in defense of hipsters
In the Fairfax papers on the weekend there was yet another rant about why hipsters are so not cool.
I find these rants intriguing …but they seem to read the cultural cues a little wrong. Through an old prism, somehow. So here I’m going to go into bat for these earnest, oddly cardiganed folk.
To confirm what a hipster is:
Hipsters covet lo-fi goods such as fixed-gear bikes and old-school Lomographic cameras. Their tastes run to 1950s furniture. They crave things that are obscure and typography-related. And they are disdainful of anything mainstream.
London’s Guardian describes a hipster, which historians say popped up in New York’s lower east side in 1999 as “squatting somewhere between MGMT, The Inbetweeners and Derek Zoolander [ouch!] … this modern incarnation is all mouth and skinny trousers”. And ipads, and second-hand shopping and cardigans and hanging in obscure coffee shops and having slashie careers (T-shirt designer/cafe owner/web design business etc).
You get the picture. (And I should confess that I certainly don a few hipsterisms: the black Buddy Holly glasses. The single-speed bike. Which is not why I feel compelled to defend hipsters.)
The thing is, critics bag out the affectations as being all about irony. And therefore flaccid. American writer David Foster Wallace called irony the “new junta”. “Irony tyrannises us. Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working towards redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to weary ironists.”
“Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval … the new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of the gifted ironists, the ‘Oh, how banal’.
Four things:
1. I don’t actually think the bulk of young hipsters (in particular) are being intentionally ironic.
Irony has a bitter taste to it. It’s cynical. Hipsters I meet are actually far from cynical. They’re largely exceedingly optimistic and open. It’s not like when Gen X raped and pillaged the 70s for our toe-gazing, acerbic Reality Bites aesthetic in the 90s…we WERE miserable and cynical. We had no jobs. We grew up in the Thatcher era. And during the up-and-up of capitalism. So we reacted by dissing everything with sarcasm and irony and picking Nike logos off our sweatshirts. Hipsters aren’t really taking the piss. They truly like their Remington typewriter they picked up at a Brooklyn flea market.
2. By contrast Gen Y/Gen Z hipsters are not reactionary or negative
There’s a website called Stuff Hipsters Hate that suggests they hate deadlines and LOL cats…but I don’t know that they do HATE stuff. And they’re bagged for this, too. For not caring about anything.
I see instead a generation who grew up with so many competing messages, so much anger and reaction and gender role confusion around them…they got smart and decided to mark out a smooth…yes, beige…path for themselves. My 20-year-old brother is like this. He looks at his old brothers and sisters getting worked up about everything and calmly weaves his own way through the mire, unruffled.
Yes, they’ve had it easy, too. Full employment, technological enablement etc. But they haven’t turned into suit-n-tie consuming twats…they could’ve…
I wrote about this in a previous Sunday Life column…where a bunch of 22-year-old boys taught me how it’s “cool to be calm“.
3. Hipster values ain’t all that bad
It’s about simplicity and minimalism coveting second-hand stuff, re-using things. It’s not flagrantly ANTI-capitalistic (cos are hipsters anti anything!?). But it’s far more about organic substances and real things and about slowing stuff down…
The aesthetic is about being appreciative of things that have been made with care and consideration, like beautiful bikes and hand-crafted fonts. Not to take the piss or because they can’t think of anything new themselves, but because they appreciate things that were done well…in contrast to the mass-produced gunk they grew up around.
Hipster culture cherry-picks the best of the new and the old.
Of course, not all hipsters are Gen Yers or Gen Zers…but they set the tone of the aesthetic. Gen Xers co-opted.
4. I think we’re just jealous
You know what, the bottom line is this: hipsters live a pretty nice life. They create the nice lives. They hang out in coffee shops and grow their beards long and create things on nice Macs. They don’t feel a need to don a suit and work 15 hours a day in an office. They also seem to have a better knack of navigating their way through the new way things are done – fast, chaotically, with multiple plates spinning in the air, and with uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty. Hipsters are less attached to outcomes…and they keep a bunch of plates spinning at once…while reaching back and enjoying a bike saddle crafted in 1950 or a belt hand-tooled in Arizona. Or whatever. They get the balance right, often.
Of course, there are hipster moments that are just cringe-worthy. And I don’t love the sleeve tatts. Or the bush ranger beards so much.
(the caption LATFH ran: “As a fixie poet, I’m against two things: bike brakes and line breaks.”)
This captures things…quite clever:
What do you think? Hate hipsters much? Or somehow envious of they way they live?
I loved the SMH article. But then I admit to being the generation above them that is a little jealous or maybe just jaded… and I’m sure the generation above me loathed all the brown ripped cardigans and tie dyed nylon slips and heroin chic that I grotted around in back in the 90s.
Although I enjoyed your defence of the hipster generation, you had some good points. They definitely seem happier than my gen were at 20.
My experience with the hipster generation is not as pleasant as yours…. I’ve met many self absorbed selfish consumerist youngsters (particularly artists and musos) that earn a truckload and live at home and don’t get involved in causes and don’t care about anyone but themself and their iphone. I don’t think it is okay to not care about the problems of the world. Calm or not calm. It’s called being human.
The sooner the hipsters pull those skinny jeans up above their bums, the better… I’m so sick of seeing their designer undies.
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May 16th, 2011 at 9:23 am
ow wow… is this my flash forward to 80?
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“cultural queues”? Are we lining up for culture now?
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May 16th, 2011 at 10:40 am
shit. typo. thanks for the alert.
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Similar to Jacinta, I do not have a problem with their ideals but the few that I have met have been extremely arrogant and were barely able to be friendly to me as I wasn’t quite as ‘arty’ as some of the people I was with at the time.
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I think maybe, when it comes to people feeling as though hipsters are snobbish or elitist when mixing with others, there are a lot of self doubt issues or preformed beliefs that get in the way of having a clear perspective on what they’re like. For example, with Sarah’s comment up above (and please believe me when I say I feel that way A LOT when hanging around ‘hipsters’), if the people concerned never actually said that she ‘wasn’t arty enough’, then perhaps that is actually her own belief and feeling that way is just a manifestation of an issue she has with herself. Afterall, and by quoting this I deepen in my own hipsterish-ness just a little, as Eleanor Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
So, instead of jealousy, which to me holds a little bit of the burning, mean kind of hatred, perhaps it is just a little bit of self doubt and wishing that makes people dislike hipsters?
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May 17th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
great quote Lauren!!
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Some hipsters are snobbish and elitist, the kind who sit around with their identical iPhones, their identical outfits and identical haircuts and call everyone ELSE conformist. Some are not. Some baby boomers are arrogant and rude and think the world owes them a living. Some are not. Some Gen Xers believe they own the world, some do not. Older people always think the generations that followed them had it easy, when really – what time is EVER easy to the people living it? We all have our struggles and bonuses of living in the time we live in.
What does this prove? You cant stereotype an entire generation of people by the rough date in which they were born. It’s foolish to try.
Yes we grew up under a vaguely similar political climate but so what..? We’re all human, individual, unique and people who try to pigeon hole everyone else usually have some kind of ulterior motive at hand. Usually those who fear getting old and irrelevant become consumed with trying to define those younger than them. Which is probably why you wont hear many younger people refer to themselves as hipsters or Gen Y’s or whatever. We tend to want what our parents didnt have, and resist their urges to mould us like them.
I can agree with the jealousy thing though. It can be very easy to look on another group and think, they have it all! Nobody has it all, its an illusion.
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Wow. I only really heard about hipsters about a month ago, and it was always through a joke or a sarcastic comment. Then I started to see pictures and definitions of a hipster, and realised that if I was to be labelled as anything, it would be as a hipster.
But I’m not trying to fit in to any particular style but my own. I bought the thick black rimmed glasses because I liked them and the bigger the frames are, the more I can see clearly. I’m an artist because painting and creating makes me feel alive. I go to coffee shops because I like coffee. I’m a positivity junkie because I spent years being a negativity junkie and it sucked. I’m a slashie (artist/writer/designer/etc) because I want to be my own boss and have creative freedom. My fiance has long hippie hair and a bit of a beard because he likes the way it looks. We want to grow our own organic food because it’s healthy, and simple, and sweet.
On the other hand, I don’t wear skinny jeans, I dress more like a hippie. And I do generally care about the world and want to use my life to make it a better place.
I don’t really know any other hipsters, which is probably why I didn’t even know about them until recently, but if being myself gets me labelled as a hipster, then I’m cool with that. People can think what they like. I’m being true to myself and that’s all that matters. Besides, there are much worse things in the world than being a hipster.
A few years ago everyone was trashing emos. In the 70s/80s everyone trashed punks. Before that it was hippies. And until we learn that we don’t need to feel threatened by people who are different, there will always be someone to trash.
Thanks for writing this, it’s good to see something positive about this topic
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I like it when people are genuinely hipsters, emo’s, bombers (are there any bombers left?) ect without knowing it, when they are labeled one by default, similar to my rant about geeks. I dont like it when people claim that they are a particular genre. My beard is itchy.
I’m starting a movement called “waisters” who’s in?
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May 16th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
What are bombers? For that matter… what are waisters?
p.s. If its itchy, scratch it.
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May 16th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
A bomber is like Vinilla Ice without the need to stop, collaborate and listen.
A waister is someone who wears waist high pants with pleats, uses the “divide and conquer” methodology when eating and likes things that are retro retrospective.
p.s. I styled my beard today so scratching it will destroy all my hard work, I think its the glue I use.
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May 16th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Wow, I learned something new today.
Awesome!
I am always jealous of the ability of men to grow beards and moustaches. I mean I’m Greek, so if any girls in the world are gonna grow moustaches its us, but I dont think I’m game to see what a wax-free life is like. I have a stick-on moustache that I stuck to the steering wheel of my car, I stroke it and ponder when I’m stuck in traffic. Its very convenient and hardly itches at all.
I’m still curious as to the waister. I’d need a visual.
May 16th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
My partner says she’d like to be able to grow facial hair as well, I’m not supportive of this. I’m half asian so its a life style choice to grow a beard, like a mullet, it takes commitment and discipline.
I’ll get a photo of a waister to you soon, they are hard to find because I made them up today on this blog today.
May 16th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Adam, I’d LOVE to see a picture of a waister. You should meet Joi (from last week’s post). Have you connected via Twitter. Your minds would get on well.
May 16th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
You’re the second person who has suggested that Joi and I meet. I have exchanged tweets, I got a bit confused with the context of the tweet because Jo was in the conversation and I think there was a pseudonym reference to the female naughty bits, (which I didn’t pick up on) and I asked if the pseudonym was actually a marsupial, then I had to explain all this to my partner who thought I understood (and I didn’t) the innuendo and was playing along because marsupials have pouches that are in some way similar to female naughty bits (note to self, avoid conversations with multiple females) but I dont see the similarity because where do you put the kangaroo?
You didn’t actually ask a question at all did you?
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May 16th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
That is the funniest thing I have heard all day
May 16th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
It gets worse when the bring “Cynthia” and “Gary” into the mix!
May 17th, 2011 at 10:15 am
I feel led to enter in here… if for nothing other than to preserve my reputation(um?!)
Cynthia says ‘hi Gary – see you sunday!’ *waves*
Adam – while we’re all sharing intimates – I’m waiting for you to explain your vindaLOO sporting win to Sarah….
May 17th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Thats easy, I’m a guy, we can talk about farts all day (different types, sounds, funniest locations, decibels vs time and which is funnier and so on).
Sarah, I played a game of ice hockey after eating indian (not a whole one) and aside from my blistering pace, superhuman skills and good looks I was also telegraphing my prior meal to the smell sensors of the opponents in an attempt to distract them, all part of my strategy to win.
Jo, I’m sorry if I damaged your reputation, can you forgive me?
May 17th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Adam, you might be funny sometimes but how about you post this kind of crap on your own blog. I can only guess what ‘cynthia’ & ‘gary’ mean and really Sarah, why stoop to that level ?
I used to enjoy your blog, but now it’s just a joke.
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May 17th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Dear Amanda
Noted and thank you, my Mother dosent read this blog but you remind me of her, she’s a dentist. I just type like a talk (with out much thought at all) and like you pointed out, I’m only funny sometimes, thats why I have a day job and thats also why I get beat up a lot.
One thing my Grandfather said to me was “reading is unlike listening, you choose to read but you cant help hearing” (the radio stations know my number now, I have a life ban) this was after he wrote a letter to the local council regarding the speed limit and how it was to slow (true story), he got lots of hate mail from fellow grey hairs and I’m sure it hurt a bit, but he never apologised, I like that.
So if my crap is bad reading then stop reading here.
Ah but you didn’t! Cheeky you, this is only going to get more crap, so before you get more upset I would encourage you to cease reading after this.
Ok well seing as your choosing to red this I will continue;
Thanks for your advice, but I already post this kind of crap on my blog, thats why my blog is crap and no one reads crap, or do they? You read this, didn’t you? You should read my blog then! Amanda you would love it! I even have funny photos on there if the words are to long or confusing. I get distracted a lot as well so the posts.. oh look a flashing light
That flashing light was sweet! Where was I?
oh
What is the protocol for commenting on blogs, is there a clause stating that if the comment isn’t funny you should consider not commenting?
Maybe we (50/50 of course) should start an independent non-biased committee that reviews blog comments and weeds out the crap and unfunny ones. I imaging the pannel to be like the two grumpy old men from the Muppets, I love the muppets, what kind of animal was Animal anyway?
And thats why you should floss every night.
PS “Cynthia” means vagina and “Gary” means penis (I think, like I said I got a bit confused) it could also be metaphor for flightless birds stranded on different islands.
Amanda, are you a waister per chance?
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May 17th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Mia started it
May 17th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Fuck off Adam you wanker!
May 17th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
ps…were you one of those annoying kids at school always after the attention? Cause that’s exactly how you come across.
May 17th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Ahem, that was quite a rant Adam. I actually agree with Amandas opinion. I think she was saying that you are usually funny and have something worthwile to say but discussing women’s private parts can come across as derogatory and disrespectful to the people who read Sarahs blog.
May 17th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Dear Amanda
I’m so glad you read my comment, I wasn’t sure if you would, did you read it to the end? Did you find it humorous? I thought it was some of my best work.
I picked up (subtly) from your first comment, that you are into to me in a big way, Amanda, unfortunately I have a girlfriend and hopefully wife soon. I know this is hard to read but I dont want to give you the wrong impression.
I hope I didn’t offend you by comparing you to my Mother, she’s actually a wonderful woman. Deb (Mum) used to teach dental hygiene to remote indigenous communities in outback Australia, not your average dentist (Me on the other hand, I saved a dragonfly from certain death. It was trapped in my extravagant and well appointed New York styled apartment, and through strategically switching off lights I led it outside to safety), now she works in a hospital making life better for people, and she adopts dogs, I should call her.
That said, she has never called me a wanker. She would certainly never drop the “F” bomb, she’s a real lady (she does say shit a lot in the kitchen). But I will show her this, she’ll say “you and your big mouth” . But I could be wrong because I don’t know you. So, I’m going to assume that you’re a wonderful person until you prove me wrong. And there will be no put downs from me, unless you know Tim Bailey, then you are in some real trouble.
Enjoy the rest of your day, it sounds like you could use a break from the interweb.
Oh, there are paper versions of blogs called the newspaper, they are free of comments, unless you read the letters section, and now that Peter Ruehl (I miss him) has passed on there is no reason to read the Financial Review anymore.
Did you mean wanker literally or wanker as in someone who eats entire packets of mint slice biscuits with out sharing? Then you could be right about me.
May 17th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Danika, I agree with you, starting that topic was wrong of me, sorry.
May 17th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Hi Amanda
Yes! I was one of those kids, only child to a single mum, bullied by white kids. Thats me!
May 17th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Hi Adam…I have now upgraded you from a wanker to an A grade c*nt.
As I said before FUCK OFF. I’m sure the whole world has your attention now…isn’t that what you always want??
May 17th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
No, actually what I have always wanted is that hover board from Back to the Future 2! The worlds attention sits way back at number 7 on my list of things I always want.
May 17th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I regret nothing!
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May 17th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I’m so sending this to David Thorne!
May 17th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Out of respect for Sarah’s wonderful blog I’m opting out from replying anymore, I do get carried away.
Rug up and good night
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May 18th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Amanda and Adam…I feel like I need to wade in like a Mum who got home from work to find her kids about to throttle each other. I really don’t mind if people have fun on this blog with play on words and innuendo. But I’d love it if the accusations – both abusive and smart – could be left off. We can all press send on some dumb stuff at times. But we all have the opportunity to leave it at that, let things settle, own our stuff, move on…as well as to apologise and retract.
Thank you. As you were.
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May 18th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
as homer simpson would say, boooooring…why dont you guys have your little tizz in private somewhere, i agree, this back and forth pseudo-intellectual crude reply one-upmanship and titter detracting from sarah’s blog. I came hear to read about hipsters, not have to sideline experience a stupid squabble…waste of words and time…
May 18th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Sarah, I have taken your feedback on board and now offer and olive branch to Adam. Upon reflection, I was out of line and got carried away with my outbursts. Therefore, Adam, I do apologise and take back my name calling.
May 18th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Sorry Sarah (he says looking all innocent).
I love olives, thank you
Amanda
I was rude, so I extend a branch made of sherbies to you, I hope you like sherbies, I like sherbies, except when the candy to sherbet ratio is wrong and you get hardly any sherbet.
I sincerely apologise Amanda.
My girlfriend grilled me when I got home if that helps, she said I was disrespectful to women and she was right.
Shalom (Grace and Peace be with you)
May 18th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
made my night!
hmmm…. when I was in my early teens I was into 50s & 60 music, clothes and hair /styles, so I was a ‘mod’, as well as adopting my regular 80s teen look to fit in and be accepted by most of my peers. (haha I also had one of those trilby hats when i was 15, cos you know, Madonna and that young boy did in that video clip at the fun fair… it was a genuine old man’s hat from the 50s (too bad I seemed to be the only one trying to wear one
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When I was in my late teens/early 20s I was still into retro and cool old stuff that could be collated from the past, along with late 60s and early 70s music, plus good ole 80s pop, trends and hair cuts. All while being at uni, hanging in cafes, listening to live music and searching out anything cool and hidden in Brisbane that was to be found before everyone else did (haha at self!).. oh all whilst volunteering at Amnesty Intl.
In my mid 20s-30s I was still chasing up jack k and william b books, and had been op shopping for a good 15 years by now. I listened to nirvana et al and took my pearl jam tape and walkman on my first OE to America, where i picked up a flannelette shirt and ripped levis. Then on to London where it was back to the alternative squatter look/life, along with old motorbikes, funk LPs and cardigans.
So nothing is new really except the label. I still like old retro stuff, but I don’t look good in skinny jeans. I left the city for nature and still care about causes and the world, but these days I don’t need to label myself with the latest faddish name to describe or prove who I am. i guess this is just a part of getting older, and tuning more into my ‘self’ rather than how i want the world around me to identify me.
So hipster schipster, it’s just another trendy label of the moment, a costume to wear, an ideal to live by which will only be replaced by the next recycled fashionable label that those at the front of the pack will search out to identify by so as to differentiate themselves from the pack.
I guess it’s what keeps the world turning, and I find it all rather interesting to watch from the sidelines these days
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May 17th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Me too, great comment!
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Yeah that 20 year old brother of yours is the worst, can’t believe he has friends, him and his fixed gear bike really get to me… Plus he’s so tall, what is with that?
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May 16th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Sarcasm intended.
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May 16th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
So tall. And the cardigans!
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Have you seen this Sarah?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
Kind of the flip side to your message, but the ‘hipsters’ that don’t take themselves too seriously could have a laugh at this..
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I like hipsters.
I think it’s a lovely take on life.
I had a fixie four years ago but don’t mind at all that they’re in fashion now. They should be in fashion, they’re bloody gorgeous!
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Fixie = fat pixie?
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Hipsters are cool. Sarah and her Buddy Holly glasses are cool. We’re all cool.
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May 17th, 2011 at 8:36 am
Planking is cool.
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May 18th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
And deadly
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Why do we have to label everything/one? Stereotypes only exist in the mind.
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Loved the thinking and style of this piece Sarah. Best short read for me in a long time.
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I live near COFA on Oxford Street in Sydney and so theraer are loads of hipsters in my area. Everytime I see one walk by with their super cool beards and odd vintage clothes I imagine that they are secretly listening to Akon or Britney Spears on their ipod
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Gosh never knew about the beard thing. I love a beard on a really gorgeous guy, it just seems to take the nauseating edge off the good looks. Not sure how effective it is if it’s a ‘look’ though. My boyfriend grew one 10 yrs ago.I loved it but everyone else thought he looked old, he was 23!! I love all the old bikes, typewriters, record players and simple quality living and black skinny jeans. I didn’t realise it was actually called hipster, I just felt like I was following a trail of little things I enjoy doing and I have never been happier. Forget owning ur own home filled with new stuff. Collect ur treasures and wherever u end up it’s a comfy place. I prefer ‘cosy’. Is 35 too old to be hip?! Ha. What an eye opening post.
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haha… true!
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May 18th, 2011 at 11:13 am
duh that was a reply to the hipsters listening to britney or whatever… which referred to my previous post, for which i am grateful adam c posted a comment that i understood
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It doesn’t have anything to do with jealousy (at least for me). It has to do with the self-righteous air radiating off of hipsters that think they are original by hating with mainstream- along with the thousands of other hipsters. It makes no sense seeing as they are just as much of sheep as every group of people they despise or mock.
Like you, I also have hipster tendencies: I initially became vegan for political reasons and I owned a pair of TOMS three years ago. The difference between me and them, though, is that I don’t think I’m better for having liked, say, hardcore gangster rap before it was cool to know all about Screwed Up Click and Assholes by Nature (or whatEVER- you get the point).
Basically what I’m trying to say is that unoriginality posing as not only original but BETTER than unoriginality is counterintuitive, obnoxious and exhausting.
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May 21st, 2011 at 1:28 am
I meant to say “hating anything mainstream” on that second line. I guess I blacked out when I reread it.
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As with most things the Australian media picks up on, hipsters are so 2000 and late.
That Honda Jazz ad makes me physically cringe. Who is it targeting exactly? Timing in advertising is everything, maybe 6 months ago this would have been mildly amusing. Now it just comes across as tragically faddish. An example of the inherent dangers of middle aged marketers trying to ‘speak’ Gen Y. I can only hope that their next ad will featuring planking…
Search ‘Portlandia’ in Youtube. Now that is hipster satire at its best.
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May 21st, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Well said Laura.
And somebody else who knows about Portlandia – excellent.
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Of course there are arrogant hipsters and nice hipsters, the same as there were arrogant hippies and nice hippies or are arrogant Americans and nice Americans. And of course “hipster” is just another trend and just another label, just like, say, Pythagoreans were/are just another trend and just another label. But I like to think about such cultural trends as I think about studying different philosophies – I don’t have to dress like Pythagoras to share some of his views, right? And i don’t have to have a beard to implement some part of hipsterism in my life.
Even before I learnt what hipsters are I kept coming across blogs that had many polaroid or Holga photos and were written by people who constantly tried new things, just for the fun of it. This seemed incredible to me, because I grew up with my parents telling me constantly that everything I do needs to have a purpose or some goal. When I wanted to go to dancing classes my Mom asked “what for?”. I didn’t need to loose weight and I’d never be a pro dancer, so in her opinion there was no reason to learn. I struggled with this a long time (still struggle a bit) – doing things just because it is fun: writing a story without planning where I want it to be published or trying out firedancing without researching if there are some Best Firedancer Awards to win.
Also, it’s nice to see people keeping nice distance from reality. Distance is always good. And hipster-haters are keeping distance from hipsters so it’s good, too. And, actually, if hipsters are getting this much media coverage they are becoming mainstream and therefore hipster-haters are more hipster than hipsters, I think?
So yeah, I like hipsters. Just for fun of it. They are helping.
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Haha an excellent piece Sarah! I enjoyed reading this. The hipster epidemic is one errrybody should be aware of
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I have some young hipster friends, a very sweet and caring young couple I know and I find them to be very sincere and kind, they always take the time to chat with their middle aged friend (me) and I love the way they look…cute, stylish, adorable!
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