I\u2019ve been researching videos of origami instructions in preparation for my new book, when I came across a funny thing. It used to be that when you googled \u201corigami dragon\u201d the first link was the diagrams for my Classic Dragon:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/zingoridragon.html<\/a><\/p>\n Every so often I\u2019d get an email from someone asking how to do step 8 or so. The diagrams are clear, but it\u2019s a complex move that can be difficult for someone who\u2019s not at an advanced level or is not good a reading diagrams. I hadn\u2019t gotten a question like that in a while, and now I know the reason why: someone video\u2019d the step and put it up on youTube:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vH47QYoKcrs&list=UUXjoCyW74kxPiDU8VCiHjVw&index=6&feature=plcp<\/a><\/p>\n The video has over 8,000 hits! I\u2019m amazed, I guess a lot of people must be folding my old Dragon. The guy has a youTube channel in which he has video clips f a number of other steps from other models:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/therealchris<\/a><\/p>\n I also came across a video for a song called Paper Dragon by a band named Moe. By coincidence I heard them on the radio the same day. This is kind of a big deal for me simply because it\u2019s been a long time since I heard a new band on the radio that I like well enough to want to go and by their record. The group is musically adventurous, which is important to me. They have actual musically creative ideas and can play. They have a vibes player who gives them kind of a Steely-Zappa sound. Plus the subject matter spoke to me. But then I went to try and find their CD, and it looks like they\u2019re a jam band with more live records than studio records, and Paper Dragon is a new song and not on a CD. But then where did the version I heard on the radio come from? Maybe they\u2019re making a CD. Hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been researching videos of origami instructions in preparation for my new book, when I came across a funny thing. It used to be that when you googled \u201corigami dragon\u201d the first link was the diagrams for my Classic Dragon: http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/zingoridragon.html Every so often I\u2019d get an email from someone asking how to do step … Continue reading “Paper Dragon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-origami","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}