Variação pétala Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Mélisande doing a remix on one of Jane’s origami designs. I really like the white unryu paper when it is backlit… fantastic stuff. and a strong reminder that I need to get back to folding, and use up some of the MC paper I made over a month ago already.

Mask tessellation Originally uploaded by Owesen. Taking mask tessellations in the other direction, here’s a recent work in progress from Fredrik Owesen. Masks made of tessellations, Tessellations made out of masks- anyone else have something to contribute?

I received an email this morning with 3 more wonderful pieces from Joel Cooper. His origami tessellation 3d masks are really astounding works of art. There are 2 new masks here, as well as a backlit photo of the mask previously shown in this post. Here they are- click the image for the full-size version.

I found these wonderful geometric (tessellated?) origami models on one of my favorite Japanese origami blogs: ATELIER Silver-Hobby | 笠原 邦彦作「長方形の珠」2 There’s quite a few models displayed, many from Kunihiko Kasahara- who’s work I greatly admire. You can see a large selection of some of the great posts (and photos) by looking under the “origami” category, here: 折り紙 Here’s some other great model photos to whet your appetite. There are well over 100 posts, so check it out! and make sure to add it to your feed reader, so you can check out the new stuff that gets posted all the time. And while you’re at it, we offer RSS feeds too…

I’ve bookmarked the direct link to this before, but I like Paper Forest’s writeup on this item, and it’s certainly a site worth checking out if you’re into papercraft and paper art things. In case you’re one of the 3 people left on the planet who hasn’t been exposed to this meme ad-infinitum! http://paperforest.blogspot.com/2006/01/12-sided-calendar.html