I don’t normally post stuff like this, but this one hit me like a ton of bricks. Anthony Bourdain was one of the people that I looked to for inspiration both stylistically and personally. He managed to commit his irreverent storytelling and no bullshit nature to film AND managed to sell it to a market saturated by PR-coached chefs and wanna-be lifestyle content creators. From the outside, his looked like a great life, with his tumultuous past long behind him. This is a stark reminder that, in today’s atmosphere of “personal brands”, it can be hard to see beyond the cultivated persona that we all put up via social media. RIP.
