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
