Non-Folders Reactions to Your Origami

ftangdude55 · Post by **ftangdude55** » October 18th, 2008, 2:18 pm

I usually get...

"Wow. How many folds is that?" And to that I reply, "Steps, not folds.":lol:
Anybody else get that comment?

"You are talented."

"Stop messing with it you're making it look worse." That's the one I usually get from my dad.

And John Guppy, from the Origami Society of Toronto, said "You're a genius at origami. You should come to our meetings." That was at one of their workshops.

And, similar to eric_son, I get the "you could sell these!' comment. And to that I have to say, "I will, soon as I get permission to sell them from the authors."

Adam · Post by **Adam** » October 18th, 2008, 4:23 pm

About a week ago I started folding a kawasaki rose during a lecture, and some guys were making fun of the fact that it takes so long to fold something. After I finished it, one of them asked me for a piece of paper, because he wanted to fold something as well. He then just crumpled it and made something that looked like a rock, and said that his rose looked better. All his silly friends just laughed all the time. The thing that annoys me the most is that those 'friends' actually thought the rose was pretty cool, but the guy who crumpled the paper was apparently 'the cool guy', so they probably felt obliged to laugh. So sad..

On the other hand, I taught how to fold the rose to two friends of mine. One of them thought it was very difficult and complex and at one point said : "This model's so hard! It takes like 20 steps to complete!". That put a smile on my face..

muraenosaur · Post by **muraenosaur** » October 23rd, 2008, 2:01 am

One time i made a mini box and hoop fro paer torn off and theypayed more attention to that than a surfer on a wave.

I tried to get them to like the surfer but it didnt work

howtoorigami · Post by **howtoorigami** » October 23rd, 2008, 3:55 am

Origami is a bit commonplace here in Japan. That said, after elementary, most japanese never fold a thing again. So every now and then when other people see that I can fold some cool stuff they are quite impressed. Mostly because they do not believe foreigners can fold

nonkelgans · Post by **nonkelgans** » October 23rd, 2008, 10:15 am

Adam wrote:About a week ago I started folding a kawasaki rose during a lecture, and some guys were making fun of the fact that it takes so long to fold something. After I finished it, one of them asked me for a piece of paper, because he wanted to fold something as well. He then just crumpled it and made something that looked like a rock, and said that his rose looked better. All his silly friends just laughed all the time. The thing that annoys me the most is that those 'friends' actually thought the rose was pretty cool, but the guy who crumpled the paper was apparently 'the cool guy', so they probably felt obliged to laugh. So sad..

Heh, more or less the same thing happened to me, some group of bungholes were making fun of my Origami and of course the alpha male of that group was making the meanest comments of all. My solution? I folded a nice Kawasaki rose and gave it to a beautiful girl, incidentally it was also the girl where "mister alpha male" had a big crush on (but she didn't like him a bit). Needless to say that the girl was pleased with the gift and after receiving a friendly kiss from her I smiled toward the alpha male only to see him almost explode in jealousy. Harharhar

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » October 23rd, 2008, 12:50 pm

I get a lot of comments like:
"Dude, you should set that on fire!"

...no comment

Except one time I folded Satoshi Kamiya's Bahamut really nicely out of 6-inch foil, and my friend commented, "don't burn that."

Do any of you get that kind of comments, or is it just me?

ori_dragon3 · Post by **ori_dragon3** » October 23rd, 2008, 4:36 pm

howtoorigami: hi! im japanese to! yay!

well, most of the comments after making my tiger from a chocolate wrapper were like:
"how did you do that?"
"can I have one?"
"WOW!"
"what is it?"
"can you teach me?"

madarko · Post by **madarko** » October 25th, 2008, 11:34 pm

worst reactions to origami EVER!

I made a bear for someone in work and a few weeks later, someone had cut it's head off!

I also made a modular ball for someone and one of the modules disappeared from it a few weeks later

Releashi · Post by **Releashi** » October 29th, 2008, 5:23 pm

I get mostly positive reactions although my bosses are less happy when they catch me trying to work on the kawasaki rose instead of doing my work. It is so much more obvious that surfing the web

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » November 5th, 2008, 5:43 pm

"That's amazing", usually comments on my modular swan and peacock.

"Are those real?!" , comments on my roses

"How much do you charge for them?", also on the roses.

But much of the time they ask "Where did you buy those?", to which I'll answer, "I made them". This is usually the part where their jaws drop, their eyes grow wide and they start pouring questions about how much time it took, blablabla ...

I must admit I kind of like their reaction

Terranova · Post by **Terranova** » November 5th, 2008, 11:06 pm

I have gotten in trouble several times due to folding in class... Not the folding itself (I pay attention and maintain good grades) but the fact that it distracts everybody around me. I haven't been bullied for origami, but humans suck, so it's entirely possible. The power of paper prevails!

When I fold something new, my mom denies its existence, arguing that it simply can't be done and that I tried, but it's actually impossible. My dad takes stuff into his gallery and puts it on display (not for sale, but for good luck). He says it draws customers. so I keep giving him stuff.

One time, I made a waterbomb tesselation in calculus (last period of the day), then brought it onto the bus with me. I sat by my friend, and was immediately bombarded with "Whoa, that's really cool!" "How did you do that?" "How long did it take you?" "How many folds was it?" My friend looked at and said "A tesselation? Really? I'm disappointed." Good schtuff.

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » November 6th, 2008, 12:37 am

Tessellations rule! I still need to learn tessellations, though.
In my school, people are pretty open-minded; there aren't any origami-haters.

Finward · Post by **Finward** » November 6th, 2008, 1:16 am

I usually receive good feedback, The usual cuestions: "How long does it takes?" "Do you sell them?" "The hardest/coolest/more time consuming thing you've done?" "Did your parent gave you drugs when you were a baby?" "can you do it better than mine (showing proudly a crumpled piece of paper, no sarcasm)?" Its usually fun to see their reactions, especially when they decide to try by themselves.
Of course, there are moments when everyone is over-excited and when they look at my folding shout "It's anticrush???" And then they took it away and start playing football with it... not funny at all

Zoraz · Post by **Zoraz** » November 6th, 2008, 2:56 am

I very rarely get negative comments. Usually the normal stuff, like how long did it take, how do you do it, you should sell these.
Then theres the strange ones like "You should make them out of metal"
my friends response to a scorpion varileg was "Ooh its brown!"
One person usually says "I'm dissapointed in you," jokingly.
The football players like it though, especially Lang's moose and lobster.
The most negative comment ive gotten is "Yeah, thats great." in a sarcastic voice.

gordigami · Post by **gordigami** » November 6th, 2008, 3:30 am

Generally, if uncouth remarks were made,
I would simply ask the individual how it feels
to have an IQ the same as their shoe size ...
Or, I'd hand them a square of paper, & invite them to
make the same model better !
Very, very rarely receive immature or negative comments ...
Of course, should I do a poor job, I would certainly deserve & accept responsibility for disappointing comments .