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Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

LB — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:30:30 +0000

Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission

An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine

I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.

A friend put this captioned magazine page through my mailbox

LB — Thu, 29 May 2014 19:34:21 +0000

This made me laugh quite hard.

Also, courtesy of the enjoyable fuckyournoguchitable tumblr: antlers, actual real taxidermy, fake taxidermy, steer skull and cardboard antlers.

The Hitler Youth haircut: what it’s actually expressing

LB — Tue, 27 May 2014 01:18:58 +0000

Update: this feels all the more pressing now, since this US election. If you want to hear Chomsky’s post-election comments on white male entitlement and rage, it’s here.

Generation Sell – critique of hipster culture by critic William Deresiewicz

LB — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:23:57 +0000

New York Times graphic by Josh Cochran and Mike Perry

William Deresiewicz is an essayist, book critic and former professor of English at Columbia and Yale. He recently gave an entertaining but eviscerating talk at Creative Mornings in Portland on the topic of hipsters and the social meaning of the hipster aesthetic.

Cosmic dust, on tumblr

LB — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:58:01 +0000

If tumblr is a bellwether—and it may not be—then the sixties & seventies are back, in style if not in substance. So many of tumblr’s weird little blogs, each of them a kind of eclectic personal bulletin board, feature this kind of rock and roll Hair: The Musical meets back-to-the-land handmade-house thing.

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