O is for...

origami.

Spent 35 minutes last week trying to figure out how to make an origami box, and I mean just a simple box, for a friend at work. Above is my hasty and rather shameful attempt at the letter "O". See what wonderful things can be done with this ancient Japanese art (if you actually know what you are doing, or are Japanese):

Robert J. Lang Origami: Intricate structures made without a single cut in the paper.

Made from one uncut piece of paper.

Made from 16 uncut pieces of paper.

Joseph Wu's Origami: nice pieces by Wu himself, as well as great links to other Origami masters, his Flickr site (he's working on an origami play), and instructions for us paper-folding novices.

By Joseph Wu...

... and for Stioli in New York.

By the master YOSHIZAWA Akira