{"id":179,"date":"2009-03-12T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-03-12T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T00:30:11","slug":"we-got-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/we-got-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently completed a commission for some origami elephants for a client in Germany.\u00a0 They asked for a series of models in various stages of completion and asked that I use white textured paper.\u00a0 I used 12′ Canson paper and they came out quite nice.\u00a0 Should be interesting to how they photograph them.\u00a0 Meanwhile here are my own snapshots, taken prior to boxing ’em up.<\/p>\n

And in case you were wondering, there\u2019s an historical connection between Germans and White Elephants.\u00a0 The Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had an albino war elephant a named Abul-Abbas.\u00a0 It was a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad. King Charlemagne rode the beast in battle against the Danes.\u00a0 Badass!<\/p>\n

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I recently completed a commission for some origami elephants for a client in Germany.\u00a0 They asked for a series of models in various stages of completion and asked that I use white textured paper.\u00a0 I used 12′ Canson paper and they came out quite nice.\u00a0 Should be interesting to how they photograph them.\u00a0 Meanwhile here … Continue reading “We Got Elephants”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}