Micro Project 5

Word: Crease

When I think of the word crease, I go straight back to 1st grade.  I hated those stupid math problems (addition and subtraction were so hard) and I just wanted to throw that piece of paper as far as I could.  I had a great bud sitting next to me (so great that I forgot his name) and he taught me the beauty of a crease.  Fold your math problem in half, then make some triangles, and open it back up half way.  Now throw it at the teacher and watch the beauty of flight.

Now that I am in college, I realize I have not made my favorite piece of artwork in a long time.  I used to make paper airplanes all of the time with my old (and sometimes due tomorrow) homework.  I realized that my homework became more and more important and the grade was all that mattered.  I forget the beauty that comes from a paper airplane.  It is still amazing!  It takes less than a minute and you create a perfect flying machine that would have the Wright Brothers impressed.

So how can I get away with simply making a paper airplane for my big art project.  Simple.  Make it out of something really important, like back in first grade when my graded subtraction problem just got thrown at the teacher (with perfect aerodynamics).  Subtraction is still really important, but it doesn't feel as important as it did back then.  But, tomorrow I have a big Geography project to present and it is equivalent to a big midterm.  That is really important.  I am going to make it a paper airplane and throw it across my room before I turn it in tomorrow. (I don't have the balls to throw it at my professor anymore.... how I wish to be a first grader again).

Sure enough, I ripped that front page off and made the simple CREASES needed to create an aerodynamic machine.  It was beautiful... and it took less than a minute.  It was not the time or the creativity that made this artwork.  It was the fact that I finally took something really important in my life, and turned it into a paper airplane.  Sure enough, I was able to unfold it (the beauty of a crease is that it is still not very noticeable) and turn it in the next morning.  I am the man!

The lesson from Micro Project 5: Nothing is too important to turn into a paper airplane.

Here is the link to the powerpoint:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2ghx6eo12e3fm8/Micro%20Project%205.pptx