Unhappy Hipsters

By Marilyn Terrell in Architecture, Baby & Kids, Everything Else, Pictures on Jan 30, 2010 at 10:02 pm

I know how much Neato readers appreciate good captions, so here’s a site I just discovered via Ellen Maguire on Twitter. It’s called Unhappy Hipsters and it gives funny captions to photos that have appeared in Dwell magazine. Here’s an example:

“Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.”

Photo: Mark Mahaney, Dwell, November 2009

Link: Unhappy Hipsters

I like this one too:

“You can come out when you can properly explain the differences between Modernist architecture and postmodern ornamentation.”

Photo: Craig Cutler, Dwell, February/March 2006

Link: Unhappy Hipsters

There are lots more where those came from.

Tags: design, Funny

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Skipweasel
Jan 30th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Amazing – houses stuck in the era of Rollerball. There are some on the donor site (Dwell) where I struggle to find a single redeeming feature in a photo.
thelandlord
Jan 31st, 2010 at 6:59 am
When a dream goes stale, all that’s left is bitterness.

Been there, done that, since recovered, but the combinations of image and caption capture that feeling perfectly…
cnut baws
Jan 31st, 2010 at 7:15 am
The captions are grasping for humour, but failing miserably. Nothing ‘neatorama’ about this.

And that first couple are too old to be ‘hipsters’.
dooflotchie
Jan 31st, 2010 at 8:06 am
Ugh. It looks like every house pictured in that magazine is a recreation of the ugly doctor office waiting rooms I remember being in as a child in the late 70′s.
ScottoK
Jan 31st, 2010 at 10:29 am
2 thumbs parallel to the ground.
Alex
Jan 31st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Are hipsters ever happy? I thought that unhappiness is a prerequisite to being a hipster …
c0ldfish
Jan 31st, 2010 at 1:47 pm
i know lots of happy hipsters, which, by the way, i most commonly identify as young party kids with too much fashion mindedness. the people shown in these photos seem to be upper class white people with a good, albeit minimal, sense of design aesthetic. they look like architects.
napafats
Jan 31st, 2010 at 3:00 pm
wow, its the anti-lolcat, but still amuses
O
Jan 31st, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one that finds this distinctly unfunny. Yawn.
Tiny Friend
Jan 31st, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Nothing worse than an aging hipster architect.
Gail Pink
Feb 1st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
They don’t look that unhappy to me.
Amber
Feb 4th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Love it. Dwell photos can be so pretentious and the depicted environments so sterile. Debate the specifics of “hipster” all you want but these photos are clearly supposed to show us the ultimate in “coolness” when it comes to living spaces. So why do so many of them lack of humanity and life? It’s ridiculous, and I love that this site is calling that out.
Gharka
Apr 11th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Where’s their stuff?

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