Wednesday, August 14, 2013

page 541 "Leaves"


Yearning for thee
Thee coil'd in evil
with every me
                       my soul
This common
    feeding
     sing
   loathsome grubs, may to
so transposed, so used and bless'd         trills
your fortune be the
                            endless wilds,
spiritual             notes,


{courtesy of Walt Whitman}



Monday, August 12, 2013

Japanese birds from the extra Ordinary

Anyone have a Netflix account and have DVDs mailed to them? I tend to make cranes out of the flap that you tear off to send the DVD back. Why not?
My dad picked one of these up the other day, exclaiming that I was still making these darned-ed "Japanese birds"
"Dad, you mean cranes?"
"...oh yeah. Right."

{Hence todays title.}

Nonetheless, this funny or not-so-funny moment-of-forgetfulness-of-names-of-inanimate-objects is not exactly the point of today's post. I just wanted to share that these Japanese birds don't have to be deep, mystical entities handcrafted from obscure 20th century poetry or Old English manuscripts. Gosh no! In fact, my most recent flocks have been born of magazine leaflets and receipts, because I simply do not have volumes and volumes of Whitman or Shakespeare laying around. But I have plenty of National Geographic magazines, Panera and Starbucks receipts occupying precious desk space. Ah ha! Recycling at its finest!


{Francesca's receipt}


{church bulletin}


{Progressive insurance advertisement}


{Nat. Geo. magazine leaflets}





Friday, August 2, 2013

Join the craze

If anyone else wants something to do during the boring parts or wholes of algebra class, please proceed to the link below


P.S. I made it myself with my kick-butt-Chuck Norris-iMovie-making abilities. Thanks, Mr. Koch, for the laptop! It's for the good of future origami enthusiasts everywhere!