Welcome to my website devoted to origami About me Hi! My name is Grzegorz Bubniak (just Greg). If you want to see my picture click here (you are doing it on your own responsibility). I live in a little hilly country called Lipinki which is situated in South Poland. For some pictures of my countryside go to the gallery of my brother Wiktor, zealous photographer. As you have already noticed origami became my passion. As in case of many of you my origami adventure started during my childhood when I was folding simple models such as paper planes, traditional boats, bangers or cootie catchers. I bought my first book when I was in my teenage years. It contained simple models and did not absorb me for a long time. Then was a huge break until I discovered the enormous origami world in the Internet. That was at the end of my studies. Then I set this web page to present my paper achievments, where even my own designs start to appear. Apart from keeping this site I am also a member of Polish Origami Association - Paper Phantasies. You can contact me by email. You may also leave your feedback in my guestbook. What's new .................................................................................... 7th of March 2009 The House Martin The black and white monthly challange seems to be quite inspiring for me :). Here's another simple bird created for it - the House Martin. .................................................................................... 7th of March 2009 Simple African Fish Eagle Encouraged by the monthly challenge thread on The Origami Forum I created simple two-colour eagle. The topic was black and white. .................................................................................... 22nd of February 2009 Some new foldings :) It's been long time since I last updated the site. Check the gallery for some new models, not my designs though. :) .................................................................................... 20th of March 2008 My look on Akira Yoshizawa's butterfly Another usual day at work. Actually I stayed a little longer today - one of those emergency situations. More tired than usually I entered rather empty bus, folded my umbrella and took place next to the window. When the bus set off rain drops cut the window heavily with slanting lines, as if they were strongly determined to shatter it into pieces. Two seats back an old drunkard, fortunately sitting far enough not to pollute my air, tried to pick up cute, young and smart school girl, who apparently found poking fun of him very enjoyable. Trying not to listen to pathetic advances of an old lady killer, I pulled the package of little squares out of my shirt pocket and started to look for a proper colour. Red,... blue,... green,... yellow - that's the one - the colour of the sun that I badly lacked today. Having chosen the colour I began to kill boredom with the most obvious - diagonal fold. Thought of creating something but since nothing came into my mind I followed to a waterbomb base and then to the commonly known and so beautiful in its simplicity Akira Yoshizawa's butterfly. Indeed, beautiful, but today it looked somehow harsh to me, so I summoned up the courage to manipulate at Father of Origami's masterpiece. Fold by fold I shaped the butterfly to my taste, made pleats on upper part of wings, added that little something some butterflies have below the wings, rounded them, made some touches emphasizing the body line and before I could say Nick Robinson I was holding in my palm tiny artwork that made me smile at the end of that rainy day. I hope master Yoshizawa would like it. Ooops, I would almost forgot to step off :) .................................................................................... 8th of March 2008 New model - Kitty bookmark Today's morning brought me the inspiration to fold another bookmark - fourth one, if I count properly. This time it's kitty :) .................................................................................... 8th of September 2007 Diagram of butterfly bookmark available now! Feel free to donwload the diagram of butterfly bookmark. Have fun! .................................................................................... 12th of May 2007 New model - Flower I've created this flower while travelling by bus. Since I don't know what kind of flower is that I just called it a flower. Any ideas? :-) .................................................................................... 5th of May 2007 New model - Lion It's been a while since I last updated the site. Just yeasterday I created a lion. Hope you like it. In March, I folded Spring Composition specially for the OPT Festival Poland 2007 and I took another try to fold Ancient Dragon by Kamiya Satoshi, this time from diagrams. Previous one was folded from a crease pattern. All these things you can find in the gallery. :) .................................................................................... 6th of February 2007 Diagram of heart with envelope available! Feel free to download the diagram of my latest heart with envelope. Enjoy! .................................................................................... 2nd of February 2007 New model - Heart with envelope Shop shelves weighing down under the tremendous amount of various Valentine junk inspired me to create this heart. Hopefully I will finish the diagram before the 14th of February. .................................................................................... 31st of January 2007 New model - Mammoth Mammoth is an artwork of one afternoon and as for such an after-lunch model it seems to be quite satisfying. .................................................................................... 27th of January 2007 New model - Vulture I've created this bird while travelling by bus. Some people claim it to be an eagle, a cormoran or even a pteranodon. For me it is a vulture :) One lady even started to investigate how my imagination works, when she heard that. Who knows? Maybe it doesn't work at all :) .................................................................................... 21st of January 2007 New model - Basilisk One day while strolling along the Zoo walkways I was looking at the animals with eye of an origamist. When I entered a terrarium my attention was attracted by a beautifully posing female of green crested basilisk. I knew then that possesing a paper version of that lizard was just a matter of time. And now I can tell that I happened to create something simillar to the one from the terrarium, although riched with a crest on its back, which is characteristic for male basilisks. .................................................................................... 17th of January 2007 New model - Salamander The beggining of the New Year brought along a new design - quite satysfying salamander, although green and without spots. Check the gallery for more pictures. .................................................................................... 5th of January 2007 CP of dragonfly bookmark available All of you who want to read your favourite book with a dragonfly sitting on its corner are suggested to fold the crease pattern of my last bookmark. Enjoy! .................................................................................... 30th of December 2006 New model - Dragonfly Bookmark The last days of 2006 brought along another insect-like bookmark. This time I came up with a dragonfly. .................................................................................... 18th of February 2006 CP of Spiral Star available now. I've decided to release the cp of a unit of Spiral Star presented about a month ago. Feel free to download it here. Let the assembly be a puzzle. Enjoy folding. .................................................................................... 4th of February 2006 Twisted cubeoctahedron - my new design. The gallery has been enlarged by my new model which is probably the result of unremitting inspiration for modular stuff which started on New Year. .................................................................................... 30th of January 2006 Guess what's inside :) .................................................................................... 10th of January 2006 My new modular models I have begun the New Year with modular origami. I've managed to create two models. The units are not very difficult and there is possibility that someone has created them before. If you saw something similar please send me the information. . .................................................................................... 11th of November 2005 Owl bookmark - my new design Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) it is not an elephant with butterfly's wings but another bookmark. This time it's an owl. .................................................................................... 8th of November 2005 Butterfly bookmark - my new design I've been feeling quite big upsurge of inspiration lately. First there was a bookmark, then a night butterfly, and now mix of the two - a butterfly bookmark. If it continues the next model will be the mix of an elephant and the butterfly ;) .................................................................................... 6th of November 2005 Moth - my new design It was the evening when I caught in sight a moth with spreaded antennae sitting on a wall. I hurried for a camera so as to take a picture of it. The same evening I was holding in my hands an origami version of the moth :) .................................................................................... 6th of November 2005 Diagram of elephant bookmark Some time ago there appeard a thread concerning origami bookmarks on Origami Mailing List, what inspired me to make my own. Lately encouraged by some people on The Origami Forum I made a diagram of that bookmark. I hope it to be a useful gift for You. Enjoy! .................................................................................... 25th of Sept. 2005 Crease pattern of beetle available now. .................................................................................... 20th of Sept. 2005 The beetle - my new design I was doodling with a waterbomb base lately and what I got is this wierd beetle. I'm wondering what you think of it. .................................................................................... 13th of September 2005 Makalu reached! During holidays I was participating in origami picnic organized by Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyks, where I learned how to fold Robert Lang's Makalu - another interwoven modular model. They showed me folded modules and I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't check how they are done :) .................................................................................... 20th of June 2005 Website resurrection. It's been half a year since I last updated this site. This period of time resulted in a few models which can be seen in the gallery. The site is also reconstructed into php. Drop in on here sometimes. ....................................................................................
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