Trevor Noah’s stint as host has ended. daily show That was a little over three years ago, and since then he’s become a different kind of pop culture presence. As proof of that, we his figure above on popular podcasts and YouTube shows. CEO’s diary. For more than two and a half hours, Noah talks with host Stephen Bartlett (who, like Noah, is a mixed-race African-born child) about why he quit his job at a political, news and comedy TV station, his battle with depression and the time his stepfather shot his mother in the head. Miraculously, thanks to the unlikely trajectory of the bullet, she survived, but that didn’t stop the experience from becoming what Noah describes as the worst of his life.
As we discuss all this, his mind comes back to Japanese art. Kintsugi (Previously featured on Open Culture). “It’s a practice of repairing broken pottery and ceramics,” Noah explains. “What happens is, if you break a plate or break a vase or something, they put it back together. That’s what the craftsmen do. But they don’t just glue it, they reglue it and decorate it with gold binding. And what you get is an object that’s somehow more beautiful than it was before it broke.”
Kinji struck him as “one of the most beautiful concepts and a different way of thinking about “fixation” and “overcoming.”” “It’s not about thinking that we’re perfect, that we’re the way we were before something happened, but rather that we can wear our cracks with a new type of pride and a new type of beauty.”
Noah was probably not the only one to see the brilliance in these reconstituted ceramic vessels. Kintsugi He stitches together his own metaphors. Like many Western celebrities, he is even willing to discuss the vicissitudes of his life in detail and use it as material for works such as stand-up comedy and memoirs. born a crime. But in a chat like this with millions of viewers, it’s rare to hear mention of a 5,000-year-old Japanese method of repairing pottery. Of course, that possibility is at the heart of the appeal of long-form interview podcasts, where the conversation has time and space to go in unexpected directions. daily show The number of laughs per minute may be higher, but given the time constraints of that format, Kintsugi-type talks are definitely the ones that will be edited first, and their cuts will obviously not be emphasized.
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How Japanese Kintsugi artisans beautifully repair cracks in pottery
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Stephen Fry talks about dealing with depression: It’s raining but the sun will come out again
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