What is Left of the US Dollar?
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
More after the jump . . .
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 10:57 am
Image links don’t work in FireFox (they do work in MSIE8)
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
At first I thought it was a joke: all that loaded was the one dollar toilet. The crab is pretty good and it looks like some of the marking line up. The crab was giving me the fish eye, what ever that means.
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
The fish just came up. That’s amazing.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 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 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
that’s freakin’ cool as hell. Thanks for posting this.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
The dragon, crab and scorpion/spider are impressive. I have a functional frog- when you press down just right, it hops. LONG time ago, a stripper- apparently they have little practical use for one-dollar bills, even back then- made it for me…I had to trade her a crisp one, however.
Of course, my kid now plays with it. Thankfully, I haven’t had to explain its origin.
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Here’s the scorpion from the original web site source:
http://www.nowpublic.com/value-one-dollar-photo-12
The garbage truck set up is quite impressive as well.
http://www.nowpublic.com/value-one-dollar-photo-22
Make sure you go there as well to see the whole thing.
http://www.nowpublic.com/value-one-dollar
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
The irony of the dollar as a bottom sucking carp isn’t lost on me. I like it.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Time wasted.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I see the images in Firefox.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Where’s the image that shows where you do the origami on the dollar to make it look like 74 cents?
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I hear if you roll up a dollar bill you can also use it as a cocaine straw…
Put it to use enough that way, and you might believe this whole “recovery” story is real…
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Very cool. Yeah, there’s a duplicate, and the “One-dollar Scorpion” image link should be:
http://www.investmentpostcards.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/usd9.jpg