Hipster vs. analog hobby photographer

"Well you would of course be an exception, but still my feeling remains that in 99% of the male cases it is wishful thinking. I am personally no longer wishful. :D"

Yeah, and Cal doesn't use it to his advantage either so need need for him to lie.

I know what you mean though... I have a bunch of late 30s friends who think that early 20s women can't tell that they are that old. I say at best they think you are 32-35 instead of 35-38 and most likely that is still too old. I tend to like women my age, so I never cared either...though I've dated women 10 years younger.
 
jsrockit said:
Not with that diamond ring and that $16,000 watch... that puts you in the old man category. ;)
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Hipsters don't like luxury goods?

When I lived in Williamsburg it became kinda over run with hipsters by the time I left. It seemed that it had become an extension of NYU's dorms, and I heard stories where landlords got $30K from parents in one lump sum so that some rich kid could live in a loft and act like he was living on the fringe.

For many kids four years at NYU was just another four years of "Camp."

I wanted to get a T-shirt made up: purple with white letters like the NYU logo, but instead of NYU I was going to have it say NY-Me because of the sense of entitlement. In many ways it was like living in an episode of "Gossip Girl."

Cal
 
Well you would of course be an exception, but still my feeling remains that in 99% of the male cases it is wishful thinking. I am personally no longer wishful.
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I'm confused. When I was in my twenties, everyone took me for late thirties. Now I'm in my early sixties and people seem to think I look ten years younger.

I think they're just being kind...

:D
 
Calzone said:
Hipsters don't like luxury goods?

When I lived in Williamsburg it became kinda over run with hipsters by the time I left. It seemed that it had become an extension of NYU's dorms, and I heard stories where landlords got $30K from parents in one lump sum so that some rich kid could live in a loft and act like he was living on the fringe.

For many kids four years at NYU was just another four years of "Camp."

Cal
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I suspect almost as long as there has been Universities, there have been kids who essentially allowed their parents to pay for their rebellion against them. Then they sat around trying to conform to their non-conformist group by wearing the right clothing, drinking the right drinks, doing the right things and thinking the right thoughts, all while congratulating themselves on being rebels.

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Bill
 
I am not sure I would know the term if I didn't see my 15 year old son deploy it so deftly. My wife can predict his judgment on various chatacters on TV ads. I assume my 20 year old daughter's preferred epithet of 'indie fag' is the same or similar.

You are clearly suffering for your art. I think concern that you could after all actually be a hipster almost certainly excludes you from being one. Your girlfriend is OK if she likes some of your photos and she lets you bring the camera, most times. If she doesn't think you over do it a bit she is not normal. For her to actually say you are a hipster means she doesn't really think so, because any girl with hipster radar is not going to continue going out with one. The 'little' is the give away, playful or deliberate insult but not her real opinion. You're on RFF aged 22 owning more than one of the qualifying cameras. I think you fail as a hipster. No-one can see you here.
 
I got into photography through film because my first camera, a Mamiya NC1000, was $30. I like doing things the "hard way" because I like the rewarding aspect, and I'm a control freak as far as any creative process goes. Also, I almost only shoot people, and I love how BW grain looks on portraits. Most people would probably consider me a hipster because I'm 25 and I shoot film, but I don't give a ****, and I think my pictures speak for themselves. I just think it looks better, and it's more fun to me. I love the developing process and I find it extremely rewarding. It's fun. End of story. I know "Lomographer" people give people who still shoot film a bad name, but who cares, they're still buying film and keeping it alive (although they're usually buying expired film).

I have recorded six albums worth of solo music in my time, and I've sent things off to record labels now and then out of curiosity but never got any response. But I wasn't doing it for fame, I make the music I want to listen to. That's it. Make what you want to make. Take the pictures you want to see, and **** everything else.
 
PS I do worry that your use of 'analog' in the thread title could be a coupon that could be used towards a later hipster qualification....
 
Too old to worry about it. And too happily married. Yes, I can still attract the attention of very much younger women. But what would that 'attention' really mean if I tried to translate it into getting them into bed?

The older I get, the more convinced I am that one meets very few 'soul mates': one or two a decade, at the outside. Of the few you do meet, many are disqualified by reason of age: much too old, much too young. Others are married; or, of course, you're with someone else. Stop and go beyond the fantasy: if you really loved someone, would you want to saddle them with an unrealistically old lover? Then again, an 84-year-old friend of ours lives with her 70-year-old toy-boy...

Cheers,

R.
 
Do you primarily shoot film cameras because you enjoy it as a process, tool, and aesthetic of the final images?

Or do you primarily shoot film cameras because you enjoy the attention, equipment, and looking cool?

Ultimately, most of us probably answer some combination of them. But for me, it is the primary drive that determines the hipster.
 
I got called a hipster just the other day. I'm 55 for godsake! I've always shot film.

I dislike the term "analogue" however, "analog" even more so.
 
I get called a hipster all the time... it used to bother me, but it's happened so often that I don't really care for it much anymore. The girlfriend of my friend who keeps calling me a hipster likes my "hipster style" I dress in more so than his anyway ;)

I suppose it's warranted. Shooting large format, medium format, RF, and recently instant film... going to school for architecture... collecting vintage watches (my wrists are too small for the ugly bling they've dubbed a "watch" nowadays... plus... in-house movements).

I think anything that strays from the mainstream counts as "hipster" now. So I suppose we're all hipsters.

On a side note, I have a good friend who always calls me "pretentious", to which I jokingly (and pretentiously) reply "I prefer the term cultured".
 
John,

If it was so silly, then the OP would have kept it to himself and we wouldn't have gotten a thread this long!!

Sometimes there is a whole lot of truth in the silliness.
 
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