You ain't artsier

What makes a scene ? It's just a group that does the same thing in a community with maybe a hint of competitiveness. We have words like street-cred. But more about that later.

Let's take the skate scene. It's about learning how to do better tricks and that's just fun. There are many scenes. Hackers have their scene. Then there is the Demoscene closely related. What they have in common is playing with some skill / talent / technique.

This can continue with different genres of music. Music making that is. I'm taking bands, maybe garage bands, but this doesn't cover the fans of the band, that's a different story altogether.

Which brings me to art. Contemporary art. This is a good place for frauds to hide in plain sight. But it's not that bad, it probably was like that even way back. This matter will be sorted off by time - into the forgotten and the revered.

What then with contemporary art ? It spawns an interesting community around it. Bystanders. + Poser artists. + Maybe some PR for some of the unproven / untested posers. + Praisers. + PLUS DRESSERS

DRESSERS just need to hang - it's rather an endeavor of little effort. See - buy - imitate - repeat. Find trendy spot - pose -> Yey!

That's what i think of hipsters in Romania. With them being called URBANS here.
A term they happily embrace.

But the terribly funny thing about this scene is that it's like it's made for frauds.
There is no way to measure - not even the only currency of appearance - it's too subjective. There is no technical thing or skill. Maybe that's why > The whole hipster scene is trying to rub shoulders with tangent scenes - be it skaters - musicians - or non-phony-artists. And in no way is that harmful. It's just funny. Like anything that takes itself too seriously.

I WANT TO GET TO SEE THE DAY TO HEAR SOME DUDE OR CHICK SAY:

"That's so funny and retarded, last night i dressed like fucking Screech in a club - just like that picture i saw when i was studying what hipsters dress like in the US - man that was so funny and retarded."

OR

"I took fashion to such dumb extremes tonight baby, people can not think i really do this for real or they'd be even more duchebags than i'd be if i'd be taking myself seriously"

Welcome to self irony. Or just tell me it's some postmodern attitude i don't understand.
Whatever you say I'll tell you that geeks got more street-cred in my book.

I know many cool people in many scenes. I look at them and i see they aren't trying hard to prove anything with how they dress or what they do or where they choose to hang.

It's like the old joke with "who has the biggest car - and what's he trying to compensate for?".

here's the original version of the song - unmixed - but it's got a nice video.



And the cherry on the top is that i really think most if not all of these people are at least smarter than the average. Go figure :)