Art or Animal Cruelty?
Posted by diehipster at 5/6/2008 4:33 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Was it a construction worker? Did the turtle bump into a can of paint? Or is it just another "form of art" created by a talented transplant who had too many PBR's?
Let's go with the third choice. This turtle named Myrtle got coated with pinkish orange paint in Billyburg (or Williamsburg for us un-hip Brooklynites) People were quick to blame a construction worker with out any proof or witnesses. So I'll be quick to judge as well and blame it on a hipster. But what could the message be behind this masterpiece? Maybe a 2 year Brooklyn veteran is trying to say that "his" neighborhood is just a candy coated shell meaning he can't take the changes he's seen over the past 2 years he's been in NYC, not knowing he is actually the cause of it all? Not knowing he is the fuel for the fire? Who knows? Atleast the turtle is now officially hip.
Click here to read the story from AM New York.
Is anything painted this color on that building?
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Read the article again. It's only about a turtle running around with paint on its shell with the same color as that used on a nearby construction site. There's no mention of the animal being on display as art, and nobody has taken any credit for it. It looks like the animal probably tipped over an open can of paint and got splashed. You're just wildly grasping at straws and making desperate accusations here.
Of course, anti-hipster ranters still shout "hipster" at anyone and everyone they don't agree with. If you own an Ipod, they will call you "hipster". If you've ever gone to Starbucks, they will call you "hipster". If you are a freelancer and have your own work hours, they will call you "hipster". If you own any clothing from a thrift store or have edgy urban fashion sensibilities, they will call you "hipster". If you listen to bands on an indie record label, they will call you "hipster". If your hair is a little messy or scruffy, they wili call you "hipster". If you drink cheap beer like PBR, they will call you "hipster". If you are vegan, they will call you "hipster". If you simply exist, they will call you "hipster".
What does this all really mean? Anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Read the header of my website again. Then go back to CraigsList and wait for anti-hipster rants to reply to with your copy and paste all day while I go to work.
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You meathead types are slow learners. It takes a lot of repetition to get an idea through your thick skulls. It's like trying to educate a retard.
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It always has been and always will be about meat and muscle!!
That is darwinism...and your parents can't hire you a lawyer when you break that law!
Just think, all the vaporous flappers and zoot suiters of the twenties and what became of them in the thirties...there will be another vrash soon...hipsterism is excess and greed..
I see these hipster fucks in the subway, stopping to adjust their ipods, sprawled out on the floor, I bump into them and accidentally walk over their laptops with impunity and with consequence.
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It always has been and always will be about meat and muscle!!
That is darwinism...and your parents can't hire you a lawyer when you break that law!
Just think, all the vaporous flappers and zoot suiters of the twenties and what became of them in the thirties...there will be another vrash soon...hipsterism is excess and greed..
I see these hipster fucks in the subway, stopping to adjust their ipods, sprawled out on the floor, I bump into them and accidentally walk over their laptops with impunity and with consequence.
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Once at the Metro North Train Station their was this hispter doofus sitting in the stairwell blissed out with his ipod and mac laptop, I walked right over him and sent the laptop flying, he runs over to a MTA Cop to whine...the cop told him it was an accident HE (ie hipster fucktard) caudes by sprawling out in the stairwell and the cop would do nothing to me.....the hipster fucktward whined "that is sooooo whack !!
That was a defining moment in my existence, I fucked up a hipsters laptop, that was last year and the memory still brings me great pleasure !!!
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Idiots like you make all native NYers look bad. No wonder so many girls are preferring hipsters over meatheads these days. Everything you say always just re-affirms what I've been saying all along...and everyone knows it.
Anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Thinking hipster trust fund transplants have any right to judge the natives is exactly the sort of shit about you that pisses people off.
Are you so brainless that you can't comprehend this?
Doesn't the fact that you have something to prove, while people with varied interests can have them without also being effete, whining douchebags shame you in the least? No, of course not, as long as your parents pay your rent you can hide in cans of PBR, and you'll never actually have to face the fact that you're a culture-less windbag with such low self-esteem you let your vapid interests dominate your persona, and that you can't summon a feeling with any more gravitas than hollow irony.
Take your cut-and-paste nonsense somewhere else, your bullshit hasn't ever flown here.
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Something that was started over 15 years ago by creative types in Williamsburg and has spread into the mainstream. In a sense, the hipsters have won as they have successfully "hipsterized" modern life and modern attitude. Have a look around. Elements of hipster fashion and hipster sensibilities are everywhere. Both men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. They wear vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, and they date inter-racially. You'll find a surge of jeans made to look old and worn (i.e. "distressed") even at stores such as Gap, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister...being marketed to the mainstream consumer. The modeling industry have been hipsterized as well. The traditional athletic all-American male ideal is now seen as a symbol of male oppression, sexism, and misogyny. According to a recent NYTimes article, muscular male models are being rejected in favor of skinny hipsterish ones. In a parallel manner, culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake flat-ironed blond hair, and "Guidettes" with overly tanned skin and "Britney Spears tube-tops" are seen as symbols of female insecurity, low self-esteem, and a lack of cultural intelligence and independent thinking. What's especially amusing is that if you ever stand on the corner of Bedford and North 7th on a weekend, you'll also see some fratty UES-type guys in retro sneakers, stuffed into tight jeans, topped-off with their Brook's Brothers blazers worn over an ironic t-shirt, humbly slinking around...trying to blend into the crowd of naturally thin art-school boys with shaggy hair, all because they heard through the grapevine that Williamsburg is the "new hip place" to hang out. That's right...even jocks are part-time hipsters on weekends, and they're just following in the footsteps of hipsters that have moved on before them.
What does this really mean? Basically anyone who embraces a youthful and edgy urban style, who enjoys going to rock shows and divey-type bars is labeled a hipster these days. These people represent a significant fraction of the under-30 population in this city who enjoy keeping up with the latest in nightlife, music, art, and culture. Hipterism is the new mainstream, and basically anyone with a healthy and active social life is a "hipster". It's irrelevant whether hipsters truly re-invented certain elements of culture and style, or if they're just cultural consumers and social leeches like others would retort. It's simply the new reality. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Don't you get that it's never been about fashion or what is "cool"? I have plenty of friends who dress in a multitude of ways, listen to all different kinds of music, and I've been known to do my shopping at thrift stores(because sometimes that's all I can afford). What you WEAR doesn't make you a hipster, where you drink, or even where you live or who your friends are doesn't make you a hipster. Being a humourless, dingy-yet-monied, snivelling, effete asshole with an ego size inversely proportional to the waist size of your tight pants makes you a hipster. In other words, being a hypocritical douchebag. It's only a coincidence that you all generally wear the same uniform.
The fact that you can't get out of this mindset which says fashion trends and social life go hand in hand just points to your utter lack of common-sense, and your hipster douchebaggery.
Your pseudo-intellectual, rambling screeds might impress the airheaded douchebags who you clamour around, but people who have thought original thoughts inspired by actual life experiences and critical self-evaluation can see through it and know it for the transparent bullshit it is. You're not nearly as smart or on-top-of-things as you've convinced yourself that you are.
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No. You don't get it. You missed the point. Look at the bigger picture. An interesting observation on these anti-hipster ranters are their failed attempts to hijack online "hipster blogs" with their incoherent babble. These blogs often document various cultural activities in the city, and upon closer inspection of pictures therein, you'll find many people who don't fit a hipster stereotype at all, but are all thoroughly enjoying themselves. Of course, anti-hipster ranters still shout "hipster" at anyone and everyone they don't agree with. If you own an Ipod, they will call you "hipster". If you've ever gone to Starbucks, they will call you "hipster". If you are a freelancer and have your own work hours, they will call you "hipster". If you own any clothing from a thrift store or have edgy urban fashion sensibilities, they will call you "hipster". If you listen to bands on an indie record label, they will call you "hipster". If your hair is a little messy or scruffy, they will call you "hipster". If you drink cheap beer like PBR, they will call you "hipster". If you are vegan, they will call you "hipster". If you simply exist, they will call you "hipster".
What does this all really mean? Anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Don't you have a single original thought? Anything? Is copying and pasting the same worn out, rambling, poorly punctuated, uninspired comment again and again on a blog full of people you don't like, understand, or respect supposed to be some sort of ironic statement?
Is it a metaphor for being a cut-and-paste fashion drone moving to a city or a neighborhood full of people you don't like, understand, or respect and attempting to make them feel like the unwelcome outsiders?
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Bro, girls don't go for Hispters. Girls with self esteem issues might because hipsters are pathetic and ugly. A sexy confident woman will always go for the strong athletic guy because they want a man and someone to protect them. Keep dreaming, your just getting the girls no one else wants or sloppy second rejects from the meatheads. Go to a club and see how many girls give you the time of day, they are all over the athletic guy. Come one, do you think you win a girl over someone like Derek Jeter. No buddy boy, the only reason your even getting sex is because girls are experimenting. At the end of the day they will see what a loser you are. They will look at your skinny arms and legs, they will look at your unhealthy pale skin, they will realize your a loser whose parents pay the bills and they will go for a man. Douchebag.........
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The next time I catch you fucktards sitting in the train with your fucking long legs sticking out and you don't have the common decency to tuck them in. I will mash my fucking boot into your ratty motherfucking Converse wearing feet so hard you'll be walking like Daffy Duck. You better not be drinking a cup of coffee at the time either! Fucking nippleheads!
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