Gonzalo Calvo's small yet impressive origami pieces

Most of us are delighted to make a paper plane that can fly or a paper boat that floats on water, but one Spanish musician has taken the art of origami to the next level. From dragons and wooly mammoths to musical instruments and pop culture characters, Gonzalo Garcia Calvo boasts over a hundred pictures of his remarkable designs and creations on his Flickr account. If you look close enough, you'll see that they're no child's play pieces.

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