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"Look At This Fucking Hipster" website
March 23, 2010 - 3:36pm
(Not safe for work if your boss doesn't like the word "fuck".)
Oh, and Gawker says that the word "hipster" is too tired, so they've had a contest, and their readers have voted for "fauxhemian" to replace it.
Which is also rather amusing.
Okay, go back to your important discussions now. :D
We need a "Discuss hipsterism from a pro-hipster point of view" forum so that Stargazer and I don't feel perpetually attacked.
Do you cats look anything like this guy?
Or how about this?
At least the hipster olympics is actually entertaining.
All reet, Jackson. I won a Gold Medal in Kicking the Gong Around!
At risk of outing myself, here is what I'm wearing today:
"It is the duty of the humor of any given nation in time of high crisis to attack the catastrophe that faces it in such a manner as to cause the people to laugh at it in such a way that they cannot die before they are killed."
I think my favourite one so far is this one just because of the caption. Ha!
Some of them aren't great, though. They seem to have a pretty wide definition of "hipster" - basically, anyone wearing anything strange appears to qualify. But a number of them aren't what I think of when I think "hipster".
Has any babbler ever met someone from the village of Fucking, Austria? I had no idea there was such a village.
I've never met anyone from there, but I've heard of it before.
I see a twinning of the towns in the making. Fucking, Austria, meet Dildo, Newfoundland.... (you don't have to click on both, they are conveniently cross-referenced in Wikipedia)
[ETA... don't blame me, Michelle started the thread]
Okay, I thought the hipster site was funny at first, but the more I go through the pictures (didn't really have a chance this afternoon since I was just taking a quick break and only saw a few of the pictures), the more I'm not crazy about it.
It's one thing to mock the self-conscious white urban ironic hipster thing, but some of them are hitting me the wrong way (and no, not because I dress like any of them - I don't).
When I think of "hipsters" I don't think of people who are genuinely artistic and wear handmade clothing or jewellery, for instance. I think more of poseurs, people who just grab a trend and go with it for half a minute before moving on to the next one, and people who spend hundreds of dollars on "hipster" items of clothing that look like they got them at garage sales, and spend 5 hours and three cans of product to get their hair to look like they just woke up - that sort of thing.
poseurs or brilliant performance artists commenting on the modern state of overconsumption and our product driven disposable lives?
"...brilliant performance artists..." Isn't that an oxymoron?
James Franco, performance artist: "I make it sound like I only like performance art--and that is not true at all."
Exactly, which is why hipsters/performance artists(if their any good) can't actually self-identify as hipsters/performance artists.
But honestly what is there to critise that wasn't present in all other cultural movements of the past 100 years?
This article attacks hipster use of fixed gear bikes largely on the basis that it's not very original. Fork, you can make similar arguments about the majority of the poulation you just need to change the details.
Solid, Jackson!
A stage director I know referred to performance art as "theatre for people who can't act!"
If Hollywood ever dared do a "Lord Buckley" bio-pic, would they cast Johnny Depp or Robert Downey, jr in it? And how would we avoid the nightmare of having them give Keanu Reeves the part?
Ignore hollywood. It'll do wonders for your chi and I can't remember my last nightmare, I mostly dream about bumblebees.
besides giving depp the role of eccentrics is soo cliché
Nice bee smilie, there.
bullshit & balls
That's the cat's meow,Daddy'o...
Y'know, ever since I was about eight or nine I've wanted a zoot suit. Finally, about four or five years ago, while hanging with the missus in Fabricland, I saw a pattern for one. I was blowin' my wig at the prospect of at last wearing the drape I've always wanted, but then thought, "I'm in my forties. This would look completely ridiculous on me."
I think you should do it anyhow, even if only at a Hallowe'en party. :)
The Hipster Olympics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM
Love it. :D
If you do, I want a photo!
I see NO reason a 40 year old couldn't lwear it....va va voom!
Personally I don't grasp this at all. This group "Fucking hipster" just seems to represent anyone not wearing head to toe frat -- and so much the better if the photo clearly demonstrates how obnoxious you were taking their picture with your stupid cellphone.