Who else likes origami?

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I don't know when I started doing it, it was sometime in elementary school though, probably 4th grade. It was my special interest for a while, I learned quite a few models and I would make them in all my classes instead of taking notes or doing my work. I would often give them to the teachers afterwards, it made them less likely to get mad at me for it

I stopped doing it as much once i got to my sophomore year in high school because the teachers didn't tolerate it as much, but I still continued to do it regardless. Even in my senior year I remember one time I was making paper claws in my AP calculus class, and I proceeded to put them on all my fingers and stroke my face with them. When people asked I told them I was Edward Scissorhands

i remember being introduced to it in third grade by my teacher (who i also had second grade with), she gave me a half used fold-a-day calendar, with the occasional culture reference that i would not understand until years later when i looked at it again.

i did become obsessed with it, naturally, folding every scrap of paper i got into creatures, mostly various kinds of birds as i was obsessed with them in elementary school when i folded a lot. i collected lots of books, both from stores and the school library. Robert J. Lang was one of my favorite connoisseurs of the art and i had many books from him. one of my favorite books was a gift from my PE teacher called The Buck Book by Klutz, it specialized in dollars and dollar shaped bills an even came with a dollar, "Instant Rebate!" it had instructions on how to make a dime-ring out of it, among others and the only one i really memorized was one to fold a peacock.

while i still keep most my books i have not done it as much since i entered 7th grade, have got into other interests but still i'd really recommend it to anyone.

I know how to make some interesting things out of a square piece of paper.

I don't know how to make much else apart from cranes. That said I've made several sets of 1000. ATM one set is in a fishbowl near my phone and the others are on strands of string and hanging in my bedroom.

Learning origami has been on my to-do list for ages.
I used to like it when I was a kid. One time I was improvising with a bit of paper when I somehow made what I thought was a near-perfect triceratops head, but the next day my mother threw it away believing it to be a piece of wastepaper.

I've done it off an on over the years, have quite a few books on it actually. I liken it to cooking in that you can teach yourself how to do it from a book and get quite good at it with a little practice, but it takes years to master. It also has a similar 'something from nothing' dynamic that I enjoy.

The book you're remembering is "Origami in Action : Paper Toys That Fly, Flap, Gobble, and Inflate" by Robert Lang (of langorigami.com ). Robert is one of my favorite origami designers.

^^YES!! it was that one.

thank you!

Interesting 'origami trivia':

Many of Japanese designer Issey Miyake's pieces are based on the principle of one piece of material folded.

It's his tribute/nod to the art of Origami.