Contents

- Mini Neo 8th Edition …………………………… 3

- Folder of the month: Sebastien Limet … 4
- Bonus tracks (extra diagrams) ……………. 6
- Interview with Barth Dunkan ……………… 12
- Did you Know…? …….…………………………… 16

Editor: Juan Arriagada

Collaboration: Gerardo G.

Pilar Castillo

Chris Taylor

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Cover photograph: “Michael Jackson” designed folded and photographed by Sebastien Limet.
Mini Neo 8th Edition
Gerardo G.

I would like to take this opportunity to trapped in the belly of a whale? Then don’t
greet you all once again. Due to a miss Julien’s diagrams!
headache on the part of our friend and
editor Juan Arriagada, he decided to ask Why do I insist on the French theme?
me the favor of writing this short message. Because we also have an interview, from
our own editor, with Magic Fingaz. An
This edition will have a particular French origami personality, also French, who is
theme. We commemorate the anniversary well known in the web. Apart from
of the death of a musical icon, the late presenting his beautiful and simple models,
Michael Jackson, with diagrams from he always takes a moment to congratulate
Sebastian Limet, better known by his others on their work. Have you noticed?
artistic name -sebl-. But in addition, he has Look at any model on Flickr and chances
donated us an extra diagram for this are you will see his “Bravo” underneath.
edition, his Little Fox. This is not the only Applause that we all enjoy, knowing that
treat we have in store for you, Julien Gritte we have done a good job.
(from Paris) shares diagrams for his
Mobycchio. He hasn’t said, but I think it is a Apart from that, we present the regular
play on the words Moby Dick and piece from Pilar Castillo: “Did you know…?”
Pinocchio. Do you remember the scene with a new theme, useful to those who are
where Pinocchio and his friends were just starting out with the art of paper
folding. What do you think, eh?

Pilar shows us her editions of Mini Neo:

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Barth Dunkan – The magic fingers from France
Interview by Juan Arriagada
Where were you born? Where do you contemporary music and you have to
live? How old are you? What is your negotiate over everything. It is a tough and
name? unforgiving world.

I was born and live in Paris. I am 40 years What brought you to the world of
old and my name is Barth Dunkan. origami?

What does your nickname mean, or where I had a great desire to substitute music
does it come from? with something else and I remembered the
paper airplanes folded by my Asian friends.
My alias is “Magic Fingaz” for various They weren’t especially beautiful but they
reasons: 1. Because of magic tricks: I
flew perfectly, unlike ours.
started doing magic tricks when I was 5
years old; my favorites are card tricks. 2. What was the first model that you folded?
Because of music: I have worked as a
professional composer of hip-hop music for So, I wanted to fold paper airplanes, but
15 years. I worked for an independent label how? I went to the library and took all of
associated with Sony. 3. And of course, their books on origami and read them all
because of origami. day. It was fascinating the addiction that
took hold of me from their first pages.
What do you do – do you study, work...? From early on I found the book by Didier
Boursin about planes. I copied the
At the moment I sell books of all sorts over
diagrams and once back at home, now at
the Internet because I have left the music
night time, I started my first folds.
business. There is more creativity in
I am a self-taught origamist. I
trained from Youtube, which is a
great tool for learning. There are
lots of good models, depending
on the designer, which allow
people to fold them even if they
don’t have any money.

It is essential to communicate
this art to many, not just the
folds but its wisdom, poetry,
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respect, magic, mathematics,

imagination, rigor, etc.
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Do you have a favorite artist?

I love designs of Katsuhisa

Yamada and Kunihiko Kasahara
 different variations, usually takes
me about three days.

What is the main subject of your

creations (animals, birds,
others...)?

I love folding animals. As I live in

the city, I don’t have much
contact with the natural world. It
is my way of getting to know the
different species that make up our
world. It is exciting! I also like
making abstract designs, but I
need more knowledge in origami
(of techniques) for this.

Among your present models, do

as they capture perfectly the essence of
you have a particular favorite?
Japan.
I like my giraffe folded from a rectangle: its
On the subject of favorite artists, whom
little body, and long neck, and I love the
would you most like to meet, and why?
form of the head. I also love my dog folded
I would love to meet Katsuhisa Yamada from a square.
because of his low complexity, well
This is the type of origami that the
designed models. I love all his models and
Japanese like, origami that doesn’t try to
he is a well-rounded artist who folds not
be realistic but tries to exploit the shape of
only animals but also flowers, boxes, etc.
He is a very complete artist.

Looking at your blog, you have

lots of figures. What can you tell
us about them?

As my models are not complex I

have a variety of creations. I look
for simple models, not too
difficult to fold. It must not take
more than 30 minutes to fold
each one. I like to get quick
results from my creations, so the
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search for simplicity is my drive. I

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would like anyone to be able to

fold my origami. I am thinking, of
course, especially of beginners.

Creating a model, with its

 any conventions but I would like
to do so, because I think it’s
important to get to know other
people who share the same
passion as you and want to share
their knowledge.

Apart from origami, do you have

other hobbies?

I love photography. Before the

arrival of Photoshop, I took and
developed my own photos,
the object. When I think about creating a although I didn’t have a lot of knowledge of
rhinoceros, I think about its big head, the the subject. When I was a student, from
large body and short legs. For this reason, I time to time I used to photograph buildings
would first work on the shape of the head. (churches, mosques, monuments) or card
tricks (with close-ups). I love learning! I am
Do you have a special base for your
an eternal student.
designs?
There are lots of good photos; but some
No, I don’t have a preferred base since I am
people make mistakes in taking their
new in this field. I try out all the bases but I
pictures. What advice would you give
like the fish base the most. But there are
them?
already a huge number of models
developed from this base. Photography is very important in origami.
The Neorigami blog rightly offers a tutorial
Do you have diagrams published in a book
on making a photographic studio.
or magazine, perhaps from a convention?
You need, probably most importantly, good
No, but I might be publishing some
lighting. You need white light; make use of
diagrams very soon in a specialized
the sun this summer taking beautiful
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pictures. Take various pictures of your
We have seen that you have lots of models and choose the best, and use the
models – have you thought editor of your choice to touch up the
about making a book?

No, I’ve never thought

about making a book. For
now, I prefer to share my
models over the Internet.
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Have you been to any

conventions?

I’ve never participated in

picture and adjust the contrast. What would you say to new, young
designers in the world of origami?
We see that you use photo-diagrams. Do
you use a special program for this? Young new artists have been learning well
from the older ones. All around the world
Unfortunately I am very bad with these there are excellent models on offer,
programs and it takes time, but perhaps without there being one country that
one day I’ll do it. dominates the art over the others... it’s
fantastic.

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Did you know…?
Some Features of Paper: Weight
Weight is an indirect measure of the thickness of the paper.
Although there is a correlation between weight and thickness, it
also depends on the density, so you cannot simply go by the
weight.

Weights of paper suitable for origami range from 20 to 180g/m2,

that is to say, from tissue paper to thin cardstock. The thickness is
so important that often authors recommend a specific thickness for their models; this is due to
the fact that it is a limiting factor, there are some models that it’s simply not possible to fold
from paper over a certain thickness.

The evolution of origami has led to the existence of models that

require very thin papers but with high strength, like tissue foil,
which is suitable for some models but not for others; but the
general trend is towards folding from as thin paper as possible.

The problem of thickness becomes

evident when we have accumulated a
large number of layers and they become more difficult to fold; on
the other hand, if the paper is very thin it makes it more difficult
to handle, it wrinkles easily and lacks “body”, so that the models
can end up very well folded but without consistency.

A good thickness is evident in the finished figure; especially in the edges, looking rounded and
gentle rather than cold and sharp.
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Source: “Origami for Interpreters” by Román Díaz