BREAKING! The Topless/Stuffed Deer Head Beach Photo Sparks "Non-Hipster" Hipsters To Lash Out
One thing these guys above are good at? Defending their non-hipster, hipster titles. One thing they're bad at? Taking a joke. Yesterday I had some fun putting up this fairly innocuous post about the rise of topless hipsters on the beaches of Ditch Plains in Montauk. I added in a deliberately low res photo as evidence. The folks in the photo (from INVEN.TORY- also in above photos) happened to see said post, and that's how we ended up here...
"Maybe I'll defend myself," I thought. "Explain that it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek post in which they happened to captivate the idea I was trying to convey quite nicely."
"Also, don't they realize they can't bring a deer head to the beach, sprawl out topless in a back bend, and have ridiculously structured costumes without people taking notice!? I don't care what they are protesting. H-e-l-l-o. Everyone was looking at you guys, and you obviously aren't shy about it."
[Do not call them hipsters!]
"And what makes a hipster anyway? This paragraph: 'The surfers, the skateboarders, the "gypsets", the bohemian, the fashion photographers, the Beats, Hippies, and Hipsters, the new media titans, the influencers of industries.' pretty much summed up what I was going for. The outlaws. Entrepreneur from Nolita fits in that category...do they NOT want to be known as influencers of industries?
"Lastly, a hipster transcends money. There are just as many well to do hipsters as there are struggling ones."
[No, seriously guys. These people are NOT hipsters ok?]
[All photos via INVEN.TORY Facebook page]
Alas, I'm a hipster, you're a hipster, everyone's a hip hip hipster. The point is this. "Hipster" is a term that is widely used to represent a group of individuals that seem to posses very similar sensibilities to that of these people in the photo. Unfortunately, these non-hipster hipsters seem to be trying so hard to be labeled as different from the"hipsters" that they are missing the point entirely. Do they not want to emulate similar individuals in said category? Ernest Hemingway, The Beats, The "gypset", the Entreprenuer, the Social Outlaws? I'm going to argue that they should own to your "hip" ness.
Good. Now that we have that settled, I'll see you guys on the beach this weekend.
Vassili Verrecchia Shows Off His Favorite Things In His Paris Home
While his brother, Timothee, runs the NYC office, Vassili takes on the Paris-based side of things. To gain some insight to what inspires such a creative and entrepreneurial spirit, we asked Vass to show off some of his favorite worldly and sentimental possessions in his Paris home. See where Vass's travels have taken him...
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onthepavedroad
July 9, 2010
5:50pm
It's pretty obvious you weren't using "hipster" in the mid-20th century Beats/hippies/outlaws/On the Road/Easy Rider/counter-culture way. You were using it for a tired, lazy laugh that Gawker started way back during the Misshapes/Ruff Club ways. They stopped. Leno doesn't do Lewinksy/Clinton jokes anymore. But, carry on. We'll be on Mott Street playing dodgeball and making papier maché Lenin dolls.
Stanely Stuyvesant
July 9, 2010
6:15pm
@onthepavedroad: How nice of you to define the correct and appropriate usage of the word "Hipster". So exactly what cultural label would you have applied?
Hanna
July 9, 2010
6:29pm
i hope you guys fight in the streets
fernanda
July 9, 2010
6:49pm
if hipsters can justify american apparel, they can justify expensive hats, trunks and sunglasses. i'm just saying.
enoughalready
July 9, 2010
6:52pm
Enoughalready doesn't care if you are a hipster, gangsta, wanksta, yuppie (remember those?), douchebag, prep or scenester. Just try to keep it north of the highway and west of Bridgehampton so he doesn't have to deal with y'all.
onthepavedroad
July 9, 2010
6:56pm
Well, the entire hook of the story was based on the idea of hipsterdom... so I probably would have thought of a better story. Ugh, this is boring, can i bum a Parliament?
HAR HAR
July 9, 2010
7:04pm
who isnt guilty of being a hipster these days? i mean really. anyone who wears vans and levis is a hipster. i think the main point is the young upwardly-mobile people in the article need to get over themselves and own up to being a fucking hipster. these people look sad at this point. viva guest of a guest. i mean if the vans fit.........
tomrobbins
July 9, 2010
7:21pm
seriously---just go the fuk home---you guys have fukkin ruined montauk..you suck as people and you suck as guests to the town....just leave...or just all hang in one douchebag place-surf lodge...
Stanely Stuyvesant
July 9, 2010
11:45pm
@tomrobbins: Tom, if they all left, then you would have nowhere to place your angst. Isn't this better than putting in some Emo tapes?
townsend
July 10, 2010
5:12am
tomrobbins, I bet you paddle board.
Basia
July 10, 2010
3:30pm
I use the non-ironic variation "hipster scum". It denotes, as does the current application of the word "hipster", a person who self-consciously and obviously displays him or herself in a way designed to advertise the veracity of their immersion in counter-cultural validation, but whose efforts produce the opposite result. In other words, I'm still gonna snicker at you.
tomrobbins
July 12, 2010
1:36pm
ha...doesnt everybody stand up paddle--do yoga--and surf ditch nowadays...it's just the groovy thing to do....i mean pull up in my range rover-mercedes truck or "vintage " surf truck with wetsuit at joannies sipping chai misto's and grinding on tofu....just fuk off please...
enoughalready
July 12, 2010
4:39pm
No poseurs at Rockaway or in Dirty Jerz. Too many to count at Douche Plains.
tomrobbins
July 12, 2010
5:32pm
agreed "enough already"....montauk has been ruined--the place is OVER.....
MrL
July 13, 2010
1:05pm
Get a day job.
Boooooya
July 13, 2010
1:59pm
These are NOT hipsters .... that would actually be a compliment. "Posers" or Try Hards" would have been a much more fitted title