Independent Lens Origami
Through origami these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science.
Independent lens origami. Between the folds premieres tuesday december 8 on independent lens a weekly series airing on pbs. Hosted by maggie gyllenhaal the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent. As the pbs website describes.
Modern origami often prioritizes a puzzle aspect to the folding and the challenge of folding a single square of paper without using cuts or glue. Between the folds chronicles the stories of 10 fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard earned graduate degrees all to forge unconventional. Between the folds premieres tuesday december 8 on independent lens a weekly series airing on pbs.
From motivating math challenged kids to car airbags and satellite solar arrays you will see the art and the practical application of origami. In january 2007 eric tremblay and joseph ford from the university of california in san diego made an ultrathin high resolution origami lens seven times more powerful than conventional camera. Black photographers and the 1608 tower 1809.
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Between the folds a new film airing on pbs independent lens called between the folds chronicles the lives of ten modern paper folders. Independent lens promotion between the folds trailer. Hosted by maggie gyllenhaal the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent.
It gives equal attention and credit to the playful aspect of origami as well as the tradition of origami and the real world uses for this skill. The cinematography music and narrator s voice are all perfect. This is an engaging and well made documentary where a diverse group of aficionados including some engineers and physicists are interviewed about why they do origami.
