The Hipster life in Bushwick (NYC) - Page 2

kool maudit · #21 Posted **Oct 14, 2009, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

I really don't understand all the hatred directed towards "hipsters", aside from the eternal contention between youth and grumpy aging men. As in the article, the most common complaint generally seems to be that as a group it has no "meaning" or goal, unlike the cultures associated punk or hip hop thus not making it a "real counterculture" or whatever, despite that it makes no pretenses as even attempting to do so. And must every little subculture have delusions of "revolution" in any event?

From what I see of who are typically described as hipsters are people who enjoy visual arts, enjoy drugs and drinking, are liberal and non-religious, ride bikes, take pictures, live in cities, etc. Whats so bad about this? Sounds better than the dominant Christian-conservative, suburban culture of America. While nothing about hipsters may be revolutionary, they do in part signify the continued movement towards a more tolerant, educated, fun-loving society.

i agree. there are a lot worse guys to hang out with than dudes with a cool bike, some musical talent and a desire to live in an old walkup in the industrial part of town.

side note? openly "political" subcultures tend to just be sinks of hateful earnestness. you have not lived until you've been excoriated by a rodentlike british columbian for having had the temerity to buy your food in an actual store (rather than retrieve it -- three days later -- from the goddamned dumpster behind the market).

Wheelingman04 · #22 Posted **Oct 14, 2009, 2:34 AM**

Looks like a cool place.

liat91 · #23 Posted **Oct 17, 2009, 6:27 AM**

I would have liked to see more pictures with the hipster/longtimers side-by-side daily basis type stuff. Going by these pictures it looks like Bushwick currently has the same demographics of Greenwich Village.

palermodude · #24 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 1:46 PM**

i avoided this thread for so long, finally had a look, and what do i see? dumb debate
who cares about hipster, when the crime in this thread seems to be the overall lack of females in the photos
sure i saw some, but one would think all the hipster behavior is dominated by males
i doubt sexy girls are producing all the photos, a guy probably did that too
hipster (for me) is just fine with a bunch of sexy women hanging around, enough for everyone
nygirls down heeuh always complain that there are no guys for them so they ain't hangin in bushwick i guess - maybe they're tastin fine wine?
and where are all of the stray cats?????
here in miami, we've got em everywhere, they kill (and maybe eat) the rats keeping our rat problem here almost non-existant

moral ots? do your own thing, who cares what anyone says, and try not to give a definition to it...definitions are for wussies that want everything in nice tight boxes so they can understand themselves better, lol, like we need another system, like we need another status quo politico, lol again

Austinlee · #25 Posted **Nov 16, 2009, 7:00 PM**

Truly a fascinating species with a rich history of cultural and artistic traditions passed down through generations via oral, written and musical storytelling after a few cold PBR's.

Strange Meat · #26 Posted **Nov 16, 2009, 7:07 PM**

how is PBR even hipster anymore? you can find it in swanky yuppie places ON TAP now.

hamm's or olympia ftw.

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Originally Posted by theWatusi

organic vegatables

HUGE difference between hipsters and hippies...

Austinlee · #27 Posted **Nov 16, 2009, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Snodrifter

how is PBR even hipster anymore? you can find it in swanky yuppie places ON TAP now.

It's the only hipster stereotype I know. Leave me alone.

george · #28 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 3:23 AM**

Hipster was entered in Webster's in 1940. Hipster, art fag, starving artist, bohemian. These people are pioneers who start the ball of gentrification rolling in any urban ghetto neighborhood. Love the thread... dig.

Bucktown718 · #29 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 2:22 AM**

I like bushwick i might move there when i get lil older but you got to be careful when you there its still mostly ghetto and hood but the part of bushwick that is close to williamsburg is hipster,art, etc.. so dont get confused and decide to go there and then stick up kids going to run up on you and you be lucky if they will just take your stuff like money,electronic devices etc...

Wooster · #30 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 3:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

i agree. there are a lot worse guys to hang out with than dudes with a cool bike, some musical talent and a desire to live in an old walkup in the industrial part of town.

side note? openly "political" subcultures tend to just be sinks of hateful earnestness. you have not lived until you've been excoriated by a rodentlike british columbian for having had the temerity to buy your food in an actual store (rather than retrieve it -- three days later -- from the goddamned dumpster behind the market).

Cool neighbourhood.

I think it's all the irony that people tend to find obnoxious? Generally, I find hipsters to be quite interesting people, but I wouldn't say that most are without pretension.
I like www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com as a humerous look at hipster culture - while it's not exclusively about hipsters (sometimes it crosses over to white yuppies and students) it's pretty damn funny - because it's so true.

As a young urban white person, there's more in here that I could attach to my own tastes than I probably want to admit to myself.

giallo · #31 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 3:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

i agree. there are a lot worse guys to hang out with than dudes with a cool bike, some musical talent and a desire to live in an old walkup in the industrial part of town.

side note? openly "political" subcultures tend to just be sinks of hateful earnestness. you have not lived until you've been excoriated by a rodentlike british columbian for having had the temerity to buy your food in an actual store (rather than retrieve it -- three days later -- from the goddamned dumpster behind the market).

You seem to bring out the best in British Columbians, Kool.

ShadowMaster · #32 Posted **Jan 25, 2010, 2:52 AM**

Good thread. Keep in mind bushwick is large and it is not predominantly hipster. Some of the art/graffiti pieces and such has been there as far as I recall too, pre hipsterfied Wick.

LSyd · #33 Posted **Jan 25, 2010, 3:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

I find hipster types or whatever you want to call them to be really annoying. When I think of a hipster I think of an annoying peace love and coffee house kinda person. Its like they arent real people. I know what it is, they are way too obsessed with being an eccentric individual who is all about, look at me, im cool, I wear exaggerated clothing and like to wear top hats on occasion. Anyways, it looks like a sweet part of the city minus the annoying hipster part.

most just seem like they try too hard. i've got plenty of friends who are hipsters to varying degrees, so they're not all bad. i'd rather hang out with random hipsters than random suburban conservatives...but both leave me dry in the end.

i like the start of the adbusters piece:

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Originally Posted by adbusters

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.

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