




From: Wendi Curtis <rebelgami@HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:45:04 -0700 (
Subject: Re: Tell Me Please...

I wish to thank V'Ann Cornelius for her thoughtful and courteous reply to my
question.  I am posting this reply to clear up some of the mis-conceptions
that have been posted.
WC

Wendi,

I'm writing to you directly since my login system will not permit
list responses.  You may post this message as you wish.

Wendi Curtis wrote:
>
>Just a simple question:  Who pays for all the travel done throughout the
>world by OUSA board members on behalf of OUSA?
>WC

People traveling to conferences representing OrigamiUSA pay their
own way, i.e. their transportation, room and board. OrigamiUSA
gives them gifts of paper and books that they carry to give to
the organization they visit. The travelers ask to represent the
organization, the organization does not request anyone to
travel.

Board members also pay membership dues, pay their way to the
convention, and pay the expenses of special events in the name
of the organization.

V'Ann Cornelius

_______________________________________________________________
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From: Allen Parry <parry@ESKIMO.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:13:21 -0700
Subject: Re: Tell Me Please...

Thank you Wendi and V'Ann.

V'Ann, I have an additional question:  According to one of my old
convention annuals (1995) one of the purposes of the Lillian Oppenheimer
fund was "sending local paperfolders to foreign countries."  Has this fund
never been used for this purpose?

Allen Parry
parry@eskimo.com





From: Mark and Theresa <mark@HOBBITON.FORCE9.NET>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:36:43 +0100
Subject: Re: No Long Messages

> NO LONG MESSAGES.
>
> Please, Please, Please DO NOT stop long messages on the list, I find them
> very informative & often
>
> (whether intentional or not) entertaining!

I'm sorry, but you seem to have misread my note. I said I am not against
the long messages per se, just the extreme "quoting" that happens. For
example your original message was 35 lines long (quite short, really).
However my message is only 20 lines long, even with the section from
yours. If I had just hit the reply button it would be 55 lines long,
with tons of stuff I have read already padding it all out.

I have been very polite on this matter ( or I hope I have) but if any of
this went to some of the newsgroups you would be the victim of a
flamewar - believe me, I've seen this happen

Trying to be helpful, not nasty

--
Mark





From: Deg Farrelly <DEG.FARRELLY@ASU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:01:10 -0700
Subject: Proxy votes?

On June 20 Mark Kennedy writes:

<<This last mailing calls for assigning Proxy voting to Allen. MY response
-.>>

Am I correct in assuming that there was a general mailing of some sort?

I never received the original letter regarding the issues here, and have not
received any form of a request for my proxy vote.

Proxy votes for what motions?

deg farrelly
Phoenix, Arizona  85029





From: "John R. S. Mascio" <mascio@RYU.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:07:51 -0500
Subject: Re: "Origami Practitioners"

In the Japanese/Okinawan martial arts, a practioner of a given
art is usually signafied by the -ka suffix.  Hence:

        Karateka = a karate student/practioner
        Judoka = a judo student/practioner
        Oriagamika = an origami student/practioner

JRSM
--
John Raymond Stone Mascio    mascio@ryu.com |      _
                                            |  _|_|_)
WARNING: Sender's mental center of gravity  | (_|_|
         is about 3 feet to his left        |





From: DORIGAMI@AOL.COM
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:11:33 -0400 (
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are your other hobbies ?

I just thought of a great way to call ourselves....Origami
practitioners........I like that better than Origamiists or origamists.  What
do the rest of you call yourselves and what do you think of my idea.
Sometimes I call myself an origami specialist but I like this new one better.
 Dorigami





From: "John R. S. Mascio" <mascio@RYU.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:23:03 -0500
Subject: Re: hobbies/Intro

Hello!

I guess this is a good time/place to make an intro.

My name is John R. S. Mascio.  I live near Dallas, TX and
have been practicing origami since about 1972.  My mom got
some simple origami kits for my brother and I.  I think it
was mostly too keep us out of her hair so she could get some
house work done.  I also blame mom for getting me hooked on
computers.  (Hmm... I seem to be blaming mom for many things!
At least they are good things! ;-)  )

I have been involved off and on ever since.  I am a computer
consultant in the UNIX, NT and networking fields by day, and
in to way too many things by night!  The short list includes:

        Origami (of course)
        Karate and Self Defense (martial arts in general)
        Web Technologies
        Weaving and needle arts
        Beading
        Japanese and Tagalog (Filipino) languages/culture
        Dragons!

So, as you can see, I have way too many things to do!  But my
biggest hobby is my wife, Charrie! ;-)  We are just shy of 4
years of marriage! No kids yet, unless we can count the 2
four legged, fur bearing variety, often refereed to as cats.

If you are really nosy, feel free to poke around www.ryu.com
or www.cyberdojo.com.  Those are my 2 web sites.  (Both need
serious work!)

JRSM
--
John Raymond Stone Mascio    mascio@ryu.com |      _
                                            |  _|_|_)
WARNING: Sender's mental center of gravity  | (_|_|
         is about 3 feet to his left        |





From: Sheldon Ackerman <ackerman@DORSAI.ORG>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:47:44 -0400
Subject: Re: Tell Me Please...

>
> I was responding to Wendi Curtis' question: "Who pays for all the travel
> done throughout the world by OUSA board members on behalf of OUSA?"
>
> It's a valid question and we HAVE the right to discuss it.  We're not
> saying that improprieties are being done, rather we're saying we would
> like more information.  Not having access to the information makes one
> "wonder".
>
It is not a valid question unless it is a known fact that OUSA board members
do in fact travel throughout the world on behalf of OUSA!
Joseph Wu did not seem to think it was a fact. I don't think it's a fact
either. Do you for a fact know something we don't?

BTW let us assume it was a fact, then I would say that the members pay for
it. Who then should pay for it if as stated in the supposition the traveling
is done on behalf of OUSA?

--
---
Sheldon Ackerman.......http://www.dorsai.org/~ackerman/
ackerman@dorsai.org
sheldon_ackerman@fc1.nycenet.edu





From: Meristein@AOL.COM
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:49:40 -0400 (
Subject: Re: Tell Me Please...

Tell Ken Starr he's not out of work after all! He's perfect to get to the
bottom of this "conspiracy of silence" and the "where did the funds for
travel go?" issue.

Why, everybody knows, they're on Hillary's table in the office in the White
House. That's why she's running for Senator in NY; the OUSA Board is behind
it!

I reiterate my previous admonitions; get a life! Catch more flies with honey
than with vitriol and innuendo!

Merida, tongue firmly planted in cheek, but tired of the ****
Looking forward to several days of extreme folding fun and friendly reunions





From: Perry Bailey <pbailey@OPENCOMINC.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 21:20:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Tell Me Please...

Allen Parry wrote:

> I suppose you were a die-hard Richard Nixon fan to the end.
> There needs to be accountability.

Actually I was the and am the die hard Richard Nixon fan.
At least he knew when to quit, instead of disgrace the office.

Perry
--
pbailey@opencominc.com
http://www.afgsoft.com/perry/  <---- Origami Web Page with
Diagrams!
ICQ 23622644





From: John Chambers <jchamber@CRL.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:23:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

Kids, music, kids, woodworking, kids, hiking, kids, programming, kids,
origami, kids, music, and kids.

Really, its only three kids but about 99% of spare time.





From: Chinh Nguyen <chinhsta@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:22:17 -0400
Subject: Origao?  Masks...

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this book, which is
available both from Sasuga and from Fascinating Folds.  I've looked up the
archives to no success.  The again, the qualifiers (Origao, Tashio Matsuo)
may be too broad.  Well, Tashio Matsuo (?) is the author, and I was
considering this book... does anyone have comments about difficulty,
models., etc., etc?





From: ROBINMACEY@AOL.COM
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 04:03:13 -0400 (
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

This has certainly been a good question for getting lots of lurkers like
myself to come out of the woodwork.

I am fairly seriously into photography having been doing my own black & white
developing since the age of 12. I have quite a collection of camera equipment
including an EOS1n and an old 5X4 plate camera. I use lenses ranging from
18mm up to 500mm.  I use my cameras to photograph my other hobbies - origami
& ballooning. By using a ring flash and extension tubes I can photograph
quite small models from only an inch away if necessary. One of my highlights
was being asked to do the pictures for Robert's Lang's first book. (So if any
other origami authors are in need of pictures please get in touch)

I have been involved in flying hot air balloons for over 15 years. Each
flight is always different and it is always exciting as you never know where
you are going to end up - although we usually let off a small helium balloon
first to test the wind direction so we know we will not be going too close to
any airports or sensitive areas. I have been a fairly regular attender at the
famous Albuquerque balloon festival which boasts nearly 900 balloons each
year. It is quite a magical sight to see hundreds of balloons all in the sky
at the same time! If there are any other balloonists on this list I would
love to hear from you.

Cheers

Robin Macey
Nottingham, ENGLAND

PS I am looking forward to meeting lots of origami list members at the New
York convention this weekend.





From: DLister891@AOL.COM
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 05:00:59 -0400 (
Subject: What are you other hobbies ?

I suppose I can take a few minutes off from the task-demanding drudgery of
Origami and think about my other hobbies. Incidentally, I'm hardly an Origami
Practitioner, in Dorigami's terms. I do far too little folding for that!
Perhaps I could call myself an imaginary folder or a theorigamist.

But enough of speculation! What are my other hobbies? Like my Origami they
are nearly all in the mind, but like my paperfolding they mostly date back to
my early childhood. Flags and heraldry have fascinated me ever since the
Silver Jubilee in 1935 when a great variety of flags were put out in
abundance. Another subject is Mythology and Folklore, both subjects in which
there are hidden trackways and magical lands to explore. Some aspects that
facinate me are mazes and labyrinths (an extraordinarily diverse and complex
subject) and the white hill figures carved on the chalk hillsides of southern
England. The history and legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail also fit
in here.

Apart from amassing  thousands of books, I do not collect many things, but I
do collect playing cards from all over the world. It's another folklore
subject of immense interest as one  watches patterns of cards subtly evolving
over the centuries, driven by no apparent force. Folk Dancing and the Folk
Drama have always attracted me. In fact dancing of any kind, from ballroom to
break to ballet (and belly!) has such a life-enhancing vitality that I wish I
had spent much more of my lifetime doing it in its many styles. I regret that
as usual, for the most part (but not entirely) I have remained an observer.
Language, too, is one of the great underlying forces of human life.
Linguistics is another subject which has endless interest.

Which leads me to the Arts in general: painting, sculpture, architecture and
music. What endless wonders there are! And the wonders of Nature! Just one
instance: one of the subjects that fascinates me at present is the way garden
roses evolved from wild roses growing in the middle East, Europe and China. I
even grow a few roses, but not enough to make me a rosarian.

I do not pretend to be a mathematician, but I find mathematics to be
immensely interesting. I  think it is the underlying pattern that pervades
mathematics and spreads into all other things. The structures of fabrics is
an absorbing one, with infinite variety throughout the world, especially
among the so-called primitive pepoles. Fabrics lead me to the subjects of
Knotting and Braiding and Cats' Cradles, all materialisations of underlying
mathematical patterns. Then there are Islamic patterns which never cease to
puzzle and delight in their woven intricacy. Which brings me back to
paperfolding: did the Moors bring paperfolding to Europe? We do not know, but
it is an engaging speculation. Pattern is the foundation of Origami (apart
from minimalist styles, of course) and Origami is one of the best
intoductions that there is to the subject of the relationship between
mathematics, pattern and art.

These are just a few of my interests. I sometimes envy those who focus their
attentions on one restricted subject and are not distracted by the richnesses
of the world that surounds us. Jack of all trades and master of none, they
say. But it surely cannot be wrong or entirely useless to try to capture a
glimpse of the whole and the way everything relates to everything else. There
is a scarcely-yet-developed science of Connections.

Well, I've always enjoyed this approach and like Newton picking up a pebble
here and there on the beach beside the vast Ocean, I've enjoyed looking in
more detail at one or two of the fragments of the grand picture. Like
Origami, for instance.

David Lister.





From: Michael LaFosse <info@ORIGAMIDO.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 06:59:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Go play somewhere else, please (was: Tell Me Please...)

 Thank you, Matthias,

I re-state my earlier appeal that if you want to address OrigamiUSA then
please e-mail me.  I will represent your questions and I will reply to you.
Granted, you will not get an answer immediately, but you will get an accurate
and informed answer -  not a best guess or an assumption.

When you post OrigamiUSA questions to origami-L you are not officially
contacting OrigamiUSA about these issues.

Respectfully submitted,

Michael LaFosse
member of the board, OrigamiUSA
michael@origamido.com

Matthias Gutfeldt wrote:

> Personally, I'm sick and tired of you OUSA people abusing this
> international origami mailing list for your petty local politics,
> accusations, and conspiracy theories. Sure the money thing is a valid
> question, and sure you have the right to discuss it. But why the hell
> are you discussing it with us? Many (or most?) of us are not members of
> OUSA. The majority of OUSA members is not on this list. Many of the
> board members are not on this list. This means that you are not
> "discussing" the subject with the right people.





From: Michael LaFosse <info@ORIGAMIDO.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:00:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

Jeff DeHerdt wrote:

>
>    karate and weightlifting - haven't figured out a direct relation to
>              origami yet, but I think I've seen a nifty yin-yang symbol
>              somewhere(Jeremy Shaefer, maybe?)

I have earned my 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon do back in 1975 and
previous to that I studied Judo.  I always appreciated two things about these
activities that helped me with my origami:  perseverance to refine a way of
doing something, which can be an enriching, life-long pursuit; a physical
activity that would get me up off my ass (we sit a lot in origami).  For those
who may not yet have a physical activity to balance their origami way I
recommend a rigorous paper airplane routine to get you out of the house from
time to time ; )

Michael LaFosse





From: Nick Robinson <nick@CHEESYPEAS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:03:30 +0100
Subject: Re: "Origami Practitioners"

Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA> sez

>"Paperfolders".

My vote also - accurate, unpretentious, easily understandable.

all the best,

Nick Robinson

email           nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk - now featuring soda syphons!
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos





From: "Wu, Sonia" <swu@BANSHEE.SAR.USF.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:21:16 -0400
Subject: Live Reports from the Convention?

> I don't suppose there will by any chance be e-mail hookup at the
> Convention so that those of us not in attendance can get live reports?
> But then, who would take the time to send e-mail when there's so much
> else going on....
>
Sonia Wu





From: Steve Vinik <z007169b@BC.SEFLIN.ORG>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:28:40 -0400
Subject: Re: What are you other hobbies ?

I'm not a holy roller or a holy terror, but most of my hobbies revolve
around church. I don't mean to offend anyone by stating that fact. I
don't want to judge anyone or have anyone judge me. It's just the way I am.

My hobbies are playing acoustic guitar with my wife and daughter and
friends. We make a lot of rhythmic noise and occasionally some nice
sounding music. We play folky church songs like Amazing Grace.

I design web pages for different church groups. I enjoy playing with
Photo Deluxe (a baby version of Photo Shop). And I regularly crash my
computer with my huge files.

I enjoy making refrigerator magnets out of computer images which I have
transferred onto negative film, printed on photographic paper and spray
mounted onto foam core board. Then I trim the images and put a magnet
behind them. This makes great gifts.

I use origami to create church symbols--such as the dove, the boat, etc.
I turned the Samurai hat into a Bishop's miter and took a great photo for
our Diocesan newspaper.

I am also an avid photographer and volunteer my services for group
portraits at church events, for high school marching band season, and for
family activities. I have two beautiful daughters, age 17 and 22 and I
have thousands of photos of them through the years.

I love to read science fiction and "what if" stories. Right now I'm deep
into "Hannibal." (Shudder)

I enjoy reading your mail and I hope you enjoy mine.

Steve Vinik
z007169b@bc.seflin.org





From: "Lotus Entertain You, Inc." <info@LOTUSENTERTAINYOU.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:40:53 -0400
Subject: License plate

Hi

check out http://www.lotusentertainyou.com

and also here's my new license plate:

Jeff





From: David Whitbeck <dmwhitbeck@UCDAVIS.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:46:28 -0700
Subject: Ship and Hobbies

Hey I've been folding a cool origami ship from Harbin's origami step by
step book.  It's pretty fun fold especially since it has such a high
density of sink folds: most of the folds in the model are sink folds it
seems.  It's pretty easy though.  From what I've heard from all the email
the past few days, I feel like a young child.  Besides Origami I listen to
classical music (mostly while I fold) and reading scifi fantasy.  As a
college student I find that my free time is quickly swallowed up with
studying.  My favorite series is the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.  Any
WoT fans lurking out there suffering from post PoD disorder?  Just kidding
:)  I'm excited about Franklin because the Minutemen library system has
one of Akira Yoshizawa's books!  And of course also the fact that it is
not 100!  Happy folding to all!

David

"R2D2, a pleasure to meet you!  I am C3PO, human-cyborg relations!"





From: madawson <madawson@SPRYNET.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:54:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Origami USA/NYC

Is there a difference between the 4?
MASD
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Parry <parry@ESKIMO.COM>
To: ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Origami USA/NYC

>On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Edith Kort wrote:
>
>> Perhaps there is a trusted member or board member who would
>> be willing to serve in this role - willing to take the proxy vote for
>> non-attendees who do not wish AP to be their proxy.
>>
>> Is there someone willing to step forward and play this role?  It looks
>> like it should be done quickly.
>
>Oh, if you'd like, you could change the names on the proxy votes to Steve
>Buck, Carol Martinson or Sandy Toivonen, if you'd prefer. Perhaps you'd
>consider them more trusted members.
>
>Allen Parry
>parry@eskimo.com





From: Sjaak Adriaanse <S.Adriaanse@INTER.NL.NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:01:10 +0100
Subject: Off-subject squared: What are you other hobbies ?

Hi Perryanne,

At 10:13 21-06-1999, perryannec wrote:
>hi,
>
>i love to read books on spirituality, simplicity,...

I could not help noticing 'Organization: Microsoft Corporation' in the
header. May the spirit of simplicity get to some more folks over there
...:-)

Greetings,
Sjaak

Sjaak Adriaanse
---------------------------------------------------------------
Tekst & Uitleg





From: Rob Hudson <Oricon99@AOL.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:41:30 -0400 (
Subject: Convnention Tour

Hi there--

This is Rob Hudson-- co-founder of the Beer Wetfolding Technique (my partner-
David Brill), here to announce for the final time the Origami NY Tour on
Friday.  I"m planning on meeting in the lounge of alumni hall (where the
suites and check-in areas are) at NOON.  I'll wait around until about 12:15
or so, and then we're off to scour the city for origami papers, books, and
miscellany.

Anyone who wants to go, please e-mail me ASAP.  I'll be leaving for NY Friday
morning.
Oh- if you can, e-mail me at: rhudson@hotmail.com instead of here.

Rob





From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:00:14 -0700
Subject: Re: Origao?  Masks...

At 00:22 99/06/22 -0400, Chinh Nguyen wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this book, which is
>available both from Sasuga and from Fascinating Folds.  I've looked up the
>archives to no success.  The again, the qualifiers (Origao, Tashio Matsuo)
>may be too broad.  Well, Tashio Matsuo (?) is the author, and I was
>considering this book... does anyone have comments about difficulty,
>models., etc., etc?

Mark Kennedy has this book. I've seen his rendition of the Yoda face and the
Ultraman face from it. Matsuo-san is not really a member of the origami
community in Japan. Rather, he is a TV personality ("tarento", or "talent")
who happens to do some folding. The book features a number of masks, but
some only exist as photos (no diagrams). The masks are interesting and are
all folded using traditional bases (as far as I can remember). Another book
that might be interesting is FUSE Tomoko's "The Mask".

----------------------------------------------------------------
Joseph Wu, Origami Artist and Multimedia Producer
t: 604.730.0306 x 105   f: 604.732.7331  e: josephwu@ultranet.ca
w: http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca





From: Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@BBOXBBS.CH>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:12:48 +0200
Subject: Go play somewhere else, please (was: Tell Me Please...)

Allen Parry <ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>I was responding to Wendi Curtis' question: "Who pays for all the travel
>done throughout the world by OUSA board members on behalf of OUSA?"
>It's a valid question and we HAVE the right to discuss it. We're not

Personally, I'm sick and tired of you OUSA people abusing this
international origami mailing list for your petty local politics,
accusations, and conspiracy theories. Sure the money thing is a valid
question, and sure you have the right to discuss it. But why the hell
are you discussing it with us? Many (or most?) of us are not members of
OUSA. The majority of OUSA members is not on this list. Many of the
board members are not on this list. This means that you are not
"discussing" the subject with the right people. From what I've read here
in the past few weeks, you're not even discussing anything, but instead
you're coming up with one nasty allegation after the other. Next
someone's going to tell us that low class numbers were given out in
exchange for sexual favors.

You're annoying the wrong people. My suggestion is that you set up your
own OUSA mailing list, and save us 500 (or whatever the current number
of subscribers is) innocent bystanders from the mud-slinging. Go play
somewhere else, please.

Matthias, taking a shower to get the OUSA muck off his face





From: Dave Mitchell <davemitchell@MIZUSHOBAI.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:43:42 +0100
Subject: Vive la difference

Claire Chamberlain wrote:

<<I actually prefer the magic of a few folds transforming
the paper into a wonderful model, rather than the 190 stage fold..but 'vive
la difference...'>>

Because we've been talking about hobbies ....

Lyn and I want to start breeding kittens (it's easier than breeding cats)
and we've been looking carefully at all the breeds to learn about their
characteristics etc. The breed that most interests us is the Turkish Van
(no, it's not a vehicle it's a cat). Here in UK the Governing Council of the
Cat Fancy sets a standard for the Turkish Van that says it's a white
long-haired cat with blue eyes and auburn tail and markings. In the Lake Van
region of Turkey however the Turkish Van is apparently an all white cat with
odd coloured eyes, although auburn marked cats do occur occasionally in
litters.

It appears to be a historical accident that the Turkish Vans brought to UK
in 1955 were marked in this way. However, of course, the temptation is for
UK breeders to breed for the characteristics required to win championships
under the GCCF rules and consequently to narrow the gene pool with all the
detrimental effects that will have.

I just wondered if there was an analogy for origami here?

Dave





From: Carol Martinson <carolm47@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:04:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Other Hobbies

As with many other members of this list, I have many interests besides
origami.

I make temari balls, another Japanese craft where decorative threads
are tacked onto balls in geometric patterns.  I also do hardanger, a
Norwegian style of embroidery and other stypes of counted thread
embroidery.

Paper quilling is another one of my interests.

I have a large collection of pewter dragons, a smaller collection of
carved wood statues of human figures, and an even smaller collection of
carved alabaster statues done by Native American artists in the
Southwest.

I have more than a passing interest in Babylon 5.

Carol Martinson

_________________________________________________________
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Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com





From: Dorothy Engleman <FoldingCA@WEBTV.NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:25:17 -0700
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

Aside from my work as a videomaker, and origami, my other great passion
is music.
I've studied piano, recorder, guitar and clarinet.  Reality has never
obliged my musical fantasies...of playing professionally in a concert
band or recorder ensemble, being an orchestral conductor, opera singer,
choral singer, star of a Broadway musical or humble chorine.  I am,
however, a professional shower diva.

I never completed my studies to become a musicologist but I love to read
music criticism and essays about music and performance.  I've also
dabbled in composition and on some dusty shelf in the Library of
Congress are my copyrighted folk songs.

My musical palette is pretty diverse... classical, opera, jazz, Tin Pan
Alley, Broadway and film musicals, film music, American popular music
and ragtime piano music.

This thread has provoked a fond musical memory of accompanying my
English landlady on the recorder as she sang Elizabethan songs of
Shakespeare.

Dorothy





From: Nick Robinson <nick@CHEESYPEAS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:32:50 +0100
Subject: Re: Go play somewhere else, please (was: Tell Me Please...)

Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@BBOXBBS.CH> sez

>Matthias, taking a shower to get the OUSA muck off his face

Subtly put Matt! I too find the OUSA threads less than enthralling, but
it's about an origami society, so this is probably the best place for
it. All I ask is that quoting is kept to a minimum, personal replies are
directed personally not in public & that the message header indicates
the OUSAness, so I can skip it!

all the best,

Nick Robinson

email           nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk - now featuring soda syphons!
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos





From: Valerie Kull <VKull@ENVIRONCORP.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:39:29 -0400
Subject: Hobbies / Local Folders

We seem to have a number of martial artists on the list. Here in Yardley,
Pennsylvania my main hobby besides origami is tai chi chuan, another one of
the martial arts. I got started in origami after a knee injury, but now that
I'm back to tai chi, I find that I enjoy having both sitting and moving
activities. (Also, in origami what you do to fold the paper doesn't really
matter as long as you get the end result you want, but practicing a tai chi
form, only the movements matter, and you have nothing concrete at the end.)

Speaking of Yardley, PA, are there any other folders on the list from this
area? Or around Princeton, New Jersey? Private replies fine.

Valerie, still sorting through your replies to decide the best way to make a
mobile of human dancers (lucky I have till Christmas!)





From: Ken Lehner <klehner@LUCENT.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:46:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Hobbies / Local Folders

Valerie Kull wrote:

> Speaking of Yardley, PA, are there any other folders on the list from this
> area? Or around Princeton, New Jersey? Private replies fine.

I'm originally from Levittown, and went to George School, so I know the area.
I'm in Monmouth County, NJ now, though.

I'm not into martial arts (though my wife has a black belt in Shotokan Karate),
but I'm president of a bicycle racing team and an active triathlete.  Anyone
else
on this list ever do a triathlon?

Ken Lehner





From: Sebastian Marius Kirsch <skirsch@T-ONLINE.DE>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:26:14 +0200
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 11:44:22AM +0200, CASALONGA Jean-Jerome wrote:
>     Origami is not the ONLY thing interesting in life.  So, I would
> like to know if some of you have other hobbies.  Maube this will allow
> us to see that we share other things than Origami.

My biggest hobby (even surpassing origami, as far as time consumption is
concerned) is my computer; I discovered Linux in 1995 and have been
using it exclusively ever since. I enjoy toying around with the system,
using LaTeX, exploring the mail system etc.

Next comes reading, preferably english books, and most preferably
science fiction or speculative fiction. My all-time top three: 1) _The
Sheep Look Up_ by John Brunner (one hell of a book; sadly, it's not in
print anymore; I found a German edition on a flea market
somewhere. Anybody here willing to sell the english edition?) 2)
_Stranger In A Strange Land_ by Robert Heinlein (he probably has the
best dialogues ever), and 3) _Dhalgren_ by Samuel R. Delany (takes some
getting used to, but extremely worthwhile.)

I enjoy b/w photography; I used to have my own darkroom, but you know
how it is -- you don't use it for a couple of months, and when you open
the door again, you find that it has been filled up to the roof with all
kinds of rubbish and clutter. I do b/w photography instead of colour
photography because it allows you to bring out the structure of things,
instead of their overall shape.

I also like looking at photography (as opposed to making it) by Richard
Avedon, Mapplethorpe, Ansel Adams etc. I like surrealist paintings,
especially by Magritte and Dali, and of course M. C. Escher.

I did lighting and sound for my school's theater group for a couple of
years.

Oh, and I also like listening to music; at the moment, I'm more into
south american (Brazil and Argentine) and cuban music (eg. Jobim, Falu,
Joao Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, Irakere, Chucho Valdes, and, yes, also the
Afro-Cuban All Stars.) But I also like jazz (Mingus, Brubeck, Chet
Baker, Miles Davis, ...), blues (John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins,
Memphis Slim, Taj Mahal, ...), Santana, Pink Floyd, Zappa, Lou Reed, ...

--
Yours, Sebastian                                       skirsch@t-online.de
                        /or/ sebastian_kirsch@kl.maus.de (no mail > 16KB!)





From: Mark and Theresa <mark@HOBBITON.FORCE9.NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:02:19 +0100
Subject: Re: [NO] Quoting Style

> I think Mark got it wrong when choosing the subject -- this is not about
> long messages per se; please go on sending long and informative
> messages.

Yes, I probably did, but I hope my later posting cleared it up. And
guess how tempted I was to quote the whole of the message, adding "yes -
that's right"!

Thanks for confirming my views (not that they are the only ones on this
subject).

Now let's get back to the reason for this list - * folding * !

--
Mark





From: Ronald Koh <ronkoh@SINGNET.COM.SG>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:08:32 +0800
Subject: What are your other hobbies.

Doesn't anybody collect stamps anymore? You know, those little pieces of
coloured paper with a value on it, that you stick on envelopes before
dropping them into the posting box? It's a wonder that those of us in
the snail-mail industry are still able to make a living .....

Apart from origami, I collect commemorative and product-associated
(those not-for-sale freebies that come with certain products) mugs, and
dinosaur and animal figurines. I am also very much into books on UFOs
and the unexplained. And no, I don't collect stamps either ....





From: madawson <madawson@SPRYNET.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:01:54 -0700
Subject: Re: Other Hobbies

I enjoy all kinds of fiber arts (weaving, sewing, fabrigami etc.) which is
what my BS was in.  I never used that degree (or knowledge) professionally
and I am in the process of rectifying that situation.  I have lots of
projects piled up ready to go.  Having just received the new "Fascinating
Folds" catalog, I think I am going to add a few new projects to the
pile!!!!!!!

I also love all kinds of music, especially instrumental jazz (the relaxing
kind).  Play some guitar

Cooking used to be lots of fun and after a dry spell is becoming interesting
again.

Love to travel but don't get to do it often enough (actually love to "be" in
new places but flying has become more and more agrivating)  Traveling
cross-country by train was fabulous.  I'd love to do it again now that I
know Origami.  You make lots of friends on a train when you're all on it for
3 days!!!! (USA)

So much to do..........so little time!

MaryAnn Scheblein-Dawson
madawson@sprynet.com

"Fold something. You'll feel better."





From: Douglas Zander <dzander@SOLARIA.SOL.NET>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:17:41 -0500 (
Subject: Microsoft / Hotmail

Microsoft has always owned Hotmail.com   It is their creation.  Just
recently they decided to make people more aware that it was a Microsoft
creation by adding their name, "Microsoft", to the home page of Hotmail.com
They also have changed many things on their email interface in an attempt
to make it better...

>
> Ever since MICROSOFT took it over!!!  I've been trying to figure something
> out. Wish me luck!
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
>

--
 Douglas Zander                |
 dzander@solaria.sol.net       |
 Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA     |





From: DORIGAMI@AOL.COM
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:55:12 -0400 (
Subject: Re: Origami politics

        I have found that as I scan this list, I tune out by not opening
material from people that I am not interested in or whose ideas I don't like
and certainly don't reply to them.  If they are not getting attention, maybe
they will just get lost.  I just had to say it.  Okay, so I am outspoken......
        I really love hearing about the diversity of our Origami
population.....After all, I always knew we are a very special bunch of people
and all multitalented.  I really believe maybe the one thing we have in
common is making linkages (David Listers idea).  I love hearing ideas on how
people use Origami, about how and to whom they teach it and all of the other
productive good stuff...There is so much  to discuss on this Origami-L.  I
think this ought to be all about positive thinking and thinktanking and
sharing ideas, and making friends and leave the negativity for the real
world.......There I have had my say. .
        And....... a big very special thanks to the committee  who is making
it possible with all of their long hours of hard work for us to get together
and enjoy each others company and share at the convention this weekend.
Sorry not all of you will attend.  I would like to get to know you
personally.  You are such an interesting group of people.  I love  all of
you ....maybe next year.... We will share whats new at the Con with you next
week...Dorigami.





From: Hatori Koshiro <hatori@JADE.DTI.NE.JP>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:16:42 +0900
Subject: Re: Off-subject : What are you other hobbies ?

>     Origami is not the ONLY thing interesting in life.  So, I would like
to
> know if some of you have other hobbies.  Maube this will allow us to see
> that we share other things than Origami.

I play touch-football every Sunday.
I also like watching NFL and MLB. (Go Nomo and Yoshii !)
I listen to contemporary music while folding or computing,
including reading tons of e-mails written in English which is not
my mother tongue.
Now I'm listening to Cello Concerto composed by W.Lutoslawski.

 _ _ _ _ _
|         |  Hatori Koshiro (Koshiro is my first name.)
|_._._._._|          hatori@jade.dti.ne.jp
|         |      http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~hatori/
|_ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
 If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists. (S.Jobs)





From: Nick Robinson <nick@CHEESYPEAS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:14:29 +0100
Subject: Re: Convnention Tour

Rob Hudson <Oricon99@AOL.COM> sez

>co-founder of the Beer Wetfolding Technique (my partner-
>David Brill)

Can I join? I have both the qualifications required. Plus, I enjoy
propane & propane accessories. Did Dave show you his BOTTOM module?

all the best,

Nick Robinson

email           nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk - now featuring soda syphons!
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos





From: Alice MacDonald <amacd@BMI.NET>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:08:12 -0700
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star made from strip

Try:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8012/creation/star.html

or:

<A
HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8012/creation/star.html">star.html
 at www.geocities.com
</A>

This is Meenakshi's page and since you're there you might as well look around
at all of her beautiful modular folds as well.

Rosa





From: Alice MacDonald <amacd@BMI.NET>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:08:39 -0700
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star (Swedish Star)

A Swedish Star is made from four strips of paper that are woven together.  It
is also known as a German Star.  See :

http://www.thehistorynet.com/EarlyAmericanHomes/articles/12962_stars.htm

The stars made from one strip of paper are usually referred to as "Puffy
Stars"

Rosa





From: JHONNY ORLANDO TOLOSA <jhotoce@LATINMAIL.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:23:41 -0400
Subject: Saludos

Hello,
My name is Jhonny Tolosa, I'm from Colombia.
I'm a physics Teacher in Tunja, a city in the Andes mountain in South America.

A few years ago I knew some things about origami and I'd like learn how to fold
     3-d origami and other figures.

___________________________________________________________
Consigue tu pagina web gratuita en http://www.gratisweb.com





From: Luisa Urgias <luisa@SISSA.IT>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:28:26 +0200
Subject: origami and ZEN!

Hi!

Do you know some book about origami and ZEN? (ehm ...not the well
known "Origami from angelfish to zen" ...)

I'm looking for some connection between these two "disciplines"!

Thank you in advance!
        Luisa Urgias





From: Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@BBOXBBS.CH>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:37:24 +0200
Subject: Re: Microsoft / Hotmail

Douglas Zander wrote:
>Microsoft has always owned Hotmail.com It is their creation. Just
>recently they decided to make people more aware that it was a Microsoft
>creation by adding their name, "Microsoft", to the home page of >Hotmail.com.

I think that is not quite accurate. Microsoft bought Hotmail in December
1997.

Since then, they've been trying to replace the Sun/Solaris package with
Microsoft products. That's what caused some of the problems, according
to an article available at
http://webserv.vnunet.com/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_search_mo.right_frame?p_story=5
     2704
.

As of April, they still had technical troubles according to
http://webserv.vnunet.com/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_search_mo.right_frame?p_story=8
     1519

But lately I didn't encounter any technical difficulties.

All the best,
Matthias





From: Matthias Gutfeldt <tanjit@BBOXBBS.CH>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:43:57 +0200
Subject: (NO) Re: Go play somewhere else, please (was: Tell Me Please...)

Nick Robinson wrote:
> All I ask is that quoting is kept to a minimum, personal replies are
> directed personally not in public & that the message header indicates
> the OUSAness, so I can skip it!
I could live with that.

Well, I'm leaving for the Origami Deutschland meeting (plus a few days
vacation) tonight, so I set myself to NOMAIL. All flames should
therefore be sent directly to my e-mail address, tanjit@bboxbbs.ch
Read y'all in July!

Matthias





From: Kevin Kinney <kkinney@MED.UNC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:45:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star made from strip

Hey! I just learned this one this weekend!  From the guy who sold us our new
(used) car.  The only time I've got something useful from a car salesman (no
offense intended to anyone, I don't drive, so shopping for a car is less
than fulfilling for me).  It was the only origami he knew-he learned it from
a previous customer.  A very neat little thing.

Kevin Kinney

>or try my web page
>http://chocolate.custard.org/origami
>thanks to Gay Merrill Gross I know have the Chinese lucky star fold on my
>web page which is made from a strip of paper!
>

>>Try:
>>
>>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8012/creation/star.html





From: Kevin Kinney <kkinney@MED.UNC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:49:35 -0400
Subject: Other hobbies:

Meant to add mine to the list:

Well, by profession I am a biologist:  to be specific a comparative
psychoneuroimmunologist.  Which, in English, means that I study the
relationships between the nervous (brain) and immune systems.  And how they
have co-evolved.

But as for hobbies, in order of proficiency, more or less:

Celtic music performance, on harp

The same, on Irish wooden flute

Origami

Balloon Twisting (which my friend and I christened 'arigami' until I pointed
out the etymological error.)

Juggling

Reading Fantasy-genre books (and occasional science fiction, but I have
trouble believing in S/F)

Watching television (hey! someone has to admit to it!)
        (Actually, I am *quite* proficient at that)

Kevin Kinney





From: Daniela Carboni <s134259@STUDENTI.ING.UNIPI.IT>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:50:59 +0200
Subject: Re: origami and ZEN!

Luisa Urgias wrote:

>
>Do you know some book about origami and ZEN? (ehm ...not the well
>known "Origami from angelfish to zen" ...)
>

I don't know books about origami and zen, but sometimes, expecially when I
fold a new model, I feel that I am doing something similar to zazen (that
is the zen meditation).

I mostly follow what I call a zen way to new models, I don't choose before
what a new model of mine should represent (quite always) and I keep my will
away from the paper as long as I can. My hands know what to do, models
adjusting comes later.

With the well known old models of mine or of others it is the same thing.

What I am trying to say is that, when I fold, I am only folding and that is
all. My mind runs free, my hart is happy.

Being a student in aerospace engeenireng I spend a lot of time in technical
work. I could'n't have a scientific approach to origami, it would be a
depressing thing to me.

Now back on the technical work...

DAniela.

/\_/\    Daniela S. Carboni
 o o     email: s134259@studenti.ing.unipi.it
= # =    -Soon I will have a new web page-





From: Daniela Carboni <s134259@STUDENTI.ING.UNIPI.IT>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:57:10 +0200
Subject: Re: Saludos

Hi Jhonny,
         welcome to the o-list. Around on the net there are many
origami-related sites, I recomend you the CDO one,

http://www.essenet.it/cdo

there are a lot of nice diagrams and photographies.

                                Daniela.

/\_/\    Daniela S. Carboni
 o o     email: s134259@studenti.ing.unipi.it
= # =    -Soon I will have a new web page-





From: Emmajg <emmajg@CUSTARD.ORG>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:18:25 +0100
Subject: Can someone help this person?  Looking for falcon or hawk

Hi I found this on the alt.binaries.pictures.origami newsgroup
Can anyone help this person?
*****

It may be a forlorn hope to post anything actually related
to Origami in this group: but I'll try.

Does anyone have a diagram for making an American Kestrel?

A Falcon or Hawk would be close enough to work.

Thanks.

B. Z. Lederman

***

Emmajg*
Emma Jane Griffiths
http://chocolate.custard.org
Mobile: 07971 083069





From: Emmajg <emmajg@CUSTARD.ORG>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:20:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star made from strip

or try my web page
http://chocolate.custard.org/origami
thanks to Gay Merrill Gross I know have the Chinese lucky star fold on my
web page which is made from a strip of paper!

happy folding
Emmajg*
-----Original Message-----
From: Alice MacDonald <amacd@BMI.NET>
To: ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 23 June 1999 17:19
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star made from strip

>Try:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8012/creation/star.html
>
>or:
>
><A
>HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8012/creation/star.html">star.h
tml
> at www.geocities.com
></A>
>
>
>This is Meenakshi's page and since you're there you might as well look
around
>at all of her beautiful modular folds as well.
>
>
>Rosa





From: Douglas Zander <dzander@SOLARIA.SOL.NET>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:00:22 -0500 (
Subject: Re: Microsoft / Hotmail

Thanks for the correction.  I had thought they always owned it.  oops  :-)

--
 Douglas Zander                |
 dzander@solaria.sol.net       |
 Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA     |





From: Rakostar@AOL.COM
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:07:39 -0400 (
Subject: Re: Instructions for Star made from strip

Thanks for printing Gay Merrill Gross' lucky star.  I followed the diagrams
just fine but I couldn't read the print.  Is there anything I can do online
to make it more readable.  Thanks again,  Rae





From: Christopher Holt <Ella-mae@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:13:02 -0700
Subject: Re: FW: Misc. Threads

> This is a second try - I got an error message back of some kind. It is all
> magic to me.
> To all:
>
> I am off to prepare for the Convention so I will not be back in the office
> till July 6th. Any e-mail sent to me will not be read until sometime after
> that.
>
> Hope to see all but one of you at the convention.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mark Kennedy

The first one got through fine, too!!





From: Howard Portugal <howardpo@MICROSOFT.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:24:54 -0700
Subject: matchstick rockets

Look here: http://www.freecell.minivend.com/rockets/

Howard Portugal
Critical Problem Resolution - NT Escalation (CPR/NT)

* howardpo@microsoft.com
*Wk: 425/704-4078
*Pgr: Urgent V-Mail

Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something.

Plato





From: "Kennedy, Mark" <KennedyM@DNB.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:51:00 -0400
Subject: Misc. Threads

To all:

I have been out of the office for a few days and will not be back until the
6th.

When the digest form is tooo big, I can't read it or print it though my mail
server so I have to down load it to disk and then print it.

When the Board members travel overseas, they do so at their own expense. The
board has authorized limited amounts of our Proprietary products to be
presented as presents. I do not know about the Lillian Oppenheimer fund. I
do not know how well it is funded or if anyone has applied for them. I have
at times taught origami at functions with the stipulation that they give a
donation to the Michael Shall fund. The diagrams that have been in the
convention book are contributed by our members but also from personal
contacts with other Organizations through Michael Shall's travells
originally and more recently by Jan Polish, so this has swept in new
information to our organization. E-mail has opened up other avenues of
contact.

I agree with the comments that find the innuendos of OUSA fiscal impropriety
distasteful. I feel as if you are waging war war by inference and innuendo.
The calling for a proxy vote on the eve of the annual general meeting with
the results being sent to a law office, leads me to believe that you intend
file a law suit at the meeting or shortly thereafter. When you called me in
January, you stated that a law suit did nobody any good except for the
lawyers pockets. Your actions since then have lead me to conclude that it is
your intent to file suit. I have never seen a vote at the Annual General
Meeting (AGM) since I joined in 1984. I did meet my wife at the AGM in 1990.

In that January call, you stated that you had a member of your Seattle group
who was a long time Microsoft employee who was giving you the seed money for
Orca and also helping to establish your corporation for legal cover. All of
these mailing and legal proxies must be expensive. I can only conclude that
your financing is from the same source.

Allen you said, "We are entitled to questions how our money is
spent........They won't answer our questions and keep us in the dark as the
organizations goings on." In one of your past posting, you said that your
lawyer advised you not to contact the board except through your lawyer. That
is like the police reading you your Miranda rights and then asking why
aren't you talking. You imposed the lawyers on the situation with your
threats of suit.

I refute your statement that the board is autocratic. They do try to
consider all points of view, unfortuantely they are sometimes limited in
this view point. In the New York area (+/- 100 miles) there are 9 active
origami groups and many more folders meeting informally outside of the OUSA
office. You can live an breath origami if you want. That is a far cry from
some of the folders where there is no active folder for 100 miles or more.
That is a different culture.

I agree that the Board will open up over time but I believe that it should
be an evolutionary change over time not revolutionary through a law suit.
Ideally, the out of town members should be on a rotational basis like the
senate where one third are up at each elections to maintain continuity and
foster an institutional memory.

Maithias Gutfeldt, sorry for mucking up list with OUSA politics but this is
fast breaking news and saves me from making many phone calls. I expect that
the list will be full up with politics after the AGM so be prepared with
your delete button. I was sorry to hear that Paulo Mulatino had left the
German organization over political matters. I do not know what it was over
only that he is gone.

Chinh Nguyen, the mask book has many beautiful full color pictures of his
mask: HOWever there are only diagrams for about five of them which then
serve as bases for the other modes.. I was able to look at some of the
picutures and then fold them. I liked his version of Salvidor Dali. I must
admit that I had to get some one to translate the titles of the pictures -
while the masks were beautiful - I had no idea what they were to represent.
I had assumed that they were Japanese archtypes, fairy-tail figures or ????
I enjoyed the book, it is a bit pricey given the amount of diagrams but full
color photographs are expensive.

I would recommend that proxy votes be given to the Board members or other
trust friends other than Allen's suggestions.

In my past life before Origami, I was a SF Fan, SF reader, and convention
goer. I ran the Green Room at Lunacon the NYC area convention each March.
There were over 2,000 attendee. While a member of Lunarians I learned more
about Robert's Rules of Order than I wanted too. When I was on the board,
and FOCA started promoting regional groups - I had hopes/dreams of OUSA
evoling into something like SF where there would be small regional origami
cons most weeks somewhere in the country. I now have gafiated from fandom
for the most part. I now say that I am involved with Origami Fandom.

I am off to prepare for the Convention so I will not be back in the office
till July 6th. Any e-mail sent to me will not be read until sometime after
that.

Hope to see all but one of you at the convention.

Sincerely,

Mark Kennedy
