Origami family stories

[PaperBeetle]

My mother needed an activity to occupy my five-year-old self when I would go to visit her, so she discovered origami. It spread to my aunt too, and then to her children a little. But like Anne Rice's vampires, the power gets less with each generation...
I think at the moment only my mother and I are active, but I will probably see my aunt soon, so then I will know. But I voted for >1 relative doing origami anyway.

[eric_son]

But like Anne Rice's vampires, the power gets less with each generation...

Hehehe... nice analogy.

[Cupcake]

Is Anne Rice's vampires the thing about the royal family being vampires, yet less and less of vampires with each generation? I once heard something about that...

[~folder~of~paper~]

I'm teaching my "little sister" (mum's boyfriend's daughter) origami. I don't think of calling her that though. She's very good at origami. She folded Tomoko Fuse's modular lizard out of 1.875 cm paper. or 1/16 of a 7.5 cm square. No tweezers or nothing.
Talented...

[PaperBeetle]

Is Anne Rice's vampires the thing about the royal family being vampires, yet less and less of vampires with each generation? I once heard something about that...

Um, I don't think so. I was refering to the book "Interview With The Vampire" by Anne Rice, and the film of the same name. If you haven't seen the film, I would recommend it. Although there is quite a lot of blood. I was okay the first time I saw it, but the second time I came out feeling distinctly queasy.

Well anyway, the mythology is that when a vampire turns a mortal into a new vampire, the "son" will have weaker vampiric powers than the "father". Of course, it isn't a videogame, so we can't just read up their stats, and we don't get a catalogue of exactly what all the 'vampiric powers' are... so the film represents the relative weakness by portraying the younger vampires as more effete and decadent, less vital than their forebears. I think one of the film's key themes is how we deal with getting old, and the futility of trying to recapture one's youth. Many of the characters are dismayed at the prospect of becoming ever more out of touch with the modern world as they live on to eternity, and try to solve the problem by making new companions for themselves. But they are always doomed to even failure as their creations are inherently too soulless and uninteresting. Even Tom Cruise only manages to make a whispering Brad Pitt!

Now when I think about it, it isn't really a good model of origami in my family after all. But it is quite a good film .

[eric_son]

You can also checkout Vampire: The Masquerade... (it's a pen-and-paper role playing game) It also has a nice theory/explanation on why powers get diluted as you go down the generations.

Anyway, back to main topic....

It's sad that I'm the only member in my family that is fully interested in Origami. However, I'm proud to say that I've seriously infected at least 3 of my officemates. At least 1 of those I've infected shows a lot of promise... she's already starting to do Kirschenbaum's and Lang's stuff. The force is strong!

[Cupcake]

I appear to be the only one in my family that folds now. My cousin is often too busy doing other things. Also, my friend that folds stopped.
However, I have heard that there is someone else nearby that folds