Tomorrow I'll be going to a large event/party (about 600 people) to teach/demonstrate/make origami, along with three other origami artists. We're each going to have a booth that people will walk up to and try their hand at origami. The event is for a pharmaceutical company, and it is centered around one of their drugs for (GET THIS) chronic constipation. The whole idea is the paper starts out as a block (or "blockage"), and the folding of the paper into birds signifies movement and transformation. Just when I thought my life couldn't get any less glamorous than outsourcing die-casting parts. But I'm happy to be going; you won't believe what they're paying. It would also be nice to get some publicity for my business, but I'm not counting on it, since I'm really representing the marketing company and not my own company, so I'm not going to be passing out business cards or anything.
I'm pretty stressed about the event, but that's just because I don't know what it will be like. Other than the artists, there will be diagrams of seven very easy bird designs posted around for people to follow, which makes me wonder, will there be moments when I've got nothing to do or will people be constantly talking to me? What if everyone's just following the diagrams and I have nothing to do? Should I be folding something or should I walk around and say "is everyone doing okay here" like a waitress? I hate foreign situations. Also, I would much prefer if the artists were given free reign on what designs we could teach (the event planners don't want us to encourage anything too difficult).
I spent half an hour this morning memorizing the seven diagrams and making a cheat sheet. Not much I can do now but wait.
4 comments:
Hmm. How did you get into/find this? To be "discovered" as an artist itself is quite dazzling.
Oh you wake up terribly early, by the way (time of your post). (Yes I go off in a tangent in every conversation.)
oh woops, no. I just noticed there's a 2-hr difference between the time shown on ur blog and the one where we post our comments. Weird...
WAAAAAAAAAAAH, HO GING AH :) Add oil ah leng nui!!!! I am so excited for you :)
The whole transformation/constipation correlation is hilarious and ridiculous at the same time.
However, money is good, and I think the experience is good for you too. Just think of it as free advertising and another business opportunity. Think of what you can get out of this and the possibilities of what it can become.
Yes, be a waitress. Make people comfortable, make sure they're doing it right and hopefully they'll enjoy themselves.
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