You may have seen a few blogs around the internet in the past week or so that are participating in the 1000 Cranes For Japan Flickr group which was started by Damiec...her goal is to "collect" 1000 photographs of paper cranes on the Flickr group.
In Damiac's own words...
Strings of one thousand paper cranes are often sent to places where tragedy has struck as a symbol of hope and healing. Sometimes groups will fold 1000 cranes for an ailing friend in hopes of speeding their recovery.
I think it would be a beautiful show of support and love for Japan if Flickr was flooded with paper cranes. Is it too much to hope for a virtual chain of 1000 cranes?
So out came the origami paper. After a practice crane with some white printer paper and assisted by a YouTube tutorial, I sat yesterday afternoon and made paper cranes. With each crane I thought about Japan and the Japanese people...how amazingly they're dealing with this impossible tragedy, their marvelous culture, the beauty of their country, their delicious food (yes, my name is Kate and I'm a sushi addict), their artistic and aesthetic sense of beauty, their modern ingenuity and ancient traditions.
I've always wanted to learn how to make these paper cranes so doing this was a labour of love and appreciation for Japan.
(For every paper crane mailed here, $2.00 will be donated to Architecture For Humanity to help with the rebuilding of Japan. The Miya Company is also donating $5.00 for each of the first 1000 photographs of paper cranes sent to them, to the Save the Children of Japan fund).
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
