very funny, i've not seen them before either but it looks like there's a few different ones and they're all silly good.

how much rap can you pack?

how much ninja?

how much massive?

the rap one is with bangs!!! reprazent!!

hipsters, like long-dead authors (dread term, 'authors' i.e., not 'long-dead) have been swallowed by the whale of their own manufactured adulation. and thank fuck, indeed, thank fucking, for that.

coolsie cunt.

That main guy works at Fandango's in North Melbourne. I think that's the most I've ever heard him say in the five years of me going there.

Oh no. I love vinyl, Penguin classics, have four typewriters and am currently ordering a shitload of film from the new Polaroid people. Holy shitballs, does that mean I'm a hipster??

Its funny, because I know at least three of those hipsters in the Jazz thing...

outoftheaircrash said 9 minutes ago: Holy shitballs...

Excellent exclamation and icon combination.

Oh and I also love Phoenix Cola.

Thanks Basil!

I was waiting for a M+N reference.

the dude who gets in with the long hair and semi beard is wearing my jacket, basically and scarf...

and yeah I have advocated ironic ariel usage for at least 5 years.
I don't have 'new' penquin classics as I have a source to 'original' penquin classics. the 60s ones..although I won't read them preffering a new hardback edition of 'on the road' the 50th anniversary one or something, but this is because I am older and should set a standard for the ageing hipster...and a tome should be handed down to upcoming hpsters.

on the weekend though I was very wild..I have a 'pink floyd' 'atom heart mother' t shirt and yes it is ironic and yet and thus..oooh er..that cow...and yes that amount of hipster.

HAH!

my ironic boots though I have are not clean, no...the irony of hipsterdom is that my boots are beaten and weathered and covered in mud which is symbolic of the hipster life.

I also have a cheap ripped and frayed 'beware the shark' fatty dad t-shirt that was bought at kmart it is blue and combined with red scarf and jacket oooh I oose irony. so much so that a jealous father came up to me and said...man all you have to do is walk in and you are the best hipster I have ever seen to which I replied, yeah I don't have to work at it...eh? at which point he got grumpy and said your band (insert name here) best band ever from eltham at which point I said..yeah prolly..

I think this ad is very clever. You're all talking about it.

Well, the nonsensical, grumpy old farts of M+N are anyway.

yeah I liked it...That guy with the long hair is one of the ones i know, funny dude, but only because he is truly like this ad represents him as...

Homer: So I realized that being with my family is more important
than being cool.
Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool.
Homer: You know what the song says: ''It's hip to be square.''
Lisa: That song is so lame.
Homer: So lame that it's... cool?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Am I cool, kids?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool—not caring, right?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried
everything here.
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to
be told you're cool.
Bart: Well, sure you do.
Lisa: How else would you know?

I'm intimidated by Fandangos. I won't even go in there, they'll smell the Geelong on me.

Oh and hehe nice simpsons moment dnzr. I noticed dnzr and noneabove are always in these threads. :)

disappear ... some time last week.
Would Hipster be the next ''Goth''/EMO?

It was on TV in an advertising campaign, so yes, it's over and will now pass onto children from the suburbs who will cling on to it for decades, cheaply accessorising the most obvious aspects and ignoring the important ones - in this case, they'll have big glasses but cheap, shitty shoes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)

Could be interesting to see what will happen culturally now.

Look at these fancy hipsters!

That's a pretty good wikipedia analysis of hipsterdom, Jazzy.

Rob Horning developed a critique of hipsterism in his April 2009 article ''The Death of the Hipster'' in PopMatters, exploring several possible definitions for the hipster. He muses that the hipster might be the ''embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics,'' or might be ''...a kind of permanent cultural middleman in hypermediated late capitalism, selling out alternative sources of social power developed by outsider groups, just as the original 'white negros' evinced by Norman Mailer did to the original, pre-pejorative 'hipsters'—blacks....'' Horning also proposed that the role of hipsters may be to ''... appropriat[e] the new cultural capital forms, delivering them to mainstream media in a commercial form and stripping their inventors... of the power and the glory...''. Horning argues that the ''...problem with hipsters'' is the ''way in which they reduce the particularity of anything you might be curious about or invested in into the same dreary common denominator of how 'cool' it is perceived to be,'' as ''...just another signifier of personal identity.'' Furthermore, he argues that the ''hipster is defined by a lack of authenticity, by a sense of lateness to the scene'' or the way that they transform the situation into a ''self-conscious scene, something others can scrutinize and exploit.''

Dan Fletcher in Time seems to support this theory, positing that stores like Urban Outfitters have mass-produced hipster chic, merging hipsterdom with parts of mainstream culture, thus overshadowing its originators' still-strong alternative art and music scene. According to Fletcher, ''Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity. Critics have described the loosely defined group as smug, full of contradictions and, ultimately, the dead end of Western civilization.'' Elise Thompson, an editor for the LA blog LAist argues that ''people who came of age in the 70s and 80s punk rock movement seem to universally hate 'hipsters''', which she defines as people wearing ''expensive 'alternative' fashion[s]'', going to the ''latest, coolest, hippest bar...[and] listen[ing] to the latest, coolest, hippest band.'' Thompson argues that hipsters ''...don’t seem to subscribe to any particular philosophy... [or] ...particular genre of music.'' Instead, she argues that they are ''soldiers of fortune of style'' who take up whatever is popular and in style, ''appropriat[ing] the style[s]'' of past countercultural movements such as punk, while ''discard[ing] everything that the style stood for.''

I'm with the old punks on that one.

I think 'soldiers of fortune' is far too romantic and giving hipster far too much credit. What Soldiers of Fortune do is mercenary, dangerous and morally abhorrent, but they lack the purely exploitative quality of the hipster. After all, a soldier of fortune goes somwhere dangerous in an effort to force peace up on it (ahem) or goes somewhere peaceful to force it into violence, terror or war.

A hipster, on the other hand, merely waits for something to be created by someone else, jumps it's bones for thirty days, then ditches it for whatever else is coming along. The hipster risks nothing, makes nothing, forces nothing and offers nothing. They're an entirely parasitic wastrel, the ultimate in free market exploitation, middle-class freeriders of an unprecedented economic bubble.

The next 'generation' will either be made entirely of more vacuous hipsters, raised on a diet of bullshit crap music and Michael Cera movies, or be the total backlash against them, which will depend on when the bubble bursts - before or after their emergence - and either way I fear either a population of millions of these douchebags making my life hell, or of the Soviet-level anti-decadence agit-prop-only killjoys who'll come after them, screaming at me to get a job responsible to my comrades in my middle age and mistaking me for a hipster and dragging me off to a grey and colourless art school which is peopled entirely by Resistance members.

(Actually, that could be fun. I love a good fight.)

Ha ha, noneabove.
To quote Orwell, ''If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.''
Would you rather that boot be a hipster's winklepicker or some earnest killjoy's army boot. What a choice!

Those hipsters - and their crazy ‘look at me, I look almost homeless’ dress sense, eh?

I can't wait until this video appears on hipsterrunoff.com.

I spoke too soon.

Woah, another one from Australia.

What have we done.

From Wikipedia:

''Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s, and was revived in the 1990s and 2000s often to describe types of young, recently-settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture, particularly alternative music, indie rock, independent film, magazines such as Vice and Clash, and websites like Pitchfork Media.[1] In some contexts, hipsters are also referred to as scenesters.[2]''

Well, that pretty much covers everyone here, let's just admit now that we're all hipsters and get over it and move on to something else.

Personally, I'm turning to the robot suit subculture. We don't even have a unifying subculture term yet but I'm going to nominate ''Robopals''. PM me if you wish to become part of the Robopal subculture. This is what we do:

Ooooooh Can I join. The probabilty of love is 79%

Robopals welcomes all former hipsters who have denounced their hipsterism.

Detailed reportage of hipster fashion at the Sunset Junction Street Fair in Los Angeles

Woah, metroid girl is a babe!
I played through the SNES one in under 3mins so I could see her in her undies.
Such a let down when all you get is this.

3 HOURS sorry.

Not as bad as the let down at the end of Mario 64 where all you get is a fucking cake and a kiss on the nose. Actually, 16-bit semi-nude Samus is not too bad at all...

A lot of Samus on deviant art. Go Robopals!

We're through the looking glass now.

I hate it when people say that.