I'm trying to come up with an origami elephant easy enough to teach to relative beginners. How does this one look? It isn't quite as easy as I'd like but maybe with the right folding sequence it would work. #origami #elephant

I think I finally designed a dragon that's easy enough to teach to relative beginners! #origami #dragon #morigami

My latest attempt at designing an easy origami dragon. Still not as easy as I'd like for teaching purposes, but closer. #origami #dragon #morigami

Happy Record Store Day! I went to Las Dunas Record Café and picked up this great album with art by local artist Cesar Peralta Gaxiola.

¡Hoy enseñé cómo hacer mi tortuga en el taller para @fundapromat ! Diseñé esta versión del modelo específicamente para el taller. 🤗 #origami #tortuga

An interesting reflection...

I can't believe we've gotten to a point where someone like Trump can run amok and get away with it so much of the time.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

I folded this tiny #origami #dragon on our flight to Mexico City last Sunday. It's one of my recent designs, folded from half of a chewing gum wrapper.

After years of being tempted to buy a record player and start buying vinyl LPs, I finally went ahead with it a few weeks ago. These are some of the albums I've picked up...

El martes fuimos a lucha libre! Es todo un espectáculo. Un ambientazo!

I designed this #origami "baby dragon" this past weekend. I was hoping to come up with something easier for beginners but I think this is cute enough to be worth the medium difficulty level... #dragon

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

I got a new hat!

"Roble," a new #modular #origami #mandala I've been working on for a few days. To get this "checkerboard" result I alternated sides of the paper with each unit. Deciding whether to share step photos or wait to diagram it for my second book (for which I haven't really started diagramming yet)...

Watching a livestreamed concert by Darlingside, one of my favorite contemporary bands. Banter! New music! Old favorites! I love it.

Yesterday I saw a store with an origami-like bird logo which actually looked foldable, so I asked a clerk (from another store where we were actually shopping) for paper and managed to reproduce it closely 🤗. (I improved the tail after I took these photos but forgot to take new ones...) #origami

I made photo instructions of the model I shared the other day (see followup post for the remaining steps). #origami

I came up with this new #modular #origami #mandala today. If it gets enough likes I'll share step photos... #morigami #modularorigami

Here are two new origami modular mandalas I created in the past week! #origami #mandala

These are some of the books I'm hoping to read in 2026 (OK, I'll probably finish in 2027...)! Some are classics I'm re-reading and others are new to me. And Feral Flame by @joabaldwin.com is kind of in between, because I read a beta version and there have been changes...

The latest iteration of one of my recent origami dragon designs. It keeps getting better! #origami #dragon

I grew up among the twists and turns of the Five Mile River (CT).

"Ninja Star" tessellation, which I came up with today. The photos show the basic pattern and the tessellated form, against the light and front lit (different sides). Someone may have come up with this already (I'm not well versed in existing patterns) but it's new to me. #origami #tessellation

Beautiful folding!

I haven't made many tessellations but I improvised this one to start 2026. I'm sure someone has done it before, because it's pretty straightforward, but it was satisfying to create something "new"—at least for me—in a genre I haven't explored much. #origami #morigami #tessellation

One of these dragons (both are my designs) is the precursor for the brown one I just shared; the other I created earlier this month. Can you tell which is which? #origami #morigami #dragon

I can't get away from designing origami dragons. This is an evolved version of one I designed last month. There's still room for improvement but I think it has some character. #origami #dragon #morigami

“Glorious Friendship,” a modular mandala designed by Matthew Green (@mehjg.bsky.social) and folded by me. #origami

I designed a new #origami dragon today. I want to create a really simple one but that's easier said than done. This is neither really complex not really simple, but I like the result. It really looks like a lizard with wings although not able to fly without magical assistance due to the proportions.

An origami group I belong to challenged us to design models based on an 8x8 pleated grid. So far (since last Wednesday) I have a Corgi, a guacamaya, a cross, and a dragon. #origami

"As epic as it is queer" and sure to be banned in conservative libraries sooner or later; I can't wait to read this latest installment in the series!

My last evening visiting the USA, so I went all-American: a BLT with house potato chips and "shipyard pumpkin ale" with cinnamon and sugar on the brim.

Today I finished reading the Murderbot Diaries novels by @marthawells.com. Very entertaining! And not a very long read either, as a whole. The books kept my interest the entire time. I came away wanting more...

I finally got to finish watching Star Trek: Lower Decks! The finale was much more exciting than I expected. The strong coffee I drank this morning may have had something to do with it, but still... #STLD #StarTrek

I wish I had enough free time to just sit down and listen to music sometimes—not as background music while I do something else (which I do every day); as the focus of my attention, so I can really pay attention to the lyrics, sing along, pay more attention to the melodies, the flow of the album...

From time to time I'm struck by the huge proportion of my daily actions that can be accurately (if reductively) described as poking or tapping on buttons, switches, or touchscreens.

I was today years old when I learned that the prog rock band Yes covered a Simon & Garfunkel song! 🤯❤️

As someone who enjoys creative endeavors, I'm encouraged

explain your username: "Matthew" because I'm boy (my parents were going to name me Martha, my grandmothers' name, if I was a girl) and because they didn't want to name me Marion (my grandfather's name) but wanted me to have his first initial. "Green" because some ancestor lived on the village green.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Victor organized a birthday party for me today (a few days before my actual birthday, for convenience). It was a blast!

"Tepeyac", a new modular origami mandala I designed two days ago to have something new to teach at the upcoming origami convention in Mexico City. #mandala #origamimandala #modularorigami

@danacorn.bsky.social Thank you for making me laugh and snort (through my unheavenly nostrils) with today's Phoebe and her Unicorn!

God, make him stop (Trump speaking at the UN)

Listening to Trump speak at the UN, above all when he seems to go off-script, is so cringe and embarrassing.

Friends who love “spooky season”: Help me flesh out my seasonal playlist! I’m not into death metal or music as loud or dark as that, but spooky classical music, rock, folk, etc. would be interesting.

I feel seen.

(1) People are already saying it's "spooky season," but Halloween is more than a month away. And our local supermarket, as of more than a week ago, was already selling both Halloween and Christmas items. I'm not sure how much is consumerism and how much is the fact that...

I only knew Damien Robitaille from his cute one-man-band videos on social media. Then I realized he has released albums... This song from his latest release is an instant classic for me!