Greatest Hits
March 8, 2006 11:40 PM Permalink
By: Brittanie | Challenge 03 | March 8, 2006
very clever interpertation! definately a record i'd pull outta the bin (i used to collect old records with pretty faces on them)
Cover photo courtesy my good friend Lance Bradford.
Benner, can you shoot me an email explaining what a hipster is? Cause I honestly don't get it... and the Willy Week article said we were hipsters... and I'm not sure if it's good or bad. I mean, I have a negative connotation with the word... but maybe I am wrong. So email me! kmikeym@kmikeym.com. Thanks!
Hmm. What is a hipster? There seem to be two different ideas of ther word.
First: I kind of consider the term 'hipster' to be self-effacing, or even ironic [brittanie knows all about this too, ;)]in this case.
If we look at the etymology of the word 'hip,' it stems from the term 'hep' - which holds the same meaning as hip = "characterized by a keen informed awareness of or involvement in the newest developments or styles" [hep cat = hipster]
I think the term has become negative among people who consider themselves 'hip' or innovative - the idea that if you call something hip then its not longer hip - so in this sense someone who considers themselves to hip would use the term "hipster" to mean something like, for a lack of a better synonymn, "poser" or someone who picks up on a style that has been deemed "hip" but is no longer hip among innovative peoples.
[Yes, I know what my explanation says about myself]
Irony is often a source of things that are hip. For example things once considered "nerdy," like black, thick rimmed glasses are hip. Or activities considered lame, like working at the library or teaching sunday school, are hip.
Second: Hipster simply means what it means, someone who is hip - usually the general public who consider themselves on par with 80% of the population.
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