Hello, my name is Paul Jackson, I am an origami artist and it's been my living for about 25 years. I want to show you first what's come to be called a Jackson Cube which means that it's a cube that I sort of invented many years ago and it now has my name, it's very, very simple but you need to make it carefully.
So here's how we do it, it's a square of paper, there are two colors on the two sides. Now you don't need to fold in half, you just to need make a little line at the side, open it, turn it, do the same on the next edge just a little line at the side and the middle here, open it. So you have two lines on two sides. Use one of them as a reference and fold to the middle, turn the paper around, do the same again. So the other little pinch, maybe you can't see this on camera, the other little pinch is now in the middle on the left or the right, so use that as a reference in the middle and fold the short side to it, turn it around on the other short side.
So all you need to do except to open it so that they stand up right like two dolls. So now you need to make six of those and it's best if you fold them in pairs of colors, so I have got two yellows, two greens and two sort of pinky red ones. So now they can fit together to make a cube. So start with the yellow one here on the table and now we take another color let's take green and put it in a side of the yellow one like that. So what you need to remember is symmetry, the mirror images. So whatever you do on one side, you do the same on the opposite side. So we have the one yellow and two green, now the red that plugs in at the side -- so this is always a bit messy, okay we have this side and now the opposite side as well, so one side on the opposite, turn it around so you can see, plug the tabs in at the side. It's not very strong at this point and it has a habit of exploding, like this, hold it together as best you can and finally a piece goes on the top. So again just plug in the tabs at the side, put it in here and on the other side and just little squash it together in your fingers. So this is the basic cube.
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