Many times as an exaggeration on this site, I’ve used the term “adult finger painting” to describe the art made by talentless perpetual toddlers who are all grown up and infesting Brooklyn. I even once did a Fishing for Hipsters attempt on Craigslist saying there was a finger painting contest happening in McCarren Park for people 25 and up. These pseudo-creative types are opening gallery after art bar after gallery after art loft and its all full of shit. This so called ’scene’ is completely saturated and played out – just get the fuck out of Brooklyn already with this corny try-hard bullshit. Tell me, how is it possible for a dirty looking beardo or some granny dress wearing Zelda to be sitting in some make-shift gallery all day slurping on lattes and micro-brews with a few horrible pieces of art on the walls and still pay his/her gentrification store and apartment rent; also being able to afford over-priced organic food and vintage clothing?
Link: Bushcraft – Adult Finger Painting!
“Bushcraft is a crafty group of artists who meet in Bushwick, Brooklyn to make art, eat, drink, have good conversation, and embark on occasional field trips.”
See they really are pioneers! They invented art, eating, drinking, socializing and going places – except they make it sound like they are in summer day camp. I really can’t take these people. Can you imagine about a decade or so ago someone telling you they know about this rilly rilly kewel place (anywhere in Brooklyn) where adults can fingerpaint together? Pussification at its finest.
Jeus H….oh never mind.
It is all about the art.
Burning man starting soon, lol.
Burning Man…gawd…how many decades has that shitfest been going on now? At least a couple.
Just what I wanna do in my free time…go sit in some hot shit hole with a hundred drunk zero’s.
They need to combine that with Bonnaroo and electric la la or whatever it is and hold them in black rock. Then just build an electric fence around it.
I might go to Burning man if it looked like this, but with hipsters being sacrificed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEOQqnHMSMc
He got ‘em back when he was resurrected as The Equalizer.
Burning man or tahiti, burning man or tahiti?
Tahiti it is…
upcycled figurative mixed media finger paintings
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=481723335199422&set=a.164604313577994.28502.100000852790391&type=3&theater
1. Imagine the pretentiousness of calling yourself “Bishop.”
2. Imagine copywrighting the photos in the blog….as if someone will steal them and use them for commercial gain.
They copyright them because of other hipsters. There is little or no honor among them. A hiptard will shamelessly steal another hiptard’s art, and profit from it without a second thought. For them, being perceived as an artist is far more important than actually being one.
So what if they steal them, they post them on a blog or something, no income is generated by this art….
Is someone buying or sponsering it (aside from family) ?
Hiptards will purchase a piece of shit preserved in hard, clear plastic if it makes them look cool in the eyes of their peers. Keep in mind, these are people who not only pay 10 bucks for mediocre chocolate in fancy packaging but also pay $2K a month to live in a glorified walk-in closet simply because of the location and the perceived “cool factor” associated with the zipcode. Hipsters are generally not a very sharp bunch.
Remember the Cubist Toilet aka “The Wishing Well” by Cedric Chambers?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72812766/abstract-contemporary-modern-art
Contains real samples of the artist’s excrement embedded in gel on the painting. It’s been up since 2006 and I can’t understand why nobody’s bought it yet. Hell, even Rembrandt wasn’t that talented.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Most importantly I would like to ask you, the viewer, What does the title imply? When people go into the stalls, they sit there and think about their day. The toilet is a place where we can do private activities and think private thoughts. Occasionally a person expresses these thoughts in violent acts of writing or vandalism on the walls. This is a subconscious wish.
PHOTOS: I included unedited photos to better the perspective. The gel transfers are not obvious except in the photo of the metal workings above the toilet, which I included in the pictures. The work is more than 60% covered in Gel transfers, which meld perfectly with the oil painting to make the work very fractal and a need to be looked at up close. I have a small collection of toilet photos, and this is based off of my favorite picture of one explosive act.
TITLE: “The Wishing Well”
ARTIST: Cedric Chambers
SIZE: 24″x36″x.75″
STYLE: Abstract
TYPE: Contemporary
MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
SIGNATURE: Signed and Dated
CANVAS: Stretched Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 14oz double primed, sides are painted black for a contemporary display, no frame needed.
SHIPPING: Takes 3-5 business days. International takes longer. My work is sent in a custom made corrugated box, and carefully wrapped with protective materials. Insured and tracked.
INSURANCE: Insurance is provided with each shipment.
PAYMENT: I accept Paypal, Checks and Money Orders.
****All sales are 100% guaranteed, If you are not happy with your work I will refund your order and pay for return shipping. I provide you with the tracking number for each sold painting.
The price of my work is determined by 1 dollar per square inch. I am flexible, feel free to contact me if you are interested.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST: Painter, Cedric Chambers, was exposed to Art at a young age. His grandfather was an attributed Artist, and Violinist whom helped raise him. He studied art through primary school, secondary school, and college. A graduate of MSCD. A veteran Artist whom possesses a keen eye for harmonizing balance, order and elegance.
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Some thoughts to ponder.
I always found it interesting that these modern artists use the theories of color as a way to express emotional harmony on a canvas. In 1938 Alphonse Laurencic developed a series of cells modeled after Dali and Kandinsky which configured modern art as a torture technique in Barcelona, Spain; In his resistance to Franco. This is how I feel about most modern artists, though I do enjoy some abstract expressionism. Art in my opinion is the epitome of ideals, it serves no utilitarian purpose. Art is not determined by a measurable proportion, no girl is beautiful because the length of her limbs. Art is thus a blind mans profession, we do not paint what we see, but what we feel. The medium’s we use are always imperfect and can not be used to properly express anything. Skill is the ability to express ideas using imperfect mediums. What makes a good piece is the ability to execute an ideal, regardless of the means or the proportions or the medium. I hope this work makes you happy, brings back memories. It should remind you, the viewer, of something that you enjoy. If it tortures you please let me know.
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If you have a question, feel free to contact me before buying.
Cedric Chambers, an internationally collected artist.
BIO http://www.etsy.com/people/Lascivus
Thank You For Looking!
Have any questions? Contact the shop owner.
Also, I found this while googling for it.
http://toiletcubism.blogspot.com/
“ABOUT THE ARTIST: Painter, Cedric Chambers, was exposed to Art at a young age.”
More likely some perv in the park exposed himself to young Cedric and it warped his mind.
It ironic how many hipsters gather together to insult other hipsters. I wish I were molested at a young age maybe I’d have something to whine about too, maybe have some more friends. I have had offers on the work, but “hipsters” don’t actually like real shit, they like the fake kind????? (maybe a hipster experts can answer that for me) Galleries don’t like this work, hipsters don’t like this work, and the anti-thesis to hipsters (you guys) don’t like this work. There isn’t a single person whom likes this work, but thats not what’s disturbing, that is the purpose of the piece. Cynicism relies on the “belief” of a social system, where the subject can reject this social order, the same way the shepherd rejects agrarian society, or god’s rejection of man. The blog is a notorious hipster tool. No one cares what they think so they talk to each other, and no its not because its too “radical” or truthful, it’s because it relies on the same structure as antisemitism. The “belief” and bashing of a social construct built from a social construct, i.e. hipsters are trust fund babies? Its disturbing how one group of people can develop hatred for another group of people based purely on little personal experience. Hipster is a fad, just like the anti-hipster. Using terms like “i like PBR but in an ironic way” or expressing their love for what they call “philosophers” like Maddox.
Thank you for your time,
Cedric C.
Well, look who’s butthurt now.
And I was just on my way out to the bank to take out some money to buy a genuine piece of art containing real human feces. Except that the artist threw a temper tantrum and now I don’t feel like buying his work anymore.
Next time Cedric.
“Sheep” is the word you’re looking for. Primarily for their grazing habits. Maybe also for their smell.
If you look up “sheeple” in the dictionary you’ll see a picture of hipsters.
Since we’re dealing with Adult Children, I’ll let the most awesome children’s art critic in the universe, Maddox, show us how to critique such masterpieces:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
Maddox rules. He’s got a whole separate site for that now.
http://www.iambetterthanyourkids.com/
These are great.
Love it. These critiques issued years ago throughout the midwest would have prevented the whole hipster movement!
Incidentally, the featured artwork isn’t any better than what Bushcraft produces.
Tip : Have you heard about how a hipster band like Liturgy have infested black metal music?
The front man Hunter Hunt Hendrix, who graduated from Columbia University in philosophy, has written a long pseudo philosophical/spiritual treatise on “black metal” and “affirmative nihilism.”
Well aware of Hunter Cunt Hendrix. He’s basically trying to be like the metalhead philosophy students at anus.com (aka, “the art fags of death and black metal” — but hey, they hate hipsters as much as anyonone) and failing miserably. Liturgy = indie rock with dimished chords trying to be black metal.
All non pop music–not like rock and most heavy–has a philosofical sentiment in a non analyzed and dissected form, as it is art, and all art are like that.
Hipsters are hipsters because they seek novelty and chose to adopt something because it makes them look “cool.” So hipsters generally tend to obscure the true meaning of both the arts and academia when they infest it — and even popularize it, as in the case of Liturgy. So they can be compared to parasites, who lives off the host sucking it for life.
You are probably rigth about a hompage named anal.com is for fags, but the album reviews there are the only good ones on the internet as far as I know.
Amen about Liturgy.
I wasn’t taking a dig at homosexuals when I made a reference to anus.com. For that site, “anus” is actually “A.N.U.S” or “American Nihilist Underground Society”. I believe it’s the brainchild of Spinoza Ray Prozak, who I remember quite well from his days on the usenet, DJing for KCUF radio and “evilmusic.com”.
The term “Art Fag” refers to a specific 1980s subculture who, like the hipsters, were known for being pretentious, but unlike the hipsters, they were actual ‘oddballs’ or ‘weirdoes’. I never felt any hostility towards them. Google the lyrics for “Instant Dance Hit” by the Dead Milkmen and you’ll see the term “Art Fag” in it’s proper context.
Anus.com does have its merits. They are serious about their metal and their audiofile section was THE shit before Megaupload got taken down. My biggest gripe about them is their borderline laughable, revisionist histories of the genre. Let them tell it, metal was always about deep, philosophical thought and not the subject matter found on any Manowar or Venom album (aka party music from the “darkside”). It wasn’t until metal was infused with Hardcore punk during the “Crossover”, that metal — or certain parts of it, started getting “heady”. Before that, it was hardcore punk that dealt with more “heady” subject matter, while a lot of metal, in terms of subject matter, could be summed up by Manowar (primarily warrior fantasy, sex, destroying wimps and posers), Venom (primarily Satan, drugs, sex) and Iron Maiden (primarily history, mythology, literature).
I hope Hendrix’s treatise fits snugly in his asshole because that is where it belongs.
I’m sorry, but the “art” in that article looks like what you’d see after Creative Therapy Time at “the home.” Early Onset Alzheimer’s, anyone? Obviously the meds aren’t working for this bunch.
Laura Lee Gulledge shows her work (http://whoislauralee.blogspot.com/2012/07/bushcraft-doesfinger-painting.html) and says: “And here are all my finger paintings! I’m totally mailing one to my parents to put on their fridge…”
At least she isn’t PARTIALLY mailing one to her parents … give her credit for that.
Or maybe not.
Meanwhile, in Berlin, kidult ARTists bounced:
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120904-44757.html
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Suddenly Dieter comes to mind.
This is sad news indeed. These guys are not hipsters. They’re the original Berlin artists, the ones who moved there with no money and roughed it for their art. A far cry from hipsters, for whom this place is being removed. Think East Village circa 1980.
I’ve visited Tacheles many times since 1994 and it was awesome. Tacheles was formed after the Wall fell in an old bombed-out department store. It housed several art galleries, a theater, some bars and a concert venue where something played almost every night. Sadly, in recent years, the art became more and more formulaic and it became more of a tourist trap. I feel the owners didn’t have any new ideas and the whole thing should have fizzled out years ago.
Still, I’d prefer Tacheles to remain forever in its sad state than the gentrification that’s inevitably going to follow. Berlin is filling up fast with parentally funded losers, prices are rising and the place will turn into Frankfurt (Germany’s Wall Street) in no time. I predict in 5 years the last of Berlin be gone as the remaining original artists from the Cold War years will have died off or be too old to do anything useful.
On a related subject, replace “crackhead” with “hipster” in this article, and otherwise nothing changes:
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/03/my_parents_are_killing_my_crackhead_brother/
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First thing I heard when I threw on 1010 WINS this morning; study that finds organic foods are not healthier or more nutritious than non organic. Someone should plaster this article on every Whole Foods in the city:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/09/03/organic-foods-not-healthier-or-more-nutritious-study-says
I saw that on the news this morning and some one emailed me an article over the weekend. This isn’t really news though – I posted a couple similar articles over a year ago.
It would be classic to have Arty the Seal waddle up and down Bedford with copies of the story in his mouth. Or maybe station him in front of the monstrous Whole Foods on ruined by gentrification East Houston St.
I can’t even stomach walking over by East Houston or The Bowery anymore. I’d be arrested for assault in minutes.
It is absolutely nauseating. If you told me when I was a kid that the character of the Bowery would be completely wiped out by Midwest bearded tryhards and Eurotrash scenesters, I’d have thought you were crazy.
Same with Delancey. Never thought I would see the day when every person on Delancey is a punk ass white kid transplant.
I think that it is pretty obvious by now that organic food is one of the bigger scams out there.
I too saw this article over the weekend. I sent it to a a family member who is obsessed with organic food (and he’s as big as a f**cking house). I’m sure the effect was not unlike dousing a vampire with holy water.
I think this whole organic movement is a house of cards a scam. I have a strong suspicion that Whole Foods is a dirty, nasty company. Any business that paints itself as the saviour of the planter and treats their employees like crap must be hiding something.
Still it’s a lifestyle choice – a stupid one but a choice nonetheless.
I noticed a bit of butthurt in the comments seciton of the article. OK so organic crap has a bit more Omega vitamins (or whatever they’re called). But how much more? And does conventional food contain the minimum RDA?
Also – they can talk all they want about the reduction in bacteria. Once the product leaves the processing plant, all bets are off. Fluctuations in temperature, handling by some tatted up twatfaffle who didn’t wash his or her hands after wiping themselves, etc. Then there’s the consumer. I couldn’t how many chewtoys I’ve seen put their groceries in their car when it’s 95 degrees in the shade, close the trunk and then walk off to have lunch or finish their shopping.
“I have a strong suspicion that Whole Foods is a dirty, nasty company.”
There’s a good reason some of us have been calling it “Whole Paycheck” for the last 20 years or so.
Sheee-ittt….most mothers having to feed more than a couple of kids have known this for decades. It’s definitely NOT news and it’s definitely not news anyone under the age of 50 got to first.
Where’s the art seal when we need him? ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART
I fingerpainted before it was cool……..like when I was FIVE!
The dog has more talent in its floppy ears than that whole group.
One can only hope they discover toy boat racing in the flooded streets of Greenpoint after the Gowanus over flows today : )
They were on the beach in Sea Isle, NJ this weekend. About six of them – all tatted up, picked a spot between a couple of families and proceed to build a sand sculpture. Now I wouldn’t mind, but sand was getting throw on our stuff, and all six of them had full size construction grade shovesl. Within an hour they had dug a large pit about 4 feet deep. Then they proceeded to dig ravines down to the water and all around – all connecting to this pit. Then they proceeded with the sculpture. This undertaking was on the same level as the archeological dig for Tutenkamen.
After an hour or so the kidults lost interest and proceeded to play kickball. Then they were packing up – leaving their trash all over the place.
This annoyed all of us to no end. So we walked up to them and insisted they pick up their trash (the receptacle was about 20 feet away) and fill the hole back up before someone got fell into it and broke a leg.
We got some whining about how they’re leavng the “artwork” so everyone could enjoy it.
SOmeone threated to call the beach patrol. So they proceeded to knock the sculputre down and fill up the hole.
Uugghh! Its bad enough they trash it up as but I draw the lines at the big holes. Having never grown up near the ocean and never being taught to pick up after themselves it’s no surprise. I was fortunate enough to spend all my summers at the beach with relatives while my parents worked. Not only can you break a leg when walking after not seeing them, I once saw a boy about 8 walking with his dad along the shore and the tide was coming in and very rough.There was a previously dug hole that was under the water at this point and the boy went under like quicksand . Took 15 minutes of everyone scrambling looking for air bubbles to find him. It was briefly reported in the local paper and never followed up on. Never found out if he lived or died. Every kid who has ever come to the beach with me knows the
rules. RESPECT the beach. If one of these fucktards ever tried that shit while I was around you would have to start a kickstarter fund here for my bail. But I would give DH one hell of a hipster beating to report.
And as I watch the rain come down I’m thinking of my OP. Watching these phonies drown in fetid water would be a “shitshow” I would definitely pay to see!
FUCK THESE PEOPLE
YOGA ON THE SUBWAY. LIKE YAH.
Two words: Bernard Goetz.
Listen to those disgusting laughs right at the end.
They want laughs?
Somebody ought to slice these people up with a box cutter.
Then I would start laughing.
If this was 1981, hoardes of black guys would mount her like a dog in heat….
They’d probably mount him too since he shaves his legs.
http://www.facebook.com/chelsey.korus
Look where the girl Chelsea is from……..
Any gueses?
Her big URBAN moment was performing YOGA in the subways.
Her friends and family back home in Minnesota must be very proud.
“GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL”
“YO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO URBAN”
“LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE , LIKE LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, YAH!”
What a self-obsessed Gumby.
What fuckin’ arrogance! I absolutely would have intervened to at least ruin the recording. Think of the mentality behind acting on such a self-centered, attention-getting, ostentatious display of trying hard. Berhard Goetz. Urban Infidel is right.
How about “Yoga in a Burning $2, 500 a month third floor walk-up in Williamsburg? THAT I’d like to see!
That chick is cute actually…I’ll give her a pass just on boinkability
She should go the fuck back to Minnesota
Too self-centered to breed. I hope.
Hipster or not, that girl is really hot. I wouldn’t mind watching her arch her back on the L train. Sure beats watching the usual panhandlers…
MEDITATING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SUBWAY STATION. LIKE YAH.
What I wouldn’t give to see Refrigerator Perry come flying out of nowhere and tackling these d*8ches into a nice coma.
lol – I’d settle for Bo Jackson doing the thing where he breaks his bat over his knee, but uses these pipe cleaners instead. He could probably do a couple at a time to increase efficiency.
I used to sit on the floors of the subway stations while waiting for the trains to come BACK WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD.
I guess that makes me a pioneer.
ITS UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE HOW THESE FUCKING ADULTS JUST DO NOT WANT TO GROW UP. WHATS EVEN WORSE IS HOW THESE FUCKING ADULTS UPLOAD VIDEOS OF THEMSELVES ENGAGING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGED ACTIVITIES FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE THEM
FUCKING ATTENTION SEEKING PIECES OF SHIT
They’re looking for new locations. I have one for them: A stall in the Men’s Room at the Port Authority. At 2 am. Fucking airheads..
HA! Walk in a man..walk out with your finger in some guy’s belt loop.
And they have this smug face as if it is their job to do this…
They deserve to suffer miserable, long, painful deaths…for art’s sake, of course.
He (Josh) said they actually had rehearsals for this sh*t.
Charles Bronson handles the first wave of try-hards. This was prophetic and his way of teaching future gens how to deal with unruly attention junkies on the subway….
Not a single passerby is paying any attention to them.
I WANT YOU to punch a hipster in the face.
As someone who writes satire, I just have to ask: Is this a joke?
Yes. Yes, it is.
I’ve sometimes wondered what it would be like for a normal working guy to meet his hipster girlfriend’s parents for the first time.
I got my wish. “The Aviator” with Leonardo DiCaprio was on this weekend. I turned in on just in time to catch the scene where Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) meets the family of Katherine Hepburn
(Kate Blanchette) for the first time. Dicaprio’s smack down line is beautiful. The only thing that’s missing is the drive up to the house. Dicaprio is navigating his car up the drive and he passes entire family on the front lawn engaging in various ART ART ART “look at me “activities like violin playing, interpretive dance, a guy at an easel doing an abstrafct painting, badminton, croquet, etc.
And Leo has a WTF? look on his face.
Best smackdown ever for antique ”look at me–s” from a forgettable film. Thanks!
I’m going to use macaroni glued on construction paper for my art project. I’m pretty sure any business in Little Italy will be happy to hang my art on their walls. Because it’s made of authentic pasta, you see.
“Authentic” won’t cut it, Nate, me lad – only ARTtisinal pasta, “powered by ART” will do. Those Eye-talians will see right through your phony ARTifice, and you’ll be pegged as a fraud by your peers in a second if you use anything but.
And don’t forget – that construction paper needs to be locally-sourced as well.
The women are just so stunningly attractive, I wonder if they ever pose nude for these macaroni – fingerpaint fantasies. Do these creatures ever venture into the light of day? I sometimes think hipsters make themselves deliberately unattractive, these artfully inclined nothings are pushing the envelope.
The hipster females all want to be queens. All queens need eunuchs: hence, the hipster male.
I don’t know if this is widespread or not, but WTF is up with transplants who like to walk barefoot in the street?
Yeah barefoot, flip flops, sandals they all wear that same shit down here too.
EEEEEEEWWWWWWW, have they never seen the bottom of their aloes? .how gross, they aren’t in the country any more.
I don’t think that’s a country thing. That’s more the kind of thing you would see from someone whose experience with nature consists of the lawn their dad paid someone to maintain.
There’s a girl who does that at work from time to time. Which is just disgusting on a busy day, when there’s clumps of dog hair everywhere and the floor is soaked. Not to mention all the handy sharp corners to hit your toes on.
Definitely NOT a country thing unless you actually enjoy snakebite, ticks, cow ant, cicada killers, ground bees, etc etc etc having excitement at your feets expense. And that’s just the bugs. Toss in some poison oak and ivy, broken glass, and rusty old metal and glass from previous gens for good measure, and barefooting it in the country won’t seem like such a good idea for too long.
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Damn I almost pissed myself laughing! Close your eyes and picture an autistic hipster…
“Autistic hipster”. That’s a little redundant, isn’t it?
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
HAHAHAHAA
Look at these faggots from Oregon.
People commuting to work…..
The fucking subway, the city should not be their PLAYGROUND.
I wish upon them serious anal rape. wipe the smiles off their faces.
That is exactly what BLOOMTURD wants.
Come to NYC, pay inflated rents and make it your playground.
Dont worry about the fed up natives because the NYPD has your back.
Thus pussification like this takes place on a daily basis without proper repercussion.
At least here in DC when the sun goes down most of these fucking transplant attention seeking pieces of shit know they are targets.
I have no sympathy to what happens to them.
None at all.
Can you watch this without getting angry.
I wish upon them escaped rapists anally raping them and wiping that quirky smile of their smug faces.
Paniful anal rape that tears the linings of their anuses, and long black penises that extens up through their bowels……
Everything so quirky and carefree fun, I wish they get thrown in a prison yard and gangs on inmates rape them……
Translation: You’re in New York City now. Don’t marry a loser hipster. Seek out Mister Big and marry him instead and divorce him in 5 years and clean out his wallet.
Sadly, Mister Big likes attractive women under 35.
They are Brooklyn based, but it was filmed in Philly……
If I saw these cunts getting anally raped, I would just walk away….
Your fascination(?) with anal rape as a form of punishment sounds a lot like a troll who posts here on occasion. Besides, most of them might enjoy and then, where’s the revenge?
The most terrifying thing for these folks is a little, three letter word called ‘Age’. Nothing scares them more than looking or being old. That inevitable, inescapable state of being gnaws at them continually and it’s evident in everything they say and do.
Age explains why the Meghans are so fugly. (That and the organic food they eat).
Whenever a Meghan says she’s 24, assume 44. They always look it.
Me, give me some underage (16/17yo) Russian lesbos anyday (just showing this as a comparison to remind everybody there’s much better looking girls out there).
It really isn’t age in and of itself, but lack of exercise, and not conducting proper research into their diets. It’s a shame when I can see divorcees in their mid 40s, who’ve pumped out a few kids, with tighter bodies than Meghans in their mid 20s.
Playing games on the subway – LIKE YAH!!!
You ain’t kidding. I saw a few of those bitter, wrinkled up, pot bellied, bitter divorced old dudes at a bar a few months back in young guy gear and it’s just freaking embarassing. They never hear the young chicks sniggering behind their backs after they’ve worked these losers for a couple of drinks. You know, if the crowd is college aged and you’re 40 then your decision should be ‘Elsewhere’, not ‘Derrrr, I totally BELONG here’ LOL
That is true…
Imagine an old woman doing this…
Remember when the subway actually had GOOD musicians? These shits are worse than the most psychotic Jesus freaks who wake you with the Good News when you’re trying to sleep.
TO THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE:
YOU HAVE GOT TO ONE OF THE MOST FUNNIEST GUYS ON THE INTERNET. YOU ROCK! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS WONDERFUL WEBSITE POKING FUN AT THESE WEIRD MOTHERFUCKERS KNOWN AS HIPSTERS. WE ALSO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM HERE IN THE UK- GUYS WEARING SKINNY TIGHT JEANS AND NOT KNOWING WHAT REAL MEN WEAR.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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You guys will never get a lady like this…..
HATERS !!!
http://passion-hd.com/tours/2/trailer.html?id=02
This lady right here shits all over any you can ever hope of getting with.
\m/ \m/
‘Nuff said.
Stevie, so the operation is complete. Congratulations. You’re a woman now. Toldya that estrogen works.
Stevie, I prefer my women like this… NO MEGHANS!!!!!.. Say, what happened your redhead again?
“Let’s Spin The Earth” by Yulya Volkova. I’ll have to remember that.
His redhead probably got tired of pegging him and wanted to be the one getting penetrated for a change.
That broad is generic with a capital G. No womanly curves either. Step up your fantasies you closet pedo. LOL!
Inquiring minds what to know, what is worse, a hipster or a foodie?
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2012/08/hipster_vs_foodie.php
That sort of choice is what I like to call “taste-testing dog shit”.
Anthony Bourdain.
Hipsters become foodies once Mommy and Daddy ensconce them in a job with their friends’ company – and foodies keep Portland awash in $10 burger joints that are no better than Burgerville, and Thai restaurants owned by whiteys (Pok Pok, I am looking at you).
UI, isn’t it weird that so many foodies actually ARE hipsters in some form?
I enjoy food myself. It keeps me from being hungry. What I can’t stand are the food nazi’s who can not shut the fuck up about organic this and whole food that and trying to spark terror in people’s minds and make them self-conscious about eating a damned cheeseburger from mickey d’s. BTW, I don’t think ‘chef’ and ‘foodie’ are the same thing necessarily.
“Foodie” tends to be an insufferable food snob. While I love cooking and good food, I never buy organic, it’s expensive and a huge hype, I also like McD’s and KFC once in a while. I worked with a young lady once who was a vegetarian, she had huge dark circles under her eyes and really really lacked energy and her skin, poor thing, was in ravaged shape. I asked her why she didn’t like meat, she said she wanted to heal the planet. All I wanted to say was, please, PLEASE go get yourself a bacon cheeseburger!
“BTW, I don’t think ‘chef’ and ‘foodie’ are the same thing necessarily.”
You’re exactly right. A chef is someone who can take simple ingredients and make an attractive, delicious meal out of them. A foodie is someone who can take expensive ingredients and make you want to vomit after you’ve beaten them to death to shut them the fsck up.
Wellll….I consider myself to be somewhat of a foodie. A foodie is someone with a somewhat refined palate and will travel a somewhat unreasonable distance to some sh*thole because they heard it serves great cheesesteaks. They’re not food snobs and they don’t do ridiculou sh*t like breastmilk cheese. Foodies are knowledgable and for the most part seek out excellent cheap food instead of eclectic, 4 star cuisine.
A hipster (in the food sense) is pretty much a one dimensional version of a foodie. They don’t have discerning palates and thrive on the popularity of food trends and eateries. They go there because the publications they pour over tell them to. It’s not about the food but being able to brag that you ate it and compile the knowledge for use at the next kickball tournament.
Finding a hipster with a discerning palate is like mowing your grass with a machine gun. It’s impossible.
Or something like that.
No, what you described as a foodie is a connoisseur. A foodie does it with a camera, and posts the video of the food on Youtube or the Food Network. A hipster posts the video of themself on Youtube and whines about it in the Food Network blog comments.
You’re right, MD – connoisseur, contrary to the USA meaning of the term, does not mean food snob who goes orgasmic on iPhone video over the FABULOUSNESS of the eggs and brains at that dumpy Honduran joint with the leaky roof that nobody else from out of the ‘hood would eat at on a bet. That’s a foodie. True connoisseurs might go to the same place and eat the same thing, but feel no need to broadcast their EDGINESS, their URBAN-NESS, their OUTRE-NESS, their HIPNESS by showing the world that look; I ate this weird, disgusting, foreign stuff and SURVIVED! I am CLEARLY a SUPERIOR humanoid! The connoisseur will say to themselves “well … THAT was a curious experience” and file it away in their synapses for future reference.
Foodies also have “Iron Chef” parties, where each guest gets, say, a pound of pig’s liver, a head of cauliflower, a can of Tab and a tube of K-Y Jelly and has an hour to create a magnificent meal using all of these ingredients. Whoever creates the thing most resembling something edible wins the respect of all the others until the end of time. What fun!
Some years back a coworker was telling me about this new “great” restaurant downtown. I think the place was called Prune. The premise was that the food didn’t taste good, and the ingredients and food stuffs didn’t necessarily even work together, but it was ‘interesting.’ Interesting food that tastes like crap. I wrinkled my nose at the idea and she gave me a look like I’m so unsophisticated or something.
LOL!!! Great distinction!
Laptop Foodies are the worst. I know a few who blather on and on about Top Chef, Anthony Bourdain, food blogs, cooking techniques yadda yadda yadda non-stop. Then I go to their place for dinner and they’re like “it’s farm-raised, cruelty free, organic locally sourced, saw it on Anthony Bourdain’s show, read it on a blog, in the NYT, etc., etc.”
I’m sick of it. I go there thinking I’m going to have something off the hook wild and great from listening to all their food snobby talk, and it’s always chicken breasts grilled until they’re like solid rocks and for some reason, always ice cold by the time everyone’s ready to eat!! Or very basic meat and potatoes. I just wish they’d shut the fuck up!!!
We “hipsters” as you so like to call “us” (What is a hipster anyway? Sheeshers…) like to make the most out of the ingredients that are easily available all around us a truly enlightened, non-knuckle dragging denizens do.
Like if mom sends rice-a-roni mix in this month’s care package, it’s stir fry time, my homeboy. Funky f-f-f-resh! Ha! that was in a movie I saw and I don’t get the reference but “Woop there it is” like all you brown “peoples” like to discourse.
P.S. The slipsnot in that photograph needs to have his beard yanked on a few hundred times.
Dude, the beard does NOT improve the obvious about him: that he’s probably a total pussy who can’t do his own laundry and probably cries when he can’t find his own shorts.
That Yoga act on the subway was nothing but a blatant ploy to get attention.
Yesterday my husband pointed to an annoying beardo on the TV and said
“I hate people like that”.
me- “like what?”
“Like that bearded asshole”
I say “Oh, HIPSTERS”
“Yeah. I hate em. hate em. Wanna run them over with the truck. (drives a 26′ truck for work)”
THIS from a guy that is so live and let live, and is always in a great mood, smiling, even at work. I have never heard this sentiment about anyone, ever. Even thieving crackheads, and we cantnstand them either.
You might want to watch the whole series, because there’s a theme, and it’s not just “turn off the damn phone in the theater.” Notice how every nearly one of these PSAs focuses on a particular type, as if it’s shorthand for precisely the sort of toad-sucker who makes so many people decide to wait for the DVD?
My phone is always on vibrate. My boss is very old school. Whenever we’re in a meeting and someone’s phone goes off witha zany ring like 6 bars of “Living After Midnight” he looks like he could kill. Now multiply this incident by 12.
To be honest, i think the theaters have done a decent job of getting their point across about cellphones. I don’t mind so much when the toadsuckers use them during previews or commercials.
But – a-holes wouldn’t be a-holes if they didn’t find something to annoy theatergoers. Lately I’ve seen a rise in hipster j*rkoffs dragging their toddlers and infants to movies.
Just last week, I attended a matinee of “The Possession” and “Campaign”. Both of them had these tatted up buttholes who weren’t equipped to be functioning members of normal society let have the skills to take care of a small child.
So the kids are crying. And whining. And walking around the theater. Strollers are blocking the aisle. They’re talking to the kids, telling them to “cover their eyes” during the bad parts.
You gotta love it. A two year old and and an infant in a horror movie and these expats from Clown college expect them to know what the “bad parts” are.
The problem with cellphones in theaters is that most theater chains have cut their expenses back to nothing as far as personnel are concerned, and complaining to management does nothing. That 16-year-old usher isn’t going to risk a massive blowup by telling that jackoff with the phone to turn it off during the movie, especially since his manager isn’t going to back him. Said manager, in turn, is absolutely shit-terrified of losing his job because some dickweed got butthurt over having to stop his oh-so-relevant conversation because, oh, THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE PAID $15 A HEAD TO SEE A FUCKING MOVIE IN PEACE. Airlines can get away with kicking the causality-challenged off flights by citing FAA regulations. Theaters don’t have that option, and every time a theater chain talks about licensing legal phone jammers within theaters, the cell phone lobby is immediately on the line to Congress.
I’d also like to note that any time theater owners start to talk about more stringent requirements on cell phone suppression, there’s always one jerk who starts whimpering “But…but what if there was a doctor in the theater, and he wasn’t able to get a call to come in for surgery? What THEN?” Well, number one, real doctors and nurses understand that if they’re on call, they stay out of situations where they might be stuck without easy access to a phone. Secondly, the complainers aren’t doctors, and probably couldn’t figure out which end gets the thermometer and which end the bedpan. It’s nothing but an excuse to enable their own beastly behavior, because God forbid they can’t tweet every last vague thought to a crowd of equally anencephalic gimps.
Now, some theaters are finally cracking down on this. The Alamo Drafthouse chain is already internationally famous for their no-tolerance policy on cell phone use. If you’re caught making a call or texting someone after the movie starts, you’re thrown out without a refund, with no exceptions. Naturally, this drives the hipster and the sorority crowd in Austin insane, and all they want to do is cry about how unFAIR this is to those mythical doctors and EMTs in the audience. We’re finally getting one in Dallas next year, and it might be enough to get me back into an actual theater for the first time in years. After all, there’s nothing quite like the joy of repeatedly asking that bowhead sorority cokehead to hang up and talk after the movie, only to have her scream “You people are RUDE!” when she finally flounces off.
Lemme tell ya….my biggest thrill now is watching movies on line (Amazon). No d8ckweeds….popcorn costs 15 cents. Toilet seats aren’t splattered with human waste….
It’s a beautiful thing.
Ask any real doctor what they do at the movie when their phone goes off and they’ll tell you they take it out to the lobby, for privacy concerns.
Yep. But the butthurt won’t do that if their phones go off, because they PAID to see this movie, dammit!
The drafthouse sounds like a dream I don’t even dare to imagine Leroy. Movie theaters have not had their shit together for at least fifteen years. They forgot so much of the ‘magic’ in the not so magic formula that made them popular for folks to begin with. It didn’t matter if it was a ten cent movie during the depression or a whopping dollar during the 50′s golden era, it was the fact that the audience had a clear understanding from the get go that there were OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES THEMSELVES who wanted to enjoy the movie too. Hence, the ushers who had the authority from management to police the theater *during* a showing wether there was trouble in there or not. Keep your feet off the backs of the chairs, keep your mouths shut, don’t throw food, no booze, no foul language, no sex. All things that can be done at home in your home should be done there, not in a movie theater.
I would be regular customer of any movie theater that kicked people out for all of the above but add the tech gadgets as well. One little bit of artificial light shows up in the audience and you’re OUT. One swear word anywhere in the theater, you’re OUT. Kids running up and down the aisles, you’re OUT. In fact, if it was 18 and up, so much the better and leave kids days for kids days and for people who don’t mind brats babbling during a movie.
Most adults want an adult evening out that doesn’t have to mean needing to assert your right to bust some thug wannabe in the mouth because he can’t stop shouting obscenities at the screen to impress his girlfriend while she giggles. I wasn’t around but even the idea of a movie having a ten minute intermission for bathroom/smoke breaks would be great – the only problem would be the people who interpret ten minutes as twenty. I do know many theaters back in those times would NOT allow people, no matter how nicely dressed they were, back inside the theater after intermission. They could get a refund or catch the next show. Or leave. But the theater’s didn’t back down or lose their backbone in consistently enforcing the rules of behavior once inside its doors.
Manners…good ol’ manners…anyone remember those?
In my book, that sort of ‘parenting’ should be considered child abuse. There’s a reason that parents tell kids they can’t watch things. It’s because no matter how much rational explanation you give to a CHILD, they are not emotionally equipped to digest the sights and sounds they are percieving. Their brains are phsyiologically not formed for it yet. No one but a psychotic would ask a little boy or girl to change a car tire below a certain age because the request would be unreasonable and unnatural.
Between hoping that toddlers just ‘know’ to figure shit out and the parents who are so hysterically in the other direction, where they won’t punish or restrict the child’s whims at all…well, I hope the hipster parents enjoy what they rear because it’s gonna come home to roost.
Another ridiculous thing about hipster parenting is how they will go into a restaurant and ask their little kid where they want to sit. Who cares where the fuck the kid wants to sit? Point to a seat, get them in it if needed, and be done. Otherwise it is this drawn out chaotic mess because the kid doesn’t really know what he wants and keeps changing his mind, which the parents go along with. It’s not that hard. But hey, since they have no direction in their own lives, it makes perfect sense that they can’t provide leadership to others.
And it’s typically the mom doing this; the loser dad can’t even be bothered to deal with the kid to this minimal extent since he is in iLaLaLand.
hey now
Who fucking buys these things? They are fucking horrible and really the only people who should ever finger paint are preschoolers. If your doing this past age five your a fucking worthless moron.
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!
http://gawker.com/5940589/lena-dunham-is-dating-a-guy-from-that-band-fun
And if they have kids, those kids will rebel the only way they know how. Namely, by getting real jobs and living lives of quiet anonymity.
Weren’t they in Ghostbusters?
They both could run neck and neck for Most Homely Face awards.
What I want to know is what happened to your Craigslist “fishing for hipsters” attempt? Did any show up? What a hilarious concept! If they did you could turn a firehose on them–probably their first shower in weeks.
Brooklyn artists playing in the Newton Creek.
http://gothamist.com/2012/09/05/video_dive_into_newtown_creeks_toxi.php
Sorry, I meant “artists”
They’ll fall in, dissolve, and what’s left will be dinner for this:
http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Random/very_scsry_undersea_monster.jpg
OMG. They read my posts on here and took the bait? hahaha!
“Shilpi Roy, Creator Of ‘Hipsterhood,’ Is Sick Of Talking About Hipsters”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/shilpi-roy-hipsterhood_n_1855314.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Watched her shorts – pretty funny – the hipsters are sort of like Sarah Silverman on her old program, only instead of childish and thoughtless, being thoughtless by overthinking everything.
Take a look at this if you have one minute to spare…
http://www.etsy.com/listing/92661799/fun-lego-monogram-letter-for-boy-or?ref=fp_recently_viewed_0
It is, and I quote here, “one of (the ad writing douchenozzle) most labor intensive creation”. It’s a papier maché structure that the aforementioned douchethunder hand-painted (course you hand-painted it, you pointless wannabe artist) and covered in Lego pieces. Do you REALIZE ? He (or her, I dunno, I don’t even see the difference between today’s guys and girls anymore) hand-painted this BY HIMSELF ! With his tiny little hands and shit. I mean, that must count for something, right ? The motherfucker GLUED the motherfucking Lego pieces TOGETHER. NOW THAT’S SOMETHING, AIN’T IT ?
Do you think someone ever told him Legos are meant to be plugged, not fucking GLUED together ? Do you think this genius thought for a second that his fucking monstruosity could have been way simpler to achieve if he simply used the Legos as they were meant to be ? My daughter, who is not even born yet, could make a “monogram letter” better, quicker and prettier than this !
Also, WHAT THE FUCK ? 40 bucks for this ? For a papier maché letter smeared in glue and covered in Lego ? Of course, that is after seeing this ad that I read the website’s slogan, which is “Your place to buy and sell all things handmade, vintage and supplies”. I guess I should have read this before.
ETSY – Your place to buy and sell half-assed stuff shit-tied together, dumpster truck garbage and glue to create art from anything.
Be it in Montreal or in New York, it’s always a pleasure to make fun of these retards but it’s still angering me to see them drowning the market with their shitty, overpriced pieces of junk no one wants or asked for in the first place. Cause they’re fulfilling a need, ya know ? They probably know better than me what I need and want. Cause they’re so smart, ya know ? They’re so aware of the environment and they know how to worship the little things life is made of, ya know ?
Oh and just for fun, one of these fucksters I used to work with (ended up firing him) recently told me that he knew N.Y.C better than some people who were living here and never saw anything else than the city. He explained that since he discovered the place later, he literally forced himself to explore the streets and then logically knew Manhattan better than anyone. He even knew this local sourced gelato maker on Hyuston. Past the surprise I had for this zany little streets explorator not even making the difference between “N.Y.C” and Manhattan, I simply said :
- Hyuston ? Where is that ?
- What where it – Hyuston. Hyuston Street. Near Bowery.
- Oh, you mean HOUSTON.
Motherfucker. I’m not a native. Hell, I’m not even American. I’m fucking FRENCH, from FRANCE (you know, that shitty country everybody’s supposed to praise when it comes to culture and culture and culture) and I know that it’s pronounced House-ton – simply because I try not to be as self-centered as these suckers are. Anyway, he was so flabbergasted I corrected him he didn’t even know what to say and simply stuttered a poor-ass excuse before leaving. All my colleagues burst into laughs. That was a good fucking day.
And in other developments, Kickstarter management is crying “caveat emptor” over complaints about its precious snowflakes not following through on projects:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/tech/web/kickstarter-refunds/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
Aw, shucks. And here I thought that blanket fort construction tours wouldn’t have that much in the way of R&D.
There’s no way Kickstarter, like indigoogoo and etsy, are ever, ever, ever going to admit to the full truth of how badly their systems are abused by roaming con artists worldwide. Because they don’t see it as their problem, they don’t ‘care’.
And people who mistakenly say,”There are A LOT of good ideas our there.” are entirely wrong. There are rarely really good ideas. The really good ideas tend to be groundbreaking, not simply adding chrome to an existing idea that gets a new layer of chrome every six months.
Yup. Like turning a mason jar into a sippy cup.
The funds required for their zany staycation is one thing. But patents cost money.
First you file a provisional patent. Then a patent search is done. For the life of a patent the mmaintenance required could be upwards of a 100K. That’s a lot fo mason jars.
My sister works in fashion accessories. A while back, I sent her a photo of the handcrafted knitted beard now shown in a recent DH post.Within a week she had samples from factories in Vietnam.
I’d like to have these kickstarter a**wipes beaten to a bloody pulp for their dishonesty.
It’s not even that they feel it’s not their problem. The organizers of all three are so blown away by how kewl their little games are, that any grown-ups who ask “By the way, what are we going to do about fraud or copyright infringement?” are shunned.
When I look at both Kickstarter and Etsy, I’m reminded of Tundra Comics, a comic company that started up twenty years ago. One of the two creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took the literal millions he made off Ninja Turtle crap and decided he wanted to pay something back to the comics community. I had friends who tried working with Tundra, and they had nothing but horror stories. Lines of Cat Piss Men waiting for the boss to come in, and he’d hand out wads of $100 bills to them just because they asked. The legal counsel was the owner’s Uncle Morrie, who had no experience whatsoever with copyright or entertainment law, and Morrie almost signed away the Ninja Turtle rights in perpetuity to Houghton Mifflin because of one of his shitty contracts for a licensed coloring book. (Amazingly enough, Houghton’s lawyers contacted him and asked “Are you sure you want to do this?”, instead of running with it.) Lots and lots and lots of deals cut with comics wannabes, which would be promptly promoted and solicited for purchase, and the dweebs in question promptly took the money they received to get this done and blew it all on video games and weed.
The long story short: Tundra lasted about two years on pure momentum until it was shut down. The punchline: you STILL have Cat Piss Men in the comics field who reminisce fondly about Tundra not because its comics were great, but because they wish they’d been involved during the height of the money giveaways.
I don’t know what the whining is about. Money means nothing to these uptalking mouth breathers.
Complaining about these visionaries not following through on their promise is akin to
handing 5 bucks over to a wino because he promised that he really would use the money to buy food.
Besides 5-20 bucks is nothing to a a hipster. The only thing I can think is if it’s a Kickstarter ART ART ARTIST or musician they might “discover” him or her before everyone else and get him some hipster cred.
Yep. I wonder if Josh Ente is going to return the $3000 + he raised for his giant ballpit in New Orleans.
In May, the city rejected him, even though he had gone ahead and started the project. He threw quite the tizzy fit on his Facebook page:
“This is nothing if not a major update on the Ball Pit, alas it is one that makes me shocked, furious, and unspeakably disappointed to have experienced and now report. After having gained the initial approval for the project from the City of New Orleans’ offices of Safety & Permits and Zoning, early this past week I was hit with multiple cease and desist orders for my work on the house, which was a…
t its final stages of preparation in advance of a planned opening one week from today.
“A meeting was set for yesterday afternoon with myself and the executive directors of three city agencies. I had hoped to convince them that under further scrutiny they would still be correct in granting me approval; I was prepared for the possibility of a brief delay to hammer out kinks; the worst case scenario was I would be forced to undergo a full permit application and review that can last for several months. I never lacked for confidence in both the righteousness of the project and its appropriateness by the written law’s standard, and that the Ball Pit would (eventually) open as planned. It turns out they denied me the right or even possibility of doing anything at all, period.
“It is impossible for me to convey how unrelenting their narrow-mindedness was, how thorough and complete their negativity. When I raised the obvious point that once I removed our gate and other protections, the house would immediately and once again become a haven for drug abuse and prostitution (including the extremely tangible prospects of assault and rape), these words were spoken: “We don’t care.” I was threatened with immediate arrest should I continue. Once again, when provided with an opportunity to rise up, our civic institutions have failed us. The rules of bureaucracy triumph where thoughtfulness, reason, priorities, and intelligence fall short. Shameful.”
Oh — here’s the link to his Kickstarter page. Shameful.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1394857195/a-giant-ball-pit-in-an-abandoned-house-naturally
Infantilism rules the day.
Kickstarter – The Bernie Madoff of hipsters…
It is the Bernie Madoff of hipsters…majority are trustafarian’s who are so spoiled they want to squeeze money out of people other than their parents. Read some of those ‘projects’…people are ‘investing’ into stupid hipster ideas.
And it all stems from having everything handed to you. Ask and you shall receive. Kickstarter in away, acts as surrogate parents/wet nurses to these d**che whistles.
Growing up, my parents gave me everything we needed, but not everything we wanted.They were very selective. They bought my first bike. When I wore it out, it was up to me to get a second part time job and pay for it(I worked in the family business for free – well…15 bucks every two weeks).
The effort required to earn enough to buy the things I wanted made sure that I considered my purchases carefully and took care of them.
Hipsters risk nothin with Kickstarter. So the impetus and incentive to really think things out, formulate a viable planand work hard is not necessary. If they fail – oh well – hey..what’s that bright shiny thing?
I wonder how many donors one would get if he or she put up a pedestrian but solid business idea up on Kickstarter – like a laundromat or a hardware store- in Brooklyn? Would it get as many donations as a laundromat/art gallery/yogurteria?
Solid businesses don’t stand a chance, because they aren’t cool enough. That said, if someone wanted to set up something similar to KickStarter that allowed small investors to get involved, I’d be all over that in a New York minute.
I can do some of that “white” art
Oh wah wah wah! Let me create a blog hating on hipsters because my own life is so terribly black and vacuous that I can’t stand it that other people are having fun and exploring art! FOR FUN! ART FOR FUN HOW DARE THEY!!
Let me post it here on this tiny little community where everyone will back me up and pat me on the back for my “bravery” in calling out this egregiousness. OMG I’M SUCH A HERO!
Now my comrades in trollerly, let’s circlejerk as we stare deep into each other’s eyes, knowing we’re the only ones who ‘get it’.
Man I hope hating black people comes back in style.