Zombigami: Paper Folding for the Living Dead

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Create the ultimate “undead” crew of 13 ghoulishly gruesome origami zombies. Eager to crush skulls, eat brains, and drink blood, they range from Suzie Gravemaker (not your average mom–but she’ll ALWAYS invite you to dinner) to Abominable Deadman (he takes a licking and keeps on ticking).

Valuable life skills including an epic party trick: Zombigami: Paper Folding for the Living Dead.

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[Duy Nguyen] was 10 years old, nimbly crafting a three-dimensional deer in his Saigon classroom by folding a sheet of paper, when an angry teacher grabbed him by the ear and tried to snuff his artistic impulses.

“She took the paper and showed everybody,” recalled Duy Nguyen, now 47. “She said, ‘You can’t eat it. You’re not going to be living on this. What are you doing with it?'”

Writing his first book took a full year. Now, he says, he can whip one out in about a month. He used to take a finished creation and unfold it, step by step, to draw its sequence in reverse. Now he transmits his mental images directly into the computer, using a software program to simulate origami folds.

Via Te Seattle Times.

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I design video games for a living, write fiction, political theory and poetry for personal amusement, and train regularly in Western European 16th century swordwork. On frequent occasion I have been known to hunt for and explore abandoned graveyards, train tunnels and other interesting places wherever I may find them, but there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that I am preparing to set off a zombie apocalypse. Nothing that will stand up in court, at least. I use paranthesis with distressing frequency, have a deep passion for history, anthropology and sociological theory, and really, really, really hate mayonnaise. But I wash my hands after the writing. Promise.

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