dondoboy Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 The Hipster Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HungryHippo Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 wow, what a read! that whole article was entirely true. thanks for sharing. this part made me lol: "“Rad, thanks,” he says, re-focusing on the music and submerging himself back into the sweaty funk of the crowd where he resumes a jittery head bobble with a little bit of a twitch." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 My favorite partBut it is rare, if not impossible, to find an individual who will proclaim themself a proud hipster. It Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Great article Every generation has it's thing man. Older cats can't stand young punks because they are no longer a kid who can spend hours looking cool with some group of kids looking cool. We will always poke fun & fear the end of originality & brain cells when we see a group looking like a group. Remember the 80's? That didn't destroy us now did it? It's what kids do. I used to be a young skater chick skin head lover from the 80's....now I'm an educated married MILF with a renewed brain cells & supple skin. I f'n hate those damn annoying hipsters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Someone should write a very sad article about the thirty somethings who are still trying to pull this off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Now that I am a thirty something my life & rags are a messy mesh of all the cool fazes I've been threw. It's kind of sad really, but who wants to buy all new things? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Someone should write an article on the term hip (which started out as hep...), and work their way through the 20th and 21st century uses of the word. It is a pretty old term (but in this case hilariously pejoritive...I might add....) LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I like Adbusters but this seems like a great waste of time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 All of this was better said by "The Baffler" what seems like a generation ago, but was actually only around the turn of the millenium. To say we are in a cultural vacuum is vacuous in and of itself. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiokills Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 new york has a heroin district? good article. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 new york has a heroin district?It used to be Alphabet City, but I hear it's relocated to Williamsburg. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Vacant Horizon Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Someone should write a very sad article about the thirty somethings who are still trying to pull this off. yes! i am 35 and just laugh at those folks. this article is interesting, but a bit pretentious and overstating. (no time now to back that up)however, genY is gonna be all this and more. nothing new under the sun. all the bygone scenes were/are myths anyway. it still comes down to putting clothes on, drinking, smoking, and deciding who's in and who's out. religion has been doing it for centuries.c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Papillon Parade Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I loved reading this in particular... "The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks. While punk, disco and hip hop all had immersive, intimate and energetic dance styles that liberated the dancer from his/her mental states Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jmacomber68w Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Someone should write a very sad article about the thirty somethings who are still trying to pull this off. Like John Norris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Like John NorrisThis year's nominee for the "Death in Venice" award! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I sometimes wish I was withering away enough to wear those skinny jeans. Seems one must weigh in about 98 pounds to pull it off. They spontaneously combust if you're over the age of cool. Someday when I'm like near death I hope they are still in style. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I don't think it's fair to pick on young people for falling into some subculture that mostly revolves around fashion and music, most of us have been in their shoes (but mine were never neon high tops.) I don't like to pass judgment on seemingly vacant young ladies and fellas for wearing neck scarves and skinny jeans any more than I let my neighbor's dirty, sleeveless t-shirt or our pediatrician's skin tight tan Wranglers and big belt buckle make my mind up about their worthiness. Let the hipsters have their fun! At least fixies are environmentally friendly, yeah? Hugs for hipsters! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hacienda Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Someone should write an article on the term hip (which started out as hep...), and work their way through the 20th and 21st century uses of the word. It is a pretty old term (but in this case hilariously pejoritive...I might add....) LouieB John Leland does a good job of this in Hip: The History, a book that came out a few years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jmacomber68w Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 More taking hipsters to school http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 More taking hipsters to school http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/ Now THAT'S some funny stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 The original article is interesting. I like the end: We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation, resigned to the hypocrisy of those before us, who once sang songs of rebellion and now sell them back to us. We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 here in atlanta, the hipsters have taken to riding over-priced ten speed bikes. this happening any where else? fascinating! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I think the hipsters prefer their bikes fixed speed, right? Fixies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jmacomber68w Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 here in atlanta, the hipsters have taken to riding over-priced ten speed bikes. this happening any where else? fascinating! I have seen this in my small town up north. I find it funny how the hipsterization has even grabbed hold of the youths. I find so many (at least to my eyes) 10-14ish young lads dressed in obnoxiously bright colors, all listening to Vampire Weekend and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and most importantly, visiting pitchfork.com Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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