




Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:37:02 -0400 (AST)
From: Nick Robinson <nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

Carmel Morris <cmorris@geko.net.au> sez

>Gee, hasn't anyone got any of my paper plane books?

I've got an autographed copy! Must be worth, oooh a fortune!

Seriously,they're great books - buy the mall ;)

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/
DART homepage   http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/oip/dart/
RPM homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:40:18 -0400 (AST)
From: John Smith <jon.pure@paston.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Psychological profile (long)

At 08:12 AM 2/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Would it be possible to draw a psychological profile of the typical
>origami enthusiast? Maybe this fascination for paper and folds has
>something to do with our personality. Perhaps we could find a couple
>of researchers (with the proper knowledge) who would be interested in
>following this. Unfold the mystery!

Some years ago I became very interested in the problem of whether Origami
people were a special group or not. I suspected that those interested in
magic might also be interested in paper folding as so many of the early
pioneers were magicians as well, for example Harbin, Elias,Neale.
Additionally I wondered if people who are deeply religious are also
attracted to paper folding.

 I decided to carry out a small pilot study to see if there was any evidence
of interesting relationships. I designed a questionnaire which included a
battery of questions asking about the degree of interest in various subjects
as well as a personality inventory for relationships,(assertiveness and
empathy) and thinking style (imagination and structure). Additionally I
collected information about occupation, the length of time interested in
Origami, and folding preferences.
 The majority of the completed questionnaires were obtained at a BOS
Convention but I had additional responses from the Netherlands. Naturally
such a sample would reflect the particular interests of those who are
interested enough to attend a convention and, of course, the bias due to the
fact that most of the respondents were British. I did not specifically
research creative folders although they are well represented in the pilot
survey.

Nevertheless  I feel that some of the results are of interest and I hope one
day that it will be possible to do a much bigger survey and thus learn more
about these fascinating people who enjoy and practise Origami.

The pilot survey showed that the main occupations were in work involving
thinking such as scientific, technical and other activities, or those who
work with people including teachers. I had no cases of manual occupations
and the evidence suggests is that  the people interested in Origami tend to
be caring, thinking people. Over half of the sample had been interested in
Origami for over 10 years.

 I asked respondents to indicate how much they liked, or disliked, a number
of creative folder's work. I expect  the results reflect the fact the most
of those answering questions were British. The top scores were given to
Brill, Hume, Elias,Yoshizawa and Fumi. I would expect in the US a that one
would see Montrol, Lang and the other contemporary American creators well on
top.

Over-all, the indicated preferences for four types of folding gave the
results that the dry rather than wet, 3D rather than flat, realistic rather
than abstract were the preferred choices.

Using a technique called factor analysis I established that there were two
main independent factors which accounted for a great deal of the variation
shown in the scores for various interests. The first factor could be called
cognitive and involved puzzle solving, logical and scientific interests etc.
The second factor I have called humanities, it seems to embrace concerns
with people, intuition and the arts etc..

Looking at the personality inventory results, in general Origami people in
the sample scored highly on empathy and imagination. A high empathy went
with a preference for realistic folding. A high score on  structure was
related to a high score on the cognitive  factor,. a  high score on
imagination was associated with a high score on the humanities factor.

There was any significant difference between the sexes in that men scored
more highly on the cognitive factor than women and tended to prefer 3 D and
realistic folding, the women scored more highly than men on the humanities
factor and showed a higher preference for flat, abstract type of folding.

I should point out that the two factors that I identified operated
independently. Thus it is perfectly possible for a creator to score highly
on the cognitive as well as on the humanities scale. I suspect that many of
the great creative folders such as Yoshizawa, Lang etc would be found to
score highly on both of these factors.

I found no significant relationships with Origami and an interest in Magic.

I hope that this brief report will be of interest to those who ask
themselves what kind of people like folding?. I do not know if the kind of
factors or inventories used in this work have any scientific basis,but I
know the such constructs have been of predictive value in my work in
marketing research.

John Smith
John Smith
Norwich
England
e-mail  jon.pure@paston.co.uk





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:52:43 -0400 (AST)
From: Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it>
Subject: Re: Alien hand

Janet,

At 10.30 22/2/1997 -0400, you wrote:

>I recall a contest at an OUSA convention a few years back that
>had contestants folding with their feet.

Not only there. This contest was a favourite of our beloved Michael Shall,
who proposed it at British BOS conventions and Italian CDO conventions as
well. It was usually followed by funny performances like holding the
finished model with toes and showing it round, or "purifying" the big toe by
dipping it into a glass of water with a final challenge to drink the water
(Michael did it !).
Another well known origami contest is "one-hand-each", where two people
facing each other at a table co-operate in folding an origami model using
one hand each (first right hands, then left hands, then changing model from
a simple flapping bird to a Jackstone or similar.......). During a recent
BOS convention in London, a group of us whiled the time away until late
night in one-hand folding contests, first right, then left, and finally two
different models (one with each hand....).

Roberto





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:46:15 -0400 (AST)
From: Anhinga <dwildstr@mbhs.edu>
Subject: Re: Origami in Washington DC?

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Allan Schwartz wrote:

> I will be in Washington DC this coming week, and wondered if anyone could
> recommend origami stores/shops/museums in that area.

I live in DC, and the only place I've ever been able to find origami paper
is in a Pearl Arts&Crafts place, which had terrible selection and mostly
inflated prices. I too would like to know of a better place.

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:01:00 -0400 (AST)
From: Mitsuhiko Ota <otam@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Re: Origami in Washington DC?

Anhinga wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Allan Schwartz wrote:
>
> > I will be in Washington DC this coming week, and wondered if anyone could
> > recommend origami stores/shops/museums in that area.
>
> I live in DC, and the only place I've ever been able to find origami paper
> is in a Pearl Arts&Crafts place, which had terrible selection and mostly
> inflated prices. I too would like to know of a better place.

_GINZA-Things Japanese_  (1721 Connecticut Avenue; tel: 202-331-7991)
carries origami, chiyogami and washi in addition to origami books
(mostly Dover titles).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Mitsuhiko Ota  (and yes, that's a male name!)
  otam@gusun.georgetown.edu
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:17:56 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike and Janet Hamilton <mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Origami in Washington DC?

Anhinga wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Allan Schwartz wrote:
>
> > I will be in Washington DC this coming week, and wondered if anyone could
> > recommend origami stores/shops/museums in that area.
>
> I live in DC, and the only place I've ever been able to find origami paper
> is in a Pearl Arts&Crafts place, which had terrible selection and mostly
> inflated prices. I too would like to know of a better place.

Here are a few places that have been mentioned on the list.  You can
find a larger list of sources
on the following web page:

http://www.concentric.net/~mikeinnj/orisrc.shtml

Borders
Book store chain - A good source of origami books
L street near 18th, Washington, DC
White Flint shopping Mall in Rockville, MD (off Rockville Pike)

Morning Glory
A chain of Korean stationery stores. Branches in the metropolitan Los
Angeles, NY/NJ, Chicago, Seattle, DC (Annandale, VA), Hawaii and Toronto
areas.

Ginza
Connecticut Avenue
Washington D.C.
A Japanese gift shop with Origami books, prepackaged Origami papers, and
large sheets of beautifully printed Washi.

Visual Systems
A few blocks away from Borders in Washington D.C.
Has interesting single sheets of wrapping papers, many with animal
prints on recycled paper

Bookmakers International LTD.
6001 66th Avenue
Riverdale, MD.
(301) 459-3384
The have a wide assortment of book binding/bookmaking supplies including
all weights and kinds of paper. marbleized paper and other fine papers.
They are only
open during the week. They are located adjacent to (in the same
building) as Pyramid Atlantic (see separate listing).

Chaselle, Inc.
9465 Gerwig Lane
Columbia, MD 21046

Pearl Paint
Rockville, MD
On Rockville Pike about 3 miles north of White Flint Mall. Some
prepackaged Origami paper but a wide selection of exotic papers -
marbleized, washi,
diaphanous patterned papers perfect for baccoating, watercolor and
charcoal papers for wet folding and any other kinds of supplies you
might want for decorating
paper e.g. watercolors, markers, etc.

Pyramid Atlantic
6001 66th Avenue
Riverdale, MD.
(301) 459-7154
A paper making and decorating studio, a studio for the art of the book
they have some hand made papers available. Call first - they also hold
many classes for
marbleizing, papermaking, bookbinding, etc. In the same building as
Bookmakers International LTD.

Janet Hamilton

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:21:18 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike and Janet Hamilton <mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

Carmel Morris wrote:
>
> -Spacebusters (origami spaceships) (Scholastic)
>

I've never seen Spacebusters or Skybusters in the US.  Are they still
available?  Who is the publisher?

Janet Hamilton

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:49:52 -0400 (AST)
From: Cathy Palmer-Lister <cathypl@generation.net>
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

At 06:21 PM 1997-02-23 -0400, you wrote:
>Carmel Morris wrote:
>>
>> -Spacebusters (origami spaceships) (Scholastic)
>>
>
>I've never seen Spacebusters or Skybusters in the US.  Are they still
>available?  Who is the publisher?
>
>Janet Hamilton
>
>--
>mailto:Mikeinnj@concentric.net
>http://www.concentric.net/~Mikeinnj/

I got them from Scholastic Books.

                                                                Cathy





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 19:24:29 -0400 (AST)
From: Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@bboxbbs.ch>
Subject: Psychology...

Hi John, and anybody else interested in psychology ;-).

Your report is quite interesting. However, there are a few
things I am not too happy with. As a warning, I should say that
I study psychology here in Bern, Switzerland, so I am a bit picky
when it comes to psychological studies. Hope you don`t mind, it
is nothing personal :-).
As this is not a Psychology mailing list, I won`t go into great
detail. Just a few points I think are very important.

First of all, how many people have filled out this questionnaire?
Statistical power depends on the number of participants.
Second, did you have a "control group"? You say that "the sample
scored highly on empathy and imagination." Highly compared to what
population? Your results look very flattering for Origamists,
but maybe the average person would show the same results? I think
that a lot of people " tend to be caring, thinking people" ...
even if they don`t care about Origami at all.
Without knowing just how you created your two factors (and some
numbers, too) it is very difficult to appreciate your findings.
> cognitive and involved puzzle solving, logical and scientific
> interests etc. The second factor I have called humanities,
> it seems to embrace concerns with people, intuition and the arts etc..
On what theoretic construct do you base these factors? Mixing
capabilites with interests seems a bit odd to me.

I appreciate this report on your pilot study. The demographic data
is quite interesting.
But I would be happier if I had more data about the "personality"
part. This is of course the  problem with all reports: For some
it is just too much information, for others there is never enough:-).

Matthias, the information-hungry Origami Psycho.





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 20:32:38 -0400 (AST)
From: Kimberly Crane <kcrane@kimscrane.com>
Subject: Re: Origami in Washington DC?

Anhinga wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Allan Schwartz wrote:
>
> > I will be in Washington DC this coming week, and wondered if anyone could
> > recommend origami stores/shops/museums in that area.
>
> I live in DC, and the only place I've ever been able to find origami paper
> is in a Pearl Arts&Crafts place, which had terrible selection and mostly
> inflated prices. I too would like to know of a better place.
>
> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> | [Secret] information is easy to find.... If it is secret    |
> | enough, you alone know it. All you need is a little         |
> | imagination, Mr. Wormold.                                   |
> |                        -Graham Greene, _Our Man In Havana_  |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> |                           David Wildstrom                   |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Disclaimer: The management of the Montgomery Blair High School Computer
> Network, the Montgomery County School Board, and the Montgomery County
> Council are irresponsible.

David:
Have you looked at our web-site?  We are located in Herndon, VA.  If you
would like to make arrangements to stop by and view our papers and books
just give us a phone call before hand.  We are home in the P.M. and
weekends.  We have over three hundred different types of origami papers
alone.  We do arts and craft shows in the Northern VA area.  We are in
the process of putting images to our papers and they should be on line
in the next several weeks.  Please take a look.  Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Kimberly and Gordon Crane
Kim's Crane
http://www.kimscrane.com





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:01:21 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: ideas needed; also re: feet

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Jack & Emma Craib wrote:

=Joseph, Please do keep trying to think of where a reproduction of the
=woodblock print of people using their feet to fold might be found!
=It would knock the socks off my students to see such a thing! I love
=finding examples in artwork of people doing stuff in different times
=and/or places that appeals to kids...they get sucked into history
=without knowing it.

Marcia Mau figured it out (I still haven't found it, but now I know precisely
where to look). It's in Ricky Jay's "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women". The
woman in the print is Mme. Hanakawa. She has no arms and uses her feet to
shoot arrows, to write calligraphy, to spin yarn, to tie cords (mizuhiki?),
and to fold an origami crane.

=  Maybe someone would have an idea for me... I am currently tutoring
=(casually, feeling my way into his interests) a kid who has an IQ around
=150.  He is not especially artistically talented in the traditional
=elementary school way but he is no slouch either,however, I see him
=because I also have a MA in G/T and origami is about the only thing that
=_really_ perks him up in school...he cruises along doing average work.
=What seems to be his interest is devising variations on bases and partly
=done models... This has only just started to emerge but I feel it is
=real.  Anyone have anecdotes, advise or anything to pass on to him (or
=me)?

Does he read? Get him Peter Engel's "Origami from Angelfish to Zen" (formerly
"Folding the Universe") and J.C. Nolan's "Creating Origami". The perfect books
for him, I'd think. Oh, and you might wanna tell him that a high IQ means
nothing if you do nothing with it (I've got a rather high IQ, too, and I know
well how he feels in school...I also know how meaningless such measures are).

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





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:21:31 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Translation (sort of) Re: [FR] Naissance de Origami-Fr

Well, just for the sake of the anglophones here, I will attempt a translation.

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Vincent & Veronique wrote:

=Bonjour,

Hello,  [boy, this is easy, so far! --JW]

=Je tiens a vous annoncer la naissance (pas de mon bebe, pas encore)
=d'une nouvelle liste de diffusion: Origami-Fr

I would like to announce to you the birth (not of my baby yet) of a new
mailing list: Origami-Fr

=Cette liste est destin=E9e =E0 tout les amoureux de la langue francaise
=(mais pas oblige d'avoir une adr qui se termine par .fr :) et de
=l'origami.

This list is for the lovers of the French language (but not necessarily with a
domain that ends in .fr :) and of origami.

=Pour s'y inscrire, envoyez un mail sans sujet a l'adr suivante:

To join the list, send a mail without a subject line to the following address:

=   majordomo@mygale.org

=avec le texte suivant:

with the following text:

=   subscribe origami-fr <votre_adr_email>

   subscribe origami-fr <your_email_address>

   [or, if you prefer, your enamel address ("email" means "enamel" in Fr.)]

=Inscivez-vous nombreux...

[Uh-oh...I can't remember what this verb means...]

=Vincent

Vincent

=PS: J'aurais pu faire une traduction en Anglais meme est-ce vraiment
=necessaire ?:)

I would assume that a tranlation in English isn't really necessary? :)
[Well, just so that people know what's going on...]

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





Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:47:17 -0400 (AST)
From: cmorris@geko.net.au (Carmel Morris)
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

>You forgot to mention:
>
>Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction
>(easy-to-follow-instructions-for-14-flyable-models) (available Libraries)
>
>Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction MK II
>(More easy-to- make flyable models).      (available Libraries)
>
>Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction MKIII
>(12 High performance models and why they fly)  (available Libraries)
>
>Skybusters companion to Spacebusters  (available ??)
>
>I'm assuming the above may be out of print, but most libraries have them

You're always nice to me. Don't know where I'd be without you!

C.

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:51:29 -0400 (AST)
From: cmorris@geko.net.au (Carmel Morris)
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

>Hi!  I have Spacebusters and Skybusters, but the author is given as a
>Campbell Morris.  I liked them.
>
>                                                Cathy

That's my pseudonym.
-and thanks!

Carmel

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:51:43 -0400 (AST)
From: Jean Villemaire <boyer@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: Translation (sort of) Re: [FR] Naissance de Origami-Fr

Joseph Wu wrote:

> =   subscribe origami-fr <votre_adr_email>
>
>    subscribe origami-fr <your_email_address>
>
>    [or, if you prefer, your enamel address ("email" means "enamel" in Fr.)]

Now everyone knows how Joseph came with an idea for a pig that can fly...
Bravo Joseph.  Ton francais est encore tres bon.  N'oublie pas de venir nous
voir si tu passes a Montreal.

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:55:06 -0400 (AST)
From: cmorris@geko.net.au (Carmel Morris)
Subject: Re: one standard....

>>One standard to rule them all, one standard to find them,
>>One standard to bring them all, and in darkness bind them.
>>In the land of Microsoft, where Shadows lie.

Shadows? EEK!

Does Microsoft have an office on Z'ha'dum?

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:58:58 -0400 (AST)
From: cmorris@geko.net.au (Carmel Morris)
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

Hi Nick

>I've got an autographed copy! Must be worth, oooh a fortune!
>
>Seriously,they're great books - buy the mall ;)

You're so kind. My self esteem just improved somewhat!!

BCNU

Carmel

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:18:10 -0400 (AST)
From: cmorris@geko.net.au (Carmel Morris)
Subject: Re: paper airplanes

>I've never seen Spacebusters or Skybusters in the US.  Are they still
>available?  Who is the publisher?

Scholastic have taken Skybusters which is more your cut-out gliders.
Not sure if they have taken Spacebusters (origami spaceships). I tried
to contact them direct lately and it's been difficult to say the least.
US publishers are so fickle!

Carmel

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 03:36:00 -0400 (AST)
From: vicky@infoarch.COM
Subject: origami in Atlanta??

origami in Atlanta??

Hi all -
I'm visiting Atlanta for business March 13 - 17, anyone on
the list from there?  Any suggestions on places (origami
related or not) to visit?

Vicky Mihara Avery

vicky@infoarch.com
