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Apr. 13th, 2016 08:00 amWe have a staff meeting today and apparently there's going to be a Very Vital Announcement right at the start, so senior management is super intent on making sure we're all in our seats ten minutes early. Being fair, for many of my older colleagues, "ten minutes early" means "will sit down seven minutes after I was supposed to". If there's one thing to be said for Millennial Neurosis, it's that at least most people my age and younger understand how to be on fucking time.
But it's amusing to get email after email (two yesterday!) reminding me to be early. Thanks, management. I know there will be zero consequences for those of us who will still manage to be late, but meanwhile I do enjoy being talked down to as if I am unable to tell time.
Until then, BUTTERFLIES.
This butterfly is a fast fold, but despite having very few steps it’s a challenge. It also came out much prettier than I expected; it looks cooler in person somehow, I think because you don’t get the sense of combined flatness and depth in photographs.
The complexity comes in right at the start when the instructions are just blithely like FOLD IT IN THIRDS. If you have ever folded a letter to fit into a standard envelope you know the pain of “oh just fold it in thirds”. So I thought, sure I could get a ruler and mark the thirds, or I could eyeball it, or I could look up how to measure thirds using other origami folds, surely someone has worked that out.
It turns out yes, there are instructions for folding a square of origami paper into thirds, so tuck that away in your brain meats.
But then, once you have folded into thirds, you have to make valley folds between corners and creases, which are actually quite challenging because there’s no line to align your edges with the way there normally is in a diagonal fold. (this is also a problem in the “how to fold into thirds” instructions).
So even though you only make five creases, literally every crease you make in this diagram is just that much harder.
I found it very satisfying to complete, though, because of that. While I like Origami Club better, there’s no denying that Origami Instructions brings a certain “I can do this but it’s gonna be hard” challenge to the table.
But it's amusing to get email after email (two yesterday!) reminding me to be early. Thanks, management. I know there will be zero consequences for those of us who will still manage to be late, but meanwhile I do enjoy being talked down to as if I am unable to tell time.
Until then, BUTTERFLIES.
This butterfly is a fast fold, but despite having very few steps it’s a challenge. It also came out much prettier than I expected; it looks cooler in person somehow, I think because you don’t get the sense of combined flatness and depth in photographs.
The complexity comes in right at the start when the instructions are just blithely like FOLD IT IN THIRDS. If you have ever folded a letter to fit into a standard envelope you know the pain of “oh just fold it in thirds”. So I thought, sure I could get a ruler and mark the thirds, or I could eyeball it, or I could look up how to measure thirds using other origami folds, surely someone has worked that out.
It turns out yes, there are instructions for folding a square of origami paper into thirds, so tuck that away in your brain meats.
But then, once you have folded into thirds, you have to make valley folds between corners and creases, which are actually quite challenging because there’s no line to align your edges with the way there normally is in a diagonal fold. (this is also a problem in the “how to fold into thirds” instructions).
So even though you only make five creases, literally every crease you make in this diagram is just that much harder.
I found it very satisfying to complete, though, because of that. While I like Origami Club better, there’s no denying that Origami Instructions brings a certain “I can do this but it’s gonna be hard” challenge to the table.
