"His mother was right; asking girls to read his screenplay on the first date was a mistake." That's the caption Unhappy Hipsters set for this image of an aging hipster reading some artsy book under a Kandinsky poster, with a plaid shirt loosely hanging in the background and colorful, thick-rimmed sunglasses resting fashionably on the all-white, sophisticated shelving unit next to him. The site (tumblog, actually) features numerous such images off catalogs, each carefully captioned. Some of the captions are almost as long as a short story.
Needless to say, I love it. I find the hipster culture fascinating. There's something about how it is commercial while trying so hard to appear indie and non-commercial ... I just went to an Urban Outfitters for the first time last week (we don't have them in Israel), and I was struck by how easily you can slide into this ready-made "indie" lifestyle, carefully crafted by the same guys who sell all the "normal" stuff for the "non-hipsters" (or "squares", to use Sixties slang).
Unhappy Hipsters beautifully captures the inner humor of the hipster wave and sub-culture, and how ridiculous it can often seem from the outside. I'm guessing it's written by hipsters, for hipsters, and self-irony is never a bad thing in my book.
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Unhappy Hipsters is full of anti-hipster juice originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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