Ikea is a fun store. It's huge...acres of products you get to put together yourself. It has tables. It has beds. It has lighting. It has everything.
Except well-written instructions.
The instructions aren't so much written as drawn. This is necessary because one set of instructions needs to be understood by everyone in the world. So they're in pictures.
Usually the pictures get the point across and projects go together without any problems. But now and then a step is illustrated in a way that lets some people (me) get things wrong.
Here we have a time-lapse movie of Jerry and me putting together a corner desk with two extensions.
The problem with the instructions for this project is that they are for desks whose main work surface is either on the left or the right side of the corner. The illustrations didn't make clear (to me) how the frame is put together to accommodate the different models.
So you get to see me attach the corner frame on the wrong part of the main frame. Then we compound the error by putting the wrong extension on that frame and attaching a leg to the wrong piece. After we figured out what pieces go where the desk went together rather quickly.
I think this video is more fun than if we had gotten it right the first time.
The video was shot at one frame every two seconds and played back at 24 frames per second. The two hours and 10 minutes it took to build are given to you in two minutes and 42 seconds.
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4 comments:
This is the stuff that time-lapse was invented for! There must be some music that would enhance this.
Flight of the Bumblebee! Awesome video!
Hee, hee! You just have to giggle with time-lapse! Handsome table in the end.
Ms X and I are getting pretty good at following pictures to get furniture put together. Wish we could do it as fast as you appear to do!Nice action. Would the colorful language make much sense if you could get the sound as well as the pictures? no,more like a bad cell connection?
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