Asheville is a ridiculous little Appalachian Mountain town in Western North Carolina. This website is a hilarious on-going compilation of gifs specific to life there. This site reminds me of the show Portlandia; you don’t have to live there to be in on the joke. Anyone who’s ever spent time in a hip oasis town will identify.

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Do you find yourself struggling to fight apathy, the desire to be vegan, and the need to put a mustache or bird on everything? Have you lost your drive? Are you chronically unhygienic? Do you have the urge to take frequent trips to the Apple store? Do you experience turrets-like symptoms of constantly babbling about bands no one has ever hear of? If you said “yes” to one or more of the above questions, then it might be time to talk to your doctor about Unpretentiousil.

Unpretentiousil has been clinically and scientifically proven to battle the symptoms of ‘Hyper Involuntary Panic Stress Tension Elevation Response’ disorder, otherwise known as ‘HIPSTER’. It’s time to take control of your life again. It’s time to take Unpretentiousil.

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Paper Mag pointed us to Kindling Quarterly, a new magazine that celebrates fatherhood and hipster dads, with a comment that it’s ‘kind of cute and very well designed, even if it’s laughably Brooklyn (e.g., every dad pictured has facial hair and is sporting flannels and/or Steven Alan sweaters)’. Hmm, ukeleles, warm portraits lit by natural daylight, whimsical homes… yep, very hipster indeed — and gorgeous too.

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Hipster readers, Goodreads has just the thing for you if you can’t think of what to read. The tricky thing is that you have to read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest before you can get any book recommendations at all. Then again, you can be ironic. Who says you have to be honest?

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As an exercise in logo examination, I re-branded popular animated shows from the twentieth century as they would look if designed to market themselves as a hipster fashion label.

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These vintage ads for hygiene products from the seventies and sixties seem to target hipsters of today in a way that’s quite uncannily spot on.

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When it comes to being a hipster, Australian Patrick ticks all the boxes. He is a skinny white boy living in the hood (well, Redfern, Sydney). He’s a part-time DJ, full-time social photographer, and the wearer of ironic T-shirts and ironic shorts. He’s the bearer of ironic tattoos and the rider of an ironic bicycle.

If you are wondering about the ironic bicycle, riding a fixed gear in a city of hills seems ironic to us, unless you are in the market for big calves. And Patrick probably isn’t. It would kinda make it hard to slip into those skinny jeans. For all his hipster tendencies, Patrick is actually really nice. Which is why our friends at Air New Zealand wanted to change his mind about New Zealand. To do that they took him to the capital of Kiwi hipsterdom: Wellington. Hopefully it lives up to the Pat test.

Patrick’s ideal holiday according to Patrick
‘Since my job requires me to go hard all night with loud music and big crowds, I like to escape all that and opt for silence and good friends. My last holiday saw me spend five days kayaking in the mountains, which was amazing, and exactly what I needed’.

What Patrick thought about New Zealand before his trip
Look, I’ll have to be honest. I had the clichéd image of a chilly set from ‘Lord of the Rings’, sparsely populated with friendly folks with funny accents.

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On my last trip to the beautiful party island of Ibiza last summer, I discovered a label named Bonk Ibiza which represents handmade bags. This version of tote bag is by far the most stylish and unique I’ve seen. The special thing about it is that it’s not only the specific print, but also the braided carriers: powerful fluoro colors make it innovative and desirable. So far these bags are available only in Ibiza’s clothing store, More, but they can now be ordered online as well.

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Ultimate Fanj is a new comedy web series that has been selected as a finalist in the Movie Extra Webfest competition. It’s a story of love gone wrong, the danger of exclusivity, and the power of friendship to overcome the obstacles of cool. But above all else, it is a celebration of the fanj culture of Surry Hills, Sydney.

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Heeb magazine founder Jennifer Bleyer recently interviewed me for an article about young creative types on food stamps. The editors at Salon.com decided that I am a hipster. I don’t really know what that means. Judging by the comments that the article generated, I’m some sort of lazy bum who can’t give up my artisinal chevre. I don’t need to go into detail defending my food choices, but all I’d like to say is that I try to buy healthy foods at the lowest prices. I never eat out. I love to cook, and I really need to control what goes into my food, so I cook every meal for myself. I often share with friends. I want to be healthy and I want my friends to be healthy because none of us have health care.

I moved to a cheaper city. I live in a cheap apartment and I am moving to a cheaper one. I have pared down all of my expenses. I don’t buy things at all. I don’t buy clothes, not even cheap clothes. I don’t even own a bed. Good friends and good food are the last things keeping me healthy, happy, and sane while I try to find a way to support myself.

I don’t deny that I come from privilege. I don’t deny that people can pick themselves up by the bootstraps – that’s exactly what my parents did when they immigrated to the US. However, even my parents needed help, whether it was from the government, their relatives, or their employers. Even middle class privilege has its limits. We are in a recession. A bad one. Lots of people have lost their jobs. Even though I have a degree from a prestigious university, I can’t even get a job serving coffee. One thing left out of the article was that my friend Sarah, who is unemployed, recently applied for a basic receptionist job at her old school that over 200 other people had applied for. This was a minimum wage job. This is what it is like with all jobs openings now.

Before you judge people like me or the other people in the article, please think about what would happen if you lost your job, your safety net, or your security. I don’t take food stamps lightly. They have helped me out enormously, and have ensured that I can continue to eat healthily. I need to do this literally for my survival because if I don’t have this lifeline, I will become sick. Again, I don’t have health care, nor do most of the “hipsters” I know. It’s time to stop hating people based on their clothing or musical tastes, and start trying to be a little more empathic. We’re all hurting these days.

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