Tiffany Anne

Paint Splattered Stars in a mini paint can! 

This piece is a miniature paint can filled with around 280 origami, paint splattered stars! As you can see from the picture, it’s only about half as tall as a normal Converse shoe, and comes with a rainbow assortment of stars. Each star is handmade and hand paint splattered by me. This piece comes as is, with all of the stars inside- coming to a grand total of $15. Check out it and the rest of my schtuff on Etsy, as I do custom orders for almost anything! 

Book/Not Book

This week we present a printed, origami-folded star structure produced by California book artist and letterpress printer Katherine Ng in 1994 under her Pressious Jade imprint. The touching and poignant text, a conversation between a child and a teacher about why and how stars twinkle, is revealed sequentially as the structure is unraveled. The pocket at the end is filled with tiny origami “lucky stars” that come tumbling out in the final unfurling, reflecting two comments by the child: “Sometimes they laugh so much that they fall off the sky … .” and “If I fold wishing stars, can I make the hurt go away?”

The structure is essentially a folded scroll, but is it a book, a toy, a novelty, or just an elegant origami work?

You decide. Book/Not Book? Please reblog with your answer.

Learn to make an origami lucky star with this YouTube video.

In 2002, two men savagely attacked Jason Padgett outside a karaoke bar, leaving him with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the incident also turned Padgett into a mathematical genius who sees the world through the lens of geometry.

Padgett, a furniture salesman from Tacoma, Washington, who had very little interest in academics, developed the ability to visualize complex mathematical objects and physics concepts intuitively. The injury, while devastating, seems to have unlocked part of his brain that makes everything in his world appear to have a mathematical structure.

you are so fucking valid.

i don’t care if you’re questioning, or are convinced you must be faking it, or think you’re just doing it for attention, or even if you’re absolutely sure in your identity and are just scrolling through your dash.

you are valid.

and you might not believe me, or you might believe me for a minute and then go back to doubting, or this might be the sign you were looking for to start believing it.

you are valid.

who you are is real. and even if that changes, well, it’s just you changing, or learning more about yourself.