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maybe it's the beautiful day we're having in new york, but (barring the stupid hipster-dressing theme), i dont. hate this.

dooleyyyyyyy!!!!!!1111

get well soon.  and get good soon.  or else.
thx herrm.

what it's like.

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bard shout out!

jingle punks hipster orchestra

so you just need a couple of bangs and a pair of wayfarers, i guess. more here.

have you been hearing about the hipster cop?

he's a (possi-gay?) NYPD detective that dresses trendily. the internet loves him. the new york times is even on top of things, for once. here's a recent interview in GQ.

GQ: Tell me about what you're wearing today.
Rick Lee: This is pretty average for me. For work anyway. The jacket and cardigan are Ralph Lauren. The tie is Burberry. The shirt is Ralph Lauren, too. These are J.Crew pants. And Ralph Lauren shoes. Lot of Ralph Lauren. My best friend works for Ralph Lauren.

GQ: What are your duties down at Occupy Wall Street?
Rick Lee: Just to give you some background: I do Community Affairs down at the First Precinct. There's basically one of me—not as smashingly dressed, in every precinct. It's my job in general to be the liaison between the precinct and the community we serve. We serve, oddly enough, SoHo—big fashion area, TriBeCa, and Battery Park City. Basically from Houston St. down to the Battery. My specific job being down here watching the guys who bang on the drums is to keep the peace. Between not only the police and the protesters, but also the protesters and the community.

GQ: Are you sympathetic to the movement?
Rick Lee: It's hard to say that because everyone in the Park has their own agenda of why they're here. Like I could talk to a guy and he could be upset that he gets taxed, and I can understand that because I get taxed every two weeks when I get paid. But somebody else might be into, like, Communism or something. Which I'm not really into. I can't relate politically that way. But people have their right to voice their opinion in America. They have a right to demonstrate. It's a good thing. But there's probably 200 people in the park right now and 400 different opinions of why they're here. Though, generally, a lot of well-read, very smart, very articulate people are here. I've become friends with a few people. It's kinda cool.
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carry me home ryan gosling

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#hipsteradvocacy

a surbway map for hipsters! (c2e.)

people arent wildin' out actually right now

"i performed last night it was like mainly a hipster crowd. but um, the vibe was crazy because i like to party and, the hipsters love to party and they love me and it was just like a big party"

"ima party tonight all over it"

not me

what are you doing this weekend?

the renegade craft fair is going on saturday and sunday in mccarren park. hope it's not raining the whole time!

spirit animal

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hipster houseboats

The Off-Gridder from Yardena Schwartz on Vimeo.

Williamsburg lofts have apparently gone the way of the Misshapes; the new waterfront mecca for hipsters are houseboats on the Gowanus Canal. Undeterred by a warning from the EPA that merely falling into the canal can be toxic — perhaps due to raw sewage, PCBs, and gonorrhea found therein — a group of new bohemians have been living on four houseboats there for the past year. City agencies have yet to rule on the legality of the living arrangement, but that hasn't stopped twenty-somethings, docked behind a truck lot off President and Bond Streets, from calling it home sweet home. (via)

what did thomas wilhelm do yesterday?

I attempted this the first day after news of Osama Bin Laden's death. FAIL. "next stop Bedford Ave" should have warned me. (via)

that is just so embearassing.

bear dance

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williamsburg is the new williamsburg!

and loving hipsters is the new hating hipsters! guess what joel, thomas wilhelm, and i did on sunday. we went to the brooklyn flea and ate grilled cheeses. i'm not even making that up.

me + grilled cheese + crack pie. everything was delicious, btw.

you got us good, brian williams.

in related news, this was spotted in an urban outfitters (thx rachel). my mission of injecting vol-fan-ing into hipster culture is a success! you're all welcome!

we thought this was lilly...

hipster indiana jones

just a little dancing goat with a hipster friend

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ready for warm-ups

PS1 announced the winner of the young architects competition for this summer. i think it looks pretty cool. especially the above drawing. see it all here: interboro

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i got a little embearassed this morning...

...when i read this passage:

In culture, the Hipster Primitive moment recovered the sound and symbols of pastoral innocence with an irony so fused into the artworks it was no longer visible. Music led the artistry of this phase, and the period’s flagship publication, the record-review website and tastemaker Pitchfork, picked up as Vice declined. Here are the names of some significant bands, post-2004: Grizzly Bear, Neon Indian, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Department of Eagles, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, and, most centrally, Animal Collective. (On the electronic-primitive side, LCD Soundsystem.) Listeners heard animal sounds and lovely Beach Boys–style harmonies; lyrics and videos pointed to rural redoubts, on wild beaches and in forests; life transpired in some more loving, spacious, and manageable future, possibly of a Day-Glo or hallucinatory brightness. It was not unheard of to find band members wearing masks or plush animal suits.

...of this article, while listening to this:


hooray for earth - rolling/nectarine
beach boy harmonies: check. animal sounds: check.

also, i really liked this part:

Of course, there are artists of hipster-related sensibility who remain artists. In the neighborhoods, though, there was a feeling throughout the last decade that the traditional arts were of little interest to hipsters because their consumer culture substituted a range of narcissistic handicrafts similar enough to sterilize the originals. 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.

now i know why john is pretending not to care about the chilean miners.

thx melissa!