Is Anyone Else Sick to Death of Irony/Quirk???

[Augusto86]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

+1, I love when lawyer dad writes in those type of threads because our thoughts are very much in line on this. Specific human experiences (say a guy falling to his death and how we to deal with this) and collective human patrimony (da arts and stuff) are two wildly different topics that both must be adressed, but, even though one may feed the other (and vice versa judging by the suicides the Young Werther motivated), they are by no mean comparable. As for hipster irony, I'd say it is on the wane, along with its lovechild; stupid party photography culture. I mean people in the know moved from Misshapes to Beatrice right (and Beatrice is much nicer imho). I sense a return to privacy (elitism?) and a more closed atmosphere. I wonder how long it will take before it spreads to the masses of early/late adopter among hipsterdom.
What does this mean? EDIT: I have 2K posts now - can I get Serious Member as my tagline??

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by Augusto86

What does this mean?

Yeah I'm curious too. Is it where hipsters go around photographing themselves eating and dancing and blowing coke and then put it on the web in photogalleries with black backgrounds? Because sometimes I run across **** like that on various altporn sites.

 

[Fuuma]

stuff like that:

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/

http://www.misshapes.com/

http://www.urbandaddy.com/articles/3..._york_city_nyc



Google is your friend.

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible from the permanent retina damage cause by over-exposition to hipster bad taste and trust fund tarts drunk behavior. My eLawyer (Lawyerdad) will sue the hell out of you if you try to imply that I am.

 

[Brian278]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

Yeah I'm curious too. Is it where hipsters go around photographing themselves eating and dancing and blowing coke and then put it on the web in photogalleries with black backgrounds? Because sometimes I run across **** like that on various altporn sites.

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by Augusto86

Philosophy not being my strong point, I've never touched Schopenhauer. Would Heiddeger(sp?) do? I didn't understand it but I'm sure I could make some bullshit up.

odor

I guess that's my whole problem. I think literature is serious, at the risk of becoming this stereotype:

I don't think of myself as a serious person. But there are things I take seriously. Those things are the ones I listed, lit, poetry, etc. Maybe that's pretentious, I'm too young to know, honestly.

I'm not a serious person, mostly.



I don't think it is pretensions to prefer classical literature or poetry to pop-culture schlock.
It is certainly not a main stream, but not pretensions at all.
I think most people judge you harshly simply because of your age. Had you've been a 50 years old fart, stating the same preferences, most of your detractors would have nothing to say.
They think it is just a phase and deep-down inside hope that you come around and become interested in ****.

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

stuff like that:

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/

http://www.misshapes.com/

http://www.urbandaddy.com/articles/3..._york_city_nyc



Google is your friend.

Oh God, it's the hipster Last Night's Shots!

Some cute girls though.

 

[Fuuma]

****, nobody liked my cat story but the mere thought of bouncing ******* did send posting through the roof.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

****, nobody liked my cat story...
I liked the cat story.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

Lomo cameras are not junk. They are made on Karl Zeis technology and machines. Lomo is the size of a cigarett pack. Body is solid metal. Operation is by manual rewind. Autofocus. Made in 80s USSR, Leningrad.
They are collectibles.

It's no Contax; or in the case of a cigarette pack sized camera, a Tessina.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

I don't think it is pretensions to prefer classical literature or poetry to pop-culture schlock.
It is certainly not a main stream, but not pretensions at all.
I think most people judge you harshly simply because of your age. Had you've been a 50 years old fart, stating the same preferences, most of your detractors would have nothing to say.
They think it is just a phase and deep-down inside hope that you come around and become interested in ****.

Actually, I'm pretty sure they're taking shots at him because of the way he declared his so-called interests and not because of what they are or how old he is. It's one thing to show interest in something. It's another to make a big point of it for the sake of appearing sophisticated or deep, and that's essentially how it came across, whether it was his intent or not.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Originally Posted by odoreater

Augusto - question:

How do you figure that an interest in epic poetry, classic movies, literature, etc. is a serious endevour that makes you a serious person?

Personally, I consider those things to be just as frivilous as what ever it is that ironic/quirky people are into.

I think that's the problem people have with you. You have some self-professed seriousness based on an interest in subjects that, in the grand scheme of things, are not very serious.

Uh, in a couple hundred years, after we've been nuked and we are being hailed as the second Roman Empire, art is all that will be left of us.

People in this country have some pretty fucked up priorities.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

As opposed to non-college people who drop Schopenhauer allusions? Do the Gilmore Girls make such erudite allusions? My college friends were more likely to quote Bob Dylan (the really self-important ones) or Spinal Tap (the not-quite-as-self-important ones) than Schopenhauer.
It might depend on the locale; certainly, the East Coast institutions are more apt to drop Schopenhauer/Camus/etc. references. It's all very angsty in the wearing thrifted black velvet, drinking absinthe, moving to Prague sort of way.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

stuff like that: http://www.thecobrasnake.com/ http://www.misshapes.com/ http://www.urbandaddy.com/articles/3..._york_city_nyc Google is your friend. Disclaimer: I'm not responsible from the permanent retina damage cause by over-exposition to hipster bad taste and trust fund tarts drunk behavior. My eLawyer (Lawyerdad) will sue the hell out of you if you try to imply that I am.
Essentially Vice Magazine's Dos & Don'ts. Combine thrift-store fashions with a good figure and a mop of hair and there you have it. I wonder what the hipsters of the future will be wearing. Crocs?

 

[Augusto86]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Essentially Vice Magazine's Dos & Don'ts.

Combine thrift-store fashions with a good figure and a mop of hair and there you have it.

I wonder what the hipsters of the future will be wearing. Crocs?

Perhaps it will result in the Great Hipster/Escalator Holocaust of 2012 when millions of hipsters die tragic , gory deaths on the escalators of America...

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by odoreater

I guess for a college student that might be serious, but dude, there's a lot more serious things out there. Believe me, I know - I'm a personal injury/products liability defense lawyer and I deal with things that are very serious all day long (that's kind of why I come here, to get away from the seriousness of my daily life). When you hear about a 25 year old guy that fell to his death while working on a construction sight leaving behind a wife and two kids - all of a sudden, War and Peace seems a lot less serious. I guess my point is that people who deal with very serious things in their life might have a negative reaction to a college student that talks about how serious epic poetry and classic movies are.
Art reflects the "very serious things" in life. I find this is especially true of good photography that reveals with one swoop, humanity's petty pattering in the trepidation that is life.