{"id":289454,"date":"2010-02-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5466078"},"modified":"2010-02-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:00:00","slug":"parisian-metro-tickets-enlisted-to-fight-the-empire-as-kirigami-x-wings-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/289454","title":{"rendered":"Parisian Metro Tickets Enlisted to Fight the Empire as Kirigami X-Wings [Star Wars]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I, not being an artist, am content to ride Boston’s subway system quietly, eyes down, in a general malaise. It’s a New England thing. French artist Hubert de Lartigue, on the other hand, uses his subway time to imagine X-Wings.<\/p>\n

X-Wings from paper metro tickets, to be precise. de Lartique assembles them using nothing but a scalpel and a folding tool—no glue—and they’re pretty sharp.<\/p>\n

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“I’m very proud of how it turned out and I feel like I am the author of a little masterpiece. I got to the point where I asked myself whether the Parisian metro tickets hadn’t actually been designed to enable me to one day use it as a canvas for this \u2018work.’ Their proportions and even the patterns and drawings on them take part in the whole of the work. I’m not kidding, I find that there is a great underlying mystery here\u2026”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So what say you, Parisian metro officials? Who amongst you is the closet Star Wars<\/a> freak that designed an entire city’s subways passes after a marathon Star Wars viewing session?<\/p>\n

Step-by-step instructions for creating your own fleet of Empire-defying papercraft X-Wings can be found here<\/a>. Naturally, also living in Paris will help your construction efforts immensely.
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\nEditor’s Note: This is actually kirigami, as the artist is making small cuts to the paper. Apologies to the origami artists out there! -j.l.<\/em> [Hubert de Lartigue<\/a> via Neatorama<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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I, not being an artist, am content to ride Boston’s subway system quietly, eyes down, in a general malaise. It’s a New England thing. French artist Hubert de Lartigue, on the other hand, uses his subway time to imagine X-Wings. X-Wings from paper metro tickets, to be precise. de Lartique assembles them using nothing but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}