Recently saw a hipster with a relatively up-to-date DSLR

[Karim Ghantous]

<p>Usually you'd expect hipsters to carry around 35mm SLRs. But no, they can sometimes carry DSLRs as well (this one had a consumer model; I can't imagine hipsters using D3Xs). Seems as if hipsters get technology! Well... of course they do - they live blog, use the web a lot and all have iPods. I mean, obviously they spin vinyl, too, although groovers usually do that.</p>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>I must be out of touch with modern stereotype lingo. Whats a "Hipster"? Groover?</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Probably just wearing the dSLR ironically.</p>

[tholte]

<p>I live in Milwaukee so I have to take the train to Chicago to see some real live hipsters. I like to photograph them at Millenium Park and most of the time they have a Canon Rebel on a wrist strap, not the more conventional neck strap. </p>

[keith selmes]

<p>Wikipedia says, quoting a Time article from 2009</p>

<blockquote>

<p>They're the people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think <a title="Pabst Blue Ribbon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Blue_Ribbon">Pabst Blue Ribbon</a> is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think <a title="Kanye West" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West">Kanye West</a> stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care</p>

</blockquote>

[tom_harvey3]

<p>Hipsters? Am I out of touch or what? I must have missed the beatnik era. I did see a small-framed woman last week in Canyonlands Utah with an early-1970's RB67 on a skinny little neck strap. Seems like that could be a medeival torture device after a day of shooting...</p>

[richterjw]

<blockquote>

<p> Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care</p>

</blockquote>

<p>which is itself ironic.</p>

[dangoldman]

<p>Thanks Keith, that quote nearly got me kicked out of class... "and the only ones in America who still think <a title="Pabst Blue Ribbon" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Blue_Ribbon" target="_blank">Pabst Blue Ribbon</a> is a good beer", hilarious... had to go get one from my neighbor down the hall when i got back to my dorm. Its not <em>that</em> bad...</p>

[KenPapai]

<p>Hipsters are everywhere in SF and they have plenty of bad taste -- like the aforementioned PBR out of can. A dReb on a wrist strap might be the equal, LOL! What a funny thread.</p>

[stp]

<p>I tried to be one in the '60s, but I failed because I cared too much. Damn.</p>

[andylynn]

<p>I'm pretty sure if they have DSLRs they're not real hipsters.</p>

[bj_larsson]

<p>Yeah I'd expect them to have a Rangefinder, not a (D)SLR of any kind :)</p>

<p>Better yet, a holga :)<br /></p>

[andrew_west5]

<p>I can't wait for "hipster" to fall out of the popular lexicon. Not to mention all the pseudo-sociological analyses of hipster culture. They're skinny jeans, not a cultural revolution. </p>

<p>That's all I have to say on that.</p>

 

[steve_lantz]

<p>In my misspent youth I drank Stroh's. A friend of mine drank PBR. He was transfered to Detroit and I to Milwaukee area. We got together one time and he suggested that if I saw the Detroit River I would never drink Stroh's. I laughed and told him if he ever saw the Milwaukee River he wouldn't drink PBR.</p>

 

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Ditto, the Holga. Or a Polaroid.</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10908600-lg.jpg" alt="" width="530" height="600" /></p>

[craig_gillette]

<p>Nor should one forget Brew 102 and the beautiful Los Angeles River.</p>

[pjmeade]

<p>I haven't understood the significance of any of this</p>

<p>Just saying</p>

[Karim Ghantous]

<p>Lex, I don't think that girl is a hipster. Just a gal having fun with old tech. IMHO. ;-)</p>

<p>Peter, I hear you. http://www.latfh.com/</p>

[colin carron]

<p>Peter, no, me neither. I think in the UK, hipsters are low slung jeans for the skinny.</p>

[tholte]

<p>"I can't wait for "hipster" to fall out of the popular lexicon." Not me, I was never groovy or in with the in crowd but I really love the word and all it represents. It's a slice of Americana that no one can take away from us.</p>

[timwitt]

<p>Maybe a street photographer will post a photo of a hipster.<br>

Is there a hipster "community"? Where is it located?</p>

[James G. Dainis]

Hipster: <P>

<center><img src="http://jdainis.com/hippie.jpg"><BR>

<B>If you can remember the 60s, you weren't there, man.</B>

[James G. Dainis]

Hmmm. Maybe you have to be young to be a hipster. Otherwise you just look like a goofy old coot.

[luke_kaven]

<p>I think there is a big difference between a "hipster" and a "hippie," and both are different from "beatniks," though a "hipster" is more like a "beatnik" than like a "hippie." I would be more of a hipster, but am absolutely not a hippie. </p>

<p>A hipster, beatnik -- more intellectual than hippies. Involves (supposedly) actually being clued-in (hip) to something. Think Thelonious Monk. Being a hippie devolved after Haight into a pop culture phenomenon. Being a hipster involves more commitment.</p>

[andylynn]

<p>That's a hippie. A hipster is different.</p>