Re: [Origami] CDO Convention for non-Italian speakers

2024-09-03 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
teach will be a beautiful thing to share and i hope your wife will enjoy it all too!!! (And did i mention that you’ll be in Italy, with delicious food to savor each meal??? 😀 ) Best, Vishakha Pune, India . On Sep 2, 2024, at 22:47, Mike Naughton via Origami

Re: [Origami] CDO Convention for non-Italian speakers

2024-09-02 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
enna, Austria Am Mo., 2. Sept. 2024 um 19:17 Uhr schrieb Mike Naughton via Origami : Hello, I'm considering attending the CDO convention this year, but I don't speak Italian. From what I read, the location, Tirrenia, has a history of American presence dating ba

[Origami] CDO Convention for non-Italian speakers

2024-09-02 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
Hello, I'm considering attending the CDO convention this year, but I don't speak Italian. From what I read, the location, Tirrenia, has a history of American presence dating back many years, so perhaps only speaking English will not be a problem? Also, my wife will be with me, and she is not

Re: [Origami] Need recommendations for overhead phone mount for origami demos

2024-08-18 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
I've used an AboveTek Flexible Arm Aluminum Stand (https://abovetek.com/collections/long-arm-mount). I have model TS-196B; I see there is also a model TS-296B, which for some reason is cheaper right at the moment. I like mine fine for what I do, which is use my phone as a doc cam on Zoom sessio

Re: [Origami] Toot- NY Times

2023-12-11 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
Congratulations! Very nice. :-) On 12/11/2023 4:37 PM, Sy Chen via Origami wrote: I am in the news: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/science/mathematics-tiling-einstein.html Best wishes, Sy Chen -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-24 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
I started thinking about similarities between origami and music when it occurred to me that in popular music there are people who write songs and people who sing songs, and sometimes people do both but often they don't. It seems to me that in origami, traditional models are like traditional s

Re: [Origami] Where does the comparison between origami and music come from?

2023-09-23 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
I've thought of it myself -- I don't think I heard it from anyone else, but it seems like a natural comparison. Mike Naughton On 9/23/2023 9:38 PM, gera...@neorigami.com wrote: Hi everyone. Ever since I became an active member of the origami community, through the web, I've heard about the c

Re: [Origami] 'Modular origami article for Wikipedia'

2023-04-17 Thread Mike Naughton via Origami
Dave - IMHO, very nicely done, and a big improvement over what's there. I'll just offer some comments on the "classic designs" section: - should it include Toshie Takahama's "Jewel"? - what about Lewis Simon? I don't know his chronology -- if Rona Gurkewitz is on this list, maybe she can help? -