{"id":1204,"date":"2010-11-16T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:17:20","slug":"again-with-the-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/again-with-the-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Again With the Turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s see \u2026 a few things. Yesterday was our big deadline at work, the release of v2.2 of out software. We almost made it, but our QA guy was hung up by our server going down all the time the last few days. Meanwhile the last bunch o\u2019 weeks of working extra hours while trying to keep everything else going have caught up to me and I was kinda under the weather yesterday. I\u2019ve been watching some Galactica to unwind a few nights over the last few weeks, TV as a sedative. Everyone says BSG is awesome, but I\u2019m not so sure. For one thing, it\u2019s very dark, gloomy and humorless. Not very entertaining in the sense of providing entertainment. Second, EJO is great as Adama, but the only character with any personality in the whole show is Starbuck. Everyone else is just in the situation, and pretty dark and gloomy and humorless about it. Third the pacing is very slow, like a soap opera. A lot of inconsequential stuff happens every episode, and some of it moves the Big Plot forward a degree or two. Lastly, the genius scientist and his imaginary Cylon girlfriend are just too much! Still the thing is strangely compelling, and I expect I\u2019ll be making my way thru the series just to see what happens.<\/p>\n

The big thing we accomplished around the house last week was to paint the ceilings downstairs. They kinda did a crappy job when they built the house and it always bothered me, but it sometimes takes a while to get around to things. It\u2019s a big room that includes my studio and our family room and Jeannie\u2019s office (the size of all 3 bedrooms plus the hall and bathrooms and part of the kitchen), and it was a big job. We started Friday night and did most of the rest Saturday night, and finished Sunday afternoon. It\u2019s the only way to fit in a big job like that. And of course that\u2019s probably part of the reason I\u2019m so burnt out right now. Still, we\u2019ve been meaning to get around to it for a long time, and it\u2019s much better than it was before. Cross another item off our hydra-headed todo list.<\/p>\n

But you came here to read about turkeys, and by that I mean origami turkeys. In between everything else, I taught my Turkey at the Origami USA Special Sessions Saturday at the museum. I get a lot of great feedback on this model. I taught it last spring, but decided to it again this fall because of the tie-in with Thanksgiving. And I\u2019m happy to say it went over quite well. It was a good group and they all did great at the model. Including one kid about Lizzy\u2019s age. Wow.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t folded the model in about a year couldn\u2019t really remember how it went. It\u2019s a pretty complex model (probably over 100 steps once I diagram it). As luck would have it, Friday at work our servers crapped out so I had some downtime and was able to fold a few attempts and get as far as the base. When I taught the class they were all advanced folders and got the idea of free-form sculpting the details from the base, so that wasn\u2019t a problem. Still it\u2019s good to work it out and take it to the next level. Absolutely necessary for diagramming for a book. Along the way I got some of the previously improvised parts a bit more formalized too, particularly in the tail, so I feel a lot better about this model then I did before. The only thing left to work out now is the head. Now if I can only find the right paper I can make an exhibit quality version.<\/p>\n

I had some time a the end of my session so I taught my Walrus. (I usually bring whatever new models I have to these things to see what people think of them, and there were some requests to teach this one.) This is the kind of model I really like. It\u2019s only 20 or 30 steps, but communicates so much, and not being so hard, a much wider range of people respond to it. This one will definitely get into my book. The slate is already pretty full for my first book and most of the diagrams are drawn, but I guess there\u2019s the potential for a follow up. I only wish diagramming didn\u2019t take so long. Recently people have been sending me email asking to make youtube videos teaching my models. I guess I should be grateful they ask, but I have to tell them no. Boy, why doesn\u2019t some one volunteer to help diagram for my book? I guess that\u2019s why we need diagramming software. And so the circle of futility is complete.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a crease pattern for the Turkey Base. Probably not enough detail to figure out how to fold the final model, but enough for the basic layout. Hint: it’s a modified bird base.<\/p>\n

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