17 April 2003
LaFosse's "Cardinal"
What: Cardinal
By: Michael LaFosse
From: Classic Cardinal and Other Fantastic Folds (DVD)
BOS Magazine 225 April 2004
Why: I spent the day hanging out at Michael LaFosse and Richard Alexander's Origamido Studio, and Michael taught me this amazing Cardinal. It's since been published in several forms, the DVD they're selling, and in the BOS magazine, maybe others by now.
Michael calls the basic struture his "pileated bird base" since, actually, you can fold it into lots of different birds that have crests - a Tufted Titmouse (grey paper); a Bluejay (blue paper) etc. I love the model, as it's pretty much the first really successful origami version I've seen of one of the Cardinal, one of my favorite local birds.
