Clipped and captioned from the glossy magazines of our industry,
Unhappy Hipsters hits a hilarious nerve, it is afterall, lonely but funny in the modern world.
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With rising panic, he realized that “skin the cat” was no longer a show-stopper."
(Photo: Chad Holder; Dwell, December/January 2006)
Unhappy Hipsters is the sharp and perfectly timed come-back to the strange and choreographed world of architecture glossies. Cut-and-Pasted from their original journals, the decontextualised photographs are immediately uncanny (unheimliche, derived from 'un-homely') in Anthony Vidler's sense, they are 'at home' but something –despite its homeliness– is alien.
Balancing the equilibrium, Unhappy Hipsters tears the masks from the über-cool and über-domestic, revealing a glimpse of the psychotic, the lonely, and the everyday torment of the clearly hilarious everyday.
I couldn't help paste a couple here as tasters, but be sure to trawl your way through the Hipster archive,
link through here. You can also vote for Unhappy Hipsters as the '
Best Design Website' here!
It became his morning ritual. He woke, stepped to the window, and fantasized about the day he would be free of his knotty-pine cell.
(Original Photo: Hertha Hernaus; Dwell, July/August 2008)
One day, after a particularly dull afternoon, she would yank hard enough on the vertical drawer to wrench it off the track, sending everything crashing to the floor—and tell her husband it was an accident. But not today.
(Original Photo: Jack Thompson; Dwell March 2008)