On being a hipster and the relation to film- since I live in the Burlington, VT area (Portland East) let me expound on what makes film so hipster. A key ceremony of being a hipster is doing things loudly which proclaim how much your lifestyle runs against the grain of mainstream ideas and fashion. Film could not be better designed for this purpose. But to give a related example lets imagine two mothers are talking. The Portlandia one will be able to talk at length about how shed never use PAPER diapers- only organic, Fair Trade, green cotton- and about the fermented soybean based baby food shes feeding- Tempeh Temptations. Like here so often the key thing is to act like its OBVIOUS everyone should be doing what youd doing because its like the *only* way to be despite the aggressively impractical and often expensive nature of your ideas and practices. Such kinks must never be acknowledged. Give and take really isnt allowed- other people are sheep, rabble, etc. for eating cooked non-organic food and exposing their children to WiFi and the off-gassing from particle board furniture. BUT the cotton diaper mom is paying mucho bucks to have a service clean those diapers (using rainwater and handmade organic soap, boiled over sage fires) and THATS okay. The fact that Prius batteries wear out and theyll never be enough rare minerals to make them for everyone is also not important. The key thing are endless ceremonies of righteous smugness that surround you and your family, a bed of organic laurels on which ones prized uniqueness can be displayed for all to admire. Hands down the *coolest* person in Portland comes back from vacation with only daguerreotypes, and even the boiling mercury part of making them would still be cool despite everything. The thing that sometimes makes this group SO hipster is people who post they cant understand why *anyone* would use digital. Thats the kind of grand-standing hipspeak uses to cut themselves loose from the gauche, plebeian masses.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 15:25:06 +0000
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