Beetle

This is designed by Jo Nakashima. He also made a tutorial and posted it on his YouTube channel.

Everyone loves beetles, right? Well, I find them cute...in photos. When I face the real thing, I cringe a little  When I played with some in a beach house in Sariaya by trapping the beetles in a small container, I again adored the cuteness of them...until I released them at the beach. Those f@king things LITERALLY attacked me. And I went off the beach scurrying while leaving my slippers stuck in the sand in the process.

Moving back to the topic, this model, which looks complicated, is still complicated...but not as hard as it looks. A lot of those back-and forth folds are incorporated in this model, which can make the paper easily rip. Ugh...even the paper here is cheap. Make sure to use thin paper for this.

Well, of course, good practice makes perfect. (Thumbs up) (But nobody is perfect, so why practice? XD JOKE.)

Geometric Bird

This is a design by Roman Diaz. You may find the diagrams in his book "Origami Essence."

Look at that cute bird :) It has the body of a box yet can stand on its own two feet :3

It's kinda easy, but of course I had to take in considerations in puffing up the model, and make it, err.....geometrical. :) What do I mean by geometrical? The bird is basically a polyhedron thingy draped with a bird's costume, I think.

Plus, another hard thing is that I had to position it's cute pointy feet in a way that the bird is balanced and can stand up properly. The bird must be having problems with it's cuboid-like body.....at least give it some balance. :D

Note to self: Write the post about Diaz's Owls......

Tarantula

This is one of the hardest models I have ever folded: Robert Lang's Tarantula.

I did this model in honor of a friend (who has a really terrible phobia with tarantulas....yes, it can be insulting XD). And for me, this model is TERRIBLY hard (well, because it's ROBERT LANG, one of the greatest origami masters EVER).

This is my second attempt to make this origami model (the first one was a huge failure.....I was too stupid then to know that I can cut a 1:3 paper without folding a square first...And now.....eh.

As you can see it didn't turn out very much like Lang's version (once again, because it's by LANG) but we could say that it's a tarantula about to jump :) (I stated the same thing to my friend and then he shouted at me XD....yes he's a he).

The diagrams can be found in "The Complete Book of Origami" authored by LANG himself.

Remember the useless difficulty level I usually give? Let's apply it here :D from a scale of 1-10, 10 being the hardest, I would give a 10, 583, 759, 234. :) (joke)

Anyways, it was a fun model to create :)

Oh yeah, you can also find a tutorial of another of Lang's tarantulas (a different model, not featured in this post)  which apparently looks more complicated.

Starry Fields Tessellation

 Sorry that I am not able to post origami models frequently, since recently I was running around like a bastard among ghost hunting, review classes (not summer classes....heck I was even admitted into the star section in my school :D ) and this summer reading assignment; to read a feminist book named House of the Spirits.

This is designed by Zeril Jan Manaois. There is no diagram or crease pattern yet, but it can be derived from Gjerde's Five-and-Four.

As said by Ilan Garibi (I think), "One tessellation can give you four models: first side, the other side, and both sides backlit." In this case, on one side, you will get 3-D sandcastles which are shaped like stars (I miss my vacation house XD ). On the other side, you will get craters with slopes that slide into the deep ways of the Earth XD. Joke. Have I mentioned how great it looks backlighted? :D

Moving on, I made a similar tessellation named Recto 1009 by Lydia Diard (instructions on her website; search her name on Google XD ). Somehow, this is a square version of Recto 1009 (there are differences however). You could pass it off as those 2 tessellations being brother-and sister :D except the brother (starry fields) is emotionally secured while the sister (Recto 1009) is insecure (no offenses to Ms. Diard). I must say, both tessellations are awesome in my book, and surely to other people too. :) (I'll feature Recto 1009 on the next post) All origami tessellations and origami models are awesome! (Except for modulars with weak or no locks......those sh*ts give me nightmares). Some are just hard, some are easy.

Rating of difficulty (from 1-10, 10 is hardest)....maybe a 4. :) Great for beginners. :D

Nobuko's Puff Ring / December Decoration

In the origami world, if 2 origami artists invent the same design independently, they both equally share the rights to that design. One case of this is the Nobuko's Puff Ring for Nobuko Okabe, or the December Decoration, for Jose Meeusen.

You can find the diagrams in either Creased Magazine Issue 12, or Easy Origami to Enliven Your Life (Kurashi o Irodoru Raku Raku no Origami) Book by Tomoko Fuse.

When making thie units of this model, I advise you NOT to use small paper; anything smaller than a 4 inch x 4 inch is a no no. Why? Because it'll be hard to assemble and your model will look very crappy. Plus, the locks will be weak.

The units are easy to make, though, The units are just modified preliminary bases.The assembly is also a bit easy, though if you do not lock it meticulously, it will fall apart.

Plus, you get to "puff" it up just by pressing the model a bit.

Spring Into Action

This is designed by Jeff Beynon. Apparently, you can find the instructions all over the Internet, and Fuse's "Let's Fold Spirals."

If you read my first (and annoyingly corny) posts in OAD when I was still in tumblr (I think you know why I switched to blogger), you would surely notice that I criticized this model so much, since before, I always attempted to make this model, but it was too hard so I guess my anger and annoyance took the best of me. But guess what? I SUCCEEDED. :D

Like the crane, it is one of the most famous models over the origami world (though it depends from person to person if he or she knows about it.) Heck, it even had a special place in the origami article of Wikipedia.

This is also one of the "perfectionist" models. Use thin paper, and it will rip up easily, plus it wouldn't shape good. Use thick paper, and it will rip too (plus you'll p**s all over yourself, though that never happened to me). Use the right thick of paper, and you'll get a masterpiece.

Palleas Box

This is designed by Peter Keller. The steps can be found on his flickr page.

This "box" can be very convenient, except
1. It cannot open properly
2. It is not a box.

Such irony. Anyway, it still makes a cute decoration, being a chubby star like its mortal enemy, the TSU, and it has a wee little flower at the middle.

Kudos to my sister for helping me color the paper since she wanted to. XD