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1,000 Fat Cranes

About Me

1,000 Fat Cranes is a response to the Japanese government's decision to measure everyone's waist.
1,000 Fat Cranes asks the Japanese government: Please end the war on waistlines...please make peace with people of all sizes.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

You!!! You're invited to help send 1,000 Fat Cranes flying on a peace mission to Japan.
It's easy. Just start folding! (See photos/videos for instructions.) Use pre-cut origami paper or make squares from wrapping paper, magazine pages, printouts, or other great stuff you have lying around. Mail your fat cranes to Box 423464 San Francisco CA 94142.
With your help, when we fold 1,000 fat cranes, we'll get our wish: people of all body types enjoying food, fitness, health, happiness, and long life, free from prejudice and discrimination. In Japan and all over the world!
Thank you. - Marilyn Wann, fat crane freedom flyer

My Blog

Making fat origami cranes fly!

Hey, everyone!I haven't posted in a long time and am sorry for leaving people without news.Now that we're up to about 1,000 cranes, I'm mulling how best to deliver them. I'm looking into using frequen...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:49:00 GMT

775 Fat Cranes: Thanks to Nellie in SF, Sandy in NYC, Loving Who I Am in Lansing!

Whew!!!Fat origami crane inventor Sandy Schaffer sent in a new flock of about 50 fat cranes made from diet ads in magazines, complete with origami fat guys as companions/riders. Too cool!!!Loving Who ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Wait!...547 fat origami cranes!!!

I just got back from the mailbox and was so delighted to find big, bulging envelopes and boxes there from Cindy, Tillie, Worth Your Weight, and PortiaAngel!Big fat thanks to all of you wonderful fat c...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:46:00 GMT

350 fat cranes!!!

Hey, great news! We're one third of the way to 1,000 fat cranes!!! Plus, I haven't checked the mailbox in a week or so and I hear from a few fabulous people that they've sent new flocks in. I'll updat...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Fat crane fly-in!!!

I went to the mail box today and found gigantic boxes full of fat cranes from the brilliant and total-fun Joy Nash and from the compassionate and busy-fingered Kathy Barron. Sandy Schaffer also sent a...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:10:00 GMT

SF Weekly on 1,000 fat cranes!

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Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:06:00 GMT

SUNDAY: Fat cranes folding parties!!!

Hi!You're invited to a fat crane folding party in San Francisco this Sunday afternoon at 2pm at a cozy location near 24th St. & York. (E-mail me for the address: [email protected].)Also, I hear rumors...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:56:00 GMT

113 fat cranes!!!

Thank you to everyone who has mailed in fat cranes or folded them with me in person!!!Sandy Schaffer, Tillie, Michelle, people from BellaOnline and Chunkebusiness, Sondra, Linda, my buddy Praxis and I...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:56:00 GMT

The first fat crane has landed!

Big fat thanks to Michelle for sending in the very first fat crane to the P.O. Box. You can even see her crane in her comment, on this site. It's made from the flyleaf of her FAT!SO? book, which is so...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:23:00 GMT

How to fold (some of ) 1,000 Fat Cranes project!

Hi:The Fat Cranes project is up now! Please join in the fun of celebrating weight diversity with squares of paper!!!All of the instructions for folding a fat origami crane should be available in the p...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:45:00 GMT