Moveable Paper

I've always loved paper crafts, like making the Dot-bomb icosahedron and such, as well as pop-up cards and books. I somehow ran across The Flying Pig this week which has some really cool kits for animated paper projects and pop-up critters you can put into cards and letters to surprise someone. This art is known as kirigami and there is a good book on the subject titled, Kirigami: The Art of 3-dimensional Paper Cutting. Another book has a more practical approach for engineers who want to understand how pop-ups work, Elements Of Pop Up : A Pop Up Book For Aspiring Paper Engineers. However, some pop-ups take more than simple paper engineering to create :)

I wish people would send more cards instead of email for the holidays and maybe even ones of their own design. For some reason, I suspect that people think that making cards is for kids and not adults because adults are supposedly never in possession of enough free-time to do anything that might make them look like they have any free-time.