What's a hipster?

[ptpdprinter]

But now I totally understand what the "hipster" is. Definitely a counterculture person with a definite artistic bend... I think the clothing, hair fashion and all are part of the rejection of the "culture" that others adhere to.

Rejection of one culture and adoption of another. Except that it is not so much a rejection of a culture as a rejection of the outward trappings of a culture.

 

[Sumarongi]

Rejection of one culture and adoption of another.

Wisely worded, I may add: adoption, or outright *appropriation*, like the aforementioned wearing of headgear indoors, although the typical hipster/nipster very certainly is *not* frum.

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Wow, an opinion which differs from the norm!
Prepare to be slapped down by more evolved, superior beings.

Hipsters are expressing a certain discomfort with 'modernity', and do so with an element of irony - they are reacting to a marketing-based society that traffics in images and artifice, not real stuff. Thus they like things that feel 'real', like film, vacuum tube amps, vinyl, paired down fixie bikes, craft beer and local produce, back alleys instead of suburban lawns. The lumber jack and thrift store looks are explicit responses to a world that puts a premium on image and logo.

They are young and immature kids who are dealing with big cultural and economic transitions, and they are doing an impressive job of creating a lifestyle that is a creative response to the suffocating world the previous generation left them. It is easy to make fun of them, but as I have said elsewhere they deserve our support and understanding.
They help keep film alive! And what dinosaur here has not suddenly felt more relevant when a young kid wants to see their ancient rangefinder?

 

[Calzone]

Wow, an opinion which differs from the norm!
Prepare to be slapped down by more evolved, superior beings.

David,

I kinda support what Randy wrote. I'm a baby boomer and I realize as such that I enjoyed many benefits and opportunities that younger people today that are not baby boomers do not have. In other words we baby boomers kinda had more than our fair share and now we leave a legacy of problems for these young people.

I will also say that I am inspired by the way I see the young people coping with their difficulties. They certainly are not whiners.

Perhaps the embrace of retro hi-fi, analog cameras, and hippy style is a carryover of old hippy style that offers a humble simplicity. The world we (baby-boomers) handed over certainly is complicated.

It is sad to see young people at such a disadvantage.

Cal

 

[Sumarongi]

The definition is of an individual, usually a white college age male [...], w/ no original ideas of anything in their head. They need social media to tell them what to wear (you will see they pretty much all have uniforms and haircuts that resemble their brethren), what to say, how to say it, and what to believe. Their usual habitat is a StarSucks coffeehouse where they are all attached to their phones, furiously sending vital messages to each other (often others that are seated at the same table) by Facebook and Instagram. [...]

You nailed it, dear Steve!
E.g. the guys using *The Neptune Convertible Art Lens System*, see the youtube playlist for that thing:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2h3ozgMM9f4rDVODAHZL4lMCbd6l9RNO

 

[benlees]

Don't forget excessive tattoo's. Both guys and gals.

In my case no tattoo's needed. I have interesting scars from bike crashes on my arms and legs.

Cal

This made me laugh. We could make a joke: What the difference between tattoos and scars? Everyone has tattoos!

Having Cheerios for breakfast might have more hipster appeal than tattoos these days. A shame, really.

I bought a rug off a lady in St. Albert last year, a suburb of Edmonton, very upper middle class; $60,000 pick-up truck kind of place. She had sleeves...

 

[ForestCap]

A generic white dude who dresses good and does not use Facebook, according to one of the professors in my institute.

 

[kshapero]

The main element of 'hipster' in the fashion and commodity sense is an ahistorical fetishization of certain tropes e.g. flannel shirts, high ankle serge denim jeans, large beards and/or mustaches. "Film camera" is a popular trope among hipsters; not actually shooting film to any decent degree, but having a film camera as a fashion accessory.

This is what prompted the 'hipster' remark.

Long way from that other nomenclature; the Hippie.

 

[xayraa33]

*Hipster doodz*

I can absolutely understand and agree when people wear a hat, a yarmulke or kepi indoors, because of religious motives.

But ... these *beanie* (*tuque*) wearing *Hipster doodz*, can one please immediately flog them when they wear their ugly headthing indoors?

What is with them wearing that tuque thing like the headgear on that Zig-Zag Zouave guy on the cigarette paper packet?

 

[kshapero]

Each to their own, I guess. My parents thought I looked pretty bad in the late 60's. Kids, what to do?