they said I could never make a solid block of nutella that I can take bites out of but they were wrong

Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pottery inspired Easter eggs

#no artistic trend in the last 3000 years has ever surpassed the time the minoans just went crazy for octopuses#just absolutely apeshit for cephalopods

Pieces of Viking pottery with traces of cat and dog paws, seen at the Musée de Normandie in Caen Castle

“So back in the day pets already ruined their owner’s artwork.” - My sis who took the photo

“ruined”? made better

It’s very humanizing to imagine some poor potter in the past screaming “nnnnooooooo bad kitty” somewhere in Scandinavia

i just really liked this jug okay

More Beautiful After Being Broken

What this trite imagery misses out on is the fact that kintsukuroi requires a lot of work to repair a piece like that.  It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a great deal of investment.  Sometimes parts of the original are damaged beyond repair, and you have to instead painstakingly create entirely new ones.   It’s still not the same.  Maybe it’s something more beautiful. But it’s not the fact that it broke that makes it beautiful. It’s the work put into it.  It’s the fact that people made the effort to salvage it, because it was worth salvaging, because it was important enough to salvage.      It’s the care that makes the beauty.   An apology can’t always fix what has been broken.  That doesn’t mean it’s not irreparable, sometimes you can go on to rebuild and repair.  But it won’t ever be the same as it was again.   

I really appreciate this addition because I’ve always hated the “more beautiful for having been broken” thing. Being broken sucks and I hate all those tragic romantic sensitivities that try to make it what it’s not. These pieces are beautiful because they’re repaired with effort put in to making them shine.

repair is beautiful. healing is beautiful. scars are beautiful. wounds and pain are not.

two greek artists paint some vases

greek artist 1: hey so i’m painting a child right greek artist 2: yeah greek artist 1: so they’re basically like tiny men right?? greek artist 2: yeah pretty much

greek artist 1: okay so you know how you told me to paint a guy riding a big cock because people like that greek artist 2: yeah? greek artist 1: i’m not sure i did it right greek artist 2: what do you- oh. hmmm

greek artist 1: hey when women plant gardens what do you think they like to plant greek artist 2: dicks, usually greek artist 1: oh

greek artist 1: alright so i’m doing this battle scene and i was just wondering, what do soldiers usually ride into battle, is it horses or greek artist 2: dolphins, actually greek artist 1: even if they’re foot soldiers? greek artist 2: yeah

greek artist 1: hey so like how should i show Achilles’ extreme grief tho

greek artist 2: make him a burrito

greek artist 1: but-

greek artist 2: burrito

Yes. These bastards (and actually the whole Sheikah design) is based on the japanese Jomon pottery.

you….. you understand the implications of this, right? the pottery is finally revolting against Link after all these years

And not just any pottery. The oldest piece of Jomon pottery is somewhere around 16,500 years old, making it the earliest example of pottery in Japan and one of the earliest in the entire world.

Link has smashed so many vases that the Elder Pots themselves are coming to kill him.

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

I follow many potters on instagram. This was not what i expected.

i wasn’t ready

this is the content i like to see

This is still what I think of when I see a wheel

LMFAO

@walterobotics

Swayze is that you?¿

finally a relationship goal for me

ditto.

@usamyzonians

Even if you can’t fight, you can still contribute to the skeleton war

Statue_of_Zeus_at_Olympia#Phidias’_workshop_rediscovered :: wikipedia

A CUP INSCRIBED “I BELONG TO PHEIDIAS”.

that is the best history ever.

why doesn’t this have a million notes

I follow many potters on instagram. This was not what i expected.

wHAT doEs this MEAN???

Video

in 4th grade we were making clay pots in art and our teacher kept saying “make them thinner! those are too thick they won’t work” so we made them thinner and when she put then in the kiln they all exploded and she told us it was our fault because we made them too thin and if that doesn’t describe the school system i don’t know what does

none of your mythological faves were even remotely straight like welcome 2 the real world jackass hercules had a fuckton of anal sex

People believe what they choose to.

it’s literally not a matter of belief there is literally a vase with a painting of zeus fucking his cupbearer ganymede while ganymede is holding a dildo like u can’t just not believe in thousand year old pottery

O H MY GOD

Do you know for how long I’ve wanted to do this? Well, I finally sat down, looked at a billion ref photos to get the style right and drew this. bless the anicent greeks for their obsession with thunder thighs

deviantart link