Paper Crafts

I have always been fascinated with the use of paper, especially using this medium to build things. I define paper as anything derived from a tree. So that runs the whole array of materials from paper, cardboard, and all products manufactured from paper.

In my pursuit of research I recently found three resources and sites that either display some astounding paper models or share some simple techniques to get you started working with paper.

This Insane Paper Plane Has Taken 10 Years to Build

Paperholm (here are four links feature the works of Charles-Young) Miniature city built from paper. Many of the structures include animated elements.

1. Cool Things
2. Yatzer
3. Boing Boing
4. Fine Print Art

Intro to Paper-craft: Structure and Detail (this two page PDF will introduce the reader into the art of paper-craft)

The Verse of John Collup

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Lord, let the faithless see
Miracles ceased, revive in me.
The leper cleaned, the blind healed,
the dead raised by Thee.

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Dull souls aspire;
Thou are not the Earth,
Mount higher!
Heaven gave the spark;
to it return fire.

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John Collup

Riverworld: Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer

A Long List of Model Railroading Tips and Tricks for Scenery

The Scenery Tips page includes a few dozen tips and techniques you can use on your model railroad. I seem to remember visiting this site some time ago and the list seems to have grown some since then.

The Building and Design of a New Roco Model Train Locomotive

This short video documents the process of the design and manufacturing of a Roco scale locomotive.

The Riverworld Series

As I mentioned in my last post on this topic I have just started to read the first in Farmer’s Riverworld series. The book includes the first and the second novels in this series. The complete series includes these volumes:

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)
The Dark Design (1977)
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Gods of Riverworld (1983; later published as The Gods of Riverworld)

For an overview of this series I found a useful article on Wikipedia and although I am not anywhere near ready to read other related stories about Riveworld I have found some Riverworld fan-fiction on the PJFamer site.

Riverworld #1

I recently watch the adaptation of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld. I wouldn’t say that it was an extraordinary movie, but because of its use the Farmer’s text with its many well-known characters it was an enjoyable film. It wasn’t too long ago that I had completed reading through Farmers Grand Master and his Wold Newton Universe novels and was looking to start another one of Farmer’s series .Since all five of the Riverworld series are still available. I purchased the first and second volumes (they are combined into one volume) in this series.

“The door to the room had opened, and he had seen a giant, black, one-humped camel outside and had heard the tinkle of the bells on its harness as the hot desert wind touched them. Then a hug black face topped by a great black turban had appeared in the doorway. The black eunuch had come in through the door, moving like a cloud, with a giant scimitar in his hand. Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society had come at last.”

Riverworld: Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat, Philip José Farmer