Creation Donation by Flitworth
December 3rd, 2007 10:10 AMIn interacting with Spidere over tasking shortly before the Revolution began we danced around the coming change. I assured him that I will bring only roses to the revolution. Having said that I wanted to make use of this task to do just that. I don't need a mass of origami roses.
I spent many hours attempting to learn how to make roses.
I wanted the message to be on a relevant source given that I had made all the roses I decided that the message should be on origami as well. The samurai helmet is a simple yet relevant shape. I made two so that Bex can don the appropriate one.
The helmet messages were placed into a small origami box, which was placed into a standard Korean postal box along with thirty hand-made origami roses.
They should arrive surprisingly soon given the distance between origin and destination.
This task is particularly relevant to Humanitarian Crisis as producing something hand-made is a human endeavor. I want my participation in the Revolution to bring to mind the Rose and Velvet revolutions, which were peaceful. As I understand it the Rose Revolution got its name because protesters handed flowers to soldiers that were sent to control (and possibly oppress) the crowds. I wish to follow the same path. The oppressive size of the UofA's trajectory shall be peacefully resisted!
Origami Evolution
It took a surprisingly long time to learn how to make one. I had to give up on learning one style entirely for lack of sufficient tutorial.
48 Total
It takes approximately 10 minutes to make each one.
The Grasshopper or The Scorpion
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Spidere
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Stu
5
Malaysian Eddy
5
Tøm
5
Ben Yamiin
5
JTony Loves Brains
5
teucer
5
The Revolutionary
5
Fonne Tayne
5
lara black
5
susy derkins
5
Loki
5
Charlie Fish
5
Cthulhu Kitty
5
Lank
5
Burn Unit
5
miss understanding
5
Bex.
5
Torsten the dissenter
5
GYØ Ben
5
Ted Logan
5
meredithian
5
Secret Agent
5
Pixie
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It should be noted that anybody who brings up the Rose Revolution (or anything Georgia-related, honestly) gets an automatic vote from me.
Also, anybody who origami-folds a whole boxa roses gets an automatic vote as well.
Yeah, Roses are hard. Damn hard. I gave up before I'd gotten the hang of it, and that was after hours of hard work.
I will never see a finer articulation of our ultimatum.
The Gift is the most admirable of all art - an excellent choice of vehicle.
It appears that the greatest weapon we have at our disposal is paper.
Perhaps you would consider teaching what you have learned, Flitworth, so that we may all revolt in kind?
I am honored to be your comrade in this Revolution.
JTony, I don't blame you. I was extraordinarily frustrated with the Kawasaki rose design, which must be taught in person from what I can tell (the key fold is unusual and difficult to describe). This is a different kind and, even so, the first few iterations were supported with tape.
i am so incredibly impressed by both the scale and thoughtfulness of this completion!!
bex is a lucky girl. let's hope you're phenomenal tasking wins her over to our side :)
and would you host a seminar?? that would be so lovely.
She knows something is coming. As I am a fan of surprises in the mail and she seemed equally keen I warned her about which task it would be in the praxis in case she simply wanted to wait. It should take about a week at most to get there, which is longer than I'd like but still not bad given our relative geography.
Hmmm, it would be interesting to orchestrate a seminar online...I shall ponder options. I mentioned some of my activities at work in the hopes of piquing interest.
The package has arrived.
As a queen, I graciously accept gifts from my subjects.
I do not accept orders or ultimatums.
I do not join your revolution.
Nor to I declare my opposition to it.
Your revolution does not exist. Ceci n’est pas une révolution.
But I shall cherish the roses. They are beautiful (and have extra magic being so painstakingly made and sent from so far away). Thank you.
Now, this is an argument for the revolution. Anything which inspires tasking like this can't be all bad. :)