Hubert de Lartigue's Millennium Falcon Origami

Hubert de Lartigue takes Parisian subway tickets and turns them into Star Wars ships–the Millennium Falcon, X-wing fighters, TIE fighters, and imperial shuttles have all come under the loving touch of his x-acto knife.  At de Lartigue’s website, you can find tutorials for the X-wing and the Millennium Falcon. (The latter a mere 9 pages long!)

While the Paris locale adds a touch of class to de Lartigue’s creations, there are many, many cool Star Wars origami projects out there:

• A dorm room dogfight, with models hanging from the ceiling
• Flickr user morpheology has folded dollar bills into a whole series of Star Wars models (check out the bantha, AT-AT, and Slave I), plus a set of craft from various scifi movies.
• The master of the “folded dollar bills” genre, though, is Won Park.  No doubt.
• Chris Alexander offers an array of Star Wars origami designs
• GeekDad’s own Tom Angleberger has a new book, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, which does in fact feature a paper model of the Jedi master.  View Tom’s Flickr feed; his instructions for how to make your own Yoda; or this handy video at StarWars.com of Tom folding one.

Got a favorite sci-fi origami image?  Link to it in comments.

Game People Calling

Maybe it’s my parenting instinct to try and get the best out of my writers, like I do my kids, but I’ve really enjoyed sharing their talents with a wider audience (the writers rather than the kids)

Whereas I restrain myself from putting my children’s art and writing online before they can grant me permission on that, with Game People I’m always pushing our contributors to create new and inventive ways to review video games.

One such response is Lottie Rose, who create Haiku reviews of video games. She’s just had an airing over on The Escapist:

Rather than write reviews like the rest of us she composes three line Haiku poems. Nothing hugely unusual there, not until she folds some related paper craft and photographs the vignette ready for publication. Confused yet? Hopefully the results below will make more sense.

I’d love to hear what you GeekDad’s make of it.