Kickstarter Live!

The Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the re-release of “Creating Origami” is live. I wanted to make it about three-weeks long as kickstarter recommended that shorter campaigns do better. So I checked the lunar calendar, occurrence of weekends, time differential in Munich and decided to have it end on the first Monday in June — right on the night of the full moon. Yeah, sorry, I live in California… I can’t help but have the culture rub off on me!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1925886496/creating-origami-a-foldab...

Because I was spending SO much time getting it ready, tweaking this and torquing that, I decided to release it a few days early, on Tuesday night… it’s now a week in and going like gangbusters..

The most amazing thing about the campaign has been the immense support that has occurred, people from all over the world wanting to help out and offering their own particular forte. It reminds me what a loving and sweet community of people there is around origami.

I was just speaking with Michael the other evening about the campaign and what it means for the community as something much bigger than just the release of the book. Your enthusiasm and the presence of Kickstarter.com has given us an opportunity to make our art form even better known and to make it known that origami is far more than “folded paper cranes” and “cootie catchers.”

I hope to use this blog to keep you all abreast of all developments on the campaign and subsequent release so please do join in, invite your friends and leave comments… all the ideas that have come out in the community in the past week are brilliant. Let’s get some discussions started!

Give us a shout… drop us a line… send out the pigeons and let everyone know!

Here’s the links…

http://creatingorigami.com

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1925886496/creating-origami-a-foldable-sonata-in-paper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-E48PF-oaY&feature=g-all-u