MetaFilter posts tagged with paper

Folded Paper Sculptures

OmieWise — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:59:37 -0800

Polyscene--Folded paper, and paper and wire, sculptures. There are more in the artist's Flickr stream.

Magazines as Fabric

ocherdraco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:07:05 -0800

Artist/Designer Ilisha Helfman makes clothes for her custom made paper dolls every week from the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

Sit Down, Print Out, Cut Up & Fold On

mattdidthat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:10:29 -0800

President Obama pencil topper. Olympic Mayor Daley. Parachuting Rod Blagojevich.(Acrobat PDF) Mayor Daley Parking Meter.(Acrobat PDF) Paper sculptures by illustrator and animation artist Joe Fournier.

Simon Schubert: In Apnoesie

gman — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:01 -0800

2D artwork created by 'simply' folding paper. By German artist Simon Schubert

Poo.

cjorgensen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:18:05 -0800

A new use for Poo. (via.) Related uses: Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Coffee Poo: Poo. Poo.

Cut it out...

seagull.apollo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:52:07 -0800

Paper cutout animation is repetitive, time consuming work. Results, however, can be well worth it. (SLYT)

Best two out of three! Thousand.

not_on_display — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:16:33 -0800

RPS-101. All 5,050 gestures and outcomes; the interactive chart. [previously]
Direct descendant of RPS-25 [Flash Game] [previously]; RPS-15, -11, -9, and -7; evolved from RPSSL.
All of these are more complex forms of Rock, Paper, Scissors [previously]
What would the World RPS Society [previously 1 2 3 | documentary] think of this inflation?
(International versions also available via AskMetaFilter: Japanese, Korean)

メリー・クリスマス with ふろしき

armage — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:53:18 -0800

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a not-for-profit company sponsored by the UK government, urges you to cut down on waste paper this holiday season and wrap your presents with furoshiki, the traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. Furoshiki (風呂敷, literally "bath-spread") date back at least to the Edo period, and continue to be used for all occasions to this day. The Japanese government has also been encouraging the use of furoshiki through its recent "Mottainai Furoshiki" campaign. There are many ways to fold a furoshiki, and if you don't have one you can use a bandana or other square cloth instead of a proper furoshiki -- or simply make your own. Furoshiki are a great opportunity to be both creative and green this holiday season.

Yes it is!

blue_beetle — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:27:38 -0800

Is this your paper on single serving sites?

Modular

Artw — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:41:17 -0800

Origami inspired bamboo and paper modular buildings for use as temporary shelters, by Ming Tang.

One person's old news can be another's person art form.

orange swan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:21:49 -0800

Perhaps in your non-Metafilter time or during the occasional power outtage you indulge in that charmingly antiquated past-time of reading a newspaper made out of actual paper. But, once you've read it, you're left with blackened hands and the necessity for putting that fragment of a dead tree somewhere or other. Aside from putting it in the recycling bin, which is responsible but kind of obvious (and therefore would not necessitate a MeFi FPP) what can you do? One option is to make handmade paper. If you're an outdoors type, you could make organic flower pots, some kites, or a dory. If you're more of a fashionista or home decorator, you could make a purse or a bead necklace, weave a basket or placemats, or make a bird. If you're a spinster, you could make some newspaper yarn as student Greetje van Tiem did for her Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show. The yarn can be woven into carpets, curtains and upholstery. Here's a tutorial on how to make the yarn. Then there's always papier maché. Besides the classic pinata, you could make a water buffalo, Halloween items (Boo!), a box, a bowl, a piggy bank (you can use the Wall Street Journal for that one), John Lennon, Hugh Laurie, or any of the items in this papier maché resource site's endless artist's galleries. There's too much there for me to offer any kind of representative sample, but I do feel strangely drawn to this piece. Here are lists containing 10, 20, 80 more uses for old newspapers. But if you've got a crossword puzzle fiend like my mother around, just make sure she gets a chance to do the puzzle before you begin crafting, or you might get guilted, disowned and/or spanked.

Magazine Design and Print Culture

dobbs — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:30:42 -0800

"The Magazineer is a blog about magazine design and print culture, written by people who love, and make, magazines." {The most recent entry is by Jess, actually.}

Construction Paper Feelings

Orb — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:56:50 -0800

"What the autistic 12-year-old can't express verbally or in social interaction he can show through his carefully cut out geometric shapes assembled into characters in a paper collage."

Papercraft Musical Medley

Dave Faris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:16:08 -0800

Ennio Marchetto : Italian quick-change papercraft drag queen does musical medley. Here's his website. (Previously)

Paper Pussy

armoured-ant — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:10:25 -0800

DIY Ceiling Cat. That is all.

My Paper Mind

gwint — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:08:08 -0800

My Paper Mind is a 44 second animation created by Javan Ivey using his stratastencil technique.

Maybe More Than One Sheet of Paper, But Still

mygothlaundry — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:44:50 -0800

I got a forwarded email this morning purporting to be images from a contestat the Hirshhorn “Modern Art Gallery” in DC. The images were pretty cool; I’m not the only one who thought so. Just one thing, it turns out there was no contest and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has no connection that I could find with the artist, Peter Calleson. Still, however you find it, the work is well worth a look.

paper's hero: bill blackbeard

ethel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:21:28 -0800

"Bill Blackbeard is a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers. This major collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, [spans] the years 1894 to 1996... "Finding that libraries were discarding bound newspapers after microfilming, he established the SFACA in 1968 as a non-profit organization and began collecting newspapers from California libraries, expanding his scope to institutions nationwide. Following three decades of acquisition, accumulating some 75 tons of material, he turned the SFACA Collection over to Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library, where it is available for research. "It was Blackbeard who told Nicholson Baker about 'fraudulent' studies used by libraries to justify their massive destruction of books and newspapers, information documented by Baker in his book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (2001), a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. text quoted from Blackbeard's wikipedia article..

Visit your friendly local zine archive!

ethel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:07:59 -0800

Housing, preserving, and providing access to these small-scale, homemade rags that document some corner of [often do-it-yourself and punk rock] culture, zine archives can be found via independently operated centers in Georgia (physical library in construction), New Orleans (myspace link, www address out-of-commission), Florida, Minneapolis, Denver, Cambridge, Olympia, Chicago, Seattle and... University libraries' collections in New Orleans, Wisconsin, Chicago, NYC, San Diego, San Diego again, Durham; Public libraries in Maryland, Oregon, San Francisco, Tennessee. also on line*. You can submit work (pdf) to some of these, and there's even a book about building a zine collection in your repository! *via Prelinger Library (also collects zines) Blog, and previously.

Are dead-tree magazines good or bad for the climate?

finite — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:14 -0800

"So by this analysis dead-tree magazines have a smaller net carbon footprint than web media. We cut down trees and put them in the ground. From a climate change perspective, this is a good thing" explains Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine's editor-in-chief. While some decry this type of carbon footprint accounting as "cheating", the paper industry has lately been eager to convince the public that they are carbon-neutral.

Catalog Choice

alms — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:06:49 -0800

Catalog Choice: one-stop shop for opting out of catalogs you don't want to receive.

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards

ColdChef — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:28:51 -0800

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards (I triple-dog dare ya!)

No more squeezin'

miss lynnster — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:23 -0800

Mr. Whi pple is dead. Lon g li ve Mr. Whi pple. Oh how we loved you. The altern atives will just never compare. (PLEASE do not miss the first link in "alternatives." You will be sorry.)

Heaps and Heaps of Origami Designs.

Effigy2000 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:27:35 -0800

Got some spare time? Then let's learn origami! Check out this large collection of origami designs (suitable for beginners too), and here's some instructional origami videos to help you along.

Not your mother's origami

salishsea — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:16:58 -0800

Paper sculpture from Richard Sweeney. (More MeFi paper sculpture from Cooperman and Callesen)