That's basically the hipster's motto.

Go to either Starbucks or a local college to see an example of a hipster.

like meecrob :toughninja:

Hipster doesn't have a defined term. it's like scene kid or emo freak. It gets so watered down that everyone could be a hipster no matter what they do.

I learned all I need to know about hipsters from Cyanide and Happyness:

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2295/

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg8pmbgudM1qba000o1_500.png

My sister used to go to school in NYC and sort of became a hipster. I realized this when she started asking for my dads (and my) old flannel shirts. Oh well.

A http://www.viddler.com/explore/knowyourmeme/videos/92/ on the subject.

I view them simply as the Yuppies of today that like the Yuppies have their numbers greatly exaggerated that serve as a target of satire and jest.

Welp, that confirms it.

I am not a hipster.

Thank God someone posted this... because I'm old and can't keep up with the new ( I guess old ) terms.


So all these kids who run around with seriously annoying hair in their faces with their silly looking side swept bangs (which look like forehead comb overs) are hipsters? Or are they something else? :huh: I seriously can't keep up with the names now. But normally I see those silly hair styles on people who wear flannel so was just wondering if they're one in the same...

What do hipsters do?

Oh...you've probably never heard of it.

:shifty:

This seems true to a large extent.


I dunno, maybe you could be a hipster, your tone in this post definitely carries a certain sense of snobbishness. Like, what are "cool" hats? You obviously know already, and don't need to explain it to anyone else. And you seem really convinced about how much better the music you listen to is than mainstream pop music. What really gets me though is the fake glasses... like, that's just such a conspicuously image-conscious decision that I'm automatically sending up all kinds of red flags. But you only do it as a "joke", and "irony" isn't a huge part of the supposed hipster ideology or anything...

Really though, I'm sure I could be classified as a hipster by someone's definition, because it really does seem like a catch-all epithet for young people who may be engaging in any number of activities which could be pretty broadly described. For example, I would say that I have a pretty obscure taste in music, but I don't feel that it actually aligns with tastes that would be traditionally considered hipster (although I seem to enjoy a few things from the widely-varied "hipster metal" category). In fact, I would go so far as to say that my musical taste is actually far more obscure than the not-good-enough-to-be-popular pop that a lot of "hip" young people seem to be into, but that really just compounds my snobbish obscurantism, and may in fact make me MORE of a hipster. However, obscurity isn't the top priority of my musical tastes, it's just that generally speaking, the styles of music I enjoy adhere to a certain standard of theoretical and technical principles that relegate them to a sort of outsider status. Again, I'm a snob, and this may just dig me deeper in the hole.

On top of that, I'm fairly young, my pants are kinda tight (not in design, but mostly because I split my time between overeating and doing squats), I wear Chucks (this is also because of weightlifting) I'm college-educated, I can prattle on about various leftist political and social theories (though mostly I do it as a joke, whoops, there's the irony) I'm a musician, I cut my own hair, etc etc.

Anyway, despite the fact that I don't think that hipsters can be easily defined, and that the label and hatred thereof is just a sort of convenient and lazy way to direct one's anger, I get just as annoyed as anyone else at the particularly image-conscious individuals who are either very closely cleaving to a predefined sub-cultural aesthetic, (though that applies to more people than just "hipsters) and I get doubly-annoyed when these skinny d-bags have a hot babe in tow (who may be just as ridiculously dressed, but for whom I'm willing to allow a double-standard because I don't think with my brain).

Please enjoy my needlessly long post!

My cool hats:
A licensed Indiana Jones Fedora
A Ushanka
A KFC bucket I wear on my head
An alligator hat I bought at the dollar store that's ment for elementary school kids
Some tinfoil I wrapped around my head
A that makes it look like a [censored] king crab is holding onto my head.

Also my hair cut is very non hipster.
1/2 inch buzzcut, tapering down to 1/4 inch arroundthe edges.

You own a fedora... you are automatically hipster

My hipster senses are tingling.

Indiana Jones Fedora

It goes good with my leather jacket, revolver and bullwhip (that I'll never learn to use)

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/Lomoru/fedora.png

Yes, I have the first type of fedora not the "hipster fedora".

I am hipster heritage. Hipsters are not my heritage.

Unfortunately the meaning of hipster in comparison to an artist is similar to that of a kid from the 90's who wears skate clothes and listens to punk rock but doesn't even know how to do a kick flip.

Does the fact that I play Jazz Trombone, and are learning to play Bass guitar and saxophone in addition to many other instrument change the verdict?

That depends. How avant-garde do you like your jazz?

I don't think fedoras are very hipster, in fact, http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua4Mm6Fp. As far as jazz goes, from my own experiences on and around some of the Atlanta scene, I would say that there is some "hipster" intersection, but less in the musician's camp, and more in the audience camp.

I haven't really played any real songs outside warm up exercises, as I recently started Jazz Trombone, after quoting the school band because all we do is marching musc, and not even cool marching music like other schools do.
I take lessons for Trombone and I'm trying to teach myself bass(doing fairly well) and saxophone(epicly failing)... Also learning the bugle for Boy Scouts.

As for the jazz, my favorite song is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs if that answers your question.

Not even cool marching music? That sounds pretty hipster.

Cool jazz is sort of hipster too (good choice though).

I lien to think of my self as, nit a hipster, but me...

I dint realy fit into any if the predefined groups, I like Classical music, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock, Electronica, Pop, Bobby Darrin and Frank Sinatra type songs... About everything that not country or rap, I dress like a hipster, and I fit in perfectly with both the skater kids, the gamers, the nerds, and the "normal people"

I dont dress like a hipster by choice (apparently cheap clothes = hipster clothes)

I am a category all in myself.

Thank you.

I've always sort of skirted on the edges of mainstream society, I guess I'm a hipster.





Damn...

A hipster is one who identifies themself in shallow opposition to the perceived norm. It is not the eccentricity/weirdness that makes you a hipster, but the reason behind that eccentricity. Only apathy for standards can create real non-conformity, but when it is done for attention and in an attempt to stand out, then it is just childish. Hence, the hipster.