Life Size Origami.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Life Size Origami.

Here are a few of the life size origami that we found interesting. Check them out.

Jabba the Hutt:

During the world premiere of Return of the Sith, Jabba the Hutt was auctioned off & now has a new home in California.

Jabba the Lady's man.

Jabba still attracts the ladies.

Redpath Pteranodon:

"Redpath Pteranodon," a 4-meter (16 ') wingspan origami Pteranodon installed at the Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Paper custom made by Papeterie St.-Armand, Montreal, Canada.

Model folded from largest square:

Life Size Origami Model folded from largest square

(Image credit: Sadako).

Jim Mockford, a Japanese language teacher in Washington State, USA, reports that in the fall of 1995 a class of 20 of his students made an ori-tsuru (paper crane), out of a single sheet of paper that measured over 23 feet wingtip to wingtip. Of course there have been larger cranes made from many sheets of paper pasted together such as the Maebashi record (see above), but Jim's crane seems to be the largest made out of a single square sheet of uncut, unpasted paper. It was a great teambuilding project and a lot of fun.

Jim Mockford said in a comment:

Hello Mr. Paper, It has already been ten years since I taught the class of Camas high school students who made the "Mega-gami" giant paper crane. Camas High is known as the Camas Papermakers because we are the home to a paper mill that has been owned by Crown Zellerback, Georgia Pacific, James River, etc. But regardless of the corporate ownership of the mill the town was once very much a mill town and so it was not unusual for a student's parent to be employed at the paper mill. Therefore when we began our discussion of the paper crane project one student mentioned that his father was in a position to assist and we acquired a a very end piece that mill gave to our project and it had to be rolled out in the gymnasium to be folded by about 20 students working as a team. The Camas Megagami was the largest made out of single sheet of paper at the time and we contacted the Guiness Book but they had no category approved at that time and later when they did include largest origami as a category there was no distinction made between a single sheet of paper and many sheets pasted together. I later became involved in the 1999 World's Largest Paper Crane project made of many sheets of paper and assembled in the Seattle Kingdome as described by the World Peace Project for Children. See http://www.sadako.org/largestcrane.htm. I left my teaching job in 1997 and I have been working in the software industry since but the 6 years I spent teaching at Camas were a great experience and the origami projects were a lot of fun.

Jim Mockford
Former Japanese Language Teacher
Camas High School 1991-1997.

Longest Chain:

The longest construction made from folded paper is a gum wrapper chain by Gary Duschl.

About the Chain:

Began on March 11, 1965
$74,400 Worth of Gum
Weight 730 lbs. or 332 kgs
Volume 61 Cubic Feet
WRIGLEY Wrappers only
Record Holder for 13 Years
Over 20,000 Hours of Work
Relative Lengths:
10 Miles or 16 kms
176 Football Fields
264 Hockey Rinks
29 CN Towers
36 Empire State Buildings
10 Minutes by Car at 60 mph
4 Hours to Walk the Length.

Currently as of JANUARY 11, 2008
1,255,197 wrappers 53,530 feet.

Just in case if you want to send in a gum wrapper:

"Save, sign and send me your gum wrappers and I will ensure that these wrappers become part of this world record gum wrapper chain. Include your email address so that I can let you know where they appear on the chain. Send your wrappers.":

Aqua-origami:

Artist Frank Boelter created a life size paper boat: 9-meter-long, 25-kilogram using 170-square-metre piece of 'Tetrapack' paper normally used in milk packages named "Bis Ans Ende der Welt" or Until The End Of The World.