Wonderful : Ugalde's blog is back

Since nearly nine months silence we can read now new news about "Libros Pop-Up-Books Cards" from Hector Ugalde (Mexiko). To my knowledge it was (and is) the greatest source for this topic (click the link at the title).
The last entry mentions a workshop of Professor Sergio Zepeda, who has made two Youtubes, one here:

Livresanimes - French blog about Popup Books

If You want a quick overview about the world of Popup Books and the new releases
(french: dernieres parutions) you have to go to the french site "Livres animes" from Paris based Jacques Desse. Even tough focused on the french popup production, you can find a smaller part with international productions, most english books, on "special imports". A tip for the navigation: click below on the homepage "actualites", then the picture of the popupbook and then you will find the books with reviews and links and background infos. Go below on this site til the button "special imports" and click there.

Schnuppe von Gwinner's craft2eu-blog

Schnuppe von Gwinner writes her german blog for european fine crafts. The last entry
is a long article about paper art with a lot of interesting links (surely much known for us): http://craft2eu.blog.de/
She possesses an agency and gallery for crafts and design (see her website too :
http://www.craft2eu.com/ )
A link of this article leads us to an exhibition about the paper art of Horst Schubert at the Altenburger Schloss in Germany last year, with a life-sized white paper scene in this 18th century style, see this video;

Colorbind iPhone app

Here is a neat looking iPhone app, Colorbind that emulates paper ribbons for gameplay. Looks like fun. Check it out here.
Thanks to Marshall Alexander

Videoclip with paper art

The Belgium based band WSTHMOI plays "Hearts" on this paper art related videoclip:

[Official video] Hearts - We Seem To Have Misplaced Our Igloo from Kjelle vergauwe on Vimeo.

(Thanks to feingut !)

Symbian Paper Models

Symbian is a foundation dedicated to bringing to life a shared vision of the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform - and to make it available for free. And they've also made a couple of fun paper models available for free on their site!

Sunography Solar Powered Photography Kit-a giveaway- from Paperforest Blog and Brooklyn5and10!

Sunography is a cool new paper kit, developed and designed to make photograms without chemicals. The high quality paper is placed in bright sunlight with object or negatives on top of it and an image is created.

Brooklyn 5 and 10 is giving away a kit to a Paper Forest reader! Just leave a comment with a contact e-mail and you'll be put in the random drawing!

Check out the Sunography Kit and more paper fun at Brooklyn 5 and 10!

Upon A Fold - Paper Artistry for Sale!

Upon a Fold is a shop and website out of Australia with beautiful paper products, projects, and art for sale. There are a number of well-designed, simple, and beautiful paper works for purchase here, many of which I've never seen before. My wish list is getting much longer because of this little online shop!

Mechanical cardboard horse

A mechanical cardboard horse walks over the street: life-sized in a little bulgarian town ! Its a work of Juniper and T.J.Tangpuz, Kansas City, paper and cardboard artists:

A Razor's Edge

I can't track down where this video comes from or whose work it is (Any Forest reader happen to know?). I'm posting it because I think of the many excellent stop motion paper cut animations being shared online these days, this one begins to broach fine art. Especially in the second-half's experimentation with rotation and illumination. There are beginnings of symbolic contexts, as with the hands being waves for the boat. And an overall edgy mood that is a razor's edge to achieve.

Whomever you are... Brava! --Updated:

A Map Comes To Life.
Stop-motion animation
Creative Futures Winner 2006
Directed and Produced by
Line L. Andersen © 2006
Music by Enjoy Your Parrot © 2006

Professor Sylvain Allard: Packaging Design

Paper sculpture for a wine bottle from Justin Lortie

Professor Sylvain Allard from the University of Montreal (UQAM)makes an interesting Blog about Packaging Design:
http://packaginguqam.blogspot.com/
If you click "papiers" you can find a lot of paper related entries:
http://packaginguqam.blogspot.com/search/label/papiers.

Lucas Zanotto: The Ostrich

Berlin based motion designer Lucas Zanotto developed this
shortfilm with a handcrafted paper marionette (not computer generated).

The Ostrich from Lucas Zanotto on Vimeo.

New book from Keisuke Saka

... will be released on March 16, 2010: "Karakuri: How to Make Mechanical Paper Models That Move" (Karakuri is the japanese word for automata).