[Origami] Winter Origami Exchange 2014!
Hello everyone! It’s time for CAL Origami's Winter Origami Gift Exchange! This is our annual event where we pair up people from around the world and help them send awesome origami to each other to spread a little holiday goodwill! Last year, we had over 130 participants from 22 different countries, and we hope that this event will continue to grow. How can you be a part of this awesome event you may ask? Follow these simple steps! 1) Fill out the google form by: December 3rd, 2014. Please do not misspell your address/email! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pXRh2VSyZi2Ex6HBSZXpz2DWu0aCfYd1ABFiqq0plC0/viewform 2) We will send a test/confirmation email by December 4th. Afterwards, the list and addresses will be randomized, you will get an email by December 5th telling you where to send your model. 3) You must send your model by December 19th! 4) Once you receive your model, take a picture of it, and post it on the Facebook Event Page! Join the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/735659849846476/ Just a few reminders By participating in this event, you must agree to the following terms (PLEASE READ): -I am 18 yrs old or older. If I am under 18 I have consent from my parent/guardian to participate. -I agree to the honor code that I will send: at least 1 origami model to my assigned recipient, AND I will ship it between December 7 and December 20th. I also agree that once I submit this form I have committed to participate. -I understand that once I submit this form, my address will be shared with the person that will be sending me a package. AND that by signing up I understand that it is not 100% guaranteed that I will receive anything due to breach of honor code or mail carrier failure. In addition to your model here are some other cool things you can send -interesting paper -a postcard of your hometown -a note with contact info If you have any questions or concerns, please email: origamiexcha...@gmail.com Wesley Guo Origami Exchange Team
Re: [Origami] Carmen Sprung's Stern Franziska spinner
On Nov 25, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Michael Sanders fightflipnf...@gmail.com wrote: So when I finally folded Carmen Sprung's Stern Franziska at last Sunday's Pacific Ocean Paperfolders meeting, I also discovered that it makes for a wonderful spinner: http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/2014/11/carmen-sprungs-stern-franziska-as-blow.html Any other models out there that weren't designed as spinners, yet spins well? Hi all, Back in 2008 Wensdy Whitehead taught a very similar looking model from a single dollar bill at OUSA convention. On my Flickr site are more pictures of my dollar bill star spinners collection with 4 points, 5 points, 6 points, and 7 points. These are slight modification of the 5 pointed one taught to me by Wensdy Whitehead at OUSA 2008. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bkwebb/3464588236 Brian K. Webb
[Origami] Origami related Story
Back in 2001, I had attended an NOA and a JOAS convention. After the JOAS convention, Yamaguchi-san had organized a bus trip to tour the country side. The first stop was a village where they made handmade paper. The Japan Times had a story about such a site getting UNESCO Heritage designation. I do not know if it is same site. Mark Kennedy 'Washi' paper-making village hopes UNESCO designation will bring tailwind Japan Times Nov 25, 2014 by Tomohiro Osaki http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/washi-paper-making-village-hopes-unesco-designation-will-bring-tailwind/#.VHSrIsLwuic
[Origami] A Couple of Holiday Toots!
Hey all, Just wanted to send out a couple of announcements for your post-turkey pre-holidaze preparations. The first is a very late announcement that ///Tom Stamm's Origami Dragons/ is finally available. It actually went live in July but with my surgery and recovery I've been very remiss in announcing it. It contains Tom's original /Sea Serpent Dragon/ model which was released in booklet form from OUSA way back in the day... but also contains several other of his dragons including his charming /Multi-Piece Sea Serpent/ and a few others which have never been diagrammed before. All re-diagrammed by me (and somewhat re-engineered under Tom's close guidance it also includes a set of 4 new flapping dragons (3 by me one by him). Like /Mooser's Train/ the book is basically priced as low as possible that Amazon allows so that as many as possible can access his work. You can check it out on my authors page: http://www.amazon.com/J.-C.-Nolan/e/B00O4PNHKM - *Stamm's Dragons* Secondly and probably most exciting is that the newly restored and updated versions of the entire 30 year history of the FOCA/OUSA Annual Collections are now available in the same beautiful paperbound versions that the past two years of the OUSA Origami Collection (2013/2014). Making these available in paperback form has been a multi-year project with over a half-dozen volunteers (you KNOW who you are!) contributing 100's of hours of time to beautifying and preserving these wonderful books containing models and early diagrams and explorations of many of the best known creators today as well as, of course, updated work as their art has evolved. (/Engel, Lang, Montroll, La Fosse, Shafer, Weiss, Robinson, Koh, Kirschenbaum, etc./) 2500 models and 750 contributors in all. The books all have updated colored covers (as the originals were just one-color xeroxes) cleaned up scans and hand-centering of every single page (initially anyway, later we wrote some custom software to do it because it was taking hours to recenter a single book). Currently the books are only available through OUSA's Origami Source and are priced extremely reasonably (only $10 a book for members). They are a special order item from The Source so if you are looking for a set (or just a few) for holidays it's a good idea to order them ASAP as delivery time is probably a couple of weeks or so: https://origamiusa.org/catalog/books-downloads/series/collection - *FOCA/OUSA Annuals* Best holiday wishes to all! JC
