Tag: HIPSTERS

Dear Meat is one of the more creative uses for Tumblr that I've seen recently. It's run by a guy named Matthew Hocker, and it features letters that people have written to things. Matthew curates the site, so it's not a bunch of random comments. I mean, it's quite random, but the content is interesting and evokes emotion. As I write this, the front page features "Dear Nipples," "Dear Tripod," ...

FFFFOUND RANDOM is a one-trick pony: You go there, and it serves up a totally random ffffound page. Ffffound, which I've covered before, is an awesome invite-only design and photography community. The invite-only part applies to posting stuff, but everybody can gawk at the pages, which is what I usually do. So while I'm not a member, my claim to fame is that my DLS post about ffffound is the ...

Let me start this off with a disclaimer: If you feel any sort of aversion towards hipsters, you should probably move on; I don't think you can enjoy Forrst. However, if Tumblr feels like a second home, and you spend your days endlessly gazing at ffffound and sharing snarky comments over at the Shirt.woot forums, you are probably going to love Forrst. The site has a simple, clear-cut mandate: it's ...

"His mother was right; asking girls to read his screenplay on the first date was a mistake." That's the caption Unhappy Hipsters set for this image of an aging hipster reading some artsy book under a Kandinsky poster, with a plaid shirt loosely hanging in the background and colorful, thick-rimmed sunglasses resting fashionably on the all-white, sophisticated shelving unit next to him. The site ...