Florian Gadsby makes pottery

A balm for my sour millennial soul: Florian Gadsby (a posh London name to match his posh London accent) makes beautiful handcrafted ceramics, and films much of it. He gently intones over close-ups of pottery wheels, he shoots with extremely short focal lengths, he pans nonchalantly over a shelves of visually-cohesive vases, bowls, mugs, and teapots. He wears French chore coats and heritage leather boots around his meticulously organised studio. At the end of this video, he makes his own tape.

His videos include all of the Millennial Aesthetic Greatest Hits—casual references to time spent in Japan, man buns, an appreciation for fine pens, premium prices, cRaFtSmAnShIp. If someone hit the Gen-Z talking points this well everyone on TikTok would think they were an industry plant. I'm so Here For It.

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