Balroc wrote:
> Hello all.
> I have just joined this group. I am from Australia. I am in my
> late 30's. When i was a kid i loved origami, i could make birds that
> flapped their wings when you pulled their tales and other stuff. It
> must have been a craze then because it was easy to buy origami paper.
> There was also a weekly T.V. show, i think it was British (B.B.C. ?).
> I used to sit there with my paper and follow what they did. Now that
> i have kids i want to show them origami, but i have forgotten
> everything. I saw this group and thought i would join it and see what
> goes on. All The Best.
G'day Balroc,
I'm a Sandgroper, (west australian to rest of world), and also an avid
folder.. Like you I remember that TV Series.... It was with Robert
Harbin. Needless to say models have progressed somewhat from flapping
birds, -- to mammals like Rhinoceroses (lots of rhino's), Insects (six
legs, tail abdomen etc), S****s, dragons, etc and the more mundane such
as cigarette boxes, ****ps in bottles (need to fold in cellophane), and
*****c pieces... such as couples in various poses, etc (not suitable
for kiddies). The last used used to have a web site called Origami
Underground and is still in the Internet Archives.
Good models are by people such as Robert Lang, John Montroll, David
Brill, Joseph Wu (woo) (has web site with models), Anne Balfour (simple
models Annies Origami I think is the website), and quite a few
othergood folders who share info. Tomoko Fuse does wonders with boxes
(modular) which are good to teach kiddies.
There's a couple of good Origami groups on yahoo for getting models and
diagrams to fold.
Also if you have Kazaa, Imesh, e-donkey, shareaza etc (one of those
peer to peer file sharing proggies that are for purely educational
purposes *cough*) You might look up books, origami, and check out those
in .pdf format. Theres prpbably like 400 or so models out there,
various collections and scans..
Unfortuneately there's not many Origami clubs in Australia (well there
is a few.. but they seldom advertise.) Good luck anyways..
Don't forget to check out the italian Origami Website... You don't need
to read italian to follow the diagrams :) (shameless plug as I have a
model there )
Ian Mitchell
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