Cool Stuff Friday

[jimhines]

Friday thinks this next scene needs more elephants.

• Naoki Onogawa creates bonsai trees using thousands of tiny origami cranes.
• Badass trees that refuse to die. (Lena Greenwood would approve.)
• Dancing cat pics.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

Comments

[thewayne]

OK, I wanted and expected tiny origami construction cranes, but it's still pretty awesome.

[jimhines]

That would have been cool too :-)

[thewayne]

Perhaps a little too industrial for an organic art.

[asakiyume]

I get all choked up by the tsunami tree--it's a powerful symbol in Japan, where it's been known as the 奇跡の一本松 (miracle single pine). It was purposed as a potential symbol for the 2020 Olympics: