I am guilty. I snicker at the kids with mullets on fixed gear bikes – what, are those guys crazy? They are going to lose their teeth! Or worse! And what’s with the haircut?
 
Before I moved here to Austin I lived in San Francisco’s Mission district, which was teeming with so-called hipsters. Like, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting one. I grew up there and so felt alienated. They were taking over and I didn’t really get what they were “about”.
 
This article (via tweet from brainpicker) got me thinking maybe I should ease up. There’s hipsters and then there’s kids on the edge of the culture soaking it all in and living their art daily. Perhaps what they are immersing themselves in today will be significant and meaningful to a much larger audience down the road. Maybe it will just get repackaged and sold. In the meantime, don’t knock the kids who are embodying youth - expressing themselves however they damn please. They may be generating truly new ideas, or more likely fresh takes on old ones.
 
Really I am posting this as an excuse to share this slideshow. The captions are great.
 
And then I notice a banner on this page advertising the creators project, a partnership between Intel and Vice magazine. So there you have it, the street is all inside.
 
Honestly, I am just bitter because I can’t stay up late enough to go to rock shows anymore.