Tue 1 Dec 2009
What is left of the value of a one-dollar bill?
Posted by Prieur du Plessis under Dollar, Investment
A Chinese-American named Won Park has found the answer.
View the pictures below and you will understand what is meant. The technique applied is called Origami and is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The objective of this art is to create an image of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns if achievable without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper for each figure.
Won Park has a master’s degree in Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose “canvas” is the US one-dollar bill.
Bending, twisting, and folding, he creates life-like shapes in stunning detail.
Quite amazing …
One-dollar Fish
One-dollar Butterfly
One-dollar Camera
Two-dollar Battle Tank
Two-dollar Chinese Dragon
One-dollar Crab
Two-dollar Jacket
Two-dollar Spider
One-dollar Scorpion
One-dollar Toilet Bowl
One-dollar Penguin
One-dollar Shark
One-dollar Jet
One-dollar Hammerhead Shark
Source: Now Public, November 16, 2009.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Very cool stuff. Although I have to be skeptical about a Masters degree in Origami. Really? Although if anybody does, this guy certainly deserves an advanced degree in this subject. Amazing.
The spider and the scorpion are identical pictures, BTW.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 am
Clearly the spider and the scorpion are not the same photo. Please see [excuse the pun] your optometrist.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Steven
He changed the scorpion picture, presumably due to my comment.
I realize how it would look to you, but believe me, the scorpion picture was previous wrong, showing the spider instead. A little deduction on your part would have had you come to the conclusion that it was wrong when I commented, and then fixed before you viewed it. You might think deeper the next time.
It still shows that way on The Big Picture blog post where this was also posted. Just for the record.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/what-is-left-of-the-us-dollar/#more-45157
December 4th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Onlooker, Steven: Yes, I corrected the pictures. I should have posted a comment earlier.