Look at this Fu#kin Hipster
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- homeostatic0
Hipster is one of those terms that's hard to grasp.
There seem to be two types in neighborhoods like Williamsburg:
1) the ambitious, generally older creative types who are putting blood sweat and tears into projects like creating a restaurant, making hand stitched anachronistically tailored suits, or producing an amazingly progressive electro-dance album...
2) all the directionless douchebags who try to fit some generic "look"—the type who don't even know they're being ironic, get what they're referencing, or know they are reviving. One day I was standing outside a bar in the Lower East Side and I just realized this second type had taken over . Nobody I talked to seemed to be working on anything other than their hair. It was just a bunch of kids who had never read or soaked up anything. Just no ideas.
- identity0
Great article by adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/magazin…- There you go. I agree with everything here.homeostatic
- agreeing with anyhting in adbusters automatically makes you a hipster.scarabin_net
- dMullins0
Oops, wrong link.
- homeostatic0
From Adbusters
"Ever since the Allies bombed the Axis into submission, Western civilization has had a succession of counter-culture movements that have energetically challenged the status quo. Each successive decade of the post-war era has seen it smash social standards, riot and fight to revolutionize every aspect of music, art, government and civil society.
But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of "counter-culture" have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the "Hipster."
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the "hipster" – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society. "
- Does this mean the next counter culture should be perhaps... 19th century imperialist?homeostatic
- sounds good to me...
xcarlx
- winnie_the_shit0
Fuck Adbusters.
- +1. Adbusters have become self-righteous douchebags.defstro
- ninjasavant0
favorite quote:
“A dance party divided against itself cannot stand.” - Gaybraham Lincoln
- TheBlueOne0
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- dear lord.morilla
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- what year was that youtube video from? 89,91?fooler2
- scarabin_net0
*cracks open a PBR and lights up a parliament*
- baseline_shift0
- nice DOFepic_rim
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- its camera geek talkMikeColdFusion
- jacklalane0
The term hipster is so over used these days to describe everyone and they're momma's that it no longer holds any meaning.
Hipster/Yuppie/Hippie/Prep/
Insert label here ______
- CALLES0
HA!!!