Crane #722 - #759

We had a little bash for the love of it xmas do last night, and had a little bit of a Dickensian adventure to start off the evening. My part was the role of the "ghost of Christmas present(s)", and teaching people that Christmas is all about giving. So we did a spot of origami bombing, brightening up a rather dull corner of the centre with some Christmassy cranes (red and green!).

Once again, I failed to take photos, but there were other people with cameras around, so I'll try to update with a photo or two if any appear...

Crane #709 - #721

13 cranes made, no photos taken. Whoops.

The first 5 were made during a weekend in London, and left on trains, tubes and benches.

Two were made when I got back to.bristol. I had no food in the house and so I stopped at biblos for a falafel wrap. Cranes were made whilst I waited...

The next 3 were made for a colleague at work, as he said the one I'd already made him looked lonely.

Two were made this morning when I had breakfast at the runcible spoon cafe, and the last when I grabbed another wrap from biblos this evening...

Crane #704 - #708

Sometimes I just can't resist making a crane. Last night was one of those times. I stole a receipt from my friend Barry and made squares out of it. After making 3 normal sized cranes, I decided to have a go at making a teeny tiny one.

It pretty much worked...

The other crane was one I made at work. I was making some for my London project, and a colleague remarked that I could probably make them with my eyes closed. I closed my eyes and demonstrated that I indeed could...

Crane #684 - #703

Origami bombing made a return to Bristol this weekend. I'd got some large sheets of silver card from the scrapstore and decided to make some giant origami cranes. 20 cranes later, I was suddenly wondering what to do with them and eventually I decided to hang them up in a bunch of different places round Stokes Croft. This time, my willing accomplice was Chris from UpCycle, who willingly jumped over fences and climbed ladders for the sake of origami.

However, it turns out that giant origami cranes are a popular thing to steal. Before we'd even finished hanging up the first crane the first one had been nicked. And 2 days later, only 3 remain. I like to think that the other 17 are brightening up homes across Bristol though.

Here's a few photos before they got nicked...

Crane #601 - #683

I've got a bit behind with all this blogging recently, so I thought I'd do a summary of my recent crane folding adventures.

First up was End of the Road festival. 50 cranes took up residence in a tree just next to the tent from where we were running our events. Here are a couple of photos. First a close up, and then my friend James modelling his finest festival attire (the only photo I have that gives the full effect).

Next up was my friend John's wedding. When given a piece of paper to play with, my fingers entertained themselves by making a crane or 4 (not pictures was the one my friend Jo took home).

Next up was a quick lesson teaching my friend Leanna how to make cranes. 4 cranes and some tea later, she was highly skilled in the art of crane folding.

And still it goes on. Since my friend Lizzie could not make it to see the origami crane tree, I made her a miniature version with 20 cranes on it.

I took this to her in London, and managed to add a few more to the tally while I was down there. First, I made one for a small child on the train who saw the miniature tree and was completely fascinated. And then I met up with Chris from Upcycle, with whom I'm planning another origami bombing mission. Talk of origami crane making naturally lead to a lesson in how to make one, and then a bit of a challenge to make some really tiny ones. Photo to follow when I get my film camera developed....

Phew. And that's that for now.

Crane #501 - #600

My friend Jo got married last weekend. As she's a big origami fan, she asked me to make some cranes for her wedding, and so I got folding.

There were 56 used to make an archway in the cinema where they got married...

...and the other 44 were strung up from the wish tree, which typically again I have no photos of, but it looks much like 44 cranes strung up from a tree :)

Crane #493 - #500

Yes, the halfway point is here. And for once, I don't have any photos...

I started a new job about 2 months ago, and ended up chatting to people about the crane project. As a result, a few cranes have popped up here and there along the way. There's one on my desk, then I taught my colleague Jo to make them before she went off to Canada on holiday, so made four as part of that (which she took away to string up). And then on Thursday I had a tough day and so took a 10 minute break to have a cup of tea and make three cranes, which are now brightening up the staff room.

It's gone quicker than I expected, and the 1000 target is looking pretty doable. We shall see...