Day 267: Make A Paper Jetpack

     If I had known about this when I was younger, I'd probably would have burnt down the house by now.

     The video may be a bit on the cheesy side, but the guy does a good job of explaining how to make the rocket thing. So I did as he said and I built one, and I nearly lit my entire desk ablaze because I get a little trigger happy with lighters. Fortunately I came out unscathed. I live to do something idiotic another day!

Day 137: Paper Swan

     Yeah, I know that I've already done an origami challenge, but there is so much to learn about origami that theres no way I could cover it all in one day. So today I learned how to make the paper swan, a classic paper folding trick. Its for beginners so it should have been perfect for me, but I still had some trouble. If you do it right the wings are supposed to flap when you pull on it's tail. I only had a couple of successful swans but when ya look at the big picture, I think that it was a victory.

Day 54: Learn How To Fold Origami

     Today I took on the task of learning some basic origami (along with learning the proper spelling of the word origami). My friend Kevin taught me how to make a couple simple shapes while at work, but the real origami folding session began once I got home. I looked up some basics for me to try. After miserably failing at my first two attempts at making an "8 point star", I decided to go with a cube. It wasn't that hard now that I think of it. It was just a lot of redundancy because the cube was made out of 6 identical pieces of paper that were all folded in strange ways. I got around to folding all of the pieces of the puzzle and all that was left was to simply slide the ends of each part into slots of its counterparts. Before I knew it I had an impressive looking paper cube. I took some time to scribble on it with sharpie and then it was done. Aw yea.