About Matt Shlian: Paper Cuts

'Paper Cuts' from the Michigan Daily is a short portrait of Matt Shlian.
Thanks to Matt Shlians Blog (click the title).

Paper Cuts from Michigan Daily on Vimeo.

Bomboland

I've been running across lots of great cut-paper illustrators lately. I Love this photo and all the cut paper illustrations of Bombo! (AKA Maurizio Santucci)
See more of his wonderful work at Bomboland and be sure to check out the pics of his gallery show at Seize Galerie last year.

Werner Nekes (Docu.): Multi thousand picture show

It's a short section of this title above (Nr.4 of a six-part DVD collection MEDIA MAGICA, highly recommended, surely the best compilation of the world) and deals with "harlekinades" from 17.-19 century.
More about MEDIA MAGICA: click the title. The description of the DVDs are in english too.

Movable Books: Collection Jo Ann Reisler

The Movable Books Society shows some very rare picture books from the child book antiquarian Reisler. A little visual defect for me is this confusing crossfading of the squares from picture to picture (8 minutes video)
(Thanks "boutique du livre animé")

Grand Merci pour "des pop et des up"

A very white stop motion video from the french animation artists Camille Baladi and Arnaud Roi
(thanks "boutique du livre animé", click the title)

des pop et des up from upupup ! on Vimeo.

Free Toy Friday: Walking Papercraft Mech Warrior

Check out this cool paper automata mech! You can download it for free from instructables.com courtesy of user J_Hodgie. You will have to register with instructables to download the pdf but that's free too.

Persil Pop Up "Making Of"

The advertising company Blink, who has made this commercial, gives us a making of with a similar artful arrangement as the original ad, guided by a cute childish voice
with a strong british accent. For me the mechanical highlight: the frog tongue mechanism !

Persil - Pop Up "Making Of" from Blink on Vimeo.

Thanks to Paperblog from PAPERBOXX

Cut paper illustration by Kate Slater

Really digging the cut paper illustrations of London based illustrator Kate Slater.
Check out her work here.

Free Toy Friday: Dandy Frog

Here's a perfect paper project for a rainy day. Papertoy artist and illustrator Tougui is teaming up with french umbrella brand Dandy Frog on a paper toy series featuring Dandy Frogs fresh and fun designs. First up is featuring the work of artist/illustrator Skwak! Download it from Dandy Frog.

Keith Newstead: A Slippery Customer

I love this kind of mechanical sketch, a bit unfinished model and then the unexpected end of the story.


And see his two more new paper machines he published on his Youtubechannel kmn000
yesterday:
"A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing"
"Scubacat"

Walter Rufflers Kite Automaton

Berlin based paper modeler Lutz Pietschker describes his building experience with this model (click the title !) of Walter Ruffler - http://www.walterruffler.de/. Not forget to start the video to see the three nice movements of the completed model !

Paper Robot Carnage!

Free Toy Friday: Up The Egg

A fun and interchangeable papertoy collaboration from Shin Tanaka and Maarten Janssens.
You can grab the set HERE. Sounds like a whole series of mix and match fun will soon be coming soon.

Popup book without paper: PopOut ! - The Tale of Peter Rabbit

A new ebook revolution becomes reality. See this example for IPad:



Thanks to "Der Schockwellenreiter"

Confess! Who Sent the (folding) Flowers?!

You can imagine my surprise when I finally made it to my P.O.Box the other day and found someone had anonymously sent me a brand new 2010 pop-up title from Chronicle Press, Paper Blossoms by Ray Marshall.

It's very nicely designed, with 5 large floral spreads that really are pretty enough to use as centerpieces for a table or as decoration on a side table in a guest room, kids room, anywhere people appreciate good paper engineering.

It's a mystery, as no note was included. Was this book sent as a preview to Jaime Zollars the creator of this very popular blog to review? Could it have been sent from an appreciative recipient of the blooming rose folding flower pattern I've sent out over the last 2 years?

CONFESS! Who is this generous flower bestower? (None of my family nor friends knew anything about it.) Could this treat have come from a Paper Forester?

Thank you! It's wonderful! Should we make it a prize in some sort of PF contest?!