Straat Papier Holland Klik – Workshop promo from Matthijs Kamstra on Vimeo.

Maarten Janssens create the “Straat Papier Holland Klik”-logo, and did the stop-motion animation. I did the rest

THE ABC URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL (read more)

A festival where design and crafts go hand in hand.
Saturday 26th, 2010 from 1pm – 6pm the square in front of The American Book Center (Spui 12, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) will be an outdoor atelier, with artists creating work on-site for the public to enjoy.

Maarten Janssens (3EyedBear.com) and Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] (MatthijsKamstra.nl) will be given a FREE papertoy workshop at ABC treehouse (Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

You can meet, greet and craft with the following Dutch Papertoy Artists:

• Dolly Oblong
• Loulou & Tummie
• Maarten Janssens
• Marshall Alexander
• Matthijs [mck] Kamstra

For further information on the ABC URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL please contact :

Rick Lightstone (lightstone45@zonnet.nl) or Donna DuCarme (treehouse@abc.nl)

More info about the festival:
http://www.abc.nl/blog/?p=14118
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285334500311&ref=ts
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Arts-Festival/292157415238?ref=ts

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Want to read more about the process visit this blog post or this one.

Because a picture says more than a thousand words:

Paperkraft fans will recognise the logo: this is a paper sneaker made for Ron Rementilla from Paperkraft.blogspot.com.
He has written about my PUMA First round papertoy and suggested that people who wanted a template should leave a comment…. And Ron mentioned that he wanted one too…. I’m sure that he didn’t mean this, but I needed to create a skin for this model and thought it would be a nice gesture to thank Ron.

You can download the file for the PUMA – Paperkraft – Urban paper sneaker here:

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

But I know a lot of people want to customize this PUMA sneaker, so if you are interested in creating a custom paper sneaker you can download the Blank PUMA – States/Suede/Clyde – Urban paper sneaker here:

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

If you like this, leave a comment. If you build one, show me a picture. If you customize one, … you get the picture ….

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When I finished my first PUMA sneakers, and posted it on NPT (Nice Paper Toy), some people mentioned that they liked the model but that there favorite PUMA sneaker is the states/suede/clyde.
I didn’t know that the PUMA states/suede/clyde is a b-boy classic.

So I couldn’t resist to make them too:

I don’t have a download link for this one, and no design yet….
But that will be fixed very soon.

PS.
The excellent Ron Rementilla from Paperkraft.blogspot.com has written about my PUMA First round papertoy (thx for that).
And suggested that readers who wanted a template, leave a comment….

Till now 10 people did and they have received the (WIP) templates…
I call the templates WIP because the instructions are not ready yet.
And because I wanted to make the PUMA clyde first, they are not ready yet.

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I recently started my own company (eMCeeKay.nl) and I need to make a website for it…. Not really a problem besides that I don’t have any time to create a design.

So I was thinking about a easy way to update this website without spending extra time on that.

Because the main focus of the company is papertoys (urban papertoys), I need design or papertoy related info in my my new website ().

And I came with two ways to update it without extra effort: twitter (I tweet about a lot of stuff but primarily about papertoys) and this the content on this blog (category: urban-papercraft).

I started with the Twitter part.
There are two Twitter AS3 libraries that “speak” to the Twitter API: twitterscript/ and tweetr/.
But after reading the source I concluded that it was a little bit to much: I don’t want to tweet from emceekay.nl or do searches, so that was not the way to go.

A little google search gave me the solution: http://www.theflashlogs.org/flash/displaying-twitter-feeds-in-flash-with-rss/, simple using the standard rss from Twitter (in my case: Matthijs Kamstra – Twitter – rss).

The code on theflashlogs.org is pritty simple, and very easy to use.
So my code is a little addition to that, I need some stuff done to the rss feed:

• remove “MatthijsKamstra:” form the title
• convert @paperkraft to a link
• convert #Mecha6 to a link
• convert http:// to a link

Here is my code:

package nl.emceekay.twttr
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.text.TextField;
	/**
	 * // nl.emceekay.twttr.TwttrExample
	 * ...
	 * @author Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck]
	 */
	public class TwttrExample extends MovieClip
	{
		//default: http://twitter.com/matthijskamstra
		private var url:String = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27657030.rss"; 

		private var _txt:TextField;

		public function TwttrExample()
		{
			stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
			stage.align = "TL";

			// generate textfield
			_txt = new TextField()
			_txt.x = 10;
			_txt.y = 10;
           		 _txt.width = stage.stageWidth - 20;
           		_txt.height =  stage.stageHeight - 20;
			_txt.wordWrap = true;
			_txt.multiline = true;
			_txt.autoSize = "left";
			addChild(_txt);

			// start
			getFeed(url);
		}

		//////////////////////////////////////// loading rss / show rss ////////////////////////////////////////

		private function getFeed (inURL:String) : void
		{
			_txt.htmlText = "getting tweets";

			var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
			loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFeedHandler);
			loader.load(new URLRequest(inURL));
		}

		private function onFeedHandler (e:Event):void
		{
			_txt.htmlText = "";
			var _feed:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
			var _item:XMLList = _feed.channel.item;
			for each (var feedItem:XML in _item){
				var _title		:String = feedItem.title;
				var _pubDate	:String = feedItem.pubDate;
				var _link		:String = feedItem.link;

				_title = convertTweet(_title);

				_txt.htmlText += _title + "<br><i>" + _pubDate + "</i><br><br>";
			}
		}

		//////////////////////////////////////// twitter specific ////////////////////////////////////////

		// one place to convert the tweet
		private function convertTweet (inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			_str = twttrStripName(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertHTTP(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertMention(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertHashtag(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertSmileys(_str);
			return _str;
		}

		// remove the writers name from the tweet
		private function twttrStripName (inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _charNumber:Number = _str.indexOf(":");
			return _str.substr(_charNumber + 2);
		}

		// convert http-strings to links
		private function twttrConvertHTTP(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].indexOf("http") != -1)
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='" + _str2 + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}

		// convert mentions (@) to links
		private function twttrConvertMention(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].substr(0, 1) == "@")
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='http://www.twitter.com/" + _str2.split("@")[1] + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}

		// convert hashtags (#) to links
		private function twttrConvertHashtag(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].substr(0, 1) == "#")
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='http://twitter.com/search?q=%23" + _str2.split("#")[1] + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}		

		// TODO: [mck] convert   to a smiley image
		private function twttrConvertSmileys(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			return _str;
		}

		// remove "strange" characters from the end of the string
		private function twttrStripChar(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _charArray:Array = [',', ';', ':', ' ', '-', '_'];
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _charArray.length; i++)
			{
				if (_str.charAt(_str.length - 1) == _charArray[i]) {
					_str = _str.substr(0, _str.length - 1);
				}
			}
			return _str;
		}

	} // end class

} // end package

Currently I have only this proof of concept, but soon I will post the example on emceekay.nl…

Because this is part one of what I want to do, and don’t want to search for every link again, I’m posting also the WordPress link here (it’s just because I’m lazy).

So here the feeds I will be using:

• Matthijs Kamstra – Twitter – rss
• All Urban papercraft posts

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What do I mean with Urban paper? Paper with a street attitude…

But as “part 1″ already implies; there is also a second gallery, here it is: my Flickr gallery about Urban paper – part 2.

I hope you like it, drop a comment if you want… here or at Flickr

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What do I mean with Urban paper? Paper with a street attitude…

So here it is: my Flickr gallery about Urban paper – part 1.

I hope you like it

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You can find the usual suspects there plus some that are not in the book (but probably will be in the next, if this book will be sold enough )

via Custom Paper Toys

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The Urban Paper show opening Sept. 7th at Café Pause in Ikebukuro is the latest stop of an international tour of paper toys first published in the book, Urban Paper. Tour stops have included Los Angles and Arnhem, the Netherlands and after Tokyo, the show will re-open in Rome.

Paper toys have been around for almost as long as paper itself, but what’s new is that paper toys have recently become a medium of choice for young designers. Because paper is cheap, light and recyclable it has become a populist alternative for artists who previously might have released their toys as collectible vinyl figures. Many of the Urban Paper designers make their toys freely available for download on the Web and anyone with access to a printer can easily make and enjoy their very own paper toy. Urban Paper is the first book that collects designs from 26 of these international artists, printed on heavy stock, along with an included DVD of extra materials, that also gives readers designs and ideas on how to make their own paper toys creations.

At the Urban Paper show at Cafe Pause, new paper toys, designed exclusively for the Tokyo stop will be on display, along with posters, postcards and other material. Flat packs of the toys will be on sale, as well as some built models.

Quote from the Flickr page from Josh McKible

Read more at jeansnow.net the place where the show is held.

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At the Urban Paper Toys exhibition at Subwalk in Arnhem (The Netherlands) Dolly asked all designers present to do a custom… on the spot.

Hand drawn Paper Totem! pieces by the artists participating in the Urban Paper NL show! All pieces were made during the opening

Totem on the left from top to bottom: MCK, Loulou, Nick Knite, Christopher D.
Totem on the right from top to bottom: e440, 3EyedBear, Sjors Trimbach

Cheers heaps guys, lovely meeting you all ))

As you can see, I’m totally outside my comfort-zone… I don’t sketch a lot, and I think you can see that.
I promise to make a better one! (using my computer )

Visit Dolly Oblong

PS
It seems that I’m know in the papertoy world as MCK, it should be [mck]… but I can live with that.

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I liked it because I got to meet : LOULOU / MARSHALL ALEXANDER / MAARTEN JANSSENS / MATTHIJS KAMSTRA / RINGO KRUMBIEGEL / DOLLY OBLONG en SJORS TRIMBACH.
and a special appearance NICK KNITE.

Nice to meet them all, it was very educational (need to have better business cards and a papertoy which I can sell) and very inspiring. That was what I hoped for: get good energy to create even better stuff.

I had two new paper toys to show:Lo Slungg and NOISSGrumm.

Today I present Lo Slungg

Lo Slungg papertoy

I don’t have a logo for the little fellow yet, no instruction, it’s not finished for the public. So you can’t download it here yet .
But that will happen soon enough, and if you can’t wait: drop a line in the comments and I will send you the file as-it-is.

My photo’s (flickr-set) about the exhibit in Subwalk can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthijskamstra/sets/72157621946708500/
But there are more set to be found:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkfood/sets/72157621795665281/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marshallalexander/sets/72157621830735865/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3eyedbear/sets/72157621827191065/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorstrimbach/sets/72157621946038528/

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