




Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:06:50 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike and Janet Hamilton <mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Origami in Chicago?

Robert Allan Schwartz wrote:
> I will be in Chicago (downtown) for the next 4 days, on business. Does
> anyone know any good origami sites (stores, exhibits, museums) to visit?

Here are some places that have been mentioned on origami-l.  I can't
personally
vouch for any of them.  If you find any interesting places, be sure to
let us know!

Aiko's Art Material Import Inc
3347 North Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60657
(312) 404-5600
A store of imported Japanese paper. An extensive selection of
paper types and patterns. Small supply of origami books and
pre-packaged papers.

Asahiya Bookstores
Arlington Hts, IL at the Yaohan Plaza
NYC on Vanderbilt St, west side of Grand Central Station between 42nd
and 43rd Sts.
There are three branches in CA:  LA, San Diego, and San Gabriel.

Brookfield Zoo Bookstore
Bookfield Zoo
3300 Golf Road
Brookfield IL
708-485-0263
The bookstore is within the Zoo itself.
They charge the cover prices for the books.

Dick Blick
PO Box 1267
Galesburg, IL 61501
1-800-447-8192
Art Supplies

Dick Blick
Fairview Heights, IL.

Paper Source
232 West Chicago St.
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 337-0798
The best art paper store you will find. Extensive selection of
all sorts of art and patterned papers. Upper level has a large
collection of rubber stamps and supplies. Located about a mile
west of North Michigan Avenue. Just below the Chicago Avenue El
stop, on the Ravenswood line.

Janet Hamilton

--
mailto:Mikeinnj@concentric.net
http://www.concentric.net/~Mikeinnj/





Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:09:59 -0400 (AST)
From: Rich Green <rgreen@indy.net>
Subject: Dollar Bill Origami

To all,

My Aunt is bedridden and has decided to take up origami while she's
recuperating.  Since I have the where-with-all to reach you folks via
e-mail, she enlisted me for some help in creating an origami fish out of
a number of dollar bills.  Are there plans and diagrams availble out
there for creating such a critter?  Any help will be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks,
--
Rich Green
***The end result of try is tried... the end result of do is done!***





Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:17:11 -0400 (AST)
From: schary@vnet.IBM.COM
Subject: Re: (U)

*** Reply to note of 02/09/97 04:08
From: Sreenath Chary
    IBM Australia,FF11,
    55 Coonara Avenue,West Pennant Hills,NSW 2125
Subject: Re: (U)
Hi,
  Thanks....I fixed it as some people sent me that my setting had been
changed to 'postpone'...and I have no idea why. Anyway I reset it and
now it is working fine. Thanks a lot.

Cheers,

Regards,
Sreenath
VNET ID: ISSCAUS(SREENATH) (Ph : 66-2-502-1118/1399)
Internet:SChary@vnet.ibm.com





Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:20:35 -0400 (AST)
From: Marc Kirschenbaum <marckrsh@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Dollar Bill Origami

At 09:09 PM 2/10/97 -0400, Rich Green wrote:

>My Aunt is bedridden and has decided to take up origami while she's
>recuperating.  Since I have the where-with-all to reach you folks via
>e-mail, she enlisted me for some help in creating an origami fish out of
>a number of dollar bills.  Are there plans and diagrams availble out
>there for creating such a critter?  Any help will be greatly
>appreciated!

Here is one I just designed:

1 start w/ dollar bill, either side up.

2 valley left short edge down to bottom long edge.

3 near the center, you now have an interior raw edge. valley the bottom raw
edge up to lie along this edge.

4 at top, you will have a short raw edge. valley it down to meet the very
short raw edge at right.

5 blunt the left side by bringing the left corner over to the meeting of
raw edges.

6 turn over and rotate slighly - you now have a fish

Perhaps this is a record; I designed this model in under 5 seconds. Too bad
no one official was able to time me!

Marc

P.S. Nick Robinson- you can use this for your web site if you wish.





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 02:14:37 -0400 (AST)
From: Mark Morden <marmonk@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Dollar Bill Origami

At 09:10 PM 2/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>To all,
>
>My Aunt is bedridden and has decided to take up origami while she's
>recuperating.  Since I have the where-with-all to reach you folks via
>e-mail, she enlisted me for some help in creating an origami fish out of
>a number of dollar bills.  Are there plans and diagrams availble out
>there for creating such a critter?  Any help will be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Rich Green
>***The end result of try is tried... the end result of do is done!***
>
>
If you visit the Origami Olio at the address below, there are diagrams for a
Christian fish symbol out of a dollar bill.  From the main page, follow the
"Original Bill Folds" link and you can't miss it.

Mark

Mark Morden == marmonk@mail.eskimo.com
http://www.eskimo.com/~marmonk/
--------------------------------------------------------
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun
has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it
I see everything else.
                       C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory"





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 03:40:53 -0400 (AST)
From: mplewinska@earthlink.net (Magdalena Cano Plewinska)
Subject: Re: Organizing 30 years of Origami, books, paper, newsletters

On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 17:23:30 -0400 (AST), DORIGAMI@aol.com  wrote:

>I'm drowning in origami papers, books, ...  everyone has papers  and books in
     little stacks all over the place.
> A lot of books in bookcases too.    Any and all suggestions welcome.

I have the same problem. I periodically go through all the piles and
find that a lot of the stuff is trash that I haven't gotten around to
throwing out (junk mail, etc.). Once you throw out the trash, what's
left is not so much trouble to find a space for... And I do go through
the old books and give away the ones I never look at any more... And I
get more bookcases.

   - Magda Plewinska
     Miami, FL, USA
     Email: mplewinska@earthlink.net





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:40:13 -0400 (AST)
From: Zachary Brown <zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
Subject: Yoshizawa Masterworks

People have been mentioning Yoshizawa Masterworks. What is this book?
Could someone post some or all of the table of contents? I remember seeing
a Japanese book in Sasuga (Porter Square, Cambridge, MA) for about $60.00
a few months ago, that had a lot of models. Most of them were very simple
though. Is this the same book or a new one?

Zack





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:41:34 -0400 (AST)
From: rick@tridelta.com (Rick Bissell)
Subject: Re: Rhombic biz card modulars

Thanks for the diagram Jeannine...once I saw it I remembered having learned
this one many years ago from a magic book.  You assemble one of these from
playing cards, with one of the cards having a 3/8 inch diameter hole cut in
it.  Blow smoke into the cube (cigar smoke works best) and tap one side
lightly.  You'll get a perfect smoke ring!





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:00:32 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Re: Card cube origins

Rick Bissell wrote:

   Thanks for the diagram Jeannine...once I saw it I remembered having learned
   this one many years ago from a magic book.  You assemble one of these from
   playing cards, with one of the cards having a 3/8 inch diameter hole cut in
   it.  Blow smoke into the cube (cigar smoke works best) and tap one side
   lightly.  You'll get a perfect smoke ring!

Rick -- do you remember the name of the book? I've been trying to
track down the origins of the business card or playing card cube.
Bill Dollar gave me a copy of a page from a book of mathematical
puzzles and diversion describing it.  I'd be interested in learning
about other references to this model that any of you may have seen,
the older the better.

Thanks,

        -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:32:43 -0400 (AST)
From: eduardo campos <ecampos@inetminas.estaminas.com.br>
Subject: Re: How I can get free info

At 20:35 06/02/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I am sending this reminder on behalf of OrigamiUSA. As many of you know, we
>produce the Annual Collection, which is the premire collection of diagrams
>put out by an international organization. So far, we have an excellent
>start, as we have already received some woderful diagrams from around the
>world. Nonetheless, we still need some more submissions, so that we can
>have a better balance of creative talent. You can send your artwork to:
>
>OrigamiUSA
>15 West 77th Street
>New York, NY 10024-5192
>Att: Publications
>
>If you want, you can e-mail them to me directly:
>marckrsh@pipeline.com
>
>If at all possible, text should be 10pt Helvetica, without any fancy
>formatting, and pref. with a hanging indent. Thank you for your help.
>
>Marc
>P.S. If we use your submission, you will get a free book.
>
>Hi Mark!yeah, I would like to receive this book.that's my address:
MARY RAMOS
RUA MARTE 430 CONTAGEM
32241250
BRAZIL

thanks!oh... I was forgetin':How can Iget ORIGAMI USA?





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:42:25 -0400 (AST)
From: "James M. Sakoda" <James_Sakoda@brown.edu>
Subject: Re: Dollar Bill Origami

>To all,
>
>My Aunt is bedridden and has decided to take up origami while she's
>recuperating.  Since I have the where-with-all to reach you folks via
>e-mail, she enlisted me for some help in creating an origami fish out of
>a number of dollar bills.  Are there plans and diagrams availble out
>there for creating such a critter?  Any help will be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Rich Green
>***The end result of try is tried... the end result of do is done!***

Dear Rich,  My Modern Origami has an angelfish folded from an eight point
star.  The book is out of print but is going to be reprinted by Dover
Publications, but it probably won't be ready until late this year.  In the
meantime you might find it through a local library.  The dollar bill
version can be attempted, although it will have a truncated tail.  If I
have a chance I will add it to the web page my son and I are setting up at
http://idt.net/~kittyv.  It contains diagrams for the SST 96 and a number
of dollar bill folds, including  the Basic Six Point Star, from which can
be made the horse, swan and dachsund.  There is also a giraffe, and I plan
to add Dr. Doolittle's two-headed animal, Pushmi-Pullyu, which can be
changed from a unicorn faced in the direction and a donkey in the other.
     All of these will be in PDF format which is efficient both in terms of
accuracy of reproducing line drawings and text and in being very economical
of storage and transmission time.  To download and read these diagrams you
will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3.0, which can be download from
http://adobe.com for free.  If you are using Navigator 2 or 3 you should be
able to download these diagrams into the Navigator window.   James M.
Sakoda





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:24:54 -0400 (AST)
From: Sy Chen <sychen@leatherback.nist.gov>
Subject: Happy Valentine!

Dear folders,

I just threw out one of my $ design into my web page before Valentine's Day.
Hope you enjoy my $ Valentine:

GIF version: (72 dpi coarse conversion; print using enlarged scale)
http://www.erols.com/sychen1/Diagram/valntn$.gif
PDF version: GhostScript did not do a good job in saving disk (144k)
http://www.erols.com/sychen1/Diagram/valntn$.pdf

I will move my PDF version to other FTP site sooner or later to save my disk
quota.

|------------------------------------------------------\
|  _     Shi-Yew Chen (a.k.a. Sy) <chens@asme.org>     |\
| |_| Folding http://www.erols.com/sychen1/pprfld.html --\





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:43:44 -0400 (AST)
From: rick@tridelta.com (Rick Bissell)
Subject: Re: Card cube origins

>Rick -- do you remember the name of the book? I've been trying to
>track down the origins of the business card or playing card cube.
>Bill Dollar gave me a copy of a page from a book of mathematical
>puzzles and diversion describing it.  I'd be interested in learning
>about other references to this model that any of you may have seen,
>the older the better.
>
>Thanks,
>
>       -- Jeannine Mosely

It's possible that it may be one of the 3-4 magic books that
I saved from my childhood (mid 1960's) and have packed away
in my basement.  I'll go spelunking and get back to you !

- rick





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:32:33 -0400 (AST)
From: Pagina Espirita <gl@ips.com.br>
Subject: Re: How I can get free info

> >Hi Mark!yeah, I would like to receive this book.that's my address:
> MARY RAMOS
> RUA MARTE 430 CONTAGEM
> 32241250
> BRAZIL
>
> thanks!oh... I was forgetin':How can Iget ORIGAMI USA?
>
        Epa! Outro brasileiro por aqui? Bom saber!
        Sugestao: quem for brasileiro ou portugues deveria se manifestar, nao?
        Vamos ver se conseguimos nos organizar aqui no Brasil.
        Estamos de acordo? Ou nao? (Como diria o Caetano)
        My dears ori-friends of the whole world: sorry my impertinence!
        Abracos a todos!
                              Fred
                              gl@artnet.com.br





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:41:32 -0400 (AST)
From: DLister891@aol.com
Subject: Japanese Package Wrapping.

I have been away on holiday and am only now beginning to pick up the threads
of Life, and not least of Origami-L. I apologise to everyone who has been
expecting to hear from me. It is taking some time to get my head above a
swirling sea of papers. I feel, however that I should not let one or two
points which have been raised in Origami-L to get away, and at the risk of
even more confusion for myself, i will add my comments.

On 31st, January, Jeannine Mosely wrote in with a query about the way
shopkeepers in Japan wrap their packages. Pat Slider immediately replied that
she had come across the phenomenon about a year ago and had mastered the art.
She pointed out that diagrams for the method were included by Kunio Ekiguchi
in his English-language book: "Gift Wrapping: Creative ideas from Japan".

Just before this last Christmas, my wife and I recieved a fairly flat
rectangular-shaped parcel from Japan, which turned out to be a box of
Japanese biscuits or "Nibbles" from a Japanese friend. I could see at once
that the method of wrapping was unusual, because the paper was on the slant
and secured, not by the yards of sticky tape we would use in the West, but by
a tiny piece of tape about one inch long and half an inch wide. Everything
was held together in this one place. I was reluctant to unwrap the parcel
until I had analysed dthe technique of wrapping (one of my interests is
wrappings and other utility folds, and this looked to be an addition to my
colection.) However, other voices were more persuasive and the parcel had to
be unwrapped. At least I secured the opportunity of unwrapping it in a
systematic way, so that I could wrap it up again in the same manner. As it
happened, the nibbles wre in a tin box that was inside an outer cardboard
case, so I could remove the tin and replace the wrapping round the cardbord
case. Needless to say, we ate the biscuits over the Christmas holiday, and I
was able to return the tin to within the cardboard casing. So, the only relic
of the gift is the container and  wrapping. The wrapped parcel is stil
waiting for me to find time to devote a careful and analytical study to it!

I was therefore somewhat bemused when I returned from holiday and read
Jeannine's and Pat''s postings. It so happens that I have a copy of Kunio
Ekiguchi's book, but I remembered it as a cllection of fancy gift wrappings
and had not realised that it also contained the everyday method of wrapping
 Japanese parcels. I am most grateful for the reference. I had, in fact, had
some difficulty in working out the basic technique of the wrapping - some of
the creases were not precisely placed. Now I shall be able to experiment
without loosing the method in a confused mess of paper.

I should have noticed the Japanese wrapping technique much earlier. I have
just been delving among my archives and collections, upstairs and by accident
I have come across a gift from Japan sent to me several years ago. The
wrapping paper has been left round it loosely, and I find that it is in
exactly the same diagonal style. Why had I not noticced this before?

I commend Ekiguchi's book as a deiightful compendium of Japanese ideas for
wrapping gifts. I reminds me of another Japanese book on wrapping and
packaging of every kind (not just paper). This is "How to Wrap Five More
Eggs"
by Hideyuki Oka, first published by Weatherhill in 1975, ands still in print.
 Sheer delight, it is a marvellous illumination of Japanese innovative
craftsmanship and artistic attention to the minutest detail. Get both books
if you can. They are the nearest thing to a visit to Japan without actually
going here.

David lister.

Grimsby, England.

DLister891@AOL.com





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:54:15 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Healthy Clubs

I can tell from this list and from my OUSA newsletters that many
of us are members of reasonably active local origami clubs, but it
seems that many more of us are folding in isolation.  I would like to
hear people's opinions about what makes their clubs work, or why their
clubs failed or are failing.  Have you tried to start a club, or
perhaps save a club?  Do you have advice?

In the Boston area, where I live, I know of two origami clubs:
OrigaMIT, which meets at the MIT campus and is mostly students, and
Paperfolders in New England (PINE), which meets in the Needham
library.

OrigaMIT was formed barely a year ago, meets twice a month on Sunday
afternoons during the school year.  It's meetings are totally
unorganized.  People bring books, paper, and sit around folding
together, helping eachother, showing off new models, and chatting
about life.  Anywhere from 5 to 30 people may show up, depending on
the weather and the exam schedule, but it's usually around 10.  The
members tend to fold intermediate to advanced models.

PINE used to meet monthly at a senior center in Needham which was
somewhat difficult to reach without a car, though not impossible, if
you lived near the right commuter rail line.  After Joyce Rockmore,
its former leader, died a year ago, other members took over running
it. Now, due to lack of sufficient organizational energy and problems
scheduling the space, it is now meeting only once every other month in
the Needham library.  The meetings are more organized, with a
pre-arranged teacher.  The models are usually easy to intermediate.
Attendance is around 10 people.

My friends in Ann Arbor, Michigan, tell me that their group meets monthly
and attracts 60+ members each time!  Wow! How do they do it?

        -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:09:12 -0400 (AST)
From: DLister891@aol.com
Subject: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

Glancing quickly through my mass of accumulated E-mail on my return from
holiday last week, I briefly noticed a posting in which the writer referred
to the Pajarita. I have not had the time to make a thorough search to get
back to this  posting and I must apologise to the sender of this message that
I cannot even give his name. Nevertheless, I do not think that this should
prevent me from making a reply.

The writer said that he (I think it sas a he, but it could have been a she)
had heard it reported that Pajaritas were endowed with sex, implying that
there are male and female pajaritas. No doubt most subscribers to Origami-L
dismissed this as an  improbable fantasy, but I have to report that there
really is some truth in the matter.

Most folders will know the lttle angular paper bird which is so popular in
Spain, where it is know as the "Pajarita", a word that  which means "little
sparrow" or "little bird".  The fold is part of the "multiform" series, as
Robert Harbin named it and its origin is lost in antiquity. Although it is
particularly connected with Spain, where they put up statues to it, it is
also known under different names in other European countries and also in
Japan. In France, it is known as "La Cocotte", a name that has been applied
to birds, feathered and unfeathered.

The Pajarita was the paper fold that first attracted the great Spanish
philosopher Miguel Unamuno and it held a great fascination for him. In 1902
Unamuno published a novel, "Amor y Pedagogia" ("Love and Education"). To the
book, Unamuno attached a playful, pseudo-scientific supplement with the
title: "Apuntes para un Tratado de Cocotologia" or "Jottings for a Treatise
on Cocotology". He avoided using the Spanish word "pajarita" possibly out of
respect for the word and instead turned to the French word "cocotte".
"Apuntes" was a satire on pretentious and over-earnest researchers  into the
more obscure branches of science and it consisted of a detailed analysis of
the Pajarita, its nature and its breeding and the mathematics of its form..

So far, no mention of the sex of the Pajarita! However, in 1934, Unamuno
published a second edition of "Amor y Pedagogia" and to the original
"Apuntes" he added an appendix in which he enlarged his original observations
on the Pajarita, putting them into the mouth of a certain Don Fulgencio

In the meantime, Unamuno had become one of the first Western creative
paperfolders and had developed a whole series of birds and animals by
manipulating the Bird Base, which appears to have reached theWest with the
Flapping Bird from Japan or elsewhere in the East, in the second half of the
19th Century. These models were published in various journals in Spain and
Argentina. However, Unamuno also appears to have explored the  manipulation
of the pajaria, and this research did not come to light until thesecond
edition of "Amor y Pedagogia" appeared in 1934.

In Unamuno's own words describing the procreation of  the Pajarita: "If, in
the embryo process, on reaching the second fold - single ribbed cocotte - the
ribs are turned outward as a dermoskeleton, instead of being left inside, its
sex will appear, first undifferentiated and then differentiated. It should be
noted, on seeing the sexes are derived from the ribs, how profound is the
revelation of Genesis when it says that God made Eve from Adam's rib.
Positive Science always proves Revelation".

Of course, all this is part of Unamuno's satire. But behind all the
pretentious language, he had altered the basic folding sequence of the
pajarita in several ways. Without elaborate diagrams, I could not pretend to
illustrate how he did it. Nor is the method clearly described in Apuntes;
only illustrations of the completed birds are given. But I have myself worked
out the method and can assure my readers that so far as the folding process
resulting in new forms of the Pajarita is concerned, Unamuno is not joking,
even if his interpretation of the results of his experiments  may be a little
fanciful. By manipulating the the traditional Pajarita, which he perceived to
be of  the "Neuter" sex, he derived three variant forms, which he termed
"Male", "Female" and "Hermaphrodite". The difference is in the size of
pointed protrusions in front of the pajaritas, which, with a stretch of
imagination, may be seen to have some connection with the sex of the paper
birds. (The female Pajarita looks somewhat like a harpy!.) I later found that
 Don Fulgencio's pajaaritas are given by Vicente Palacios in his book "La
Creacion en Papiroflexia" (1979), togrether with other variants on the basic
Pajarita by Unamuno and other Spanish folders.

The real importance of Unamuno's pajaritas is that they show him as a folder
creating his own new models at a time when creative folding was virtually
unheard of and when the general impression was that paperfoding was
restricted to a small and limited number of traditional models. How different
from our attitudes today!

So the Pajarita as evolved by Unamuno does have sex - or no sex - or a
confusion of sexes. Get a copy of Unamuno's book - translations are available
- and enjoy the fun for yourselves.

David Lister,

Grimsby, England.

DLister@AOL.com





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:08:16 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Yoshizawa Masterworks

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Zachary Brown wrote:

=People have been mentioning Yoshizawa Masterworks. What is this book?
=Could someone post some or all of the table of contents? I remember seeing
=a Japanese book in Sasuga (Porter Square, Cambridge, MA) for about $60.00
=a few months ago, that had a lot of models. Most of them were very simple
=though. Is this the same book or a new one?

I would assume that this is the recently published "Inochi Yutaka na Origami".
I don't have it here with me, so I can't give you a list of the contents.
Besides, it *is* in Japanese, after all. As mentioned before, there's an
English translation of Yoshizawa's afterword from that book at my web site.
I'm still having some difficulties tracking down some of the details from his
biography, so it's still not ready.

          Joseph Wu           It's your privilege as an artist to inflict
  origami@planet.datt.co.jp   the pain of creativity on yourself. We can
 Webmaster, the Origami Page  teach you how WE paint, but we can't teach
http://www.datt.co.jp/Origami you how YOU paint. There's More Than One Way
 Webmaster, DATT Japan Inc.   To Do It. Have the appropriate amount of fun.
    http://www.datt.co.jp                 --Wall, Christiansen, Schwartz





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:11:36 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Japanese Package Wrapping.

I happened to catch a few minutes of a recent episode of "TV Champion" here
in Japan (the same show that featured an origami competition that I reported
on previously). Anyway, this episode was a competition for gift wrappers. The
segment I saw involved book wrapping techniques. Each person worked with
newspaper, so that the quality of their technique could be evaluated without
prejudice from paper choice.

          Joseph Wu           It's your privilege as an artist to inflict
  origami@planet.datt.co.jp   the pain of creativity on yourself. We can
 Webmaster, the Origami Page  teach you how WE paint, but we can't teach
http://www.datt.co.jp/Origami you how YOU paint. There's More Than One Way
 Webmaster, DATT Japan Inc.   To Do It. Have the appropriate amount of fun.
    http://www.datt.co.jp                 --Wall, Christiansen, Schwartz





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:26:17 -0400 (AST)
From: reeds@openix.com (Reeds family)
Subject: Re: Dollar Bill Origami

>To all,
>
>My Aunt is bedridden and has decided to take up origami while she's
>recuperating.  Since I have the where-with-all to reach you folks via
>e-mail, she enlisted me for some help in creating an origami fish out of
>a number of dollar bills.  Are there plans and diagrams availble out
>there for creating such a critter?  Any help will be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Rich Green
>***The end result of try is tried... the end result of do is done!***

Send me an address and I;ll send you the simplified version of my fish
that's in Robert Lang's book of origami animals and before that in an OUSA
annual volume. I haven't tried to do it from a dollar bill--that can be a
challenge to her.

I do have a dollar bill fish, but no diagrams for it yet.
Karen
reeds@openix.com





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:37:07 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Ohmu (or Oomu): Origami of Anime

Jeannine asked about who designed the Oomu that was featured in Oru. I
remember seeing it, but couldn't remember where. I search through my copies
revealed an Oomu on page 27 of issue number 8. That one was designed by TSUDA
Yoshio, a man who apparently specializes in insects. No mention is made about
the availability of diagrams. I'll try to ask the Tanteidan about that.

I seem to remember seeing a different Oomu in one of the other issues of Oru,
but I couldn't find it. The search continues.

          Joseph Wu           It's your privilege as an artist to inflict
  origami@planet.datt.co.jp   the pain of creativity on yourself. We can
 Webmaster, the Origami Page  teach you how WE paint, but we can't teach
http://www.datt.co.jp/Origami you how YOU paint. There's More Than One Way
 Webmaster, DATT Japan Inc.   To Do It. Have the appropriate amount of fun.
    http://www.datt.co.jp                 --Wall, Christiansen, Schwartz





Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:46:39 -0400 (AST)
From: chall@scsn.net (Carol Hall)
Subject: Rupert Annuals

My copy of the winter issue of _The Paper_ arrived today and reminded me of
a question I've been intending to post here for some time:

Can anyone provide some information on _Rupert Annuals_?  The drawings shown
in Kenneway's _Complete Origami_  have always looked familiar to me, but I
have not been able to figure out why.  Were these books published outside of
England?  Are they still in print? Should they be?  Should a collector of
origami books try to find them (do they have a place in an origami
collection)?  David Brill pointed to them in this issue of _The Paper_ as
his introduction to origami. I assume that many others had similar
experiences.  The models presumably were simple ones, but maybe it would
still be a good way to introduce someone to origami.

Carol Hall
chall@scsn.net
South Carolina, USA





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 02:59:38 -0400 (AST)
From: Allen Parry <parry@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Dollar Bill Origami

Hmmmm.....

Dollar Bill Fish, huh?  What species?  I have a huge collection of dollar
bill folds.  I've been doing alot of creating (a new model about every
other week) and I am always looking for new ideas.  This last week was
quite prolific, I finished up my horse (turned out great, much detail) and
did a locomotive engine and a car (I did alot of flying this last week and
that's when I do my best creative work), oh yeah, I was in California....I
also created a dollar bill Mickey Mouse at the hotel......too much time on
my hands when traveling 8-p

I created a salmon.
Stephen Weiss has his dolphin (which is excellent).
Sheri Lewis (of Fran & Olie) has a couple of simple fish folds.
There is a simple whale (opps not a fish, a mammal) by Ed Sullivan.
Ted Bond did a dollar bill fish which is in also in one of the OUSA
annuals.

That's my list of fish.....but if you have something in particular in
mind, let me know....I'll enjoy the challenge.

Allen Parry
parry@eskimo.com





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:19:58 -0400 (AST)
From: JESPER LARSEN <940094@udd.aalsem.dk>
Subject: Books

Here is some questions for all you origami-freaks out there.
I'm searching high and low for some really interesting origami-books
containing complex and/or fancy and/or funny models. Or just some
really nice books to be honest! Any suggestions?
Tell me about your favourite book(s). What books do you think should
be in everybodys collection?
I'm already in the posession of Isao Honda's "The World of Origami"
and Kunihiko Kasahara's "Creative Origami". They have given me hours
of fascinating fun. Perhaps 1 more (or 2 more) books of this kind
would be nice. Which books should I get then? I have browsed through
the pages of "Fascinating Folds" and read the discriptions, but it's
hard to choose this way. There's so many!
I'm thinking of buying the following titles though (I have only seen/neard
of these books on the Internet, so please tell me something about
them):
"YOSHIZAWA'S MASTERWORKS"
"ISSEI SUPER COMPLEX ORIGAMI"
"ORIGAMI FANTASY" (I've heard this should be great).
The 2 volumes of "ORU MAGAZINE'S DIAGRAM COLLECTIONS"
"ORIGAMI HEARTS" (It looks funny but is it good?).
"3-D GEOMETRIC ORIGAMI"
"UNIT ORIGAMI"
"THE NEW ORIGAMI"
Are you familar with these books? Do you know something about them?
Please comment and review them if you do.
I have also heard of a "T-Rex skeleton" model. Where can I find this
model (and similar models).
1 or 2 good books for building boxes would also be nice.
Any other interesting stuff? Please let me know.





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:29:45 -0400 (AST)
From: JESPER LARSEN <940094@udd.aalsem.dk>
Subject: Papers and scissors

How do you feel about cutting the paper with a pair of scissors (ie.
when making a reindeer)? Is this an 100% accepted method in the ancient art
of origami. You ARE destroying the paper doing this, are you not?





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:18:45 -0400 (AST)
From: DLister891@aol.com
Subject: Re: Rupert Annuals

Carol Hall says that she has referred to the article on Rupert
Annuals in Eric Kenneway's "Complete Origami" and asks for more information.
There is lots of it so I shall limit myself only to the essentials in this
posting.

Rupert appeared (and still appears) every day in the British newspaper "The
Daily Express". It must be one of the longest running children's cartoons  in
a newspaper anywhere in the world.

In the 1930s there was a vogue for children's cartoons in British newspapers.
Teddy Tail appeared in the Daily Mail and "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" in the
Daily Mirror. The Express decided that they should have their own cartoon and
turned to Mary Tourtel, who was the wife of one of their sub-editors. She
invented the little bear, Rupert, devising the stories and drawing the
illustrations herself.

The first Rupert cartoon appeared on 8th, November, 1920. Two drawings
appeared each day, with a short text of story beneath them. Mary Toutel
continued to draw Rupert until 1935, when her eyesight began to fail. Casting
round for someone to take over, The Express asked an artist and magazine
illustrator named Alfred Bestall to fill in for six weeks. So Alfred Bestall
took over, but the six weeks extended for thirty years until he retired in
1965 and other artists took over. The cartoon continues in the Daily Express
to this day.

Rupert continued to appear daily throughout the war, despite the extreme
restrictions on the availablility of newsprint. The Rupert stories were
situated in the idyllic English countryside into which the War was never
allowed to intrude and It was thought that Rupert added a little haven of
normality in a chaotic world and that he was good for public morale. The
number of pictures was, however, reduced to one a day.

Relentlessly, day by day  Alfred Bestall drew the cartoons for a small fixed
wage. He was a much better artist than mary Toutel and Rupert slightly
changed under his hand. He was a genius at inventing stories that would
fascinate children. His stories remain the classic Rupert stories and have
never been equalled either in ingenuity or in art.

For Christmas, 1936, it was decided to publish an annual containing a
collection of the Rupert stories printed in the Express during the previous
year. The first Annual was a substantial quarto book in a hard cover, printed
in black and white with red tinting. The Rupert Annual has been printed every
year since then and it appears around August or September, in time for
Christmas. (I still buy mine each year and, except for three early editions,
I have a complete set.)

Like the daily cartoon, the Rupert Annual continued throughout the War,
although it was reduced to a paper-back, still of quarto size. It was not
until 1952 that hard covers were resumed. As if to compensate, in 1942 (at
the height of the War!) the Rupert Annual  came out in full colour, as it
still does.

The Rupert Annual was one of the only children's annuals to survive the War,
but when it ended in 1945, it was thought that many new annuals would be
introduced and that the Rupert Annual would face competition. It was decided
to improve the attraction of the annuals by the introduction of other
features, such as games and colouring pages. Alfred Bestall hit upon the idea
of including paperfolding. He had been interested in folding paper since he
was a child and, of course, the drawing of the diagrams presented no problem
to him.

The first paperfold (the word Origami would not be introduced into English
for another twenty years) appeared in The Rupert Annual for 1946.
Predicatably it was the Flapping Bird and Alfred wrote a special story around
it. The next year the Paper Kettle was included followed by the Hobby Horse
(pajarita), the Chinese Junk, the Paper Plane and the Paper Man. Paperfolding
became a tradition in the Rupert Annuals and later newly designed models
began to appear, together with such classics as Yoshizawa's Butterfly and
Toshie Takahama's Yacht. The tradition has continued every year, with few
exceptions, up to the present, although recently it has faltered somewhat.
Nick Robinson has tried to encourage the tradition by submitting models for
inclusion, and they have been printed.

The paperfolding was introduced into the  Rupert Annuals at a time came when
the whole pastime was at a low ebb in the West.. Then, in the early 1950s,
Robert Harbin rediscovered paperfolding for himself and one of the first
persons he contacted was Alfred Bestall. Many British folders have told how
their interest in folding started with the Rupert Annuals, and while it was
not the origin of my own interest, I was certainly encouraged by the Rupert
Annuals and  excited to find in them models to add to my collection.

After the formation of the British Origami Society in !967, Robert Harbin
became its first President and Alfred Bestall, together with Lillian
Oppenheimer, Vice-Presidents. When Robert Harbin died, Alfred Bestall was
appointed in his place, remaining president until he himself died in 1986 at
the grand age of 93. Just before he died Alfred was honoured by the Queen,
who appointed him to be a Member of the Order of the Britisah Empire (MBE),
thereby giving public recognition to his lifetime's work.

I like to think I was one of the first to recogniise Alfred Bestall's work,
for I wrote to him, care of the Daily Express, in 1967 and received a long
and friendly reply. He was a shy and retiring man, who never married. He said
that Rupert was his child. He was no mere nominal Vice-President and
President, for he regualarly came to meetings of the BOS and took part in the
folding .He was a loveable man, dearly loved by everone.

Even before his death, Alfred was beginning to gain public regognition, and
appeared in radio and on television. After he died a Rupert society was
founded called "The Followers of Rupert" which continues to flourish. Books
were published about Rupert and Alfred Bestall, including an "Index of
Rupert", which lists every daily cartoon and every episode of every Annual,
including cartoons that have been published overseas, as in Holland. There
have been many Rupert books of various kinds, which are also listed, but the
Rupert Annuals remain the backbone of the Rupert tradition. So far as I know,
however, the Rupert Annuals have not so far been republished in the United
States, despite the fact that i know Rupert and his stories appeal just as
much to American children as they do to British children

About seven year ago a beautifully produced facsimile of the first Rupert
Annual of 1936 was published and this has been contnued ecvery yearsinc, so
that last year the facsimile for 1943 was reached. Curiously there have
sometimes had to be small changes to comply with present day "political
correctness"! (for example, the "Golliwog" became just "Golly".) Now even the
facsimiles are collectors pieces and fetch good prices on the second-hand
market. But a copy of the first annual in good condition would cost well over
#1,000 and with the extremely rare dust cover, would probably fetch much
more. The early editions up to about 1945 fetch a hundred or two pounds each,
but more recent annuals, especially from 1970 onwards, can be bought
second-hand for a few pounds.

I count myself very privileged to have know Alfred Bestall and to have
enjoyed Rupert and the Rupert Annuals. They have greatly enriched my
paperfolding experience for so many years of my life and I remain a Follower
of  Rupert.

David Lister,

Grimsby, England.

Dister891@AOL.com





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:24:59 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Re: Ohmu (or Oomu): Origami of Anime

Joseph Wu wrote:

   Jeannine asked about who designed the Oomu that was featured in Oru. I
   remember seeing it, but couldn't remember where. I search through my copies
   revealed an Oomu on page 27 of issue number 8. That one was designed by TSUDA
   Yoshio, a man who apparently specializes in insects. No mention is made about
   the availability of diagrams. I'll try to ask the Tanteidan about that.

   I seem to remember seeing a different Oomu in one of the other issues of Oru,
   but I couldn't find it. The search continues.

Thank you Joseph!  That's the one I saw.  I don't remember seeing
any others, though.  I guess that you are transliterating the name
"Oomu".  I don't know what is "right", (who, after all, would decide?)
but in my English translation Mangas, it is always spelled "Ohmu".
For those who don't know what this is, Ohmu is an enormous, mutated,
arthropod, a bit like a pill bug, will lots of legs and lots of eyes
-- a real origami challenge.

And while we're discussing origami anime, has anyone seen or created a
model for Totoro, the giant, lovable, forest spirit?  If you haven't
seen "My Neighbor Totoro" and you have small children (or are one), I
cannot recommend a kinder, gentler movie.  The "dust bunnies" or "soot
sprites" from that movie are easy:  take a black sheet of kami and
crumple, taking care to keep the white side in.

        -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:00:47 -0400 (AST)
From: Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it>
Subject: Re: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

David,

At 18.09 11/2/1997 -0400, you wrote:

> By manipulating the traditional Pajarita, which he perceived to
>be of  the "Neuter" sex, he derived three variant forms, which he termed
>"Male", "Female" and "Hermaphrodite". The difference is in the size of
>pointed protrusions in front of the pajaritas, which, with a stretch of
>imagination, may be seen to have some connection with the sex of the paper
>birds. (The female Pajarita looks somewhat like a harpy!.)

I know Unamuno's forms from Palacios book. But I'm also a bit ashamed to
confess that I myself have created a Pajarita variant which I named
"Pajarita con Pajarito" (Pajarita with little bird). Here, too, there is a
protrusion but not in the same place as Unamuno's model (!), and you need NO
stretch of imagination to identify my model as a male Pajarita <:-D

This has also been published by some of my Spanish friends (maybe Juan
Gimeno) in one of their magazines, but I don't remember where at the moment.....

(ah, and thanks a lot David for your very careful info on this topic !)

Happy folding to all.

Roberto





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:01:58 -0400 (AST)
From: Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it>
Subject: Herman's models

Hi all !

I have received from Herman Van Goubergen a list of his models, mentioning
the magazines / books/ proceedings where they have been published. Here it goes:

gecko/fly = gecko and fly on the wall
reader = reading the newspaper
o/u water = on the water, under water

Oru 3 : reader
Oru collection 1 : gorilla

BOS convention books :
autumn 92 : snake
autumn 93 : cherub
spring 95 : gecko/fly
spring 96 : o/u water

AEP (Spain) convention books :
93 : gorilla, cherub
96 : snake, pecking bird, reader, cherub, lion, gorilla, whelk, o/u water

CDO (Italy) convention books :
93 : cherub
94 : gecko/fly

MFPP (France) convention books :
94 : gecko/fly, gorilla
96 : whelk, simple spinning top

OD (Germany) convention book 94 : gecko/fly, cherub

FOCA/OUSA convention books :
94 : cherub, reader
95 : gorilla, pecking bird, snake
96 : lion, airmail, whelk, o/u water, car

Magazines :

Le Pli (MFPP) :
#66 o/u water
#65 gohei heart chain
#62-63 car, airmail
#56 cherub
#55 lion
#52 reader
#49 pecking bird

Der Falter (OD) :
#19 o/u water
#17 car
#14 gecko/fly
#10 reader

Pajarita (AEP) :
#55 o/u water, reader
#46 gecko/fly

Quadrato Magico (CDO) :
#45 o/u water
#41 airmail, car
#38 whelk
#37 snake
#36 gorilla
#35 lion
#33 reader

Das Diagramm (OM) (Munich) :
#23 car
#16 gorilla
#14 lion

BOS magazine :
#177 o/u water
#174 airmail
#173 car
#160 reader
#152 pecking bird
#146 gorilla
#139 whelk
#128 lion

Thought it could be of interest. Happy folding !

Roberto





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:15:44 -0400 (AST)
From: Pat Slider <slider@stonecutter.com>
Subject: Re: Japanese gift wrapping.

>Pat Slider immediately replied that
>she had come across the phenomenon about a year ago and had mastered the art.

Perhaps I was too eager to claim mastery :->. Lately my packages have been
looking a little messy. Perhaps a reflection of my mental state now that the
vacation season is over? I will say that I have more success with this
technique with thinner giftwrap. It's a little hard to persuade the thicker
stuff to behave. And I find tissue paper a challenge too; the result is
often too lumpy.

>I had, in fact, had
>some difficulty in working out the basic technique of the wrapping - some of
>the creases were not precisely placed. Now I shall be able to experiment
>without loosing the method in a confused mess of paper.

I find that this method works best if you don't worry about the interior
creases. They essentially find their own place when you pull the paper
across, focusing on the main creases at the corners and edges. This explains
why they aren't "precisely placed." All I worry about in regards to these
"side-effect" ones is whether they look like they are going to lie flat. And
with the thicker paper, if they are creasing and not crumpling! (Sometimes,
after it is clear what the paper wants to do, I go ahead and "iron in" the
interior creases.)

I expect this message doesn't make any sense until you've tried this once or
twice.

By the way, you can find another "gift wrapping" method in Kenneway's
"Complete Origami" that doesn't use any tape at all. It's at the back of the
book under "Wrapping".

Now I feel like I need to find something to wrap for someone :->.

pat slider
slider@stonecutter.com





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:29:31 -0400 (AST)
From: jdharris@post.cis.smu.edu (Jerry D. Harris)
Subject: Re: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

>I know Unamuno's forms from Palacios book. But I'm also a bit ashamed to
>confess that I myself have created a Pajarita variant which I named
>"Pajarita con Pajarito" (Pajarita with little bird). Here, too, there is a
>protrusion but not in the same place as Unamuno's model (!), and you need NO
>stretch of imagination to identify my model as a male Pajarita <:-D

        This is all fine and dandy, but it's mammalian centrism that,
unfortunately, leads us to think of the penis as a universal organ.  It is
not; in fact, the penis _sensu stricto_ is found _only_ in mammals!  Birds
do not have penises.  Some primitive birds (ratites and a few others) have
a protrusible "scoop"-like thing affixed to the cloaca that is used to
channel semen, but in the more advanced birds (including all the passerines
-- the songbirds, of which the pajarita is supposed to be one), this device
is lost, and mating between male and female birds is done strictly via
cloacal contact (the cloaca is a small pouch into which the digestive and
reproductive tracts both empty).

Jerry D. Harris                       (214) 768-2750
Dept. of Geological Sciences          FAX:  768-2701
Southern Methodist University
Box 750395                            jdharris@post.smu.edu
Dallas  TX  75275-0395                (Compuserve:  102354,2222)

                                              .--       ,
                                         ____/_  )_----'_\__
                                 ____----____/ / _--^-_   _ \_
                         ____----_o _----     ( (      ) ( \  \
                       _-_-- \ _/  -          ) '      / )  )  \
"Evolution: It's      _-_/   / /   /          /  '     /_/   /   \
Not For Every-       //   __/ /_) (          / \  \   / /   (_-C  \
Body!"              /(__--    /    '-_     /    \ \  / /    )  (\_)
                   /    o   (        '----'  __/  \_/ (____/   \
  -- Michael       /.. ../   .  .   ..  . .  -<_       ___/   _- \
     Feldman       \_____\.: . :.. _________-----_      -- __---_ \
                    VVVVV---------/VVVVVVVVV      \______--    /  \
                         VVVVVVVVV                   \_/  ___  '^-'___
                                           _________------   --='== . \
                     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--- .      o          -o---'  /





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:39:49 -0400 (AST)
From: Nick Robinson <nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it> sez

> and you need NO
>stretch of imagination to identify my model as a male Pajarita <:-D

In a moment of sillyness, I created a *distinctly* male pajarita -never
drew it up though...

all the best,

Nick Robinson

personal email  nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos/
RPM homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:01:45 -0400 (AST)
From: Jennifer Andre <JAndre@cfipro.com>
Subject: Parajita Gender-Role Identity Crisis?

     <I'm leaving out all the background on this one -- please read the
     earlier messages!>

     I'm a human female in a culture where FEMALES traditionally are valued
     for dressing up like MALE birds!  Such confusion!  Just a thought...

     So...shall we differentiate male and female parajitas by using
     chiyogami or yuzen for males and plain papers for females?

     This is rather a fun thread!  Thanks for all the chuckles and info,
     folks!

     - Jennifer
     JAndre@cfipro.com
     Portland, Oregon, USA

     Fold it, ergo sum!





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:21:58 -0400 (AST)
From: Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it>
Subject: Re: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

Jerry,
At 14.29 12/2/1997 -0400, you wrote:

>        This is all fine and dandy, but it's mammalian centrism that,
>unfortunately, leads us to think of the penis as a universal organ.

Leads YOU to think.....

But, you see, I have nowhere mentioned the PENIS ! The "protrusion" I am
referring to is a BEARD, *of course* !

I wonder how Sigmund Freud would comment on this.....

<:-D <:-D <:-D

Happy folding ! And thanks for this interesting lesson.

Roberto





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:34:34 -0400 (AST)
From: jtweres@lucent.com
Subject: Re:  Get a list of military technical reports on Origami

fellow folders of paper,,,

>
> You can get a list of [largely unpublished] military technical
> reports on origami and related topics.  Many of these reports have
> been locked away for various bureaucratic reasons and have not been put
> into the public domain.
>

i was afraid of this!!!

that
    the military technical reports
    concerning these topics would be available for public knowledge

    topics such as:

    "The Study Of Paper Airplane Models
     For Stealth Message Delivery In Close-Proximity Combat Situations"

    "Foreign Prisoner Torture Applications Of Unfolding
     Jackson's Unfoldable-Box"

    "Advanced Foreign Prisoner Torture Applications
     Of Lang's 'Insects And Their Kin'"

    "Practical Beverage Delivery Systems Using A Folded Paper Cup
     From The Kabuto Base"

    "Executing A Double Reverse Sink Fold As Physical Aptitude Testing
     For New Military Recruits"

    "What To Do When You Lose Your Cap In Combat:
     Folding Paper Hats In Southeast Asian Jungles"

    "Passing Intelligence Information To Agents
     Via The Folded Money Gum Scheme"

    "Techniques To 'Divide & Conquer' The Origami Community
     By Introducing Divisive Model/Diagram Copyright Discussions
     Into The Origami-L Email List Group:
     Subtitled: I Won't Photocopy That Diagram For You"

so much for world peace and national security!!!

  /-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-///plieur de papier\\\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\
 /=-= jack thomas weres                         jtweres@lucent.com =-=\
/=======================\\\================///=========================\
"Let Go and Let Fold"                             "One Crease At A Time"





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:22:03 -0400 (AST)
From: jdharris@post.cis.smu.edu (Jerry D. Harris)
Subject: Re: On the Sex of Pajaritas.

>>        This is all fine and dandy, but it's mammalian centrism that,
>>unfortunately, leads us to think of the penis as a universal organ.
>
>Leads YOU to think.....
>
>But, you see, I have nowhere mentioned the PENIS ! The "protrusion" I am
>referring to is a BEARD, *of course* !

        But...but...but...well, how was _I_ supposed ta know?!??!??  ;-D

>I wonder how Sigmund Freud would comment on this.....

        He'd say:  >>>BANG, BANG<<<  "Help!  I'm trapped in this coffin and
I can't get out!"  ;-D

>Happy folding ! And thanks for this interesting lesson.

        No problem.  It's kind of sad, though:  the more I learn about
anatomy, the more I find I'm prone to pick out little nuances like that
with origami models!  8-Z  (Makes creating anatomically correct ones a real
pain in the patookus -- that's an anatomical term.  ;-D  )

Jerry D. Harris                       (214) 768-2750
Dept. of Geological Sciences          FAX:  768-2701
Southern Methodist University
Box 750395                            jdharris@post.smu.edu
Dallas  TX  75275-0395                (Compuserve:  102354,2222)

                                              .--       ,
                                         ____/_  )_----'_\__
                                 ____----____/ / _--^-_   _ \_
                         ____----_o _----     ( (      ) ( \  \
                       _-_-- \ _/  -          ) '      / )  )  \
"Evolution: It's      _-_/   / /   /          /  '     /_/   /   \
Not For Every-       //   __/ /_) (          / \  \   / /   (_-C  \
Body!"              /(__--    /    '-_     /    \ \  / /    )  (\_)
                   /    o   (        '----'  __/  \_/ (____/   \
  -- Michael       /.. ../   .  .   ..  . .  -<_       ___/   _- \
     Feldman       \_____\.: . :.. _________-----_      -- __---_ \
                    VVVVV---------/VVVVVVVVV      \______--    /  \
                         VVVVVVVVV                   \_/  ___  '^-'___
                                           _________------   --='== . \
                     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--- .      o          -o---'  /





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:37:35 -0400 (AST)
From: Cathy Palmer-Lister <cathypl@generation.net>
Subject: Re: Papers and scissors

At 08:29 AM 1997-02-12 -0400, you wrote:
>How do you feel about cutting the paper with a pair of scissors (ie.
>when making a reindeer)? Is this an 100% accepted method in the ancient art
>of origami. You ARE destroying the paper doing this, are you not?
>

OK, who's going to jump in first?  I already did my bit af hell-raising over
the issue of painting origami....

                                Cathy





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:52:47 -0400 (AST)
From: Jorma Oksanen <tenu@sci.fi>
Subject: Re:  Get a list of military technical reports on Origami

On 12-Feb-97, jtweres@lucent.com (jtweres@lucent.com) wrote:
>fellow folders of paper,,,

>i was afraid of this!!!

>that
>    the military technical reports
>    concerning these topics would be available for public knowledge

>    topics such as:

[lots of fun deleted]

>    "Advanced Foreign Prisoner Torture Applications
>     Of Lang's 'Insects And Their Kin'"

That's scary - I'm waiting for my copy to arrive...

[more fun deleted]

>so much for world peace and national security!!!

I hope my neighbors don't think I'm insane when I laugh in the middle
of the night... Thank you for a good laugh!!

Jorma
--
Jorma Oksanen   tenu@sci.fi

"It's a good thing the average person doesn't realize
 the awesome destructive power of origami"              Earthworm Jim





Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:53:32 -0400 (AST)
From: Jorma Oksanen <tenu@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: Parajita Gender-Role Identity Crisis?

On 12-Feb-97, Jennifer Andre (JAndre@cfipro.com) wrote:
>
>     I'm a human female in a culture where FEMALES traditionally are valued

>     for dressing up like MALE birds!  Such confusion!  Just a thought...

On the other hand, in many "primitive" cultures the very opposite is
true. Males dress up to show their status, while females aren't allowed
to use any 'fancy' stuff...

I wonder if I get 'postponed' again as I've been after all my posts... sigh.

Jorma
--
Jorma Oksanen   tenu@sci.fi

"It's a good thing the average person doesn't realize
 the awesome destructive power of origami"              Earthworm Jim





Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:15:42 -0400 (AST)
From: Yaacov Metzger <origami@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Honda's World of Origami, unabridged, for sale

To all,
For anyone still looking for the unabridged version of Honda's "World of
Origami", here's one I turned up (I already found one through a different
search firm). A bit pricey, but it seems to be a first edition in fine
shape. (It will probably be cheaper if you're in the UK). If you're
interested contact Martin directly! (If anyone picks it up, please post the
details)

Yaacov Metzger
origami@worldnet.att.com
jrmetzger@aol.com

In a message dated 97-02-04 04:59:14 EST, martin@stiltjack.co.uk (Martin
Cooper) writes:
>
><< Subj:       World of Origami
> Date: 97-02-04 04:59:14 EST
> From: martin@stiltjack.co.uk (Martin Cooper)
> To:   jrmetzger@aol.com
>
> Some time ago you asked us to find:
>
> Honda, Isao: World of Origami
>
> We have located a copy with another bookdealer, who is
> holding it for us. He describes it as:
>
> Blandford Press in collaboration with Japan Publications,
> 1965. Fine in fine dustwrapper, in slipcase.
>
> If you are interested, we can obtain it for you for
> US$80, including surface mail shipping, which normally
> takes 4-6 weeks.
>
> Perhaps you could let me know whether you would like to
> buy this book. If you do want to go ahead, we will order
> it and check its condition - no need to part with any
> cash yet!
>
> Look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Martin
