Flickr Groups

Before I go on holiday for ten days I'm posting a good flickr group, here we go:

I have been posting far to much on origami (almost only), so to restore the balance, please visit the Fabric Manipulation Flickr Group. It has lots of fotos that deal with a very similar issue as this blog: how to make a 2d-material a 3d-surface, and what this means to the material. It shows countless techniques, be it dyeing, stitching, felting, pleating...

CraftROBO

The model workshop at my university has a laser cutter, so until now, I thought that this was the only way to cut an intricate pattern into paper without having it to do yourself with scissors or a knife.
But laser cutters are very expensive for private persons - and if you really just want to cut paper, they are far too advanced, since they can also cut perspex, wood, metal... anything, really.
I have not tried it, but this craftRobo-thing seems cool, it works like a printer with a blade I think. The cheapest one (cuts A4-Size) costs around 300 Euro, larger ones up to 3000.

Paper artist Jeffrey Rutzky from NYC has a nice flickr-Stream on his craftROBO-Kirigami work.

Golic's channel on metacafe.com

This is a very nice video-channel on papercrafts and papertricks with some amazing little gadgets to play with. Golic works very unconventional, with sticky tape and stapler, which I like.
Golic's Video Channel

The Making of Mens et Manus, by Brian Chan

The Making of Mens et Manus, by Brian Chan

Watch Brian Chan's Video... he doesn't tell you much about origami (except that he's really good at it and you're probably not), but it's still funny.