Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the broken pieces with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, highlighting the cracks rather than hiding them
To the warriors of this industry this definitely has a place in my heart, as our scars over the years are not only a reminder to not fk up. But have also molded us into the people we are today. Embrace your mistakes and scars. We're only human.
Chanced upon this video recently and made a post not so long ago to take care of yourselves. Whatever hidden battles you're facing, we have this wonderful subreddit for you to vent or rant. YOU'RE NOT ALONE. Don't be a dick like tony leaving us here while he drinks caprinihas and negronis everyday, looking down and laughing at us.
Its the Ber months, its gonna get fucking crazy. So cherish/utilize your off days, do whatever you like to unwind and keep pushing.
I'll see yall mfs on the flip side.
May your knives forever sharp, your tips fat, your mis en place perfect, your last orders on time, your after-shift beers frosty and your hearts full.
Love you fuckers. PUSH ON
To the warriors of this industry
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by Jordyy_yy
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Now let me show you the scars on my penis
Weird porn genre. I’m down.
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Why ‘warriors’? We’re not fighting a war, aside from the class war but that’s another story.
We’re cooking food for people who don’t care if we live or die. I’ve always hated when my coworkers acted like we were in the Marines. They were the same people that treated the boss like a godhead.
I otherwise agree with the sentiment.
This guy has used this line on every girl he’s talked to
When I broke they put me back together with tomato paste.
This dude is immaculately handsome. Really undermines his message
A.I?
Bros trying to smash
The attitude he’s talking about is actually a philosophy called ‘wabi-sabi’. Which is the aesthetic style of interpreting the world as imperfections speaking to a larger story and revealing things about the maker, the process, the object, and its use/history.
Kintsugi is a process born out of the ideas of wabi-sabi, and was originally about repairing broken pottery and porcelain without using ugly ‘staples’ which had been the prevailing method before.
(Oddly enough, staples are becoming popular again)
Kintsugi was a compromise between avoiding the need to drill more holes and add staples into a finished product, and the desire to allow a product to tell its story by beautifying the cracks in it with lacquer and gold or silver dust. Balancing wabi-sabi with older ideas of beauty. (Yes, the process known for highlighting flaws actually was invented to avoid using an older process where flaws were deemed too ugly)
Kinstugi and Wabi-sabi are both wonderful ideas and I think speak to deeper ideas of worth not being diminished by scars, but rather increased.
I’m just writing this comment in case anyone wants to look more into the ideas 😊.
Both the general philosophy of wabi-sabi and the method of kinstugi have a lot more history and nuance than I can sum up in this comment after all. 🤷♂️
New here, What is supossed to be the industry?
Except when you break in the kitchen they just keep using you broken.
I have a coworker that has a bunch of tattoos across his neck/shoulders/chest/arms based on Kintsugi. Its all really fine line “cracks” with blue traditional Japanese flowers in the spaces. It’s fuckin sick
Gotta look for another job. Hopefully, this one is the one that’ll pay the best and treat me the most human. 😂🤣
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