Qué es un Hipster El Hipster es un Tribu Urbana cuya línea evolutiva se remonta hasta principios del siglo pasado. Para poder identificar sus características principales es bueno detallar los eventos históricos que propiciaron su nacimiento: -1917 Converse presenta su zapato "All-Star", que se mantendrá a partir de entonces entre la popularidad y la infamia intermitentemente. -1944 Aparece por primera vez la palabra Hipster en un glosario de términos que acompaña al album de jazz de Harry Gibson Boogie Woogie in Blue. -1950 John Deere lanza el característico gorro de influencia determinante en el nacimiento de la gorra de camionero que a su vez es influencia en el nacimiento de Punk`d (el Reality Show de Ashton Kutcher) -1966 La modelo Twiggy posa para unas fotos por primera vez. -1970 Nace la cadena de tiendas Urban Outfitters en Philadelphia. -1974 La diseñadora Vivienne Westwood y su esposo Malcom McLaren venden remeras rasgadas y prendas de goma estilo sadomaso. Entonces ¿Qué es un Hipster?
4 Steps to Staying Relevant as a Bully In the Modern World My Fellow Dickheads, A spectre is haunting America - the spectre of intimidation. The last decade has not been kind to us. If you are reading this, or more likely, forcing someone to read it to you, then you already know the sorry state in which we find ourselves. Classrooms, offices and sports teams across the country have conspired against us to tear down the delicate social hierarchy we so carefully built with one gut-punch at a time. And now, on the heels of the It Gets Better campaign, we enter our darkest hour, forced to fold down our popped collars and shake the bare hands of ugly people in a truce. Yep. I say we cannot die without a fight. We are wolves by nature, and like the mighty wolf, we have to work together to avoid extinction, to avoid becoming the spectres they they've pegged us to be. I. Damnit, you nerds. They've learned to fight against us with language and they are winning. We have to respond but our counterattack has to be smart. "Say it! II. Pictured: Our heyday.
Hipster, Scenester Barcelona : The Modern Age It seems that recently everyone I know has decided to go to Barcelona, Spain. I went a couple of years ago, so I’m deciding to just put all my tips about the great city all in one place for everyone to read. (Feel free to add your picks in the comments.) Check it out: HOTELS A hotel I really wanted to stay in was the Hotel Banys Oriental. COOL NEIGHBORHOOD I especially liked the El Raval area of Barcelona, which is the southwest side of La Rambla. Cool hip restaurants are scattered throughout the area and it’s the “ethnic” area of Barcelona–but a very up-and-coming neighborhood. The contemporary art museum Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) is in the area, as well as Barcelona University which means the area has lots of young hip kids running around. A bar I liked in El Raval was called Ambar (above), situated at the end of Rambla del Raval. Restaurant in El Raval that I loved: Dos Trece. FOOD Some other great food spots in other parts of Barcelona include:
5 Reasons Riding a Bike Is The Most Humiliating Exercise A lot of people don't find bike riding very impressive as a sport, because how hard can it be? Little kids learn how to ride bikes before they learn how to tie their shoes (which is a little dangerous if you think about it). Disaster waiting to happen. Well, I started riding to get in shape recently and learned that there's a big difference between bike riding and serious bike riding. Doing all the things "right" according to the pros seems at times like a terrible initiation prank designed to kill or embarrass new riders. You Can Kill Yourself Just Getting On (if You Do it Right) Sit on your bike seat. Common sense tells you that when you come to a stop on your bike, you want to be able to quickly put a foot down so you don't, you know, fall over. But apparently that's crazy talk. Unless you are holding a guitar. The guitar isn't going to help you here. So how are you supposed to get off and on? Not me! Wakes you right up. Your Feet are Stuck to the Goddamned Bike Embarrassing Ass Products
Hipster Barcelona | Flickr: Intercambio de fotos Gor: The Most Ridiculous Nerd Fantasy Ever Filmed Gor is a fantasy film from the late '80s based on a series of novels, and it is, at heart, about two simple things: Nerd revenge fantasies, and man-taint. The former is exemplified by Gor's protagonist, who is little more than a grown-up version of that one kid on the playground who insisted he fought off a gang on the way to school, stole a car at lunch, and had a date with a Brazilian supermodel penciled in for that afternoon. And the latter is exemplified via long, affectionate camera pans across vast tundras of taint. Seriously, taint features so prominently in Gor that it probably got its SAG card for it. Just so you know what you're getting into, right off the bat. The movie opens on an awkward, stuffy, college Physics professor lecturing his students. One of those things is probably responsible for the other. "Hi, I'm Tarl! Wait...weren't they just teachers? This man is the 1980s. Heartbroken and dejected, Tarl departs campus alone in his shitty Volvo. The Ministry of Silly Hats.
Ser 'hipster' en España · ELPAÍS.com "Un moderno español es alguien que ha copiado algo a alguien que a su vez lo copió a otra persona, pero dos años antes aproximadamente" (Joaquín Reyes). "Nos vestíamos con ropa de verdad, no como putos mecánicos, que era el uniforme oficial de las bandas de la movida. Cada vez que bajábamos a Madrid nos partíamos el culo con lo que llevaban. '¿Dónde habéis comprado eso?', preguntaban. A pesar de que hoy puede resultar harto complejo diferenciar un moderno londinense de uno argentino, sigue existiendo una idiosincrasia local que ejerce de filtro. El gafapasta, cada vez más presente aquí, es el intento de dotar de conocimiento académico al moderno y de imponer al resto sus gustos como si de verdades universales se tratara. "Barba o bigote, cortes de pelo imposibles, American Apparel, skinny jeans, tabaco de liar y parecer todos gays".
The 5 Lamest Disasters in Disaster Movie History The Disaster: When a retardedly convoluted prison break results in one giant forest fire with four escaped convicts wandering around in the middle of it, it's up to a plucky ornithologist (Suzy Amis) and some guy who parachutes into forest fires for a living (Howie Long) to stop both the fire and the convicts. Why They Should Calm The Hell Down: As it turns out, those characters we just mentioned are the only people anywhere near this fire. And one of them's Howie Long. As it turns out, there are two kinds of forest fire: The kind that moves really fast and the kind that moves really slow. Characters frequently find themselves surrounded by flames only to wander away unharmed. How They Solve the "Problem": It took us a while to figure out why, but Howie decides to set another forest fire himself. But, at the end of the movie, the two huge fires finally meet up and they knock each other the fuck out. Ta Da! Well, here we must admit the movie had science on its side. The Day of the Triffids
Why the hipster must die - This week in New York - Time Out New York Illustration Credit: Jesse Philips Has the hipster killed cool in New York? Did it die the day Wes Anderson proved too precious for his own good, or was it when Chlo Sevigny fellated Vincent Gallo onscreen? Did it vanish along with Kokie's, International Bar and Tonic? Or when McSweeney's moved shop to San Francisco and Bright Eyes signed a lease on the Lower East Side? Was it possible to be a hipster once a band that played Northsix one night was heard the next day on NPR's Weekend Edition? Yes, the assassins of cool still walk our streets: Any night of the week finds the East Village, the Lower East Side and Williamsburg teeming with youth—a pageant of the bohemian undead. "I wish I'd thought of this phrase, but we call the Lower East Side 'the last real neighborhood in New York,'" Desjadon, an amiable fellow and a patron of LES bars, told me when I called him up. The mouth of a real-estate agent is rarely the source of truth, but Mr. Photo: Alexander Milligan How can this be undone?
The 5 Lamest Disasters in Disaster Movie History Hollywood loves a good disaster and, let's face it, the end of the world looks cool as hell on screen. If you show us a bunch of exploding monuments, we'll buy a ticket. But apparently Hollywood ran out of the really good disasters a long time ago, because sometimes they end up using disasters that appear to be just barely more than mild inconveniences. Such as: The Disaster: When the La Brea Tar Pits inexplicably turn into a goddamn volcano, it's up to a plucky geologist (Anne Heche) and a Dedicated Emergency Management director who can't fry up scrambled eggs without injuring himself (Tommy Lee Jones) to save Los Angeles from the river of lava now flowing down Wilshire Boulevard. Why They Should Calm The Hell Down: After a character points out early in the film that some volcanoes can erupt with the force of a nuclear blast, we find out that, wait, no, the one under LA is really small. Here's the interesting thing about lava: It's not very fast. Not at all! How They Solve the "Problem":
Why Does Everyone Hate Hipsters Assholes? - LAist The main theme of the seminal grunge documentary Hype! is how something that by its very nature was anti-commercial became commercialized. One thing that particularly struck me about Hype! was the grunge scene's intense resentment against the greater culture for appropriating the look and style elements of their subculture. Anti-fashion became the fashion. It lost all meaning. That feeling of resentment strikes a chord with me, because I notice that people who came of age in the 70s and 80s punk rock movement seem to universally hate “hipsters”. By "hipsters" I am not referring to the radical college kids, the animal rights activists or the anarchists in their mohawks and Black Flag shirts. And I'm not talking about everyone who lives on the Eastside and shops at Wacko and eats Yuca tacos. Hipsters are the ones walking around Los Feliz and Silver Lake with two-toned pink and black hair. I look at the hipsters, and I think, “Well, I like that haircut. We had the Minutemen.
Magnum If, for some reason, Bruce Willis needed to fight the devil atop an asteroid hurtling to Earth, he'd probably use a .44 Magnum.&&(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Trident') != -1||navigator.userAgent.index Just The Facts The .44 Magnum is both Clint Eastwood's best friend, and favorite sex toy. Genesis For six straight days God gave birth to all of creation. The .44 Magnum is actually the name of the bullet as well as the gun that fires it. Enter Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood was one of the first people to show the world that the .44 Magnum is meant to be used by men on other men (what? The .44 has an accuracy spread of only three inches at 50 yards. Revelation Around 2003, somebody decided they needed something bigger than a .44, presumably so they could put bullet holes in time itself. The steel Thermos of death. The .500 cartridge delivers 3,000 pound-feet of torque. Holy.
CULTURA SUBTERRANEA Hipsters Los hipsters son una subcultura de mujeres y hombres que están típicamente entre los 20 y 30 años y se caracterizan por tener un pensamiento independiente, se consideran contra la cultura normal, progresivos con la política y aprecian el arte, la buena música, la inteligencia, la creatividad y el cine independiente. En España se les llama Gafapastas porque muchas veces usan lentes de pasta como parte de su forma de vestir. Otra cosa que los caracteriza son los tatuajes que suelen ser graciosos, únicos y peculiares, escogiendo siempre cosas que sean irónicas. Date un salto y mira algunos diseños de tatuajes de hipsters. El termino hipster original de la década de los años 40, comenzó a ser usado para describir a adultos jóvenes, bien educados y urbanos de clase media y alta con puntos de vista izquierdistas, sociales e intereses no predominantes en moda y estética cultural. Los hipsters suelen tener ideologías progresistas y/o anticapitalistas. Hipsters, Tatuajes e ideas.
6 Natural Disasters That Were Caused by Human Stupidity The folks at the National Coal Board in Wales must have had some lazy parents. For 50 years, workers deposited various rocks and mining debris in the same poorly maintained area, not even bothering to sweep anything under the bed or a pile of clothes or something. Instead they dumped it on the side of Merthyr Mountain which, other than being where Gandalf the Grey keeps his wizard condoms, is notable for being above the small village of Aberfan. The Disaster: During that five decade period, several people voiced concern about the gargantuan pile of debris blocking out the sun, because unless you are a deep sea creature this is generally considered to be a bad thing. However, the area crew ignored this and continued to mock the basic laws of physics, because what's the point of having an emergency response system if you can't provoke the wrath of God? And provoke they did. In the end, the mudslide crushed and/or suffocated 144 people, 116 of which were children.