Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Day challenge in one night.
You can only hold a little in your hands
So swim before we’re broken
Before our bones become
Black coral on the sand" - The Summer Josh Pyke.
16. No
- Sort out all the books in the back room
- get rid of furniture.
- rearrange furniture
- beautify back room
- buy ipod connecter thingy
- watch all of Daria
- watch season 4 of Dexter
- Get lots of hugs
- See lots of people
- Go to beeeed
- my hair colour
- my tummy
- the amount I've seen people these holidays
- the food thats in my cupboard
- the back room
I have a huge fondness of Fairy Lights.
I'm Hip to the Cool daddio.
So, everyone has been using the word "Hipster"as an insult lately, including myself, but I thought I'd do me a bit of researching and see what all the fuss is really about and why it is such a bad thing. I Urban Dictionaried "Hipster" and found this. So i have changed the colour of all that fits in with me because, to be honest, I already thought that most of my friends were leaning more towards the "Hipster" side of things. Then they called Hipster bad. But it's just a stupid lable anyway. Innit.
Anything in this wonderful colour is my doing so there you go.
Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. The greatest concentrations of hipsters can be found living in the Williamsburg, Wicker Park, and Mission District neighborhoods of major cosmopolitan centers such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco respectively. Although "hipsterism" is really a state of mind,it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often be seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, and sometimes thick rimmed glasses. Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too "edgy" for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. The "effortless cool" urban bohemian look of a hipster is exemplified in Urban Outfitters and American Apparel ads which cater towards the hipster demographic. Despite misconceptions based on their aesthetic tastes, hipsters tend to be well educated and often have liberal arts degrees, or degrees in maths and sciences, which also require certain creative analytical thinking abilities. Consequently many hipsters tend to have jobs in the music, art, and fashion industries. It is a myth that most hipsters are unemployed and live off of their parent's trust funds.
Hipsters shun mainstream societal conventions that apply to dating preferences and traditional "rules" of physical attraction. It is part of the hipster central dogma not to be influenced by mainsream advertising and media, which tends to only promote ethnocentric ideals of beauty. The concepts of androgyny and feminism have influenced hipster culture, where hipster men are often as thin as the women they date (thinner). The muscular and athletic all-American male ideal is not seen as attractive by confident and culturally-empowered hipster women who instead view them as symbols of male oppression, sexism, and misogyny. Likewise, culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake blond hair, overly tanned skin, and "Britney Spears tube-tops" are not seen as attractive by cultured hipster males who instead see them as symbols of female insecurity, low self-esteem, and lack of cultural intelligence and independent thinking. Hipsters are also very racially open-minded, and the greatest number of interracial couples in any urban environment are typically found within the hipster subculture.
Although hipsters are technically conformists within their own subculture, in comparison to the much larger mainstream mass, they are pioneers and leaders of the latest cultural trends and ideals. For example, the surge of jeans made to look old and worn (i.e. "distressed"), that have become prevalent at stores such as The Gap, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister, were originally paraded by hipsters who shopped in thrift stores years before such clothing items were mass produced and sold to the mainstream consumer. The true irony here is that many of the detractors of hipster culture are in fact unknowingly following a path that hipsters have carved out years before them. This phenomena also applies to music as well, as many bands have become successful and known to mainstream audiences only because hipsters first found and listened to them as early-adopters of new culture. Once certain concepts of fashion and music have reached mainstream audiences, hipsters move on to something new and improved.
Because of the rise of various online photo-blog and social networking sites, insights into urban hipster culture is reaching sheltered suburban audiences at an exponential rate. Cultural "norms" have been deconstructed by hipster culture as a whole. Hipsterism is often dismissed as just an image thing by some, but the culture as a whole is effecting changes in society, leading to feelings of insecurity and resentment in people who are no longer a part of the cultural ruling class. For example, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from culturally-clueless suburban frat boy types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can.
Ok, so basicaly to sum it all up.
People don't like Hipsters that come under the categories of "try hards" and "arrogant pricks".
The "try hards" are the ones who are following hipsterism in it's mainstream period, and think that they are cool and different for doing so, which bugs the "arrogant pricks" because they like to be the first and only ones to do what they do and wear what they wear and listen to what they hear.
and then there are people like me. I hate both those types because I cannot stand people who do things to "be cool" and I cannot stand people who stop liking things because other people start liking them.
It's like, bloody half the people in my year liked Twilight until people started to take the piss and of course they then joined in. Because Twilight isn't cool. I have a lot more respect for Twilight fans who stuck by it than i do for the ones who went ape shit for it, then quit cos it wasn't cool no more.
(Of course I have most respect of people who never did and still don't like Twilight, so long as they dislike it because they think it's shit.)
If you like a band, then like it. If you like a certain style of clothes, then wear them. If you like to do that thing, then do it. Even if its cool, or uncool, or mainstream, or hipstery. JUST DO IT. Yeah go Nike! Fucking wankers.
I have decided that I am "Hip" because i sorta fit into the whole "Hipster" thing. But I continue to like things that are mainstream but I also value independent thinking.
The end.
My Animal Encounters.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
So, i need some pictures cos there has been SO MUCH WRITTINGS!
Day Thirteen: Post a Youtube video that makes you laugh/inspires you.
Day Eleven: Set a goal.
Day Ten: List some of your favorite tumblrs.
Day Nine: Share one of your current favorite tunes.
Day Eight: Describe your food consumption today.
Friday, December 3, 2010
BUCKET LIST
- aid work
- drama teach
- make a movie that goes on tv
- go to paris
- live in paris
- have dreads
- stay awake for a week (no coffee)
- live in a tree house
- catch a butterfly
- be seeewww inndddeeehhhhhh
- paint stufffffff
- have a threesome
- save someones life
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Day Six: Provide pictures of 5 celebrity crushes.
Day Five: Share your favorite recipe.
Day Three: Share your favorite quote/song lyric.
About 90% of this world's problems are caused by little words that come in pairs. We're healthy and we're happy... Yet when anybody asks us, we say "not bad"- Steve
Buckwheat: Hey, Spanky, me and Porky have an idea.
Spanky: Keep it, you might need it when you grow up!
Buckwheat: Oh-tay.
Than there are of you, your time is up
For too long we've stayed home at night
Playing scrabble and watch CSI
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We are introverted (bad dancers)
We are unfashionable (bad dancers)
We don't give a fuck (bad dancers)
We are the incredible (bad dancers)
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We're the International Society of Bad Dancers
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This is a song for all the bad dancers
Who won't take no for an answer
You see us on every dance floor
Unfit and sweat slick like a cancer
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We don't know how to grind our hips
We don't know how to pout with our lips
We don't know how to bump and dip
But when the beat hits well we don't give a shit
Marie Antoinette
Bitching, Cake, Dancing, Detail, Dresses, Fans, Foes, Friends, Gardens, Hair, horse-drawn carriages, Letters, Lipstick, Masks, Shoes, Wallpaper...
Day Two: Make a bulleted list of everything that happened in your day.
- Woke up
- Went to bathroom
- Went back to sleep
- Woke up
- Went to lounge room
- Watched T.V
- Made pasta
- Ate pasta while watching T.V
- Watched Grey's Anatomy for the first time; enjoyable.
- Went to bathroom
- Watched T.V
- Made Mi Goreng
- Ate Mi Goreng while watching T.V
- Watched T.V
- Went to Bedroom
- Turned on computer
- Took dress off chair and put dress in cupboard
- Went on Facebook
- Printed papers
- Messaged Phoebe
- Tried on skirt
- Went on Blogspot
- Made a bulleted list of everything that happened in my day.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Day One: Introduce yourself. List your likes and dislikes.
- Nachos
- Mary and Max
- Vintage fashion
- Scarlett Johansson
- Marilyn Monroe
- Pixar
- Daria
- ABC kids in the 90's and early naughties
- Heath Ledger
- Rain
- Sunshine
- Waves
- My beach hair
- Doctor Who
- A hell of a lot of BBC and ABC shows.
- Toni Collet
- Drama
- Plays
- Children's Picture books
- Books written by Roald Dahl
- Burlesque inspired clothing and performances
- Days off school
- Egg
- Social politics
- Homophobia
- Itchy eyes
- My food baby
- A few of my teachers
- Maths
- My phone
- My internet
- Bad music
- When people cover soft choir-esque songs , or bad songs from the 80's. LEAVE THEM ALONE. THEY ARE GOOD BY THEM SLEVES. yes im looking at you "Flo Rida". Learn to spell and come up with your own songs.
Ok sos i cut out some but thats cos they were stoooopppiiddddddd
Day One: Introduce yourself. List your likes and dislikes.
Day Two: Make a bulleted list of everything that happened in your day.
Day Three: Share your favorite quote/song lyric.
Day Four: Smile! We want to see your teeth today. Post a self-portrait.(not doing this as ma blog aint about seein' me.)
Day Five: Share your favorite recipe.
Day Six: Provide pictures of 5 celebrity crushes.
Day Seven: Create a bucket list, whether or not your aspirations or rational.
Day Eight: Describe your food consumption today.
Day Nine: Share one of your current favorite tunes.
Day Ten: List some of your favorite tumblrs.
Day Eleven: Set a goal.
Day Twelve: Provide the HEX code(s) of your favorite color(s).
Day Thirteen: Post a Youtube video that makes you laugh/inspires you.
PS. it wont be day by day, but rather, jsut whenever, if i get 'em all done tonight then so be it. If i get them done in a year, so be it.
Monday, November 1, 2010
In celebration of the completion of my re-reading of the 7th book
OK so the writings small but its the "YOU CANT SIT WITH US" thing and if you havn't seen mean girls YOU SMELL.
Tiny for the first 4 so here ya go: