Eriko Tanaka at a workshop on 'simple Origami techniques' organised by Tamil Nadu Centre of ABK AOTS Dosokai in Chennai on Saturday.

Designer Matthias Demacker's origami-esque Icon bar stool doesn't fold, though it does stack.

The Dance Forum Taipei s 20th anniversary program at Novel Hall on Saturday night was a mixed bill, and as it turned out, a mixed achievement.

And... origami. Tangrams, too which are sort of a two-dimensional, reusable form of origami.

What do you think of my drawing? I just finished it. Can you write my name on it? What do you think of the fish and the boat?" These questions were posed in quick succession by a six-year-old to Osama Helmi, also known as Ozoz.

'Dancing Crane, opus 460' was created by Robert Lang, a physicist and origami expert who will speak on the art on Oct.

Cardiff's beautiful green spaces are the subject of a new exhibition. Claire Rees talked to some of the artists taking part DALE Evans thinks we're all guilty of failing to take enough notice of our surroundings.

MIAMI a ' The Miami Marine Stadium has something in common with such famous landmarks as Machu Picchu and the Old City of Jerusalem.

Southwest Museum Docent Council Unveils Tongva Tiat Sculpture Tongva Tiat Sculpture Dedication Los Angeles, CA - A Tongva Tiat plank canoe sculpture donated to the museum by the Southwest Museum Docent Council was dedicated on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Mt.