——— CONTACTS Chairman Seeontery David Brill David Petty 3 Worth Hall 35 Corfe Crescent Middiewood Road Hazelgrove Poynton Stockport Stockport (Cheshire SK7 SPR Cheshire Ski2 11S Tel: 01625 872 509 Tel: 0161 456 9975 Membership Secretary Treasurer Penny Groom Katharine Diver 2a The Chestnuts 28 Dagless Way Countesthorpe Maron Leicester LE8 STL PEIS BOY Tal: 0116277 3870 Tel: 01954 660 060 Magazine Editor Joan Homewood Supplies Officer Mill Cottage cant Bove Arlington Norman Vila Barnstaple eee Devon EX3i ALN ea Tal: 01271 850 306 Derbyshire DEdS 1PH Librarian Brian Goodall Publicity 5 Vicarage Gardens S ty Hart wsliatey, 1 Coronation Avenue Sutton Colds Victoria Rodd West Midlands 878 1HX stoke Newingion ol: 0121 951 1912 London N16 8OT PRESIDENT Mick Guy VICE-PRESIDENTS Akira Yoshizawa David Lister John Smith 1996 Subscription Rates (Ordinary £16.50 Student £12.00 Overseas £19.00 (Europe) Rest of the World £24.00 or $47 DECEMBER 1996 18 7EDITORIAL | am delighted 10 be able to send to you al, the ‘season's grostings by way of the wonderful (Christmas tree from Max Hume on ths Issues ‘cover. Diagrams are at the end ofthe magazine ‘so that you can make one for yourself. But be warned - the Flapping Bra on one ofthe branches was made from a 1 om square! Have been gating some e-mail messages from ‘Sergei Aon, the latest being thatthe Fussian ‘magazine is availabe from hin atthe St Petersburg Origami Certre. Each issue costs $5 including postage. Those of you who wish to ‘obtain these please crop Sergei a postcard to say you have sent the money to is account as follons ‘SWIFT ICSPRUPAXXX Industry & Construction Bank plc Saint-Petersburg Nevsky Pr. Avenue 38 Saint-Petersburg 191011 Russia ‘Account Number 507070082 ‘Afonkin Sergei Yurievich ‘The money can be sont eithor in dotars or pounds sterling but | nave a suspicion that Sergot has not taken into account the cost of changing the money into Rubles, ‘A report on the Russian magazines wl flow, probably in the ne issue - as well 3s report of ‘he fantastic meeting in Alara, Models atthe end aso include a coupe of my ‘avourtes ftom the Bimingham 96 convertion - ‘a"Purse” by Akko Yamanashi and Jose ‘krooshoop's “Almost-a.Cube:ina-Box” eae \) Cover: Christmas Tree by Max Hulme Photo: BRITISH ORIGAMI SOCIETY No 181 December 1998 Copyright 1996 the BOS Editor: Joan Homewood Mill Cottage Astington Bamstaple Devon EX31 4LN Tel: 01271 850306 CONTENTS 1 People, Paper and Places 5 Issei Yosino, Obituary @ —_Aword about the 1996 Fall BOS Convention from one who was there 9 Members 10 Nota ‘Bow Ties, But a BOS' Tie 42 The Binz 13 Minimeetng Reports 16 “Worlds within Worlds" 48 Origami Deutschland Corwention: Borin 1996 2 Bont Out of Snape 22 My Ideal CD-Rom 26 Reviews 26 Conifer (Christmas Tree) by Max Hulme 20 Kingfisher by Chika Tesai 82 Rabbit by Alexander Tunin 34 Foxy Wan Lopez Figueroa 36 Flower Form by Nick Robinson 87 Almosta-Cube Box by Jose Krooshoop 38 Printed in the United Kingdom. No part ofthis pubbcation may be reproduced. stored in @ retrieval system, or transmited in any form oF ‘means, electronic, mechanical photocopying. recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission ofthe publisher ‘Well more ike just Paper and Places this month! Never rind, here's the latest digest of origami news from all comers ofthe globe. PAPER ‘On Seren (Origami is featured in the recont fim “James and the Giant Peach’. Athough the {olding is done rather quicky, there's no mistaking the fished model a large \waterbornb! With the addition of some sting and a candle, it tums ito a hotter balloon, Perhaps this could be Richard Branon’s next challenge? [Larry Hart) Rock ‘n’ Fold, Ralph Matthew's has sent in a photograph, showing a DB poster advertising a pop ‘concern Holland. Not only does the poster show a paper plane, being readied ‘or takeoff, but he instructions for folding i are aso included Maybe this is a precursor to cxigari graft artists; who knows, one day you might bbe folding someone's latest creation, painted in grfit diagrams on the pars of the A4O Westway in London ‘Tho Folding Editor! ‘A rather novel use of origami is featured ina product called “Origami for Windows", developed by Elcom, a private Russian software company who, ‘emongst other things. specialize in patallel programrring for Windows. The software is described as a ‘folding editor’. which extends the principle of teestructured directories onto a text fe, This allows the simutaneous display of large ‘amounts of text, by ‘folding’ sections of text away behind a descriptive heading The advantage of this system is that it ilurinates the need for seemingly endless paging through long fies to find the section of interest, lowing you to move down the tree stuctue, folowing the (hopefully) descriptive headers, to locate the text Yyou require. As ever, more information can be obtained from the company’s Intemet web site at htp //urwecsc:miptru/Elcom/. ‘Soon & Heard On Saturday 21st September, the opering few moments of the UK BBC1 editon of "Casualy’ featured a lad “entertaining” a young gil. by showing her the Fortune Tellet! [Rick Beech] Hard Copy ‘The Saturday 2 Ist September UK eaition ofthe Daily Mirror newspaper, featured a regular colurnn caled "Dead or Alve’. written by Victor Lewis Smith, Not totaly sefious | might add, the colurnn allows readers to write in and ask whether someone is dead or aive. The celebrities chosen are usually qute obscure, and of ‘the “5 minute” wonder varety. The article says: “Thumbs down for Robert (origi) Harbin, Several readers confirmed that he folded himself @ paper ladder and walked pit to Heaven it takes al sorts! [Rick Beech] Books Spotted at the October London minimizing (thank you Rosa), and now published by Dover, one of the early classic paperfolding books by Willam Murray and Francis Figney. Original tied ‘Fun with Paper Fokiing’ and pubshed in 1928, the current ceciton is called "Paperfolding for Beginers’, and originaly dates from 1960. The ‘book: looks more lke a novel, wit a lot of written inctructons, such as “move points AB and CE to produce XXXX in figure 5". It realy has be seen to be believed, but remember that this was inthe days well before the standard international symbols that we know today, which were initially popularized by Yoshizawa and Randlett among others. were in common use. The models are all ‘airy wel know, but is certainly a signicant publication in the history of origami in the west Origami and Molecular Modeling (On October 16th, the UK BBC 1 news contained an item about the discovery of a ‘new C60 carbon molecule, known as a buckminsterfulerene ("buckyball for short). Coincidentally | had already received a scientific journal paper, co-authored by Francis Ow, enttled “Molecular Modeling of Fullerenes with Modular Origar ‘The article ciscusses how ongami has been used by chemists to aid understanding ‘of molecuar stuctures, including that of C6O. To quote the authors, given that “if you can build a model oft then you are well on the way to understanding the structure, origami clealy has a role in thee dimensional visualizations. The basic "buckyball contains $0 ‘sp2 carbon-carbon bond’ units, folded from Som squares. and takes about 2 hours to fold and assemble, | hope to include a more detaled description of the article ina future edition of the magazine. PLACES Spain — News from Vicente Palacios: Vicente continues his investigation into the History of ape fling, Towards the ond of summer, he ‘examined drawings carved inthe seats ofthe ‘chorus ofthe cathedral of Burgos. The seat backs wore made inthe 16th century, fom boxwood encrusted in oak wood. ard al are the subject of popular themes. Mentioned ina previous column, some of the drawings, ‘paper vindis’ were thought tobe possibly based on paper folds of the ime. However, this has not tuned out to be tho case. Al the carvings are of tWo types: Type 'A’ is carved twice, and type °B is carved 24 times. These games were named in the 16th century as “REHILANDERAS’. Today they “ ate referred to as ‘Paper Mis’, ‘Smal Paper Mis’ or “Twisted 3 PAPER Paper Mit’ The paper used was probably quite rates strong ‘Also, Vicente has discovered in @ book, the following ilustraion that corresponds to the 19th century Victorian period This game certainy appears to be derived from the above mentioned "Retilanderas’Luis Valldeneu, who you might recall has folded a Paraita korn a 03mm square, was featured in the August edition of a magazine devoted to the Catalan rexion called “Ausona’. The 3 page interview also featured colour photographs of Luis, showing his various origami creations Diagrams that Vicente has sent me include the folowing 1. Avery interesting cat by Juan Lsnez Figueras. The same inital steps have also been used to fold an Bephant, a Bear and a Fox. As far as | can see, Juan has given permission for this to be publshed in the BO.S, 1987 Spring Convention pack. 2 ABeech Marten {with cuts) and a Mask, both so far unpublished, by Vicente Solazano Sagtedo. For those who don't know, he was a contemporary of Yoshizawa and Isao Honda, and lved from 1883 until 1970, These diagrams hhave been passed onto Joan for possible inclusion in a future edition of the magazine. Hungary ‘The July convention atracted about 130 people, altiough it doesn't appear as though there were any foreign vistors, [Vicente Palacios] London Calling lust a quick note to say how great it was to see so rany people at the October London minimeeting. In fact, it was more Ske a mini convention, with so many people that we had to move to a bigger room! Some new faces and more ‘younger attendees, are holping to make these meetings a realy great aternoon {event So, to anyone who's been thinking about coming you'l be most welcome further details ate on the inside back page) ‘An extra special “thank you! to everyone wio's contibuted to the columa throughout the year. Have a restiul and enjoyable Christmas and New Year. See you alin 1997. Please send your contibutions to David Cohen, 6 Margaret Road, Stamford Hil London, N16 6UX. England, Email david cohen@hhimis. dee com eS Beuxee Se ISSEI YOSHINO ‘As Airmail colurmnist inthe early 1990's | was saddened by the news from Canada ‘that a fre had destroyed both the Japanese Paper Place and the home of origami enthusiast Toshi Aoyagi and was moved to write to him with a small donation to the fund that had been set up in the aftermath So began a correspondence with ‘Mr Aoyagi who was a keen ambassador forthe creative talents of a group of folders in his native Japan. The Origarni Tanteidan (poorly translated into “The COrigarri Detectives") are mainly | understand around their early 20s or 30s in age and concentiate mainly on highly complex models. It was suggested that | contact Issei Yoshino who had just frished a book containing one model - the now ‘wel-known Skeleton of T-Rex! Corresponding with overseas enthusiasts is sornething | would highly recommend to anyone because . not only do You make instant friends wit lke minded sous but find yourself in receipt of some exciting returns inthe post So it was with Iss! ‘Yoshino, who generously sent me diagrams ofa his best known creations. along with delight eters and photographs. Once, when | put an acvert in the BOM for TToyoaki Kawai's Spring and Auturnn books from his Four Seasons collection, Iss tried to buy copies for me in Japan, found them to be out of pint. so photocopied them from cover to cover for me! | was thriled then to discover that he was planring to attend York "95 and ‘everyone there was treated to the comeany of a highly intaligent, quiet spoken, ‘modest young man. | will never forget helping out in his teaching ofthe Tiger, as he felt his English might not be up to scratch ‘explaining diffcut moves. I knew it would be, from our correspondence, but thought I'd ike to watch the man at work more closely anyway. It came as @ great shock to loarn of Ise’ death, at the age of 31. sadly belore he was able to s90¢ the publication of his frst collection of ‘origami works and it clear that we have lost a dear fiend and an exciting talent in the world of origami Fick BeechA WORD ABOUT THE 1996 FALL BOS CONVENTION FROM ONE WHO WAS THERE. JOANNE ORTMAN ‘This year | was the only American at the BOS convention at Stephenson Hal ‘of Residence, The Univesity of Shefeld. 1 was asked to write a few words, Back hhome I do a newsletter, Manifold, for CHAOS, the Chicago Area Origami Society, 0 | am in the habit of asking myself, who am | writing for. | assurne those who ‘weren't there, unless those who were need to be reassured that they did not imagine it Those of you who were not there, yes. we did tae about you, but | ich’t befeve everything | heard. eft my note taking habits back in the states, so ‘many names and times and specifics are already forgotton. What remains are impressions. ‘This was a convention for everyone. You did not have to be an origarr star. ‘We started by eating together and getting to know one another atthe bar on Friday night. We gathered in the assembly room Saturday moming fo introductions and greetings, as displays took shape. Fst we folded together a model which ‘umed out to be a stamp holder. John Smith posed the question “what makes fine folding” He suggested an activity. nota contest, in which those who wished would fold a crane and the Fujmoto cube, no names, just an identiying number, to be examined to see what Was fne about therm. The next wo days were a succession of folding. eating and minging in Simple, Intermediate and Complex rooms. The fine weather meant that some of the folding could be outside. The schedule evolved as the weekend went on with petiodic announcements and postings of how things stood. At an American convention with around 600 people, we start by standing in ine for tickets. At the BOS convention you could ‘come and go as you liked. People said “did you know that at American conventions the origami police ‘come around when time is up, even if you aren't fished?” | opted for quite a bit (of non-stuctured informal folding. it was announced at the beginning that ‘conversation should take place in the assembly areas, not classrooms, but | noticed ‘occasional violations. At a simple session John Smith taked about forgiving folds hich veld satishing resuits even f not perfect folded, making them especialy suitable for those with csabiltes. He demonstrated a pecking bird, box and glider, among others, that met this citerion. This was interspersed with audience clscussion on teaching tactics and the age-old questions. do you or don't you help fod a student's model (most thought atthe vety least you should ask permission}. ‘Saturday evening David Venables received the Sichey French award and had his cet broken into. as the real world intruded into our faryand. ‘Sunday began with another assembly. John Smith and David Bri ‘commented on what was good about the models submitted tothe “what makes fine folding’ activity, David Bril led us around the display area and invited those ‘who cisplayed to comment My display was some of my Chicago Manifold ‘ewsleters. some "Bent Out OF Shape" colurnns I wrote some years back for the (Origami USA newsletter, and some models by Midwestern American folders. | ‘wouldn't know where to startin describing the rest ofthe exhibits - good show. ‘Carmen Morris had a display of origami books she had written. Marten van Galder's Wheelchair Dancers was something not to miss. David Bri's exhibit included an origami sil fe he recently painted. | fked the feeling thatthe exhibit area was for everybody. With 600 people there are so many exhibits, all of them spectactiat that | would not feel comfortable making my humble contibution. But thie was for whatever you wanted to share A disadvantage was that it was a bit separated from the teaching aress, hard to go infor a quick peek when you had a ‘couple minutes. ‘Then there was more teaching, mingling, and eating (sometimes all at once). For ‘my part | taught a waterbomb based chair by American folder Rae Cooker (‘the strawberry lady") Sunday afferncon. There was time out for a novelty contest. ‘group picture, and work on Nick's crossword purze, and visits to the supply room Before it seemed possible, it was over, boxes were being packed and people looked forward to next time. So many people went out of theit way for me, thanks ‘everybody, hope to see you again by and by, be sure and come to the next (Origami USA convention!MEMBERS Ponny Groom penny @setoe demon.cn.k ‘These are the new members up to the Ordinary fend of October. Membership is slightly tp on 1995. fany of the naw members Peter Butterworth - Seedfeld, Bury lve near you, why not get in touch wath David Bamett- London £5 them. I can give you their addresses i Margaret Cooter - London NS they want to be on the membership ist, Francis Scott - Kensington, London if not you can write to the c/o me. Jarnes C Thompson - Rudgwick, ‘you have mini meetings in your area, W. Sussex ‘ive them a call and ask them along. Anna Szabady - North Finchley. London ‘Conny Jones-Timmermans. Penneylvania, Exetor Junior Overseas Philp Carne - Guidiord, Surey Daniel Wison - Bediordshire ‘Samuel Green - Ramat Aviv Grnmel Catolne Schofeld - Poynton, Cheshite Israel James Turton - West Midlands Thomas Jansson - Sandvken, Sweden Naorri Wong - Barnet, Herts Helena Dworeck -Firdand ‘Andrew Johnson - Gossop, Derbyshire Herman Ko ~ Coquitlam, BC. Canada Have a very Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! PennyNOT A ‘BOW’ TIE, BUT A ‘BOS’ TIE Having “foated” the idea of having a men’s te for members of the Society at ‘2 Convention last year. which was met with 2 fay posite response. | went home and set about finding a compary that could make one. | went through the business of subrritting various designs and suggestions and eventually received sample te which | felt would have general acceptance in the Society. ‘At the most recent Convention in Sheffeld | was abie to unvel this innovation. Athough | thought they were excellent. | must say that | had been & litle concemed about whether or not they would sel. because I had invested the ‘money for our new central heating boiler in their production. Happily they have ‘01d very well indeed and all the comments have been very favourable: Our President. Mick Guy said, “Can't think why we diin't do this years ago". and Robin Macey took six with him for bis forthcoming trp to the States ‘The reason for writing ths article is so that those of you who didn’t manage to get to Shefeld (incidentally you missed an excellent convention) wil now that the tes are now avaiable from Sandy Boyd in Supplies. The tes are dark blue polyester with multple woven BOS logos on them, and they sell at £8.50 plus pip, ‘The intial production run was of about 60 tes, of which wel over half have ‘now been sold. If you want one for yourself, or someone else a5 a present. don't leave it until they have all sold out. We can get further supplies, butit takes about ‘sk weeks to get them manufactured. “Those of you who have already added one to your personal wardrobe may be interested inthe attached article from the front page of the Daly Telegraph 31. 8.89, which Mick Guy sent to me when he knew what | was planning to do, How about tying it as a way of tying our new Society te - it might become habit Dick Hailwood Guess who the Santa is - answer ‘willbe in the February issue - so don't forget to pay your subs! ‘You will also be able to ead al about the fantastic Charlot, ‘Atlanta meeting this summerTHE BLINTZ . . is frustrating at times to fold accurately. The folowing method may help. The perfect bint inevitable recuires the perfect square, which is not always apparent! ‘The conventional method of folding four comets to the identified centre is exacting to the extreme, an should your paper not be perfect you wil suffer ovelaps oF ‘gaps. Even with the added aid of vertical and horizontal crease Ines, | stil find fiddly adjustments stil necessary Providing your model is not compromised in its purty, a preliminary base is rst folded. Each open comer is then valley folded up to the closed point and adjusted to within the confines ofthe triangle so produced. Open up from the base then fiaten. On white/colour paper, a white prairinary wil give a colour bint ‘Whereas previously you may have had three locations to fold to, te. the creased Conte and sides ofthe triangle, you have have in each case, EDGES and a POINT. “The beauty is tat if your square has tho sightest inaccuracy, this method wil rrinimise the faut, and enable you to achieve the best possible result To me, folding to an edge is far mote practicable than to a crease. Brian Cole Bian has found an elegant solution to a problem that many of us have ‘experienced, | do congratulate him on his idea | have a small suggestion which avoids the need to fold a preliminary base where is ‘not needed subsequent, ‘Step 1 Fold the square in hal ‘Step 2 Fold in half length wise, thus forring a square with 4 layers of paper. ‘Step 3_Fold the open point o the top comer, repeat behind, Step 4 Open the valley fold made in Step 2 and make it a mountain. Step 5 Repeat Step 3 Step 6 Open up to give the bintz form. John Sevith {I would like to hear of any other solutions to problem folds - how about an easy Way to do a sink | know of one leat frorn Sam Randle, [think More in next ‘ssue ~ as long as | can daw ti Edtor) 12 Manchester Jay. Ongar books brought along by members included two copies of Paul [Mulatinho's book “Origami, and this book was the basis of teaching for almost half the Juy meeting ‘Nun (Kasahata). folowed by Frog (Juan Gimeno), then Gift Box (Giovanni ‘Maltaglat), a taditonal envelope, and Daisy's Envelope (by Nick Robinson, and named after his daughter). Among the other models. we folded a third ervelope - Paul Jackson's Pajarta Envelope. Sorneone seid thatthe Pajarta can be rale Or ‘female, but | wonder if that's tue. * * From the Spanish Dictionary pajarita. | paper bird pajarota. 1 hoax, fraud jaro, m. (ig). shrewd fellow ‘September in anticipation of Chistras (ft gets earlier every yea, folks). we began the September meeting with (one of) The Three Wise Men. an elegant and smple fold by Robert Neale. This was followed by an elegant but notso-simple vase, by Dave Petty, and Tato Stato by Loes Schakel Other model included John Smith's ying Duck, a Taking Fox, and Ted Magrath's {smiling} Bear. ‘October. ying proved to be the theme of October's meeting. From one Japanese book (with translation) we folded a Flying Parrot, and from another (without ttandltion) a "FWving Thing”. Then a plane that flew but came back - Max Hume's spectacular Boomerang Plane, and one of Kasahara's fying crenes (a variation on the classic Kondo's Dancing Crane), which would have flown “f you bend the wings a bit “The next model, a camel, prompted the question, “is a Sopwith camel” (eepreciated by enthusiasts of early arcrat), and having folded a Hermit Crab by ‘Shozo lbhide, some were convinced that even this would fy,“ you throw ithard ‘enaugh (01) 13London July: 18 people attended. foking expertise was put to the test in folowing the diagrams of a Baby Buggy (created by Raymond McLain) which were received ‘tom Rick Beech, That old chestnut, the traditional crane, came under discussion Several variations fit were folded as knowledge of its place in Japanese custom unfolded, August 9 members met atthe Daiwa Foundation. Lerin told us of her successful involwement in an outdoor festival in North London where she taught orgarni to interested attendees. This “hands-on” participation was well received and she has been invited back for future events Models folded included a 3D tortoise, plus models from numerous Tomoko Fuse books on display. One of Fuse’s modular boxes invted the challenge for its recreation in one piece of paper. Robin Gyn outwtted all comers. October: 23 members congregated at the Datwa Foundation - London's most ‘successful attendance to date. A warm, frst ime welcome was extended to Simon ‘Skol, Ron Drake and Ashyar Malic ‘Models folded included an elephant and a very well proportioned giraffe which ‘Ashyar has created from the fsh base. Mark Boitho taught us his very novel colled snake, Steve assisted in the folding of dish variations. as seen atthe Shefield Convention, which were developments from the Fuse box challenge from the ‘August meeting, (On view were a very large variety of books, both new and familar. There were also several back copies of The Origamian (courtesy of Dave Cohen} Loren Buckley tld us about her “origami Summer Schoo’, which took place at the Dawa Foundation. and thanked everybody for their help both at the Daiwa and for the material sent to assist her. have included just {wo of the wonderful collection of Loren’s photos - all of which show the delight and ‘concentration of the children $e ¢ bbe eB 18“WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS” Paul Jackson | “The photographs reproduced here are from @ new series of folds developed from, ‘tly work shown at the 1995 York Convention, later photographed for ORU magazine No.13. Those easly pieces were arty, swity abstracts. but later ones = those shown here - are more focused. based on seed, shells and other naturalistic forme. Each piece is made from brown or white paper that has had charcoal heavily scrubbed into its surface, then sealed with starch. They are made from sheets between A3 and AO in Sze. ‘The precise origins ofthe series are dficut to analyze, such is the enigma of creativity. Nevertheless, the series brings together several interests: a wish to make ‘folded sculptures" rather than “origatni models", a wish to tansformn the paper surface (here with charcoal), t control it as closely asthe folding is controled. a ish to develop exhibition wrk (which | have never propetly explored, preetting to think of origami as “folding” rather than “folded”. But then, to me, these new pieces are not origami) and a wish to explore the idea of abstracting naturalistic forms, rather than trying to represent them lteraly by model making ‘The seties continues to develop and the issues it raises continue to fascinate me. 16ORIGAMI DEUTSCHLAND CONVENTION: BERLIN 1996. ‘Nex ROBINSON ‘A the very last minute, | decided funds would permit me to attend the annual convertion of Origami Deutschland, held this year in Berin This would not have been possible without the generous offer of Origami Deutschland to cover some of my exzenses. for which | ar eternally grateful As an avid reader oftheir ‘magazine Der Falter (well, I ook at the pictures & struggle with the words) the prospect of attending was mouth watering. | wavelled via Heathrow to save costs (coll on the Shefield airport) and arved in Berlin on Friday atermoon, After some sight() problems with expaining \where I wanted to go, I reached the Morgenlancische Frauenmission in Stegitz just in time for ailing vegetarian meal. | was pleased to see several other Bits in ‘attendance; Dave Bril, David Lister, John Smith, Rick Beech, John Cuniifle and ‘expatriate Edwin Corie, curenty engaged as a technical translator for Audi, who ‘evidently don't supply ther staf with free cars! The guest of honour was Sergei ‘Afonkin (aia the “Russian Bear”) wth whom I had previousy met at York and ‘exchanged several e-mails with. The main room was koht and aiy, with tables full ‘of avd folders and a large number of exhbition tables. | admitted defest at 11pm and collapsed into my bed. Breakfast introduced me to the fist of several thousand slices of cheese | ‘was to consume over the weekend and we began folding at Sam. The schedule for the weekend consisted of the directions “tlt, fallen, falta” (old, fold, fold” in case you wondered) interrupted only by the usual meals. There were two main sessions at any one time, but many people simply grabbed a chair and folded in smal groups I was heartened to see the enthusiasm for simple folds which characterized every person there. | sometimes get the feeling that the BOS is ppethaps too “experienced” in some ways and that we can loose the pure deight of folding in search of exceptional or impressive designs. Organizer Oliver Drewien was kept very busy sorting out accommodation ‘and meals for late attendees (quit) but stil had time to welcome everyone. ‘Charman Heinz Strobl, in a dapper suit, was the perfect host, dernonstrating the apparently comman abily to speak near perfect Engish. Sike Schroeder was rarely seen, spending most ofthe weekend runring the impressive supplies room, The range of books and paper was a clear target for the new, improved BOS suppkes 8 setup; Dave B and | have noted down several possible areas from which we can take inspiration, Amongst the stock were a full range of the superb Oru magazine. Dave's wonderful “Brillant Origarn” and Rick's fne “Discover Origarn’ the latter ‘wo tomes both targets for some extended autograph sessions! | was detighted to meet the Brazlian meisteraltoreditor Paulo Multinho, whose impressive graphical ails and deep love for origami have turned Der Falter into perhaps the best origami magazine around | say this with all due deference to ‘the steing efforts of Joan and others! Paulo has the uncanny git (shared by Thoki Yern) to impress and inspire all who meet him. My afternoon session was typical of the efforts made by Origami Deutschland. | suggested we might ty some wet folding, but there was no suitable paper. The remarkably organized Susanna Welenberg hauled me into her BMW ‘and we ffantcaly searched Berl for sutable paper, despite the shops closing at pm. By the te the session started, she had cut the paper ito nest squares, obtained some sponges, cut them to size, ‘mdistened them & placed each one in a plastic bagl The technique was new to ‘most Germans but | managed to get my phlosoptical ramblings across fairly well. tn the evening. Dave Bil ran his infamous (sory. customary) exhiition review, a novel experience for the Germans. Luckly for him, Edwin was able to ‘translate his questons into German and ther reples back into Engish. This worked fe until Sergei naughtly gave his comments in Russian and insisted Dave translated them! He managed ths in a remarkably concise fashion, summatzing 5 ‘minutes of Russian into a few mere words of English. Heine Strobi's display rellected his contuing fascination for geometric shapes folded ftom sips of narrow telex paper. One design in particular was quite wonderful, 2 cross formed using 60 degree geomet. His teaching services were in stong demand across the weekend. John Smith also ran several sessions based around his latest book of ‘origami pop-ups. Needless to say, the folding continued early into the morning, Sunday folowed much the same pattem of “falten. alten, falten” and fm pleased to report thatthe last three people folding at 4pm Sunday were Lister Smith (somewhat tipsy) & Robinson. Sad yet optimistic farewels were made. That evening. a small crowd made an excursion into the former East Germany to sample more culinary deights, erally washed down (very liberally in David's case!) ‘with light-dark beer, dark-derk beor & other obscure permutations. We faled ‘miserably to count the 40 odd steps down to the loo; through sorne strange Wick Cf nature, there were diferent numbers of steps going down compared to coming up. Othe other way round, of possibly nether. We were amazed and dismayed 9thatthe pub closed at a mere 1 Ipm. On return to the meeting hall, we carried on chattering into the early hours Monday moming saw the few remaining Brits visit the Reichstag (it was closed!) and gaze at the Brandenburg Gate, before rapidly sobering atthe sight of ® section ofthe infamous Berin Wall, pockmarked with bullet holes. We ate a meal ‘within yards ofthe wal. reflecting on the magnitude of mans capaci to harm ther men. The whole area wes a hive of industry as economic & physical reconstruction laid the foundations for a prosperous, united Berlin. ‘At 4pm I et with Paulo & Sike, bound for ther home in Freising. but the ‘wo lane autobahn soon came to a dead halt for throe hours. We spent the time Cursing East German efficiency and folding with neatby drivers. One lucky chit tended up with a free book, courtesy of the ever-generous Paulo. We staggered home at 2am. and unloaded the supplies. Sike had to rise at am to return the van to nearby Munich, but she stil managed to join us in (more) ‘cheese and (mote) beer my kinda gall Tuesday saw Deve Bil jin us he had sensibly fown down in ess than an hhour & was forced to éknk alone the previous night. We went on a guided tour of Freising, the most unepoit town you il ever seein Germany or probably lsowhore. They were celebrating 1000 years of Frisng, but the 100 year old photos in each shop showed that litle had changed since that time. We visited @ superb example of Rococo (cing cake) architecture in a local church before setting down for, wel, cheese & beer. That evening saw mary local folders Gather ata hostery where we folded. supped. folded E+ thorouahiy pigged ourselves. We prepared Sike for a possible vst to Yorkshire by teaching her “What's tha thnk o' me at”, “Tha’s barmy thee” and other less salubrious phrases. Back home to Paul & Sike's. we spent a happy hour or two filing the remaining {gaps in our stomachs with wine and (mote) cheese. As you wil gather, vst to Germany plays havoc with your waistline, but fils you with such a satisfying Glow at the warmth & tiendship of oigamifok everywhere. ‘Tuesday saw Dave and myself home (on separate fights) where | suffered a 1.5 hour trp from Heathrow to London and a 4 hour craw from London to Sheffield Typicaly, Pauio rang to make sure | had arrived safely. | cannot thank (Origami Deutschland enough for their impeccable treatment of overseas guests (2 lesson to us al). unfailing kindness and generosty. you ever get the chance, get yourselves over there and “alten, falton, fate!” Bent Out of Shape by Joanne Ortmann ‘As many origami books as | havo, there are stll some that | don't have because they are sti to be written. | hear some of them are under way, so you ray want 10 watch out for them, | hear Reader's Digest is interested in condensing some of the popular origami books. Up to now. they have lft the tites unchanged on condensed versions. but ‘with the new truth in advertising regulations, some changes may be necessary. Eric Kenneway's Complete Ongami. an A-Z of Facts and Folds wil probably become Incomplete Origami, an A-B of Facts and Folds. Likewise. Robert Lang's The Complete Book of Origami wil become The Partial Book of Origami, Peter Engel's Folding the Universe ill become Folding the Miky Way Galaxy. ‘A number of authors are working on sequel to ther earlier classics. Samuel Randlett is cleaning out his les prior to publshing The Worst of Origarn, Toshi TTakahama is working on The Duty of Orgarnifor the Puttan audience. | wouldn't be surprised to see James Sakoda come out with Post Modern Origarni | haven't been able to get many deta, but | hear Origami for the Procrastinator wil be out ina few years. And | don't need to tel you the details of Origami for the Telepathe. Kunfiko Kasahara is hoping for the mass market with new books Insipid Origami, and a sequel to Origami for the Connoisseur, Origami for the Tasteless. (One ofthe leasing folders is working on Origami Protezoa. These one-celled creatures have been grossly under-represented in origami to date. It should be possible to imitate this creatures method of reproduction by tugging sharply on two sides of an origami protozoa, (am delighted to be able to reprint Joanne’s amusing columns which were also published in the American magazines of various names | have felt that our BOM has been a ite serious of late! More to come). Feperted wth permission fom Manifold, the rewseter ofthe Chicago Area Origami Sooty. aMY IDEAL CD-ROM David Petty ‘As an exercise | thought | would ty to Models - a ful set of the origami design my own CD-ROM, naturally the models used in BOS conventions with subject is origami. As secretary of the facility to sort by either model name, 'BOS then my proity would be a BOS creator's name, paper size or model Crigami version. The fist decisions ate type. Perhaps with beginners models easy, What would be the main ‘also denoted. Alternatively the models categories tb be included. Here are published in the BO mag could be used mine = (or even better both sets of models) History - a complete history of origami, Symbols - a reminder for beginners. Gallery - a Isting of the most famous Print - the capabilty of printing the ‘origami creators and the models or instruction sheets of any of the models. books they have to their name - with a English (A4) and American paper sizes few mouth-watering colour photographs both inckided ‘showing what can be produced Here is my opening scroen eT eee. a Inthe example, the category "Models" has been selected 22 Bibliography -@ ising of origami Browse - the abity to sweep through books and their authors with sore the Ist of models using the mouse cursor ‘comments as to the models ‘As the cursor passes over each model contained then a copy of the final drawing pops up Con the line where the cursor is positioned. Here is my model search screen Here is my model type browse screen “heropione “Joe Soop ‘Aeroplane Rea Fler Paul lot Fiying Wing| ‘AR ODynamic sopwiincary ES | T.Sopwitn Fiying Cow ‘AFarmer In browse as the mouse cursor crosses the boundaries for each madel name then ‘the final drawing for the mociel pops up into view. Ths is a handy reminder of what the model looks Ike and a good way of selecting possible models to fold In the ‘example chosen we can see that the “Hying Wing" i none other than tho ‘vaditonal “Dart 23Societies - contact addresses for all the attempts and they are no mugs when it ‘currently actve international societies. comes to judging public acceptance. Hopetuty with rough idea of the cost of The problems that they faced were. and the benefits of membershin simply ignorance of the subject. The (magazine, no of issues each year, BOS position is on the other hand, content ete) ‘complete mastery of the subject but ignorance of the software/programming Paper - description of Jepanese types side, The BOS also has access to {and colour photograph of each (rough materials unavailable to earlier idea of the price may be usetu too). developers. By the time this is all putin what have I could continue, but itis afterall only a ‘we gol? The answer is clearly an paper exercise (no pun intended). No ‘origami encyclopaedia! matter how good the screens look the ‘code to run the whole shebang is not ‘A-couple of thoughts occur There must there, Perhaps il can inspire somebody ‘be a market for such @ CD-ROM. after then it can become realty s there all several major software developars anybody out there? have already come out with initial SB a88a8 a8 REVIEWS ‘Quick and Easy Paper Planes that Really Fly Paul Jackson, 32 pages. colour. card cover. price #4.50. Published by Michae! O'Mara Books Limited, 1996 ISBN 186479647X So, just another paper plane book, you might be saying to yourself? Wrong! This compact. ‘publication, has af the ingredients of a regular paper plane book, but is all done on a smaler scale to appeal to chidren its all here a quick introduction, useful folding tps to {get the most out of your labours, adjustments to make ifit doesnt fy right, and a quick tide to symbols. | also tked the advice about going back a fow folds, if whats in your hand doesn't quite match the diagram! ‘There's a wide range of models, made from squares and /\4, with some two piece ‘models to0. Most folds take up no more than seven or eight diagrams. the exceptions being the Floating Ring (3 fokis) and the last model, the T-Glder (12 sequences). Each ‘model also has @ throwing tip. All the diagrams are two-colour based, and the folds are 24 ail mountain and valley Most of the models are either originals, or variations on familiar designs, Ithas the fea of geting you nto whet its al about folding very ick, and enables you to have something ready to fy inno time at all no tape. no clps just paper The planes may not be aetodynarricaly perfect, but this gives chidten the chance to tim them to their own ting! ‘As an added bonus, the book comes with over fity colour stickers (based on designs by Paul). and the photos of each completed model give you plenty of ideas for where to place the stickers To round things of, and a rather novel touch, at the end of the book there's a short list of {games and competitions that are ideal for paper lanes: mind you, 'm not too sure about ling an excited dog as an obstacle for @ golf competition! | feel that this section is abit short and would have been better stretched to a whole page, with more ideas. Pricewise, is just about right This book makes a great gift for the younger audience, and [im sure would wet the appetite to move on to bigger things, David Cohen ISSEI SUPER COMPLEX ORIGAMI by Ise! Yoshino Large format, soft back. 200pp Japanese text Publzhed in the “I Love Origami” series by Makato Yamaguchi. 2,900 yen Although many of the folds in this beaut book are famitar to ORU/Tanteidan Newsletter subscribers and recent convention attendees, iti, nonetheless, an incredible volume of ‘work to have in your collecton, providing hours of folding enjoyment for the complex. ‘model lover Included are the Horse, Tiger. Samurai Helmet, Ticeratops Skeleton, Tex, Baby T-Rex, two diferent motorcycles and the Salmon. New to me isthe Wid Boar ‘which suggests that lssei might hava watched Disney's “Lion King" once or twice ‘The computer diagrams are remarkably clear which all adds tothe pleasure of folding. Fold each of these models, an, as you relish the challenge, as well as your fished results reflect upon what might have folowed from this incredibly talented creator It is my secret hope that Mr Yamaguchi has many more beautiful models that might make up e second volume, NB The adress to write to about this book, the Tanteican Office. has changed to: Hakusan 1-33-8-2 16, Bunkyo-ku, Tolyo, 112 Japan. | syggest sending 4,000 yen to cover bath the book and the postage. 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Mountain mulatiino Normington Organ Palacios Pet ‘Society -= on< am FORTHCOMING EVENTS CONVENTIONS BOS Soring Convention - Bristol University 546 April 1997 {20 Auturnn Convention - Uriversty of Rippon & York, York 19-21 September (Goth Anniversary) We are expecting several famous international folders to this meeting (MINHMEETINGS [Manchester Held on the Sid Saturday of each ronth from 2-530pm - meeting at the Hazel Grove Methodist Sunday School, Wesley Street. Hazel Grove, Stockport Contacts are Sam Evison on O161 483 7438 or Dave Bill on 01625 872 08. Londom Held on the 2nd Saturday in every month 2-5:30pm - meeting at the Dawa Foundation, Jazan House, 13/14 Corrwal Terrace, Loncion NWI (Opposite Regents Park on the Outer Circle - nearest tube is Baker Steet), Contact is Lany Hart on 0171 248 0899 ox 0171 690 4358. Birmingham: Meetings are on the last Sunday in every. month, To find out more about the verwe, phone Pete Ford on 0121 628 1904 Derby/Notingham: 19 January at Sponcdon Vilage Hal. Spondon. Al are \welcorne. Call Rabin Macey on 0115 928 1720 or Fick Beech on 01332 281802 for futher information, Deedines for next issues: December 20th forthe February 1997 issue February 14 th for the Apa 1997 issue