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Color Me Hip: The Hipster Coloring Book, 1962
06.29.2017
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Hipsters ain’t what they used to be. Once upon a time, hipsters were seen as unreconstructed Glenn Quagmires (“Giggity”), who lived in fashionable penthouse apartments with their serious hi-fis, their Formica-topped minibars, their circular water beds, tiger print bedsheets, and polished mirrored ceilings. They had no man buns, no Alice bands, and certainly no handcrafted and carefully tended facial hair. These hipsters thought of themselves as free spirits who only cared about an ice-chilled cocktail and a swinging hot young chick to share their bed. This, apparently, was your average urban hipster as discerned by Cavalier magazine in November 1962.

Boy, how times have changed...

Fortunately, Cavalier was so amused by the hipster phenomenon they produced a coloring book for readers to fill in while they rued their lack of good fortune in having such a swinging, happening life…
 
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More hipster fun, after the jump…

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.29.2017
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It’s organic! It’s gluten-free! It’s vegan! It’s meth!
08.21.2013
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At this point, “hipster” has basically become a catch-all for anyone under the age of 35 whose mother doesn’t dress them, so any and all drug consumption habits have fallen under the Instagram glow of this amorphous label.

Take alcohol, for example. Hipsters drink craft beer because they’re into DIY and micro-brews. Or is it that hipsters drink wine because it’s “artistic”? Oh wait, hipsters drink shitty malt liquor and PBR because it’s “ironic!” Or bougie mixed drinks made by these so-called “mixologists”? Or more esoteric hooch, like sarsaparilla and moonshine (ooh, retro!)?

Well you’re all wrong, because everyone knows drinking is soooooo over. Nowadays, hipsters do meth! Not only that, they make twee little videos about cooking it themselves! Next stop, Etsy! Maybe they can’t sell the drug there directly, but I’m sure they could make an adorable little illustrated how-to guide, and there’s all sorts of “cooking” accouterments that could be sold as accessories? Hand-felted meth pipes from recycled cat hair, for example!

(By the way, growing up in meth country, I was into meth wayyyyyy before it became hip!)
 

Posted by Amber Frost
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08.21.2013
09:50 am
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Hipster White Lightning: The bizarre trendiness of making your own moonshine
08.02.2013
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A few years ago the BBC reported that young denizens of Brooklyn and other clusters of hipsters were making illegal moonshine in their tiny apartments. They managed, as usual, to take a relatively cheap hobby and spend thousands of dollars on gear for it, keeping entrepreneurs like Arkansas’ Colonel Vaughn Wilson in business.

The outlaw aspect of risking a $15,000 fine and five years in prison is likely part of the allure too. That and the possibility of the getting the temperature wrong during one point of the process and poisoning yourself and and anyone else dumb enough to imbibe your rancid artisanal hooch.

It didn’t take long for the safe and legal variants of moonshine to hit the market and for Bon Appetit to feature them.

Moonshine is now being served at trendy restaurants. That’s right, where there used to be a list of local microbrews or outrageously expensive tequilas or organic wines, there is a list of the flavored moonshines on offer. Hipsters have left behind those previous alcoholic obsessions, as well as absinthe, bastardizations of the martini, small-batch bourbon, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Hooch is hip.

The safe, legally produced and distributed brands include NASCAR’s Junior Johnson’s Midnight Moon and Howling Moon Moonshine. You can buy Troy & Sons’ Platinum Moonshine and Oak Reserve Moonshine at, among other places throughout the Southeast, Walt Disney World’s Wilderness Lodge.

Distillers are as pleased as highly spiked punch, because moonshine provides an immediate profit, as opposed to other sour mash products like whiskey that require years of aging in wooden barrels.

The manager of Husk restaurant in South Carolina tried to describe the taste of different kinds of moonshine to Bon Appetit, obviously struggling not to fall into wankerish wine-speak:

Compared to other clear spirits, you can definitely taste the corn. Sometimes there’s that cereal profile, and sometimes, like with white whiskey from a Tennessee distillery called Prichard’s, it has a little bit more of a sweetness, and that kind of comes forth, like a corn cake or johnnycake.

On a side note, further appropriation of Appalachian culture by hipsters (besides the unemployed film school graduates walking the Appalachian Trail this summer and horrifying locals by showing up unwashed and funky at local eating establishments along the way) is Stewart Copeland’s (this one, not that one) new documentary on buck dancing, Let Your Feet Do The Talkin’.

The Moonshine Yoda, Mike Haney the CEO of Hillbilly Stills, below:

 
Previously seen on Dangerous Minds:
Dead Zones: New York City’s Hipster Heat Map

Posted by Kimberly J. Bright
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08.02.2013
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LA Weekly picks ‘The 20 Worst Hipster Bands’
08.25.2012
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The LA Weekly didn’t exactly shy away from blasting the acts who made their The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List.

Ben Westhoff on Arcade Fire, #3

If the essence of hipsterdom is fetishizing the authentic, then Arcade Fire deserve a Canadian Nobel Prize for sucking the life out of the pop music canon. Sure, all artists build on their influences, but Arcade Fire sap the passion, intensity, and sincerity from greater acts who came before them, wringing their sounds out through a sponge and lustily devouring the drops. In a way, they’re like the over-processed food our generation consumed as children; with color and nutrients added after the fact, they almost smell and look like something that’s good for us. But they’re not. Arcade Fire is not good for us.

Probably not!

Moving right along, Dan Weiss on MGMT, #16 on the list:

Exploiting LOLcat culture and synthy, psychedoodling indie-dance for pop crossover was such a good idea, apparently, that MGMT made it all their own. They tried to be meta about it on their big 2008 breakthrough single “Time to Pretend,” which is about rocking ‘til you die with “models for wives.” And a follow-up hit was not to come; the hookless prog meanderings of their difficult second album (2010’s Congratulations) made it clear they weren’t in on the joke after all.

(I will admit to playing the shit out of the first MGMT album and loving the second album when it came out. A few weeks later, however, I decided that I absolutely hated it and have never listened to them since. That might be the only time this has ever happened to me with an album. I can’t think of a second time.)

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List (LA Weekly)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.25.2012
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Henry Rollins schools some heckling hipsters in an East Village record store
11.05.2010
09:47 pm
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You gotta hand it to him…he doesn’t back down.

An excerpt from the TV program “Durch die Nacht mit… (Into the Night with…) Henry Rollins and Shirin Neshat”. Henry gets mocked by local hipsters at the record store and fights back immediately.

(via TDW)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.05.2010
09:47 pm
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