Origami shirt-folding ninja lady
So Steven Tze showed me this video yesterday, and no matter how many times I watch it, it just blows my mind: This obsessive compulsively neat Japanese lady demonstrates the most impeccable shirt-folding technique I have ever seen in my life.
What's more incredible is that it works for regular mortals too. Almost everyone I have shown it to (including me) has been able to repeat the process successfully by carefully following her example. It appears that you're better off trying to replicate the process by doing it on a hard surface like a table or floor than on a bedspread, but whatever.
As Greg Snyder says, "Don't fuck with the East Asians when it comes to folding paper and cloth. They've been doing this for 3000 years."
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It is no different at the end of each of my Kendo and Taekwon-do classes, in which we have to fold our uniforms in the prescribed manner, and there's always a veteran student assigned to check our work before we are allowed to leave. Everybody is supposed to clean up the floor, regardless of social or martial rank.
In their schools, and in many companies, the kids are supposed to help with the cleaning as well. It's called Souji, a sort of spiritual cleansing.
There's a lot more than just folding to be learned from the Asians.
Posted by: fcc | June 10, 2004 10:44 PM
That video actually got me to finally fold my months old pile of washed T-shirts. It made folding laundry fun, pretending I'm a shirt-folding ninja (of the male persuasion).
Posted by: a2daj | June 17, 2004 04:09 PM
I blew a load when i saw that video.
Then I washed my newly- dirtied clothes and folded it origami-stylie.
Posted by: Wowwee | August 21, 2004 01:16 AM