I ♥ U.
In hieroglyphics a heart is two-eared jug. The word is "ib" the hieroglyph is categorized under "F" parts of animals, F34. It is used all over the place, it is a common sign.
The arm swings 45˚ from straight out to straight up and appears to fling the hearts. He just fetched from the marsh with flowers and he is filled with love and hearts.
Instructions for the step platform crimp mechanism follow, but first Robert Sabuda is offering four templates for make-it-yourself Valentine's Day cards that might work better for you. On account of them being templates and on account imagination not being required, just obedience on your part and when it comes to projects people seem to like that.
These templates are all well and good, they will be fine. The thing is, for production purposes, content and tabs and the mechanism itself are combined into a single thing.
When I make cards the mechanism comes first. It must have tabs to hold on so those are built in but they do not need be. They can be separate hinges. They can be tabs that fit through slots. In the case of the bear, the legs are the glue tabs, the body the V-mechanism, the head content separate from the mechanism, like the arms. But for production, since all that is worked out, they are combined.
My way builds the mechanism then adds the content onto it. If they were to be mass produced then those elements would be combined as far as they can be.
This is the idea. The man that will throw the hearts. He is drawn first.
His arm will be placed on a crimp and flip up when the card is opened. This arm was not used. Turns out a straighter arm works better.
I would prefer a crimp directly into the corner, as if it were bashed in, but that produces a crimp that moves in the wrong direction. The direction of the crimp is reversed, a shoulder for the crimp provided, it is not at the top edge, although it is at the edge of the step. An arm at the bottom would be better because that is moving in the right direction. I could reconfigure the content, but instead reconfigured the crimp.
The glue-tabs are turned inward so they are not showing this time. It forms a hollow rectangle. A step. A platform. It can smash open completely flat, and fold shut completely flat.
A crimp moves the arm.
Because the crimp moves in reverse to the inserted box.
The new arm is a bit too large and would be rejected by proper Egyptologists but I don't care.
Shape of insert platform with step and glue tab. The glue tab is the same width as the step is high so the glue tab can be used as a spacer for the non-working side. It is a hinge with a built-in spacer.
16 comments:
(1) Thank you, Chip.
Much, much nicer than what I saw the other day at WalMart: Valentine's Day chocolates in a heart-shaped box . . . a heart shaped box in red, pink and white camouflage.
(2) Aaah, what the fuck . . . LINK.
Or, for those of us who don't know much about Egyptian hieroglyph, it could say "I jug you". Which is also very sexy.
Chris Isaak is one of my all time favs.
You are the jugs of my ankh
Yeah, they rip it right out of you, show it to you, thump thump thump as you die.
That would make a great card, an Aztec priest, they were horrible, never washed, wore black rags, perfectly horrible, pulls out a heart from a guy tied down. Happy Valentine's Massacre Day, Honey, I LERV YOU.
Nothing is closer to a man's heart than jugs.
If he's lucky...
A pop up Aztec sacrifice card. hmmm to go with the dead roses?
Camped out for hours and hours to see Chris Isaak at Chautauqua theater a few summers ago. (pssst... when they open the big doors, everyone camped out on the lawn in back gets a free show) We should have simply purchased tickets. Cheapskates. He's worth the price in gold. Fantastic, great band, and totally sexy. I jug him.
Guys - If you give your gal a chocolate box without real chocolates in there - no jugs for you.
I thought it was "EYE URN EWE" which could be I earn you, which is appropriate given how hard one might work on a relationship, to urn the other's love.
The weird thing is, it's in the shape of a jug, or vase, with two ears, but it is categorized under "parts of animals" and not under W: vessels of stone and earthenware.
It should be an animal part, It should be an animal heart, and maybe it is. Maybe it is a stylized animal heart and the top and two ears are heart tubes that only looks like a two-eared jug. They always look like that and not ever as a heart with tubes, that I've seen. I keep waiting to see a detailed painting of "ib" that looks more like a heart than a jug that will change everything. As a vessel it is miscategorized.
Because it should be an organ.
I can't visualize how the arm attached to to the triangle pivots.
The heart is a vessel that holds blood, don't you think?
It IS hard to visualize.
But you can visualize it folded completely shut. Crimped. Origami-like. An inward fold
Because the paper is folded both ways. It is scored and pre-folded so that it folds inward and outward origami-like.
And you can visualize it completely opened flatly. Then folded again, the step folds one way and the crimp another.
The odd thing is, when glued to the other triangle then the arm flips. It's very odd.
And crimped on the opposite corner, then the arm swings the opposite way.
Attaching a disc onto the arm makes it look like the disc is turning.
A disc can be placed on both arms, one disc on top of the other, both with the same central point, or not.
That is how a snake coils, dung beetle pushes a dung ball etc.
Try it with a paper clip and see what happens.
I'm a bit dense on visualizing things like this, I think I'll have to try making the rectangular box in the fold and then try the attachment mechanism...
The snake card you made was very impressive btw.
I guess I'm going to have to figure out the pop-up pyramid myself :)
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