The reason I treasure the imperfections in the circular shape of the tea bowl is because I know the person who made it was trying their best to make a perfect circle, something impossible to do by hand, even with a wheel.
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The reason I treasure the imperfections in the circular shape of the tea bowl is because I know the person who made it was trying their best to make a perfect circle, something impossible to do by hand, even with a wheel. So the imperfections tell a story.
But someone wrote an article in some "Home" magazine about "wabisabi design" and now there are all these tea bowls with *deliberate* imperfections. I hate it.
Give me the machine made bowl instead.
And don't call me a hipster. I'm mad.
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The reason I treasure the imperfections in the circular shape of the tea bowl is because I know the person who made it was trying their best to make a perfect circle, something impossible to do by hand, even with a wheel. So the imperfections tell a story.
But someone wrote an article in some "Home" magazine about "wabisabi design" and now there are all these tea bowls with *deliberate* imperfections. I hate it.
Give me the machine made bowl instead.
And don't call me a hipster. I'm mad.
"That's the style, it's a little wavy"
NO.
No. The "style" is a perfect circle. Perfect as you can make it and if you don't wince when you notice it's not quite there you've kind of missed the point.
Anyway.
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The reason I treasure the imperfections in the circular shape of the tea bowl is because I know the person who made it was trying their best to make a perfect circle, something impossible to do by hand, even with a wheel. So the imperfections tell a story.
But someone wrote an article in some "Home" magazine about "wabisabi design" and now there are all these tea bowls with *deliberate* imperfections. I hate it.
Give me the machine made bowl instead.
And don't call me a hipster. I'm mad.
@futurebird
I mean, 侘び寂び in general, and intentional imperfections in tea bowls specifically, is older than this country. So while you certainly don't have to like it, it's a bit weird to say that *now* it's like this. -
The reason I treasure the imperfections in the circular shape of the tea bowl is because I know the person who made it was trying their best to make a perfect circle, something impossible to do by hand, even with a wheel. So the imperfections tell a story.
But someone wrote an article in some "Home" magazine about "wabisabi design" and now there are all these tea bowls with *deliberate* imperfections. I hate it.
Give me the machine made bowl instead.
And don't call me a hipster. I'm mad.
@futurebird
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@futurebird
distressed tabletops marked with a hydraulic pressYou can have sitting creases added to your jeans in advance if you want.
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@futurebird
I mean, 侘び寂び in general, and intentional imperfections in tea bowls specifically, is older than this country. So while you certainly don't have to like it, it's a bit weird to say that *now* it's like this.@futurebird
I mean, look at these:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15th+century+Japanese+tea+bowls&iar=images&t=fpasThat level of imperfection is in no way due to technical limitations; compare Chinese pieces from the same period:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15th+century+chinese+tea+bowls&iar=images&t=fpas -
@futurebird
I mean, look at these:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15th+century+Japanese+tea+bowls&iar=images&t=fpasThat level of imperfection is in no way due to technical limitations; compare Chinese pieces from the same period:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15th+century+chinese+tea+bowls&iar=images&t=fpasI'm just going to need to find a way to spin my own bowl.
