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Being a hipster doesn't always make you happy

Magazine / Newspaper, Photography

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 11 March 2010, 11:57    Permalink    Comments (12)

It was never too soon for little Serge to learn the dulcet tones of his namesake

Unhappy Hipsters is a tumblr blog that's kept us highly amused for the last few days. Featuring imagery culled from various interiors magazines, it suggests that concrete floors, Eames chairs and moustaches don't always equate with personal well-being...

(Above photo: Dean Kaufman; Dwell, July/August 2006)

You know the types of houses and loft spaces that regularly appear in the high-end lifestyle press? The compiler of Unhappy Hipsters makes regular use of photography from magazines like Dwell and Wallpaper* but with biting reinterpretation.

Where they feature, the kids and fashionable pets add a particularly sad note to the existential proceedings.

Check out the blog at unhappyhipsters.com. Here are some recent favourites:

"Nutmeg sat stoically atop the cushions. Yet her internal dialogue was a cacophony of discordant thoughts, mostly centered on the absurdity of the double Nelson clocks." (Photo: Joao Canziani; Dwell)


"This time it was 'Mondrian: From Naturalism to Abstraction', but at least the TV was finally on." (Photo: Chad Holder; Dwell, April/May 2005)


"The stools huddled together, braced for another one of his incoherent solo poetry slams." (Photo: Noah Webb; Dwell)

 

12 Comments

Friggen hysterical! I do subscribe to Dwell but I am no hipster!
tammy
2010-03-11 13:00:51


I've been following this Tumblr for a while now and it is always a joy. Any opportunity to mock a hipster, I'm there :)
Alex
2010-03-11 13:25:01


I had a long discussion with a social media strategist friend at the Polish poster launch at Kemistry last week about how I wouldn't allow the children to put up a Clone wars poster of Annakin Skywalker but I may concede and allow them the £40 Darth Vader poster that was being exhibited.

See that tvat in the blog. That's me that is.
Gemma Mercy
2010-03-11 14:03:27


It's funny but they're not hipsters - THIS is a hipster! :p

http://blackscientist.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/hipster.jpg
Alex
2010-03-11 14:05:39


ohhh snnaaaappppppp! This is funny.
Michael
2010-03-11 14:49:54


No one who has an Eames chair can be unhappy. Rather, I have never been unhappy in my Eames chair. Perhaps that is just me. That being said, it seems as though everyone, including hipsters, likes to hate on hipsters, and the only way to definitively prove you're not a hipster is by genuinely not knowing what a hipster is. Otherwise, everybody's got something that makes them hipsterish, just like everyone's a little bit racist.

As the newest old joke goes, "A hipster walks into a bar, looks around and says, 'this bar sucks, it's full of hipsters.'"
Marshall McGetacluhan
2010-03-11 19:45:09


Sounds like Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s books - without the drawings
Loïc Boyer
2010-03-12 09:04:07


What the hell is a hipster?? Last time I checked it was a fit of womens jeans ...
n
2010-03-12 16:06:16


Oo! Is 'n' a hipster Marshall?
Gavnoss
2010-03-12 16:41:25


I'm sure they know Jean-Philippe Delhomme's work. Exactly the same way of writting.
Genevieve Gauckler
2010-03-13 11:17:38


hmm, only funny because it's done in a hipsterish sort of way....
dna
2010-03-13 13:12:17


The only way it's done in a "hipsterish sort of way" is because it contains photos of so-called hipsters. Otherwise, it's a standard sort of blog, really. The comments, I find, are mostly pretty witty — I like it. Although I do get the feeling that the person who runs it is properly a bit a "hipsterish" too. Not that that matters.. it's funny.
Tom Lenartowicz
2010-03-14 20:48:04


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