"Hipster" as pejorative.

duh

http://yepwecan.co.uk/category/regulars/top-chumps/

http://nymag.com/news/features/69129/

i am glad that for once someone is trying to define hipster instead of just writing about how bad 'hipsters' are and pretending that everyone can agree on what a hipster is

but the article is still pretty dumb

what do you think is dumb about it?

True countercultures may wax and wane in numbers, but a level of youth hostility to the American official compromise has been continuous since World War II. Over the past decade, hipsters have mixed with particular elements of anarchist, free, vegan, environmentalist, punk, and even anti-capitalist communities. One glimpses behind them the bike messengers, straight-edge skaters, Lesbian Avengers, freegans, enviro-anarchists, and interracial hip-hoppers who live as they please, with a spiritual middle finger always raised.

the phrase "interracial hip-hoppers" for one

writing out the lyrics to "My Girls" is two

fwiw I do agree with that article that "hipness" in terms of being the first to know about obscure cool things has pretty much come and gone. things don't "cross over" anymore b/c there isn't really an "underground" they're ever confined to in the first place; everything is pop, just not always popular pop.

Here, however, “blank parody” gave way to a reconstruction of past techniques more perfect than the originals, in an irony without sarcasm, bitterness, or critique. Reflexivity was used as a means to get back to sentimental emotion.

The hipster is a savant at picking up the tiny changes of rapidly cycling consumer distinction. [...] Hipsterdom at its darkest, however, is something like bohemia without the revolutionary core. Among hipsters, the skills of hanging-on—trend-spotting, cool-hunting, plus handicraft skills—become the heroic practice. The most active participants sell something—customized brand-name jeans, airbrushed skateboards, the most special whiskey, the most retro sunglasses—and the more passive just buy it.

One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.

Death of the hipster:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/holy_hipsters_flock_to_church_5CIUEYTsvqbkGgws0cV7YP?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME

maybe hipsters created a great literature and u just dont know how to read the signs.

yeah i'm sure tha
http://mhpbooks.com/media/image/medium/Shoplifting_TaoLin_2009-08-31-16-08-09.jpg

On Sunday evenings, a Hispanic Lutheran church on the gritty south side of Williamsburg transforms into a hipster religious revival with plenty of fashion but no irony.

Worshippers with full-sleeve tattoos, skinny jeans, stocking caps and square glasses pack the pews of Resurrection Presbyterian Church on South Fifth Street.

"The fellowship with everyone here is amazing," said Shaun Lee, 30, a skinny, scruffy East Village bartender who sports a skullcap and cargo jacket to service.

The congregation has grown fivefold since it started in 2005, with up to 150 people on Sundays.
PARTY HOST: Cool young people receive Communion at an artsy hipster church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
J.C. Rice
PARTY HOST: Cool young people receive Communion at an artsy hipster church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The aisles are full of artists, actors, fashion stylists and musicians.

Even the pastor, the Rev. Vito Aiuto -- trained at the Princeton Seminary -- is in a band, and has recorded music with indie hero Sufjan Stevens, an occasional congregant.

"I feel at home here," said Travis Johnson, 28, who rigs music equipment for Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine and other bands. Johnson discovered the church when he happened upon Aiuto's album in a Williamsburg record store.

Live jazz accompanies the collection, and church suppers include plenty of red wine, but the holy hipsters are serious about Christ. During services, parishioners raise their arms in prayer and confess that God saved them from "the power of the devil."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/holy_hipsters_flock_to_church_5CIUEYTsvqbkGgws0cV7YP?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME#ixzz13NNepJkc

One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.

i was saying this in '99

whiney I didn't say that hipsterature (nu word?) would come in the form of books. these r stories that were never told, stories that must be pieced 2gether from mere traces: a "sent messages" folder, a tumblr post, graffiti.

well that's some nice trolling

perhaps reflecting on a graphic designers unorthodox choice of font can be as revelatory abt the state of modern america as reading freedom: a novel by jonathan franzen

even the dropped apostrophe tells a story: a story about loss, sadness, the death of a dream. what happened 2 the days when every1 wanted 2 be 'taken seriously'? what happened 2 'making a statement'? feels like boomers want us to keep doing r thing but also 'bust their balls' about the environment/racism/whatever and we're too lazy to, so instead they just spend $$$ on tix to another sting jagger concert.

~someone still loves you the arcade fire~

xp upthread - i think your point about bricolage is kinda similar to what Jameson says about pastiche - but it's been 15 years since i've read that Jameson essay.

I guess maybe there was a time when this was true and I just missed it cuz I was too young, but to me, Wes Anderson and McSweeney's shit seemed like it was for flatlanders and NPR dads from day 1 of century 21.

you're too young.

"NPR" as pejorative

america as pejorative

culture as rubbish

(my dad likes NPR)

I finally figured out how to do the Garrison Keillor voice, you gotta hold your tongue up off the bottom of your mouth so it blocks your airway a lil' bit

PARTY HOST: Cool young people receive Communion at an artsy hipster church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

lol

great pic too

hasn't the son of billy graham been doing hipster outreach in NYC for some time now?
i read about some schism between him and pops, but don't know if they've welcomed his
brand of leftist, tattooed evangelism back into the flock.

Since I just got out of the subject of that Hilary Duff PSA... THAT'S SO HIPSTER!

just realized i might be conflating billy graham's estranged, pierced son with hank williams iii.

thought that was jim and tammy faye's kid?

i think you're right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Charles_Bakker
they must all have mistakenly formed some kind of hipster trinity in my head.

"The fellowship with everyone here is amazing," said Shaun Lee, 30, a skinny, scruffy East Village bartender who sports a skullcap and cargo jacket to service.

if i was a 30 year old who still dressed like that did bar work, i'd be praying too.

http://yepwecan.co.uk/uploads/2010/10/highstreet-heartthrob1-540x382.jpg

this is sport science bro's older brother or something.

http://yepwecan.co.uk/highstreet-heartthrob/

damn

h8 that cunt

metrosexual failed professional footballer from the home counties

http://videocelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Eagles.jpg
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/00731/Chris_Eagles_731740i.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/07/article-0-059EDE3E000005DC-517_468x279.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8092439/Superman-the-20-year-old-hoodie-wearing-hipster.html

In 'Superman: Earth One', released earlier this week in comic book stores, Clark Kent has been drawn for a contemporary audience as a young man unsure how to use his super-strength and ability to fly, as he struggled to find a job.

People I know keep linking this, but it seems kind of patronizing and empty to me:

http://vimeo.com/15351309

what was the 'hipster'?

that's the article max & i were discussing.

Not bad: "It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters."

haha everyone else quoted the same bit already.

Hey did youvguys see this article also unhappy hipster blog also this other thing hipster

hey did you know, someone did a blog with pictures of dogs with funny captions about hipsters?

I bet that guy's got it made and totally not miserable

bet he's a poster child for knowing how to live, and doesn't get irate about trivial bullshit a bunch of nobodies post on a message board.

Hey, and you know what, there's this totally hilarious game you can play ... called HIPSTER BINGO

in fact i bet that hipster puppies guy spends every day getting free refills at the pussy buffet!

hel hath no fury

Not bad: "It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters."

― s.clover, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:04 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is nonsense, as if popular culture and commerce had NOTHING to do with each other until recently or NOBODY liked trivial bullshit in the good old days.

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"this is nonsense, as if popular culture and commerce had NOTHING to do with each other until recently or NOBODY liked trivial bullshit in the good old days."

I'm not sure that there wasn't always a commercial interest in warfare, but I don't think that invalidates the warning against a military-industrial complex, and that things got worse in that respect since Eisenhower?'s warning. Also, doesn't this feel like the golden age of trivial bullshit? We were definitely in a trivial bullshit malaise for a while.