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Just finished this bowl for my dad. All I've got to do now is to make 3D origami fruit to put in it.

Happy Autistic Pride Day!
(quick illustration I made this morning)

I and my little brother, self-translated from the Chinese origin.

On coming out:

Hong Kong Revolution, 2017
Figure 1B: Supporter

Contemporaries liked to call the event in 2017 "Umbrella Revolution with guns". Indeed, the general appearances of the anti-Establishment force differed little to the protesters in the Umbrella Movement of 2014, a largely passivist campaign. (Before 2017, militant factions had insisted upon the title Umbrella Revolution while everyone else called it a movement) Its supporters came from all walks of life, and hence dressed and geared as the people dressed and geared. This man, for example, worn the shirt and black trousers of an office clerk, with a pair of sneakers in lieu of the usual leather shoes for ease of movement, the latter could possibly be found among the contents of his backpack. Backpack was commonly worn by fighters to carry spare clothes and other items .

Curiously - but by no mean an isolated case - he carried a legacy of the 2014 Movement on his bag, a piece of yellow plastic deco embossed with the slogan 我要真普選 ("I want genuine universal suffrage"). Localist detested the defunct Movement due to its passivist nature and their unsettled scores with the suffragist camp (which sowed the seed for later purges), but many of them still worn gadgets associated with it as symbols of defiance against the Establishment. The appeal for universal suffrage diminished with the end of the Umbrella Movement in late 2014 and then died down completely when it was superseded by Militant Localism as the main anti-Establishment political force by 2016.

The safety goggles was an icon of the 2014 Movement, where protesters distributed it widely among themselves as protective measure against pepper spray. While effective in that regard, the elastic eye wears - consisted of little more than a soft plastic frame and a detachable hard plate - offered poor resistance against baton and tear gas, the latter was deployed just once in 2014 but extensively in the early stage of the Revolution. Otherwise, it was prized for what it was made for: to protect the eyes from dusts, which gradually became part of the field conditions as events escalated into full-fledged fighting.

Smartphone and social network have changed the face of civil resistance since the Arab Spring. in Hong Kong where almost everyone has a smartphone, rapid communication in text, image, video and via internet was taken for grant by both sides, but it benefited the revolutionaries much more since it provided their loose structure with a certain degree of cohesion and mobility. As with the protesters in 2014, fighters had to follow up with a photograph of the scene as proof when sending a text message warning of enemy approach, or it would be dismissed as rumors or attempts at misinformation. Gradually, encrypted communication software became popular due to fear of interceptions. The use of smartphone as communication device diminished after the PLA shut down mobile networks across Hong Kong.

Social networks were extremely important platforms for the sharing of intelligence, weapon manuals, and the hit-listing of enemy individuals. It was also seen as another "front" by less militant-minded supporters committing into a campaign of cyber harassment against pro-Establishment individuals.

i see, it looks the part my other guess would have been chalk.

i've done a few acrylic paintings, but mostly they're background onto which i paste paper drawings.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-710xlsUk
Most of this was improvised. Haven't done much on this channel in a while, just waiting until I can afford better audio equipment before I go any further with it. If you like metal, you might like this.

Latest pic

I'm ridiculously happy with this and just wanted to post it somewhere. I made a miniature music stand and a binder for the music. The binder itself is an inch tall while the stand is 3.25" tall.

This is my 3D origami timeline.
Starting at July 2014 and ending July 2015. From my very first project till my very last, excluding some penguins I didn't take a picture of.

I have enjoyed the artwork from all of you guys and girls, very nice.

I like the miniature music stuff in particular.