Sunday, November 20, 2011
Pre-Columbian Style Origami Frog -Video
This pre-columbian origami frog was inspired by a visit to the Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) in my native Bogotá, Colombia.
The museum collection illustrates the social and cultural life of many different groups of people such as Muiscas or Chibchas, who lived in what is now known as Colombia from approximately 500 BCE until the time of the European Conquest.
Frogs were a recurrent theme of these Pre-columbian cultures and often featured on pendants, pins, necklaces and bracelets.
Frog Folding Paper
This frog can be folded from many different kinds of paper including kami, or even a page from a magazine. But to fold the frog as a pin or a pendant I needed a paper with specific characteristics:
After a bit of experimenting, I discovered that Tant and Stardream papers satisfied both requirements and come in a variety of beautiful colors. Stardream includes some gorgeous golden tones.
Each one of the golden frogs in the photographs was folded from a square red piece of Stardream (3 x 3in.). After folding, a couple of shellac glazes were applied followed by gilding with 23 carat gold leaf. For an antique look, the gilding process leaves some tiny gaps through which the red of the paper shows through.
My husband, an expert in antique furniture restoration, taught me the gilding process. I have to admit it was a bit disconcerting to see flakes of real gold drifting all about my work table, but I think the result was worth the effort and anxiety. Please note that some finished frog pins are available at my Etsy store.
In celebration of World Origami Days (Oct 24 to Nov 11), I’d like to share a video on how to fold this pre-columbian style origami frog.
Diagrams: Published in Creased Magazine, issue 4
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Virgin and child
On his blog, Vera Young shared an image of Our Lady of Aparecida (Nossa Senhora Aparecida) interpretation, and the diagrams by Emilson Nunes.
The Virgin dark skin, venerated in the Catholic Church, is the patron saint of the Brazil. His feast is celebrated each year on October 12.
Painters and sculptors throughout the history of Western art have used their skills in the creation of images of the Virgin.
Image of Vera inspired me to create the version origami of the Virgin Mary shown on the photo here. Unlike our Lady of Aparecida, the Virgin is in his arms a child who is dressed in a white tunic.
Marked as: brasil, learn origamiSaturday, November 19, 2011
Brochure Folding Techniques That Rock
A brochure is effective marketing collateral that can help you make a success out of your promotional campaign. Your brochure's main purpose is to attract your clients to purchase a product from you or avail of a service.
Even with a powerful message and exciting brochure printing design, all your efforts would be put to waste if you don't have the right folding technique that would help your brochure spread out its wares in your recipients' hands. Not to mention that your overall brochure printing cost is also determined by your folding pattern.
It matters then how you apply your folding technique. To make a possible sale and eventually increase your profits, you have to know what type of brochure folding technique would be suitable for your needs and purpose.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, effective brochures are made not only from great design or the perfect paper. (For most promotional materials actually, like the club flyers, success is more than these two elements.) For the most part, effective brochures are made by how they unfold.
For your next marketing campaign using brochures as your print collaterals, here are the most effective folding methods that you can use to increase your sales.
The Four-Page Fold. This simple brochure fold is the most basic as well as the simplest technique. It is suitable for direct mail campaigns because you don't need envelopes to send them to your target clients. They're very easy to make as well.
The Six-Page Fold. Also best for direct mail brochures and can be used as well for invitations. They can be applied to letterheads and literature materials for best results.
The Six-Page Accordion Fold. This technique uses the basic literature fold just like that of the 6-page. The only difference is the format applies the accordion as a design to the folding technique. Also ideal for direct mail campaigns.
The Eight-Page Parallel Fold. This is very popular among sales people as it promotes readability of more detailed information. Generally a literature and map folding technique, it is perfect for direct sales mailers and directional invitations. It can also be mailed even without an envelope.
The Eight-Page French, Eight-Page Map, Eight-Page Gate, Eight-Page Accordion, and the Eight-Page Roll Folds. All of these techniques are ideal for literature and map folding specifications. They are also great for detailed sales and marketing information, as well as for contents that use diagrams.
The Ten-Page Accordion, Ten-Page Parallel, and Twelve-Page Roll Folds. Also suitable for sales and product brochures with a more detailed content.
The Twelve-Page Broadsheet and Signature Folds. In addition to sales brochures with maps or diagrams, the 12-page broadsheet fold is also ideal for educational and training kits.
The 16-Page Broadsheet and Signature Folds. Suitable for general maps, educational or product descriptions in your brochures.
Folding is an art. Just like the Japanese origami, you can create a lot of things out of a mere piece of paper. In the same manner, when you fold your brochures, an art is created; an art that will draw your clients to your business, and eventually increase your ROI.
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The Long Commute - Ways to Relish a Necessary Evil
For many people, living space and working requirements mean that long commutes are an inevitable aspect of any career. But perhaps we are failing to make the most of this necessary portion of our daily lives? Arising from this concern, this list attempts to acknowledge some of the most profitable and enjoyable ways to spend these potentially precious hours of free time, and hopefully to relax us both before and after work.
Become An Expert: One advantage of having regular periods of free time is that learning anything, no matter how specific, becomes easy, due to the lack of pressure and the repeated encounters with the subject. Therefore, use your commute to find out about something you always wanted to know; learn to identify birdsong from your MP3 player, take along a list of the regional dates the English monarchs, memorize the Qur'an - turn your commute into a relaxed and absorbing rehearsal for an appearance on Mastermind. Enjoy yourself.
Origami: There are hundreds of origami patterns available on the internet for beginners and those who have long had the patience for this pastime. Set yourself a challenge; a crane in a week, a lily in a fortnight. If people tell you that you've got too much time on your hands, print them out a diagram, and they can criticize you once they've made you a jumping frog.
Become an Encyclopedist: With the advent of online encyclopedias, anyone can get involved in providing data on an almost infinite range of subjects. We needn't be professors in order to contribute to this mass of learning and discussion; correction and development both play a huge part in the maintenance of such knowledge bases. Find an article which is a 'stub' (one without sufficient depth or substance) which you can edit on paper, and take part in educating the entire world from your train seat.
Take Up Knitting: So, the chaps might think this one is pushing the limits a little, but knitting has made something of a comeback in recent years, and there's no more apt time to refamiliarize yourself with it than on a long train journey. There are tons of patterns available free online: simply print your favourite, take it with you, and get cracking - you never know, you could even foist your creations off on your loved ones as unexpected presents: who ever said you weren't spontaneous?
Start a Mobile Chess Tournament: For this you need a travel chess set, a table seat, and a little initial pluck. You can fall back on a chess problem if you lose your nerve at the last minute, so use a colour inkjet printer to print one out and smuggle it on board as if you meant to use it all along. Be blatant - set up right out in the open, and when you see the reluctant gleam of interest in someone's eyes, see if they wouldn't perhaps go for a cheeky match. For those so inclined, there is not a single thing more absorbing and endlessly entertaining than a good game of chess, and you might even be thanked for your courage in setting the gambit up.
As the competitive element of our working lives becomes more and more entrenched, we could begin to see a broadening of commute times overall, in which case even more dramatic solutions would be necessary to fend off boredom: Aisle-Seat Yoga? Who knows. Still, hopefully this short list will provide a few ideas to fill the blanks of your daily round trip.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Affiliate Program - 3 Fundamental Ways to Make Money Online With Your Affiliate Program
One of the best ways to make money online is through affiliate products or services. This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways doing an online business and still can earn a good income. There are many ways to make money with the affiliate program. However, most affiliate marketer have neglected the most important fundamental and traditional methods.
Here are the 3 fundamental and traditional ways to make money online with your affiliate program.
1. Search for the high demand programs and products in your niche. You should promote a program or product you are interest to promote and you should have some knowledge about your niche too. If you choose something you are not interested in, you may give up easily when facing obstacle during promoting online.Therefore, you should find the program you are interested to promote and focus on it for the long run. Of course, the niches that you are interested in must have demand where people do not mind to pay for it and they cannot get it free elsewhere.
2. Using Google AdWords keyword Tool to find your ideal niches. The best thing for Google AdWords keyword Tool that it is free to use at any time and every where. This is one of the best keyword tool to find your niches that you are interested in. This free keyword tool gives you the information on the number of people searching for any products and services. Besides, it also shows you the number of advertising competitors and help you to decide whether if the programs are highly competitive to promote. The best way to look for your niches is by focusing on the long tail niches. For example, if your interest niche is on "Making paper origami". You may look at the long tail niche such as "Making paper origami with recycle paper" or "Making paper origami with 3D animation diagram". Thereafter, you would create a website or blog to promote your affiliate program.
3. Do not just look for a high commission paying affiliate program to promote but also look at the fundamental of the seller products or services provided in their website. Most of the affiliate market tend to promote products or services with high commission and popularity. However, this may not really able to make good commission at all time since many people are promoting it and the competitiveness promoting the products and services are very high. You may end up putting a lot of effort but not making enough money here. You should rather look at what kind of products and services provided for the buyer. Are they having the reputable products or services? What kind of services support do they provide for the buyer? The list can go on for the fundamental questions that you can think of where buyer will want to buy the products or services.
Try out these 3 fundamental ways to make money online with your affiliate program and see the results that it can make your commission in long time.
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Six Power Tactics to Tap Into YouTube
When Google first bought YouTube a few years ago, some experts were worried that it would quickly wither and die. Not because Google would kill it, but because there was so much copyright infringement on it and Google had so much money, that some people feared that it would be swamped with lawsuits.
Fortunately, it survived. And thrived. YouTube has just turned five, and it's now getting 5 billion views a day.
That makes it worth paying attention to!
For a long time, we didn't have widespread broadband access, easy tools for creating video and easy tools for watching video. But that has now changed.
If you're a business owner - and especially if you're a speaker, trainer, consultant, coach or other thought leader - you can't afford to ignore YouTube as a marketing tool for your business.
Don't think you have to create the same slick sort of video you see on a DVD. You don't need to use fancy green screen technology. And you don't even need to do "video" at all - in the traditional sense.
Here are six ways to create video for YouTube easily and cost-effectively.
1. Do a book review.
An easy way to get started with YouTube is to do a book review by video. It doesn't require much of a "presentation", it requires just one prop (the book, of course!), and it's a great way to leverage your reading into a promotional opportunity.
2. Explain a concept with a diagram.
If you're using YouTube to teach something, use a diagram to explain your concept. You don't have to do this with slick PowerPoint or Keynote slides, nor with green screen technology. You've probably seen some people do it in front of a whiteboard or a flip chart. It's the message that matters much more than the presentation tool.
3. Explain a concept with a metaphor.
The next option requires a bit more creativity, but it's very effective. Because YouTube is a visual medium, if you can create a visual metaphor for your message, it's far more effective than a talking head, or even a talking head with a good diagram.
Can you do a magic trick? Or play a musical instrument? Or do some origami? Or show an optical illusion?
If you can do any of these things and connect them to your business message, you can create an engaging YouTube video. Even better, because it's a bit quirky, it's more likely that people will recommend it to others.
4. Do a screen tutorial.
If you can demonstrate something on your computer screen, you can use screen capture software to record it. You might be doing this already for your private e-learning products, but have you thought of publishing a few of them to YouTube for promotional purposes?
5. Create a slide presentation.
Of course, you can use screen capture software to capture entire PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, along with your narration. You can do the same thing without the screen capture software (for example, Keynote can save a presentation directly as a movie file), but if you don't know how to do that, just use the screen capture software.
6. Create an animated slide show.
There is now a variety of photo publishing software, originally designed for creating animated photo albums, that you can use even for educational or marketing messages. For example, you could create a series of PowerPoint or Keynote slides with a message and string them together into a beautiful, professional-looking promotion - complete with music.
Even if you don't have the software or creative skills to build the animation, there are a number of services available - such as Animoto.com - that can do this for you.
So what can YOU do?
I hope these six ideas have sparked some ideas for you. You don't have to use them all - but choose at least one and give it a go. Remember: YouTube matters!
Gihan Perera is an Internet coach for speakers, trainers, consultants and other experts. He's the author of "Get Active: Web Sites for Speakers, Trainers, Coaches and Consultants" and "Fast, Flat and Free: What You Need to Know to Stay Ahead in a Connected World". Visit http://GihanPerera.com and get your complimentary copies now.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Maria Sinayskaya advice for the creation of Origami, Modulars
When Maria Sinayskaya left Samara, Russia, in 2008, to live in South Africa, the single origami model that she knew how to fold was the traditional flapping bird. But, since the discovery of the world of origami and its many passionate, Maria was folding and creating non-stop, becoming, in the process, a prolific paper and designer folder.
Maria shares his creations on the page of its Web site and flicker.
I recently had the opportunity to ask Maria on his practice and his passion for origami. Here are his thoughts.
Why you are passionate about origami and modulars in particular?
I have a mathematical context and it would be no exaggeration to say that I love the geometry! Find it me really amazing that you can bend complex geometrical models just from leaves of squares of paper without cuts or glue. And besides this, I think modular origami is relatively easy for a beginner at the outset. On average, there are approximately 10 folds in each unit, and folding many of them takes time, but the final result is always worth it.You have any advice to share about the origami design process?
Fold much! It is has so many various models out there, the simplest and the most notable of those who have discovered already, familiarize yourself with as many as possible.Fear not to change or modify a template. Changes in minor are not new models of course, but this practice allows to get a better feeling of works of the paper.Look at patterns of fold and you ask what changes, you can do and how it affects the model.Modular origami is not only on units, how you connect to them no importance too. Explore all the possibilities!Try to reverse engineering on a model that you like looking at a photo. It is the best exercise, I know, and there is nothing to lose! It is a great satisfaction if you succeed and there is good chance to achieve something new along the way. I do not think that I would have never aim a thing if there were diagrams available for all models, that I wanted to bend.Be prepared to discover that your new original design is not so "new or original" after all. It is not that difficult to design a modular model in reality. The only problem is that all the good are already taken.Which work influence you in the world of origami?
There are a lot of origami designers that I admire the work: Tomoko Fuse (I am the biggest fan of it, there is so much you can learn from his books!), Kunihiko Kasahara, Mio Tsugawa, Meenakshi Mukerji and many many others. I am passionate of Krystyna Burczyk's work because his models are very artistic and mathematical in nature.::::
Diagrams candle Maria Kusudama
This star created by Maria is based on an icosahedron. Is this you have bent it? Share with us your experiences or links to photos of your work!
Marked as: learn origami, Mr. Sinayskaya