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Deep In The Heart Of Nilla Brooklyn
Bushwick, Brooklyn was once a minority neighborhood. Really! Recently, a bunch of hipsters have moved in there. But here's a secret: Bushwick is still a minority neighborhood. It even has ten separate housing projects, which are not full of whites! But Brooklyn's minorities are boring, because they're hardly on the cutting edge of art, culture, or cheap imported beer. So when Paper Magazine set out this month to answer the head-scratchingly inane question “Can the hipster ghettos of Brooklyn really replace Manhattan?", they took the logical step of including only the relevant people in the neighborhood: tattooed nilla hipsters. Check out these scans of the magazine's photo shoot and play "Guess the area's demographics": More »
We hear that Williamsboard is some people's entire lives
Writes a tipster about the hipster neighborhood's messageboard, today's thread starts out with "whining about being poor, then it turns into outing your 'best friend's' abortion on the Internet." [Williamsboard]
Writes a tipster about the hipster neighborhood's messageboard, today's thread starts out with "whining about being poor, then it turns into outing your 'best friend's' abortion on the Internet." [Williamsboard]
gentrification
Crime & Gentrification in Brooklyn
They're building tons of new condos and high-rise apartments in and around Williamsburg, the hipster neighborhood that has been mostly gentrified but still has some rough edges. Like last night: a "machete-wielding mob," as the the Daily News called it, stabbed two teens on S. 3rd St. in what's thought to be a gang-related beef. An hour and a half before that, a man was shot near Roebling and S. 9th St. [via Curbed] More »
Controversies
XXL Magazine Threatened By "Utter Teh Gheyness" Of Hipsters
The hip hop magazine XXL has a serious problem: It was founded back in the days when hip hop people actually wore XXL clothes. Now, everybody wears tight pants, and young'uns don't even understand what "XXL" means. So Byron "Bol" Crawford, a blogger for the magazine's website—whom I secretly love (NO HOMO, Bol) because he is perhaps the most offensive asshole on earth—is trying to revive the relevance of XXL's name by encouraging hip hop to "reclaim its manliness." By, uh, smashing all "teh gheyness." More »
Hipsters In Space
A cartoon starring an East Village DJ in shutter shades, on a space ship. About time. [Current]
A cartoon starring an East Village DJ in shutter shades, on a space ship. About time. [Current]
Hipsters
VICE Magazine Party Sucks, Is Packed
VICE Magazine, the magazine whose readers are too cool to read it, had a party last night! It was a free concert sponsored by their friends at Nokia NSeries! But VICE didn't want its enthusiastic fans to get too worked up about the possibility of having fun, so they sent out an email in advance warning everyone who had RSVP'd that "many, many, many folks on the list will NOT be getting in. Including you, maybe." It concluded, "Please do not reply to this email, no one will read it." Refreshing honesty, or an outrageous insult? The attendees weren't too happy about it, judging by the flood of angry comments that came into the Brooklyn Vegan blog today. The commenters' conclusions: VICE sucks, you suck if you went to the show, and furthermore, they went to the show, and it sucked: More »
the internets
The Way We Tattoo Now: "Free WiFi"
Yesterday, we posted a Craigslist "Missed Connection" about a boy seeking a girl he saw on the L train, who he was pretty sure had a "free WiFi" tattoo. A reader sent us a link to this LiveJournal post, and, well... at least someone out there definitely does have a "Free WiFi" knuckle tattoo. (Somebody should tell the people behind this book—No Regrets, the encyclopedia of the craziest tattoos of all time.) Click for a close-up! We're hoping to get an interview with this tattoo's owner, so please include any questions you'd like to ask.
Free Wifi Tattoo?
"Did your tattoo say 'free wifi'?" asks a 21-year-old Craigslister of a girl he saw on the L train, adding that he "would really like to know."
Jizz Artist Will Wash Up
Remember Dash Snow, downtown it-boy artist who worked in the "Jizzing all over on NY Post headlines" motif? Yes well, he's been keeping busy making these: $62 limited edition t-shirts reading "LEFT ALL WASHED UP." Exactly as you would have guessed. [WeSoldOut via Animal]
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Like a Hipster Silence of the Lambs
"Hello, Dad," begins Nate Hill, the leader of the Chinatown Garbage Tour, which encourages participants to build "monsters" out of dead animal parts found in the trash. "I thought you might like this piece that I made because it looks like African art, and I know how much you love African art." He then shows us the "head" part of "the E.V.E. Project, the life size female human being that I'm currently sewing together. It should be complete around September." Happy Father's Day! [via Young Manhattanite] Click for the video, Dad—and fuck you. More »
shut up, brooklyn
When a Hipster Bar Becomes a Prison
Seriously, how wasted do you have to be to get locked in a Williamsburg bar? Pretty wasted! "Really wasted but super nice," one of the Trophy Bar's bartenders tells the New York Times. Anyway, he passed out in the bathroom around 4a.m. and everyone went home. He called multiple people for help, but they were total assholes about it:More »
The Family Of Man
How do you get 761 responses from the denizens of hipster messageboard Williamsboard.com? By asking them to "post the most recent picture you have of yourself." Interestingly, every single picture is totally unique. [Williamsboard]
shut up, brooklyn
Williamsburg Activity Guide Leaves Off 'Hating Everyone'
At least three staff members of the New York Observer live in Williamsburg, the Brooklyn neighborhood where every description was already a cliché like, ten years ago, dude. And they're determined to parlay their job at a somewhat relevant media outlet into some easy hipster sex this summer. So today they put together a long and infuriating package about living the post-college high life in "Williamsburg College." The two theses of the story are "Williamsburg does not blow!" and "it's not that different from college anyway." Only one of which is true. More »
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Hipster Kickball Splittists Form Their Own Teams
From one of our kickball moles: "bklyn kickball was fun [last night]. i actually overheard a rumor that someone from Gawker must be on one of the teams, how else could they always know so much. maybe there will be a witch hunt! everyone was talking about the macy's pirate arrestee, again. no fights in my games, just some good old fashioned arguing and yelling at the umps. the styro-beers from Turkey's Nest were delicious as always... now, it seems there's some people left out, and they're turning to other leagues (gasp!) and forming their own teams... i guess what's great about it is that these kids are turning to their own resources outside of this exclusive Brooklyn league. they're almost like dissidents. if this was Singapore, they'd be jailed." [Photo: Greg Straight Edge]
hipsters
City Blog Comments Degenerate Into Lynch Mob
Gothamist.com, the NYC news-about-town blog, today posted a straightforward item about a 19-year-old woman who was raped in her apartment building in Soho last night. They described the suspect: "a black man, about 5'8" and 200 pounds, with a possibly pockmarked face, and he may be between 20-30 years old." Now, we were under the impression that Gothamist's readers are mainly drawn from the broad hipster demographic. So either our impression is way off, or many hipsters are thinly-veiled racist fucks (somewhat true, actually). Because the comments quickly turned into a call to throw black men off buildings: More »
branding
Is Your Stationery Cool Enough?
Tired of seeing all those "cool" brand collaborations like "BAPE X FRESHJIVE X PUMA RAZOR T SHIRT WITH THREE LOGOS, $55," etc.? Well now collaborations are coming to the common folk! Cool hipster hip cutting edge Japanese retailer Beams is teaming up with your favorite store, 7-11, for a collabo-branded pack of stationery. We quote: "The latest collaboration by Japanese select shop Beams is with 7-Eleven, producing a stationery collection that includes pens, sketchbooks and sticky notes." Because co-branded stationery is not just a Tokyo thing any more. [Monocle via Hypebeast]
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