




Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:32:03 -0400 (AST)
From: rita <rstevens@philly.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Disappointed

I thought about going that route- just plain blabbing who did and maybe I'd
feel some gratification.  **But** I was hoping that maybe if she/he still
subscribed to this list it would force her/him to pay up without getting
dirty.  I haven't noticed any posting from the delinquent , so I'm unsure of
whether she/he even has email anymore.  (although I was bumped from this
list for several weeks and she/he could have posted).

I really didn't want to turn this into a big deal, but I thought a little
reminder would help others out ( and I'm annoyed at the whole thing so it
was an opportunity to vent a bit.)

On a final note -
She/he did receive the book.  I got one response to my plea for payment two
weeks after I sent the book.

Live and Learn.
Back to origami.

Rita
Philadelphia, PA

At 07:26 PM 3/4/97 -0400, Anhinga wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, rita wrote:
>
>> so rude (and that I'm such a sucker).  I have learned *never* to send things
>> out before being paid.
>
>On another list I'm on (little ad: 'subscribe pet-sounds' to
>majordomo@lists.primenet.com if you love Brian Wilson) we have a tradition
>of blacklisting people who don't deliver on trades/sales and not trading
>anything with them until they pay their debts. It's generally a pretty
>effective way of keeping the diehards (which, on PSL is everybody) honest.
>There's no unified blacklist, but requests and offers on the list are
>occasionally accompanied by warnings about that particular person.
>
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 21:37:20 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

Robert Lang asked me privately about an incident that he heard about. Digital
video footage (shot by Robert?) was shown by a company at Macworld Japan as a
demonstration of digital video equipment. The footage was of business card
modulars, "and when they showed it, the Japanese audience blanched in horror!
Supposedly, the concept of _folding_ a business card is an abomination of
desecration over there. Is this true?"

Here's my reply. I thought it might be of interest.

More or less true, yes. Business cards ("meishi", literally "name paper") have
their own etiquette here. Cards are always presented to someone you meet for
the first time with the words facing the other person. When presenting your
card, bow and introduce yourself, saying something like, "Jyosefu Oo desu.
Yoroshiku o negaishimasu." ("I'm Joseph Wu. Please regard me well." I know it
sounds funny translated into English, but that's more or less what it means.)
Receiving a card should always be done with two hands, although these days, to
save time, cards are exchanged instead of presented one after the other, so it
can be received with one hand. Still, once the exchange is complete, take the
card in both hands and read it carefully. If this is the prelude to a meeting,
place the card on the table in front of you. If not, carefully put the card
away into your card holder or wallet. Never put it into your pocket directly.
You may write on the card if it's some extra info about the person (e.g. home
card. It implies great disrespect for the person since the card is a tangible
representation of him that he has given to you to remember him by. I think
that about covers it. 8)

 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: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 21:56:50 -0400 (AST)
From: "James M. Sakoda" <James_Sakoda@brown.edu>
Subject: Future Plans

     I received the following letter and I thought many of you would be
interested in his observation about my work as well as the reply I am about
to make.
     Dear Professor Sakoda:  As an origami enthusiast I have recently been
given some badk issues of the N.O.A. and was delighted to find your
Japanese 1, 2, 3 collections on Exhibition, all brilliantly folded and most
if not all I have never seen before.  As I do have your very nice book
which was published "Modern Origami" SBN 671-20355-x 1969,  I am able to
see the bases from which you have created many new models since
publication.  I would be very keen to know if you intend to publish the
'new models' some time for posterity, as it would be a sad loss to folders
world wide if they were lost.  This happens quite a lot with good models.
Hoping you are very fit and still creating.   Yours sincerely
     Dear Peter,  Thank you for your thoughtful letter.  I have just turned
80 last year and have thought about what to do with the creations I have
worked on, and your letter gives me a good chance to let the origami email
group know what I have in mind.  I have negotiated with Dover Publications
to reprint Modern Origami.  In the new preface I try to explain my approach
to folding, which tries to keep to prescribed lines of a base.  This was
particularly true of the things folded from the eight point star, whose
creases formed attractive geometric patterns conveniently spread throughout
the paper.  From there I have gone on to working with the blintz bird base,
which produced eight bird base points of equal size.  The offset bird base
which I used in Modern Origami was followed by cutting paper into four
sided paper of unequal length of sides to insure perfect bird bases, as
well as the  blintz bird base.  I have also worked extensively on origami
flower arrangement, with vase, stems, leaves and flowers all folded from
foil paper.  I self published a small book titled Origami Flower
Arrangement, and am negotiating with Dover Publication to see if they would
print it.  I need to make changes and the process will probably take a
little time.
     I have always kept some kind of notes on the foldings that I have
created and kept it in a diary.  More recently I have published work in
progress in a little group publication effort called FOLD, and those are
available in computer drawing form.  I now belong to the origami discussion
group on the Internet called Origami-L.  Almost all of the contributions
are text in form, and some of those who are able have set up Word Wide Web
pages of diagrams and pictures of foldings.  My son and I got involved into
setting up a web site including  my origami drawings and I have chosen to
use the most efficient and effective format called PDF.  The drawings and
the text are very clear and require a minimum of storage.  Most of my
origami pages require only 17k bytes of storage and down load time.  The
web  page is at  http://idt.net/~kittyv       and requires the Adobe
Acrobat Reader 3.0 to read and print out.  It can be downloaded for free
from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat.  I have decided that the way to preserve
for the public the drawings that I have and will be working on in the
future is to place it in the web page.  If I don't get around to publishing
more books at least the material will be out there, accessible to all who
acquire the necessary equipment and skill to download from it.  I hope you
will be able to take advantage of this new method of spreading information.
James M. Sakoda





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 04:23:51 -0400 (AST)
From: Nicolas Stampf <stampf@netsurf.org>
Subject: Re: enterprise and...........

>From: Jikko z <Jikkoz@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: enterprise and...........

>Message-ID: <3318C1CD.308C@ix.netcom.com>
>
>HOWDY FOLDERS,
>
>finished making the starship enterprise,
>( found at:  ftp://ftp.rug.nl/origami/models.bin/.menu.html  )
>for the fourth time and got it down to an approximate 55 minute time
>till completion.  learned a new sutle detail each time.  bitter than
>puzzle making.
>
>are there other space ships to be found on line to fold.  the enterprise
>fix will run out soon......  ;^0

I've never folded the enterprise, but I do fold a moon landing module, which
should be available at the same site. What's cool is that it is completely
3D. I recommend using really strong and thin paper, otherwise the pods will
tend to unfold.

Nicolas
--
Nicolas Stampf
http://www.netsurf.org/~stampf
<Nicolas.Stampf@Netsurf.Org>





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:13:47 -0400 (AST)
From: halgall@netverk.com.ar
Subject: Re: Music to fold by

Hi all,

Here's my list of the ideal music to fold by:

Enya
Awankana( music with sound of bird, water,etc.)** "Music of silence"
Alan Parson
Vangelis
Miramar "True North" "Miramar"
Joni Mitchell
The music of my husband in guitar

**the experience with this is great.When I fold I travel into the sounds,
and... well I fold better, because my hands travel with the paper.

Happy Folding!!!

Patricia Gallo
halgall@netverk.com.ar





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:23:27 -0400 (AST)
From: Steve Woodmansee <stevew@empnet.com>
Subject: Re: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

Hello All

        In reference to Joseph Wu's very interesting discussion of Japanese
     business card etiquette, I wonder if it would still be considered
     offensive to fold card stock with no printing on it?

        Joseph, what do you think?  It seems with the growing popularity of the
     business card folds there must be some Japanese folders who would like to
     give it a try if it were not such a breach of manners...

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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 12:03:09 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Business card folding etiquette

Joseph's recent message about the inappropriateness of folding
business cards in Japan prompts me to mention a point of card folding
etiquette.

Many people have commented to me on the fact that my models are almost
always presented with the print side facing in.  They suggest that the
printing could sometimes be used to add to the aesthetic appeal of the
object, especially when there is a very attractive logo on the cards.
Many of the cards I work with, especially the colored ones, were
The customers who ordered these have no knowledge of their final
destination, and I usually have no knowledge of what is wrong with the
cards.  To allow someone's logo, name or phone number to appear in
public mispelled without their consent would be wrong.

        -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:56:40 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Re: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

Joseph Wu wrote:

   Robert Lang asked me privately about an incident that he heard about. Digital
   video footage (shot by Robert?) was shown by a company at Macworld Japan as a
   demonstration of digital video equipment. The footage was of business card
   modulars, "and when they showed it, the Japanese audience blanched in horror!
   Supposedly, the concept of _folding_ a business card is an abomination of
   desecration over there. Is this true?"

I'm curious to know what module was being folded.

   Here's my reply. I thought it might be of interest.

   More or less true, yes. Business cards ("meishi", literally "name paper")
     have
   their own etiquette here. Cards are always presented to someone you meet for
   the first time with the words facing the other person. When presenting your
   card, bow and introduce yourself, saying something like, "Jyosefu Oo desu.
   Yoroshiku o negaishimasu." ("I'm Joseph Wu. Please regard me well." I know it
   sounds funny translated into English, but that's more or less what it means.)
   Receiving a card should always be done with two hands, although these days,
     to
   save time, cards are exchanged instead of presented one after the other, so
     it
   can be received with one hand. Still, once the exchange is complete, take the
   card in both hands and read it carefully. If this is the prelude to a
     meeting,
   place the card on the table in front of you. If not, carefully put the card
   away into your card holder or wallet. Never put it into your pocket directly.
   You may write on the card if it's some extra info about the person (e.g. home
   phone number, if he gives it to you). And, of course, never bend or fold the
   card. It implies great disrespect for the person since the card is a tangible
   representation of him that he has given to you to remember him by. I think
   that about covers it. 8)

This is very interesting, and could save me much embarassment in the
future.  Thanks for the information/warning, Joseph.

In general though, the cards I fold are almost all discards, either
outdated, given to me by the original owner, or misprints given to me
by the printer.  I only fold "current" cards with permission of the
owner.  These people usually feel honored to have an object that
represents them turned into (as they see it) a work of art.

        -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:24:49 -0400 (AST)
From: John Tobiasson <tobi@centuryinter.net>
Subject: Re: Business card folding etiquette

Jeannine, have you seen my postcard, that will fold into a business card or
fold into an all space filling tetrahedron at
http://members.aol.com/synphusis/tobi/index.html  Samples upon request.
email your smail to tobi@centuryinter.net  I wonder how MORF FORMtm will
fit into etiquette.  I never thought about, till now.  I was just trying to
make Qunatum (tetrahedron) Synergetics a fun and easy thing to do,

----------
> From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <origami-l@nstn.ca>
> Subject: Business card folding etiquette
> Date: Wednesday, March 05, 1997 10:03 AM
>
>
> Joseph's recent message about the inappropriateness of folding
> business cards in Japan prompts me to mention a point of card folding
> etiquette.
>
> Many people have commented to me on the fact that my models are almost
> always presented with the print side facing in.  They suggest that the
> printing could sometimes be used to add to the aesthetic appeal of the
> object, especially when there is a very attractive logo on the cards.
> Many of the cards I work with, especially the colored ones, were
> received from printers who had made an error in their production.
> The customers who ordered these have no knowledge of their final
> destination, and I usually have no knowledge of what is wrong with the
> cards.  To allow someone's logo, name or phone number to appear in
> public mispelled without their consent would be wrong.
>
>       -- Jeannine Mosely





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:20:49 -0400 (AST)
From: John Tobiasson <tobi@centuryinter.net>
Subject: Re: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

Joseph Wu, I just read the enclosed business card protocal with interest.
Yesterday I just sent some linked samples of my business card, postcard,
fold-a-form, MORF FORMtm to you. tobi@centuryinter.net
----------
> From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <origami-l@nstn.ca>
> Subject: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)
> Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 7:37 PM
>
> Robert Lang asked me privately about an incident that he heard about.
Digital
> video footage (shot by Robert?) was shown by a company at Macworld Japan
as a
> demonstration of digital video equipment. The footage was of business
card
> modulars, "and when they showed it, the Japanese audience blanched in
horror!
> Supposedly, the concept of _folding_ a business card is an abomination of
> desecration over there. Is this true?"
>
> Here's my reply. I thought it might be of interest.
>
> More or less true, yes. Business cards ("meishi", literally "name paper")
have
> their own etiquette here. Cards are always presented to someone you meet
for
> the first time with the words facing the other person. When presenting
your
> card, bow and introduce yourself, saying something like, "Jyosefu Oo
desu.
> Yoroshiku o negaishimasu." ("I'm Joseph Wu. Please regard me well." I
know it
> sounds funny translated into English, but that's more or less what it
means.)
> Receiving a card should always be done with two hands, although these
days, to
> save time, cards are exchanged instead of presented one after the other,
so it
> can be received with one hand. Still, once the exchange is complete, take
the
> card in both hands and read it carefully. If this is the prelude to a
meeting,
> place the card on the table in front of you. If not, carefully put the
card
> away into your card holder or wallet. Never put it into your pocket
directly.
> You may write on the card if it's some extra info about the person (e.g.
home
> phone number, if he gives it to you). And, of course, never bend or fold
the
> card. It implies great disrespect for the person since the card is a
tangible
> representation of him that he has given to you to remember him by. I
think
> that about covers it. 8)
>
>  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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 16:21:09 -0400 (AST)
From: trioux@whoi.edu (trioux)
Subject: Origami Sighting (long)

 The following well-written article appeared in The Boston Globe
 newspaper on Saturday, March 1, 1997, on pages C-1 and C-5.  It is
 a bit large (sorry about that), but I thought it would be inter-
 esting to share with origami-l and hopefully to stimulate some
 new conversational threads.  Two photos of Naito-san accompanied
 the article, one with him holding his origami "Cage of Cranes,"
 and the other of him holding his "Crane on Pyramid" (both look
 way beyond my humble abilities).  Any errors in typing are my
 own:
 **************************************************************

                          PAPER CAPERS
 Author: M.R. Montgomery (Globe Staff)

      All hobbies, as any golf widow or canasta widower will tell you,
 can be taken to extremes.  Even the pleasant art of decorative
 paper folding, called "origami" in Japanese or "zhe zhi" in
 Mandarin Chinese, is susceptible to obsession.

      It can go far beyond making paper cranes, boats, or hats (which
 are basically boats turned upside down).

      One of the world's foremost paper folders, Akira Naito, visited
 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this winter.
 No, they don't have a department of origami at MIT.  The main
 point of his visit was to give seminars in the department of
 mechanical engineering.  Besides being a world champion (yes,
 they have competitions) origamist, Naito is a leader in the field
 of human-powered flight, designer of the world's record-holding
 human-powered helicopter.

      His spectacular medium-size origami works are on display all this
 month and next at MIT on the fourth floor of Building 4.  The
 exhibit is in the hall outside the Edgerton Center, a landmark
 known to most MIT students.  Unfortunately, his world-record
 origami is not, for the simple reason that you would need a
 scanning electron microscope to get a decent view of it.

      The most famous of all Japanese folded paper objects is the
 crane, a bird that symbolizes long life.  The average one is
 folded from a piece of paper about 4 inches square (giving it
 just under a 4-inch wing span).  Many American schoolchildren
 know the book "A Thousand Cranes," in which a young girl, victim
 of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, tries to prolong her life by
 folding 1,000 cranes.

      Professor Naito's crane, to use his own phrase, is "terribly
 small."  It is folded from a piece of mylar film only 1/4
 millimeter square.  He does this with his own hands and simple tools
 (no micro-manipulating tools that reduce hand motion) while
 peering through a bifocal dissecting microscope and performing
 some 18 complicated steps. If you want to know how big 1/4
 millimeter is, well, a nickel is about 1 millimeter thick.  About 400
 sheets of the paper Naito folded would be as thick as the nickel.

 In an electron photograph it perches comfortably on a human hair,
 proportional to a 4-inch paper crane sitting on a car tail pipe.

      He carries around one of his 1-millimeter cranes.  It sits
 delicately on the point of a needle in a crystal case on a golden
 chain that has a magnifying glass on the other end.  In good
 light, with steady hands, using the magnifier, the 1-millimeter
 crane is barely visible.  He remarks, jokingly, that he used the
 jeweled case and miniature crane to "meet girlfriends"  When you
 are 75 years old, you can get away with jokes like that.

      "There is a use to this," he said, pointing at the microscope
 image of the 1/4-millimeter crane.  "Have you heard of
 'micro-machines'?" he queried, referring to research on extremely
 small machines.  "Well, the problem is electrostatic charge.  The
 little pieces fly away.  I discovered how to make them stay
 still, and it is used to make the small machines as well."
 Simply put, he and a student made the equivalent of Post-It note
 glues until they got one just sticky enough to hold the paper in
 place but loose enough to allow for folding.

      The basic idea of origami has been used in other practical
 matters.  The Japanese-designed solar panel array used to power
 several types of satellites was designed by an origami hobbyist
 who figured out how to fold it neatly inside the satellite and
 then unfold it easily in space.  An elegant way to fold ordinary
 travel maps so that they always refold easily is another Japanese
 invention, patented as "miura-ori," by the inventor, professor
 Miura of Tokyo University.

      Paper folding is hardly unique to the Far East.  For at least
 100 years, the people who run the giant presses in newspapers
 made their own disposable paper hats out of folded sections of
 newspaper pages.  Modern presses are so much cleaner and neater
 that the art is in danger of dying out.  However, veteran
 pressmen of, say, 25 years' service can crank out paper hats in
 less than a minute, start to finish.

      It takes a full piece (four numbered pages) of broadsheet
 newsprint to make a full-size pressman's hat.  Until a few years
 ago, it took a master pressman's hatter to make one small enough
 to fit a person with a less than average hat size.  However, as
 pages have shrunk (to save newsprint cost), it now takes an
 expert to make one large enough for people with average noggins.
 The introduction of the pressman's hat is a mystery lost in time.
 It may be a case of simultaneous invention, but a version of is
 common lore in both China and Japan.  With slight variations, it
 can be changed into a samurai helmet or a Chinese scholar's cap.

      In China and Japan, one of the favorite easy origami products is
 something called "fortune teller."  The folded paper, made into a
 four-sided pyramid, has openings for your thumb and the three
 adjacent fingers, and can be opened to show each of the four
 parts separately.  That's where the fortune telling comes in:  A
 yes or a no is written alternatively on each of the hidden sides.

 the person asking the question - the "fortune" - picks one of the
 closed sides and finds the yes or no answer to the question.

      If you open all four at once and then rapidly close the four
 sides, and you are a little kid in America, you are manipulating
 your "cootie catcher."  "Cootie" is slang, if you're from a
 gentler world and haven't heard it, for "louse."  Cootie catchers
 have been recorded from places as far apart as San Diego, Calif.,
 and New Haven, Conn.
 ****************************************************************

 Back to my usual function....lurking.

 Terry Rioux
 trioux@whoi.edu

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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 16:40:46 -0400 (AST)
From: jdharris@post.cis.smu.edu (Jerry D. Harris)
Subject: Re:

>Test

        Man, I just got _done_ taking tests!  I don't wanna take another
one!!!!  ;-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)

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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 17:51:34 -0400 (AST)
From: Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@bboxbbs.ch>
Subject: Quoting (NO)

Hi all,
Please excuse me for being off topic. Ill keep it short.

Id appreciate it very much if some people would reconsider
their quoting habits. In the last two weeks I have read too
many postings that contained just too much quoted material
and too little original content.

OK, Im done complaining.
Have a nice day, and dont bother quoting all of this back to me <g>.

Matthias





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 18:14:01 -0400 (AST)
From: limblab@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Valerie Ngo-Muller)
Subject: Is everybody sleeping?

I am not receiving any messages from origami-l since 2/28. What's
happening? Is there a problem?

Valerie Ngo-Muller, Ph. D.
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
2000 Percival Stern Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698   USA

Ph. (504) 862-3163
Fax (504) 865-6785





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 20:13:21 -0400 (AST)
From: "MARGARET M. BARBER" <mbarber@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
Subject: Tom Hull's web page of math articles

Could someone please remind me what the url was for Tom Hull's web oage
of collected math articles.  I could have sworn I wrote it down, but I
can't find the slip of paper anywhere -- could I have folded it??  Thanks
in advance for the reminder!

Peg Barber
mbarber@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu





Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 21:02:34 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Steve Woodmansee wrote:

=       In reference to Joseph Wu's very interesting discussion of Japanese
=business card etiquette, I wonder if it would still be considered offensive
=to fold card stock with no printing on it?
=       Joseph, what do you think?  It seems with the growing popularity of
=the business card folds there must be some Japanese folders who would like to
=give it a try if it were not such a breach of manners...

I would expect that blank card stock would pose no problems. I don't know if
the Japanese have considered card folding, however. Perhaps we could convince
Oru to do a feature on Jeannine's work?

 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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 20:59:14 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Tom Hull's web page of math articles

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, MARGARET M. BARBER wrote:

=Could someone please remind me what the url was for Tom Hull's web oage
=of collected math articles.  I could have sworn I wrote it down, but I
=can't find the slip of paper anywhere -- could I have folded it??  Thanks
=in advance for the reminder!

http://www.math.uri.edu/~hull/oribib.html

For future reference, it's linked from the "Information" section of my site.

 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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 21:12:21 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Business card folding in Japan (NOT!)

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jeannine Mosely wrote:

=I'm curious to know what module was being folded.

You'll have to ask Robert about that.

=This is very interesting, and could save me much embarassment in the
=future.  Thanks for the information/warning, Joseph.

No problem. 8)

=In general though, the cards I fold are almost all discards, either
=outdated, given to me by the original owner, or misprints given to me
=by the printer.  I only fold "current" cards with permission of the
=owner.  These people usually feel honored to have an object that
=represents them turned into (as they see it) a work of art.

Well, I think that it was just the first reaction. I'm sure that discards
wouldn't be a problem here, either. The people just saw business cards in the
video, and assumed originals, I would guess.

 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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:09:01 -0400 (AST)
From: Jorma Oksanen <tenu@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: Music to fold by

On 05-Mar-97, halgall@netverk.com.ar (halgall@netverk.com.ar) wrote:

>Here's my list of the ideal music to fold by:
>...
>Vangelis
>...

Don't forget Jan Hammer, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kitaro, Yanni...

No, that's not ALL I listen when folding, it's just the kind of music
that's easy to 'forget' about...

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, 06 Mar 1997 02:05:15 -0400 (AST)
From: Joseph Wu <origami@planet.datt.co.jp>
Subject: Oru: Bad News & Yoshizawa: Good News

I received a (form) letter today from the publishers of Oru magazine. It
appears that, due to financial difficulties, Oru will cease to be published
after the next issue (Number 16, March 1997) which is due out at the middle of
this month. No mention is made about the availability of back issues, but I
would assume that they are limited. While they say that it is conceivable that
they will resume publication in the future if they can solve their financial
problems, they are doubtful that they will do so.

In addition to the 16 issues, there were two collections of diagrams, for a
total of 18 publications. They were also responsible for publishing
Yoshizawa's "Masterworks" (as it seems to be called in English). The new book
that they had planned (and had solicited models for) will not be published.
(Its title was "Orizu-peigi-saisei-gappon" for which seems very hard to
translate. Something like "Origami diagram page reprint collection" and it
was to be diagrams for models from the first two years of Oru.)

Yamaguchi-san confirmed the title of the book, and added that he is in the
process of making a documentary video on the life of Yoshizawa. It should be
ready sometime this spring. I doubt there will be an English version, though.

I am forwarding a copy of this note to the people at Sasuga, since I know many
people order their copies of Oru from there. If there is anyone else whom you
feel should know about this, please feel free to forward this note to them, or
let me know and I will do it. I'd advise you to get your back issues now while
you are still able.

 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
