SuperForest

Last December, I posted some incredible dollar bill origami pieces by the wicked talented Won Park and I was reminded of his work when I saw these fun pieces! We aren’t sure who is to be credited for creating these origami money hats but whoever it is, love goes out to him/her for putting a big ol’ smile on my (and maybe your) face.

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Hey SuperForest!

Carla here, writing to you all from my cousin Nika’s kitchen. We were in the mood for some good ol’ crafty time. Naturally, we turned to instructables for some inspiration. Here’s Nika to share what we found:

What up SuperForest,

If you guys are anything like me, you burn CDs for friends or for yourself and often don’t have a case to store them in. I used to get some pieces of paper and fold them into a square to make a pocket, but those days are long gone. I present to you, the new homemade paper CD cases!

Here’s a video explaining how you make them.

So the CD cases are easy to make and totally usable, but the best part about them is…

THEY ARE SHOCK ABSORBENT! Lovely, maximum CD protection. :)))

Love,

Nika

(Thanks to instructables user golics for sharing that with us)

In spirit of preparing to improve my SuperForest-ness in 2009, I decided to hand craft my mom’s birthday gifts this year. And a part of those gifts included one of these…

Here are a couple videos that will help you make on of your own!

Won Park is a dollar bill folder. He has the amazing talent to turn one of these…

Into one of these…

What a gifted artist! To see more of Park’s work and several other mind bending origami pieces, click here!

(found via BOOOOOOOM! via ffffound!)

Smaller than a penny! Swank.

“Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute have demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule containers that might be used to deliver precise micro- or even nano- quantities of drugs.

According to ISI project leader Peter Will, who is a research professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering, the new technique, described in a paper in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, is a two-step process. Part one is the creation of flat patterns, origami, of exactly the fold up shapes familiar to kindergarten children making paper pyramids, cubes or other solids, except that these are as small as 30 micrometers on a side. (1 inch = 25,400 micrometers)”

Aaaaaaaahhhh!!! So cool! The science of small is so hot right now.

Click here for the full story from Information Sciences Institute.

Slap a FedEx logo on the side, fire up the Matter Compiler, and we’re off!

This is a beautiful piece by Joaquin Baldwin.

Here’s his site: Pixel Nitrate

And his demo reel, courtesy of youtube:

Enjoy.