Extreme Origami

HOLY CRAP!

I had no idea you can make something like this with single piece of paper...



this was constructed over 40 hours spread out to over several months.

Here is a link to the original post on this:
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/03/extreme-origami/

The person who made this dragon is Satoshi Kamiya. He is in his 20's and he is a pro origami artist as I understand. Here is the video of this guy. Start from 4:30 and see. You will be blown away!



Here is another video of his works.


He has a book out on but it is sold only in Japan... too bad.

I am just speechless...

Bump in my backyard

So I made this "bump" in my backyard today.

I got shit load of dart that I don't need, so I pilled them on a section of my backyarad.

Here is the "before" picture:


Then the "after picture"



Then I went and got bunch of sod.



Then I covered this bump with the sod.




I need to to name this bump... not sure what I am going to call it, Probably something very boring like "Grass Mountain".

Any good ideas?

Let me know.

Bilingual dog

I trained my dog to be a bilingual dog.

We speak Japanese to the dog at home but he has to go to vet or stay at kennel from time to time and understanding English is very much needed in those places. So, we decided to train him to be bilingual.

The result was very successful!

What you do is have him learn your hand signals when you are training your dog for the first language. Once your dog is done with the first language, you can apply the same gestures but use another language.

Here is the youtube video of our bilingual dog, Koko.

Enjoy!

Made planters

I made 3 planters today out of pressure treated woods.

You just cut them and nail them together and make rectangle.



Than add another 2x4, so you have place to sit or put your hand to.


Put water proof paper inside. Ones that you use for roofing and such.


Then you are done.


I made 3 of these, placed them and got dart for them as well.


Dumped some dart in there and planted what was growing on the ground.


The purple object in the back of the picture....Ghost?

Nahhh. It's my wife but she did not want to be in the picture.

I will be making fence and fence doors next.

Attaching doors

Since I am done with carpet, I've moved onto attaching doors.

What I am attaching are the foldable doors, like the ones you see for closet.



The first thing you do is to attach a rail on the top. There are 2 metal pieces that go on the floor, which would hold the low end of the doors. (forgot to take pictures)



I attached right side first.



Once you know how to do this, the second one is super easy, I attached it on 5 minutes.



The last remaining piece are the moldings, and I will be completely done!

Carpeting

Now that I am completely done with the walls, I've installed carpet today.

First thing you do is to place tackless strips. It has bunch of nails sticking out. You hook your carpet to this.



Nailing the strips.


All done!


I was telling my wife that it must hurt like hell and probably JUMP if you STEP on this...

Then





We stepped on it.



It was indeed very painful that we both

JUMPED.

Then install carpet pad. All you have to do is just staple them with tucker.





Then you install carpet on this and cut off any excess.



All done!



Lastly, install ending to the entrance.



I am all done now!

I forget to take the picture of the overview.

Will install doors next.

Finally done with the partition wall!

YES!!

After I was done with the joint compound, then I applied first coat of paint.

My family members are helpful only when it looks to be fun.



Since I wanted rough surface, I got this spray compound.

By spraying your wall with this thing, you can add rough texture to your wall.



This is how the wall looks like with this compound sprayed on the wall:


Koko playing with the spray cap.


Repainted the wall after I was done spraying this thing.

I am DONE!!


The outlet that I've patched up.


Looking from inside the new room:


From the "usual" angle:


Done with the walls now. Moving onto carpeting.