“see the hipsters in the park, hair so styled clothes so dark”
that moldy peaches line was my first encounter with hipsters.
Back then i tried to figure out a bit what that youthculture was really about and if it had good or bad connotation (like you do with new influences)
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recently vintage look, overstylers and pornesque everyday life poses came back knocking at my door.
I think this whole hipster thing has a soft edge border. At the one hand I’m not entirely put off by it at the other hand I would never want to commit myself. Anyway a friend of mine posted a nice Article on her moodmessage today, published by adbusters. The article worries about kids making style issues and being perceived their overall sense of life, not realizing that they are marionettes of a marketing image machine.
On the other hand people realize that quite for sure. The question is if you can develop a youthculture left alone by marketing and image scouts nowadays. I think hipster culture is not the only one being fucked by capitalistic workflows. Think about visual kei and how fast it appeared in popular product culture with the tokio hotel frontman featuring its aspects almost before it “appeared” as a youthculture.
Two factors make it hard for youthcultures nowadays: constant trend monitoring, capitalistic logic taking over every aspect of your life and the general feeling of the educated consumer that nothing new can be created.
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But i wouldn’t worry too much. As we have seen with Vienna descending Krocha youthculture, Style Bubbles without substance might plop sooner as one thinks.
In this Spirit commit, create and “Mach et einfach!“* for something new will always emerge.
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(via maria otter)
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*frei nach Icke und ER ; )