Luke came home from school yesterday talking about the origami book his class apparently discovered at choice time yesterday. Who knows if this will become one of his obsessions, or whether it's a one-day thing, but when we were talking about it last night, it reminded me of Robert Lang (who Mark worked with at some point in California), the subject of this New Yorker profile about "the physicist who dropped everything for paper folding," and the artist who did the scorpion at the top of this post.
Luke and I looked at Lang's origami website (click here), which has photos of unbelievable origami and for some of them even includes links to the mind-boggling crease pattern instructions. (You can access the ones for the scorpion here.) Luke was suitably impressed—though in typical Luke fashion, he's also convinced that he can make up his own way of doing origami, since the book was so popular that kids had to wait to take turns to look at it and go over the instructions.
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