You know me, I like to keep it Brooklyn but here and there, you have to point out stuff from elsewhere. This act of “LookAtMeIsm” just might put all Brooklyn hipsters to shame. It’s about Japanese hipsters injecting saline under their skin to create a create a bagel shape on their forehead. Pretty fucking gruesome and creepy. The attention starvation level here is a solid 10. But keep in mind: Japanese hipsters have learned from the best – the American Hipster; the suburban, talentless kid who grows into a spoiled adult who is able to move to big cities with no real job and prance around in their hipster uniform and play all day. ”LookAtMeIsm” has spread from the USA to many countries all thanks to the internet of course. So go ahead you Brooklyn hipsters – top this. Let’s see, hmmm. You can tattoo your organic food before you eat it. You can light your beards on fire. You can spill your $4.00 coffees onto bike lanes and lick it off the floor. Be creative! You can do it! Because Mommy told you so! YAH!
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They even manage to ruin my breakfast. No bialy for me today with my $2.00 coffee!
This blog makes my fucking day. Every day.
There are a few hipsters who work at Gregory’s coffee on park avenue south who need a good slap into reality!
politicker.com/2012/10/meet-hipster-bloomberg/
Even Jewmberg has hopped on the bandwagon.
American hipsters will top this by doing a cupcake.
^I nominate Pat i for comment of the day
lol!
I’ll bet anyone that someone will get a coffee shaped one. Any takers?
And what’s up with these people calling themselves artist? I saw a video of the guy who does this ”bagel head” thing and he calls himself an artist while smiling like a shit chucking monkey. I think that they believe throwing art in front of what they do automatically makes it weird and quirky instead of stupid.
What…The…FUCK, over?
On the plus side, BagelHeads could be useful for creepy Japanese porn
Could be? I take it you’ve never seen Tokyo Bagel Slurpee Bukkake 7. Do you live under a rock or something?
Saw it but felt it lacked the artistry and subtle nuances of TBSB 6.
LMFAO
Personally, I would a went with a nice whitefish…
Change the bagel to an elliptical shape and they’d be Vagina Heads!
I want donuts now. Sugary, deep fried, 2 week old oil, clearance aisle reduced donuts. Not free range organic olde timey, cruelty free flour crafted donuts. Oh, ph@ck me, I just gave away the idea. Look out for organic herpester donuts, coming soon
I might be wrong but aren’t olde timey doughnuts the deep fried sugary variety of doughnuts?
Oh, give it time, DH. Ten years ago, there was the club in New York that advertised free lifetime admission to anyone who got their ears bobbed so they looked Vulcan or elf. We’re not talking about putting on prosthetic Spock ears: we’re talking about actual surgical augmentation. About five years before I read that, I made friends with a plastic surgeon who had all sorts of bizarre stories about potential patients, and he told me something that I continue to repeat: “It sounds great to get your ears pointed, but that requires actually putting in supports to keep the point upright. If you make it out of cartilage, the cartilage tends to break down after a while because it doesn’t have a blood supply of its own the way bone does. It may look good tomorrow, but in ten years, the tips will flop over, and you’ll look like Yoda.”
As for US hipsters doing this, it’s already getting to that point. Most plastic surgeons won’t even consider non-medical augmentations like this, because they feel it’s a violation of the Hippocratic oath. Therefore, you’re seeing tattoo shops that are moving into the silicone injection and magnet implantation (for the “Wired” freaks who want to brag about how they now have a sense normal people don’t have). The responsible ones not only get certified, but they have people sign a phone book’s worth of release forms, not just to cover their asses, but to dissuade the dabblers from going this far. That doesn’t stop idiots from experimenting on themselves, though, and that’s when it gets funny. If you think they’re unemployable now, what happens in ten years when they’ve got pointy ears, a Klingon forehead, and glow-in-the-dark 3-D silicone-boosted tattoos that desperately need touchup work?
Reminds me of the idiots who paid a creepy tranny to inject silicone caulking into their butts and died.
A young dude in Jersey wanted penis enhancement and went to some lady down the block who had no medical training. She injected his johnson with silicone and killed him.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/penis_enhancement_death.html
Is it okay if I find that hilarious?
There are a lot of transsexuals who have died from those homemade surgeries, or required major care after the infections or poisoning set in from being injected with silicone or god knows what else. It’s why countries like Iran (yes, Iran) started covering these surgeries.
Iran covers transsexual surgeries? I would never have thought this. Mybe back pre Iahtollah, but now?
Actually, Khomeini declared the surgeries were permissible. For Iran, it might have less to do with cutting down on dangerous back-alley surgeries, and that the clerics instead feel that transsexuals are more acceptable than homosexuals (gay men in Iran are in a lot of danger from the government). There are other countries that have declared the surgeries to be a legal right.
Cuba too, also not a country that has been friendly to gays, though in general that is changing.
Trust me or not, but the average middle eastern man has had about 6 homosexual relationships prior to marriage. Now, you must understand, homosexuality does NOT exist, they never drink alcohol, and no one smokes.
Failure to understand the Asian mind continues to stumble the children of Socrates and Plato, but not Aristotle.
Somehow a blowjob with a finger in the ass isn’t enough for some people.
I think these clowns are covered in a show called “Taboo” on the National Geographic Channel.
Yeah, that show should be renamed “Stoopid”.
Wow. Nutty stuff. A tattoo or two (with normal tattoo stuff in it) is manageable, because you can probably afford to get them touched up, but crazy plastic surgeries are expensive and probably cost a lot to touch up on, too. You probably have to redo it or something (I don’t know much about plastic surgery, but it sounds impossible to “touch up” worn-out, oxygen-starved cartilage). That sounds like it would be entirely too costly to maintain.
And that’s beside the fact that most of these people look retarded. Why modify your body so that you can look like something that doesn’t exist? There are so many other things that money could be spent on.
You have the same issues with other silicone that you used to have with breast implants: the reason why breast implants are now done with saline is because the implant skin would leak silicone after a while, and that crap went through your bloodstream. Look up “embolism” one of these days to find out why this is so dangerous. Air embolisms are bad enough, but you need a significant amount of air in your system to lead to death because the valves in your veins do a very good job at breaking up air bubbles before they reach your heart or brain. Fat is a lot harder, which is why compound fractures of long bones are even more dangerous than you realize: fat leaks out of the marrow into the bloodstream, and adios, muchacho. Silicone…well, imagine having a good dollop of petroleum jelly squeezing around your veins, and you get an idea of why injecting silicone without some kind of barrier is so goddamn dumb.
You’d think the Japanese would use sushi, not bagels.
Yeah, but which form of sushi? Old-school truly foul funazushi? Oshizushi? Inarizushi? Modern Edomae nigirizushi? Allow me to suggest narezushi, “mature sushi,” a form of fermented sushi that is a typical dish of Shiga Prefecture. Skinned and gutted fish are stuffed with salt, placed in a wooden barrel (or better yet, inside a hipster’s forehead donut), doused with salt again, then weighed down with a heavy stone. Any liquid that seeps out is removed, and after six months it can be eaten, supposedly remaining edible for another six months or more. If nothing else, the narezushi process sounds like it could make for a good hipster beatdown.
Fukushima sushi. It glows in the dark, moves by itself, mutates into a different shape every few weeks, and has a half life of 10,000 years. And if you ask the Government, it doesn’t exist.
It’s latest mutation resembles Carrot Top.
Perfect for the hipster: Basashi — sashimi made from a dead, flogged horse.
Actually, basashi is pretty fucking tasty.
I have a great trend for them…..self-immolation. I would joyously dance around hipster fueled bonfires.
I think they should get them made in the shape of pockets and use them as crack mules.
Top USA exports…Scrap Metal, Airplanes and “Lookatmeism”…
Hipster-bashing in Laos:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/the-diplomat/~3/lP8NwbvTrLc/
Sound familiar?
Damn. That one definitely didn’t make it into http://www.hipstersgame.com
Way to go, bagel heads.
Sorry, change of subject, but I found this link via the Jeremiah Vanishing NY FB page-“ Artisanal mayonnaise is giving me a post-modern headache”.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/artisanal_mayonnaise_is_giving_me_a_post_modern_headache
“No. I could not. Because it’s artisanal mayonnaise, and it’s fucking stupid.”
Hear fucking hear.
They’re selling cheddar cheese flavored mayonnaise, blecchh. $9.00 for 4 oz. is disgusting, so no thanks. I’ll save myself the money and the food poisoning, and stick with my 15 oz. jar of Hellman’s which is delicious and half the price.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/artisanal_mayonnaise_is_giving_me_a_post_modern_headache#disqus_thread
Perhaps this should go with artisanal mayo. $7 for 4oz……Get some burners, ect….stick them up for a change.
Like all trends and fads in Japan, this’ll be over in mere months.
jesus, ill be rich by the end of work tonight in the LES
speaking of food….way to go…..enjoy those sporting events. heaven forbid a normal dog at a ball game. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/nice_feed_by_nets_2o0TJ3f8uvFx99xkF3VrvO
“Gluten is a protein found in many wheat, barley, malt and rye products that many people are allergic to.”. I’ve read studies where the rise of this allergy and Celiacs disease is attributed to the massive over prescription of antibiotics. Every time little Caleb or Molly gets the sniffles or god forbid vomits, these helicopter parents rush them to the Doctors office and demand they fix it. There is also the fact about the antibiotics pumped into our food chain as the family farms have been pushed to extinction for corporate ones and ply these animal factories with drugs to risk the spread of infection. However, in Mommies and Daddies rush for a cure all to make the boo-boos go away and not taking the time to culture the problem and wait a day for the results, (which in 80% of the time is usually viral and antibiotics are useless) they have spawned a whole new plethora of problems ie
MRSA, antibiotic resistant strep and TB as well as this new gluten free shit. Sorry my phone sent the first 1/2 of this before I finished the sentence. Was a long night below the line ; )
They interviewed the same busybody that led the Park Slope Food co-op Israel food ban. Of course she is all smiles about “healthy” options at the stadium..
Sheesh. Wannabe Klingons!
I think the “lookatmeism” started in Japan and not the other way around. Phaidon published three books in the early 2000′s comprised of nothing but pictures taken of people hanging around the trendy parts of Tokyo in the mid-to-late 90′s. The pictures were taken for Japanese fashion trend magazines, but ended up as American books because they are pretty much 200 pg freak shows of girls wearing ear-muffs in the summer and bedsheets/burlap sacks as clothes. Most of the girls in these books make it a point to only work in fashionable boutiques and spend their entire paychecks on clothing yet somehow manage to afford to live in the trendiest parts of Tokyo (sound familiar?).
the difference with those Japanese kids in the books you mention, and hipsters are :well, they were kids, everyone in that book was aged 12 to 17. they belonged to the different subcultures at the time, Punk, Goth, or raver. just like in America. they didnt LIVE in Harajuku, they travelled there to shop and hang out with friends, much like kids in the East village (myself included, punk) do. they did everything for themselves and had fun in their YOUTH because in Japan acting and dressing like that over 20 will practically get you shunned. the Hipster is a complete opposite, 30 year old males and females with awful beards and who dont wash just so people can react to them on the train…
It’s a cultural thing. Japan is strongly group-oriented and subsequently very conformist. Rebellion of any kind is actively discouraged and a lot of those kid do what they do then because, as the person above has said, they will NEVER get the chance to do it again.
If our hipsters can figure out how to gain attention by spreading cream cheese on their groins and wrapping smoked salmon around their pasty white, trust-fund supported cocks, we may witness an international symbiotic trend unprecedented in scope that can provide the State Department some much-needed good news in light of all this Arab Spring unrest.
http://grist.org/cities/the-bicycle-menace-in-portland-one-driver-bites-back/
Brave driver confronts Portland’s rabid cyclists
Yep! Saw this one on the news this week. A tattoo on face or neck, ok fine i understand you wanna stand out, but why would someone want to look like they have a deformity on their head???
It’s really ridiculous what people do with their time these days… Seriously- it’s one persons decision, insulting them wont change it.
You mean like you coming here to change our decisions? Sounds familiar.
Yes, people do ridiculous things with their time, like having their foreheads deformed. And then other people comment on it. Just like you’re doing. It’s called the Internet.
I’m hoping that more hipster idiots like these take up Lemminging soon. As long as they livestream their nosedives off local cliffs for posterity. Posterity in their case being all of about 91 seconds.
I read an article about Japanese society today, and it seems like they are even more fucked up then Americans. Here we stuff our faces with doughnuts, but in Japan they implant the damn things inside their faces… what a miserable thing to do.
There are lots of hipsters in Japan, but they don’t look much different from the American ones (well, except for lack of beards.) These bagelhead people are just plain, old-fashioned freaks who are probably masochistic to boot.