It’s been busy at work this week.  Last night I stayed there until around 11:30pm.  I was going a little crazy having a lot of trouble with an edit that I said I’d have done a day ago.  I needed to get it done for the next day only every time I sat down to look at it my brain went numb.  I decided I needed to go home and get some rest.

I knew I needed to do a creative thing but because I was tired I was looking for the easiest thing I could do. A while back, when I was working late nights under pressure to get cuts done I opted to do some office origami.  It was simple.  Get some paper and fold it.
 
So, when I found this tutorial on the net last night, for some reason I thought it would be easy.  I still haven’t learned from doing this blog that most things are much harder than they seem.  On the other hand, if I thought it was hard I wouldn’t have attempted to do it at all.

It’s called Modular Origami.  Basically, you fold multiple copies of a simple structure, or module as the tutorial calls it, and once you’re finished, you assemble them together to create one much larger structure.

I took a bunch of printer paper and cut it to be square with the paper cutter at my office.  I arrived at home at 12:30 in the morning and started folding.  Within an hour I had all 24 copies of the basic module.  Then came the part I thought would move much faster than it did, assembling it together.

Two modules created one larger cube shaped module, easy.  Then, three cube-shaped modules formed together to create one corner of the final structure, not so easy.  Finally, you had to take the four corners and then connect them together to create your final structure, really not easy.

I futzed with it for quite a while worried that I wasn’t going to be able to figure it out.  Each step took some serious trial and error.  Eventually, I discovered what I think was the correct way of doing it and by 2:30 in the morning I had my final product.  
 
I think it looks pretty awesome even though I bent some areas out of shape a bit.  I think it would be neat to recreate on another day when I have more time, patience and maybe some colored paper.