Origami Tea

I happened upon this today, during another round of seemingly endless searching for things to write about, and found it very striking. Tea bags, created by the principles of origami. Like this whole food blogging thing in general, it immediately feels like a desperate effort to offer something new. There's nothing wrong with a regular tea bag. It does it's job. It's not exciting, but doesn't need to be. Isn't there something inherently settling about its plainness, something without apology or formality. So why add frills? Why so eager to comment and complicate?

I guess it's because that desperate stretch can sometimes produce something that's actually very beautiful, however trivial it may be. And I suppose it's like food blogging in that way too.