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ldhenson — Inception Paper Sculpture II

Published: 2010-11-19 17:35:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 4338; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 0
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Description Arthur's and Eames' totems, built together using a single piece of cardstock, with my usual paper-cutting parameters (made of one continuous piece of paper; no adhesives; cutting and folding only).

I was going to do the totems individually, but halfway through designing them I said what the heck, let's do BOTH out of the same continuous piece.

This looks simpler than my first sculpture [link] but turned out to be a lot harder to design as there are more bits that have to be lined up exactly, not to mention being harder to assemble as it's smaller and the totems tend to get in each other's way.

Life-size. The poker chip is 1.5" x .25", the die .75".

I: [link]
III: [link]
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Comments: 14

stirlo7 [2012-01-01 03:07:12 +0000 UTC]

have to ask if you have ever videod this and made some sort of tutorial... i would be really interested in seeing such a thing sped up and see it form in front of me... and wow this is really really cool.

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ldhenson In reply to stirlo7 [2012-01-26 00:36:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the kind words! No, I haven't taken any videos during my process, but it's an interesting idea. I'm self-taught so during the designing I'm making up my own techniques as I go. And even though I plan as carefully as possible, when the time comes to assemble the final version, I usually have to improvise somewhere because often it doesn't go quite as expected. This happened a lot during my latest paper sculpture ([link] ).

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CaishaLea [2010-12-13 02:46:14 +0000 UTC]

OMG! You are sooooo talented to be able to do this! Holy crap!

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ldhenson In reply to CaishaLea [2010-12-14 01:24:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much, I couldn't resist making my own version of the totems!

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NatiaGreenleaf [2010-11-24 07:49:57 +0000 UTC]

These are so AWESOME!!
Very impressive.

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ldhenson In reply to NatiaGreenleaf [2010-11-27 20:56:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for all your kind comments!

I've just posted a third one in the series here: [link]

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NatiaGreenleaf In reply to ldhenson [2010-11-28 20:35:46 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome.

I LOVE that one too!! It's really cool!

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heathcliffal14 [2010-11-19 22:04:44 +0000 UTC]

holy wow, thats awesome

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ldhenson In reply to heathcliffal14 [2010-11-20 03:02:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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Jestana [2010-11-19 20:15:27 +0000 UTC]

That is pretty damn cool. Props to you for managing it.

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ldhenson In reply to Jestana [2010-11-20 03:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

The chip actually required a re-design after the first one failed, but fortunately I was still in the "scrap paper" stage at the time. I got it to work in the end

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Jestana In reply to ldhenson [2010-11-21 19:16:28 +0000 UTC]

It worked! I can't wait to see what else you make.

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weird-lil-thing [2010-11-19 18:58:07 +0000 UTC]

That is so amazing! It's not made of paper, but MADE OF WIN!!!

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ldhenson In reply to weird-lil-thing [2010-11-20 02:59:41 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!

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