Won Park: Master "Money Folder" Origami

Education Fun:

http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/won-park-the-master-of-origami-paper-folding/

Won Park – The Master of Origami Paper Folding

Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper.
Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill. Bending, twisting, and folding, Won Park creates life-like shapes inspired by objects living and not– both in stunning detail.

One Dollar Koi

One Dollar Butterfly

One Dollar Camera

phineas8888

I will do further research to see if he has a book of instructions published...
and check youtube for instructional videos... (I already found other people demonstrating
similar origami constructions, but not with the one dollar bill and not by the original Master
himself...  to be continued...  :-)

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Good News!!!  I found a yahoo group dedicated to Won Park's origami art and he himself is a member of the group; here is the link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moneyfolders_unite/

ps: Won Park is a young man living in Hawaii... He does not fit the stereotype of an elder Japanese
monkish sage... to be continued...  :-)

The moneyfolders yahoo group has exacting diagrams and step-by-step written instructions, and many photographs and some youtube videos etc. to fill an Origami Museum...   :-)  This on-going daily message board and Origami Resource worldwide is an international treasure for teaching and learning and creating magical powerful art and science and community spirit with the simplest of materials and techniques...

This is the beginning of something wonderful for internet empowerment of ordinary and extraordinary people worldwide...and it is based on a small piece of paper that fits in the palm of your hand and is folded into the Creations of Infinite Possibilities...

Sincerely and Respectfully,

phineas8888


  

Free Online Drawing and Coloring Website for Cartoons, etc.

Education Fun,

Here is a kid-oriented website with free drawing and coloring tools, so that you can draw and/or color with your computer online.  There are many cartoon characters to color yourself, or you can draw your own pictures to color with your computer free online.

http://www.timtim.com/coloring/drawing

phineas8888

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The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript -- Animation Video on youtube

Education Fun,

I am working on a curriculum project for students K-University, called Engineering of Everyday Things.
It has lessons and actvities for Analyzing a "Whole (Everyday Thing) and its Parts". This involves  describing the Structure and Function of an Object; there are many objects offered for student examples in several lists and picture collections. Some examples are found online as well. Here is a brief and yet very effective video animation produced by the Getty Museum titled: The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript, posted on youtube at:

http://waldorfschool.tv/medieval-manuscript-structure/

It demonstrates how books of long ago were handmade on parchment pages and sewn together with a cover and binding technique that is still used today in making books.


phineas8888

Microscope Photo of Soap Bubbles

Education Fun,

Nikon Photography has an annual worldwide competition for photographs taken through microscopes; the results of this year's competition can be seen at their Small World website:

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/

Among my favorites is this simply beautiful colorful photograph of soap bubbles,
at 150X magnification... the colors are real, not Photoshop!

I think if you double-click on the image it will zoom larger on the screen...

The pure black background is based on a specific lighting technique of  Photo Microscopy; you can learn more at their website about the various techniques that can be used to highlight and colorize microscope specimens.

Enjoy the view that our unaided eyes cannot see...
Microscopes and telescopes bring the very very small and the very very large world views into human focus; they are very important tools of Science and Understanding...

I think that every school should have both available for supervised student use.

phineas8888

German Tarts (A Delicious Photograph :-)

Dear Education Fun

I am fortunate to have a good friend who is a Professional Photographer of Extraordinary Talents...
He recently returned from an extended stay in Germany and just today I got to view many of his spectacular photographs from his trip...

One of my favorites is simply put: "Delicious"...

I will let you judge for yourself (remember that if you double click on the photograph you will see a much larger dramatic image...)

Bon Appetit

phineas8888

Breathing (in French :-)

Dear Education Fun
Cher Education Amusant

Here is an educational anatomy illustration about "Breathing" from Wikipedia.
I looked at the English Language version and then decided that I would select the French version,
because the anatomy words seemed softer and smoother and less "harsh" sounding...
and also I simply did it just "For Fun"...

So the next time you "take a breath" or think about "breathing"...
this picture can add some "in-sight" to your life and living...
what the French call "joie de vivre"...

:-)

phineas8888

a bientot...

La respiration est le processus qui se déplace de l'air dans et hors des poumons. Les organismes aérobies ont besoin d'oxygène pour libérer l'énergie par la respiration, sous la forme du métabolisme de molécules riches en énergie comme le glucose.
La respiration est un seul processus qui apporte l'oxygène à l'endroit où elle est nécessaire dans le corps et élimine le dioxyde de carbone. Un autre processus important concerne la circulation du sang par le système circulatoire. Les échanges gazeux se produit dans les alvéoles pulmonaires par diffusion passive des gaz entre le gaz alvéolaire et le sang dans les capillaires du poumon. Une fois que ces gaz dissous dans le sang, les pouvoirs cœur de leur écoulement autour du corps (par l'intermédiaire du système circulatoire). Le terme médical pour la respiration normale est détendue eupnée.
En plus d'éliminer le dioxyde de carbone, la respiration se traduit par une perte d'eau du corps. air expiré a une humidité relative de 100% à cause de l'eau diffusent à travers la surface humide de la respiration passages et les alvéoles.