Some Pictures For the Very Merry Hipster X-Mas

These were taken on a 35mm point and shoot camera.

The Apprentices

The Mentor

Picture Taken By The Mentor

These pictures are aesthetically cooler than the ones I took with the dSLR. I wish I wasn't having problems uploading those, otherwise I'd add them to. But it looks like I'll just have to post one every now and then.

A Very Merry Hipster Christmas

Welp, as the the last hour and 15 minutes tick, it is still Christmas. 

The Cotaco Family did it again, celebrating from the AM to the AM. I mean, to be honest, I don't know any other family that celebrates Christmas at like 1am to 7am. It's just ridiculous. I didn't take much pictures with my digital camera, but I think I got some really good ones on my point and shoot 35mm. Hopefully I'll get those joints developed soon. But what I did get were like two cool pics.

The Cano side was just straight chillin. Good food always. My aunts were reminiscing about how ugly I was as a child, that's why I'm straight handsome right now. CRUSHIN IT. Mutha fuckas better know. 

But anyway, yeah, I got back a couple hours from that. BEAT AS FUCK. I just wanna sleep. Hit up a bank and deposit the green I got, and just lay back. 

If you REALLY want to know what I got for Christmas, it's that sweet blazer I'm wearing, the hat, the watch, some sick Stacy Adams Shoes (you dont even know!), and a book on contemporary painters.

It was good, and with that Merry Christmas, I gotta get ready to say peace to 2008.

Hipster or Trendster

Big difference between the two, just keep in mind.

In females you can tell the difference in skin. Hipster chicks are almost all natural other than red lipstick, and caked on eye make up. Trendster chicks are orange.

This blog comes to you at 3am. Just sayin.

Ho, Ho, Hoez!

(some of the pictures are way big because I uploaded them onto TinyPic, and then put them here. Just click on the pictures to get the full size.)

Sexy Santa Party, or as I took it. "Sexy Or Santa". But anyway, nevertheless it was a Christmas theme party with Hudson County heads doin' it up at Adam's crib. I played the role of low-budget DJ, and photographer. My brother and I tried gettin' the bitches to dance, and they did, so that was cool. Mad dudes and mad birds. check out the pictures. There was this one doofy chick doing the Soulja Boy crank that, and getting her freak out with this kid. Oh hipsters. They never cease to amaze me. 

Check out dude gettin' his suck on. 

Bird pieces making the camera sexy.

Hipster Attire. Big Glasses. Check. American Apparel Garment. Check. Full Tits. Check. Pale Skin. Check.

Girl John Lennon. JK. Cuties.

Niggas tryna get that last drop of Natty Ice.

People LOVE Flannel Shirts.

Two kids gettin' the grind on. AGAIN!

Homegirls Lauren and Niki.

Sammie posin' it up.

tryna get that nip slip goin on. No win. 

That crazy girl crankin' that. That shit was mad silly. I wish I got that on video. 

Spanish Mark Ronson and kids drinkin' their losses in a game of Beer Pong.

Parties aren't hipster unless nigs are chillin in beaters.

Hos circlin' and dancing.

Ain't no party like a Natty Ice Party, cuz a Natty Ice party DON'T STOP!

Birds

Magazine To Check Out

The Journal, Contemporary Culture.

Although expensive, it's built more like a book than your ordinary magazine. It's a a quarterly magazine that costs 27 dollars a year. It's loaded with art, and for four books at 27 dollars it's worth the price. ESPECIALLY if you're into photography. 

They also have a blog that I will link to my favorites on the right side of the screen. You should honestly check it out, you're mind will be inspired to pick up your 35mm camera, start up Adobe Illustrator or start working on that painting you've put off for 3 months.

And if you want to go out and get a copy, hit up your local American Apparel, it's 10 bucks, but 

it's worth it.

 

Driven By Boredom

The great site about this is, it's simple, its photography isn't over the top and it's for hipsters all over the world. 

Everyone always assumes hipsters are apathetic as they are judgemental. They seem asexual and detatched from anything physical or even mental. While that might be true, there is another side, a fun side. One that wants to get out and do all the things that they didn't do in art school. Like model naked!

The beauty of DrivenByBordeom.com is that it offers hipster chicks a second chance. Check out the site! It's a good read, and the pictures are fun. For Example.

There is plenty of more where that came from, and if you're curious to know what a hipster looks like naked, then THEY GOT IT, DUDE!

Lookbook.nu

We nice little website to check out. Chalk full of hipster girls, and sometimes hipster boys.

It's possibly my bitterness that I haven't been invited to join it yet (yes, it is that elite), but most of the styling going on looks like a shade of grey in the DEMOLITION MAN movie grey scale. Check it out.

I mean it's kind of cool if you live in a peaceful Totalitarian state where cursing isn't allowed, and you have Dennis Rodman/Wesley Snipes hybrid running around killing people, and you're only hope for survival is a cop from the past that looks like an angry G.I. Joe.

God Is Good

I would love to marry these women, all at the same time. I don't really fucking care if they all seem to look alike either.

Lower East Side Queen, Chloe Sevigny

True Blood Babe and Mean Girls Dyke, Lizzy Kaplan

Betty Page Jr., Katy Perry

Let Me Take You Home To Mom, Zooey Deschanel

I want to seed their gardens.

Ryan Gutz One Day Exhibit

For one day only painter Ryan Gutz displayed his work to fifteen people in Gallery 425 in the Civic Square Building. His series titled "The Apocalyptic Dance", showcases Gutz graphic skill with his painterly touch. The series can be seen by appointment made by Ryan Gutz.

The Artistic, Average Man

"Fuck bitches. Get money. Fuck bitches. Get money", is what is said over and over by Alan Edward and his older brother as they stand in a downtown Jersey City apartment. Standing upright, with one arm to his side, and the other arm cocked ninety degrees, swaying back and forth, Alan Edward recites this mantra over and over. One would think that an artist as unaccomplished as Alan Edward is, he would maintain more of a soft-spoken lifestyle, but this average man lives only on two levels: hard and cocky.

Temporarily residing in New Brunswick, NJ, Alan Edward's life, for the last two and a half years have consisted of liquor, cigarettes, and art. "If you asked me when I started my senior year of high school, that I'd be doing this. . . I'd pretty much just laugh". Intending on being a nurse, Alan Edward took a different route towards life when he was rejected by every school he applied except Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. Alan Edward has geared his life as he calls it "towards a permanent hardship". His smile, though refreshing and attractive, offers a different level of confidence not seen in other artists.

"I honestly believe that no one on the corner has a swagger like me". Appropriating a line from M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", Alan Edward takes a drag from his cigarette and talks some more. "The thing is, other than my demeanor, I spill something more out. People talk about artists like Yves Klein being a magician or Piero Manzoni being a prankster artist, but I feel like I am a living art piece". Alan Edward sits up right and beings showing us drawings, and journal entries, talking in fast and combining sentences to make words, only pausing for puffs of his cigarette. "My thougts, my blueprints, everything, is an extension of my mind, an extension of my personality. People try to understand me, that makes me a piece of artwork".

To understand Alan Edward, is to be him, and like the famous portrait of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, he is just as confusing. "I know one day, kids will learn about me. Til that day, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing". People ask what he's doing, some say nothing, and others saying he is on a different plane. Will the art world be accepting to Alan Edward or will he stamp himself with the cliche of "struggling artists". Only time can tell.




Photography By: Ludwig Van
Article By: Juan Sebastian

Hoodie: N/A
Long Underwear: American Apparel
Boots by: Timberland

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Flannel Top: 10 Deep
Jeans: Levis 510
Boots; Timberland
Hat: H&M

Evan Rachel "Wood"

As wack as she is, she's still a dime piece.

"Thirteen", she played a dirty girl teenager experimenting with drugs, sex and to some extent, Rock N' Roll. I wanted to beat it up then.

Comes out in a stinker called "Across the Universe", plugging her seemed the only way to get her to shut up.

Dated Marilyn Manson. . . well that's just not cool.

To be completely honest, she doesn't seem hipster at all, it's probably just her look and the amount of semi-indie films she appears in. Still, I'd tear it up all through Melrose.

Taking Tips From The Hoods

What's good it's your boy A-K-A aka Chief Run The Streets aka International Man of Let Me Find Out aka Bobby Brady aka Mr. TakeThatTakeThatTakeThat aka Mr. G-g-g-g-g-g-gGIMMEDAT!.

Alright, I'm giving you lames the scoop, pair up that flannel shirt, skinny jeans, scraggly beard, and your winter hat with a pair of Timberland Boots. Coming Straight out of every project, Foot Locker ad Foot Action. You HAVE to get a pair. They are as timeless as Chuck Taylors, Air Forces 1s and Adidas Shell Toes.

Put them duck billed joints away, you ain't shovelin' snow, you're straight up killin' it down the streets of your neighboorhood. Tag team it up with an L.L. Bean or Lands end coat when you're on the run, or throw on a blazer, oxford shirt, and over coat when you're stuntin' at a party.

On the real, these are the shoes to have for the winter. Just don't make the hood mistake and wear them all year around.

Daisy Lowe

Hipster Model Trash fresh out of England, bangs Mark Ronson. Shawing.

Just Because

He's Pretty Fucking Cool.

Boycott Fixed Gear Bikes

As a leisure fixed gear bike rider, I was insulted when I heard that Kayne West purchased a custom fixed gear bike. But now Pharell Williams? Are you serious?

I personally just think it's funny to soon see the elite of street wear trying to do skid stops and busting their Nudie Jeans and scuffing their one of one Nikes.

I mean seriously. Fixed gears are made to get around, no one wants to see you wait around in line at Supreme trying to floss the lime green fixie that matches your lime green dunks as you try and cop yourself a new pair of neon yellow Transformer pack Supreme Dunks.

This made me die a little

Photo Courtesy of HypeBeast

ya trick ya

This is a shitty shot from a TV on the Radio show from two summers ago in, where else, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The band is amazing and definitely worth seeing live if you like them. But let's not lie to ourselves, aside from acting awkward, wearing their best grandpa glasses and smoking cloves, what do hipsters do at these shows? Take awful pictures. Here are a few of mine:




Mikey of the Cool Kids


M.I.A. and a gang of hoes
(pre-pregs, nahmean)


Missing right now are some shitty pictures from a Cat Power show, Animal Collective, Ghostface Killah and a few others. The might surface one day.

Here's a clip from the song "A Method" by the TV on the Radio, probably one of the best songs to hear and see them perform live: