Category: Hipsterdom
The Hipster Effect at TEDx Gramercy
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Identity |
In March 2012, I was invited to speak about the hipster effect at the inaugural TEDxGramercy event. Without further ado, here is a video of my TEDx talk: on identity, personal transformation and the hipster effect. I highly recommend checking out some of the other talks from TEDxGramercy. Quite enlightening all around.
A new definition of hipster
| April 2, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Identity |
When was the last time you heard the word hipster being used? For most of us, not more than a few days pass in between encounters of the commonly used insult – and, for the most part, it is an insult. Yet despite its exceedingly common and widespread usage, publications continue to release articles declaring the hipster phenomenon over. Last week, Flavorwire published…
Hot off the presses + TEDx
| March 8, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Identity |
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present The Hipster Effect: How the Rising Tide of Individuality is Changing Everything We Know about Life, Work and the Pursuit of Happiness, now available for purchase on Amazon. This book is the culmination of a year and a half of solid effort and over 200 sources worth of research. Check it out and let me know your…
Book excerpt: Translate my outfit
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Identity |
“The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.” – Steel Magnolias Well, that and walk-in closets. After all, is there any better indication of the modern obsession with personal appearance than our need to have an entire room dedicated to housing our threads, kicks and baubles? There’s clothes for work, clothes for working out, clothes for going…
Instant Hipster: Just add PBR
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Identity |
Do mustaches a hipster make? Skinny jeans? Leggings? I set out on a hunt through Flickr to see just how much fashion effort it takes to be labeled a hipster. The answer: not very much at all. The hipster scarecrow comes to us from the Portland Nursery, carrying a few of the best-known identity markers of the hipster: thick-rimmed glasses, a mustache…
Ceci n’est pas un hipster
| October 26, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom |
I know, I know – you hate hipsters. Maybe somebody called you one once, but they were clearly mixing you up with the real hipsters. You know the ones. Hipsters have beards. Or mustaches. Or neither. They wear skinny jeans. Or maybe they don’t. They’ve got thick-rimmed glasses. Or sometimes not. You may not be able to describe one offhand, but you know…
Judge protesters by their values, not their clothes
| October 3, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Politics |
“Dissent is patriotic” “People over profit” “Debt is slavery” Despite the omnipresence of powerful homemade signs and slogans, many people took notice of something completely different at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest: their tattoos and beards. One blog called the protest a “gathering of unwashed, parasitic hipster douche bags.” Another proclaimed it consisted of “angry actors, graphic designers and various other hipsters,”…
Zombie hipsters
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom |
They were supposed to be dead. In 2004, a satirical article in New York magazine declared that the hipsters were leaving and New York City was in danger of being “over.” Some five years later, n+1 magazine held a panel asking “What was the Hipster?,” with obvious implications imparted therein. One year after that, an article of the same name hit New York…
Me-wear vs. Eyewear
| September 17, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Hipsterdom, Politics |
The economy. Poverty. Fashion accessories. White House press secretary Jay Carney recently fielded a question about his new “hipster glasses,” triggering a 2,000-word article in The Washington Post examining the history of thick-rimmed eyewear (and ultimately deciding that they’ve gone “from geek to chic to weak”). The Atlantic was quick to point out that the author of the article has himself been photographed…
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