【Hipster Watch】 (21)

1 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6039 18:50

Hipsters invade Southern Maine via conga line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tvGVlkDcPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSuxZJxcmo

FREEPORT — It was a seemingly normal shopping day at L.L. Bean.

That is, until the giant conga line formed.

Southern Maine Flash Mobs, founded by Nick Salve of Saco, organized an event that drew more than 30 participants. Flash mobs are situated all over the world and take everyday activities, such as shopping, and add a bit of the unexpected to spice up people’s lives. They don’t conduct any illegal or dangerous acts, but they do try to elicit a positive reaction from observers.

Inspired by New York-based Improv Everywhere, a group that organizes pseudo-impromptu events like the New York City No Pants! Subway Ride in which more than 1,000 people rode New York City subways without their pants, Salve decided that Maine was ripe for creating laughter through the unforeseen.

“People have enough stress in their lives," he said. "If they show up somewhere and something ridiculous is happening, if it’s able to make them laugh, that’s what we’re really doing it for.”

Saturday’s mission: form a conga line through L.L. Bean’s factory store, wind down Main Street and enter Friendly’s restaurant.

The goal: to get people to wonder what just happened, to attract others to join in and to bring a smile to the faces of onlookers.

Participants met at the store’s iconic boot at 1:30 p.m. and were anxiously milling around while they awaited instruction. Many in the crowd had never participated in a flash mob event and were looking forward to being part of the spontaneity.

“I found out about this through Facebook and had never done anything like this before,” Shanelle Dugan of Portland said. “It sounds random and totally fun. Hopefully, we get a really big line.”

Rumor had it that the location had been tipped off about the proposed flash mob happening, but it didn’t deter Salve or his excited assembly.

At L.L. Bean’s third floor café, participants blended in as shoppers until a concealed boom box began blasting Quad City DJ’s, "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)," the cue to form the conga line.

Shoppers laughed and watched in awe as the 38-person line wove itself through the upstairs, down into the hunting and fishing department, through the main floor and out the front doors.

“I don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re having fun,” said Judy Schrem of Wales. “They’re making everyone in the store laugh!”

The line danced its way down the steps between Ben & Jerry’s ice cream where Natalie Barkman of Amherst, Mass., bolted out from getting a cone to join them.

“Oh my God, that’s awesome! I just want to join," she said. "I’ve never seen a giant conga line in the middle of public like that!”

Continuing down Main Street, passers-by stopped, cheered and waved, horns honked and many joined in on the fun.

It all went off without a hitch until they were turned out of Friendly’s restaurant. In keeping with the true randomness of the event, they decided to take the dancing line of people to McDonald’s, where the group entered clapping and dancing to the music emanating from the makeshift boom box.

Then, as quickly as it began, the mob dispersed, leaving people in McDonald’s stunned.

“When two people do something like this it’s annoying, but when 100 people do something like this people find it hilarious,” said Salve, “It’s all just to get a positive reaction out of people and to throw their day off in a positive way. We want to make them laugh and question what it is they just saw.”

Mission accomplished.

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/813290

2 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6039 19:32

HIPSTER GO HOME
MAINE FOR MAINEIANS

3 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6039 23:26

What a bunch of Maineiacs

4 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6040 14:50

Strange, that some people still think this is fashionable or funny or unprecedented.

5 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6042 06:51

Hipsters on food stamps

They're young, they're broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?

In the John Waters-esque sector of northwest Baltimore -- equal parts kitschy, sketchy, artsy and weird -- Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a small ethnic market stocked with Japanese eggplant, mint chutney and fresh turmeric. After gathering ingredients for that evening's dinner, they walked to the cash register and awaited their moments of truth.

"I have $80 bucks left!" Magida said. "I'm so happy!"

"I have $12," Mak said with a frown.

The two friends weren't tabulating the cash in their wallets but what remained of the monthly allotment on their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program debit cards, the official new term for what are still known colloquially as food stamps.

Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate, had been installing museum exhibits for a living until the recession caused arts funding -- and her usual gigs -- to dry up. She applied for food stamps last summer, and since then she's used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away.

"I'm eating better than I ever have before," she told me. "Even with food stamps, it's not like I'm living large, but it helps."

http://www.salon.com/life/pinched/2010/03/15/hipsters_food_stamps_pinched

6 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6043 05:01

Hahahaha, the comments are so incredibly pathetic and misanthropic.

"They're POOR and on HANDOUTS so they should be suffering!" doesn't even begin to cover it.

7 Name: Not in Employment, Education or Training : 1993-09-6043 06:17

>>6
Hipsters should be suffering no matter what.

8 Name: (☞´ ヮ`)☞!WANDER1pOs : 1993-09-6577 23:20

http://www.hel-looks.com

not just hipsters. ugly hipsters.

9 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6577 23:41

Police Identify Mustachioed Hipster Suspect in Mark Ecko Art Theft
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38520/police-identify-mustachioed-hipster-suspect-in-mark-ecko-art-theft/

The mysterious mustachioed man who stole a poster painting by street artist KAWS from fashion designer Marc Ecko's offices may now be identified ― and, no, that creepy hipster mustache wasn't a disguise. It was real.

10 Name: ∠､( l ‿ l ),､ゝ!ESpeoN/nPA : 1993-09-6580 16:49

I've seen a person wearing a purple T-shirt, "worn" tight jeans, sunglasses and stupid mustache.
I don't think that he got the irony of my nerdy look completed by ray-ban glasses. I mean it's like irony squared.

11 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6580 18:10

>>10 fucking hipster

12 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6581 22:33

>>8
“I like to wear black. My style is not inspired by other people, but by all things dead, like dead animals.”

13 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6582 04:13

Rule #1 of being a hipster: DENY BEING A HIPSTER

14 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6582 08:21

>While hipsters have served proudly and openly in all of the recent U.S. military engagements, growing concern regarding the adverse effects of hipsters serving in the U.S. Armed Forces has led policymakers to consider banning them from military service.

(not real, but funny)

15 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6582 14:18

>>14 I have a better idea.

Use hipsters as vehicle armor.

16 Name: ∠､( l _ l ),､ゝ!ESpeoN/nPA : 1993-09-6582 15:38

>>13
It's only to fend off bullies, actually.
"Are you a hipster?"
"Nope, I'm too fat/too tall/too smart to be one."

But in reality phrases like "Too fat to be hipster." should be printed on a t-shirt. This way the bully will feel even dumber.

17 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6583 01:23

>>16 You don't seem very smart and you get fat hipsters

18 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6583 06:02

>>12
You and I should feel bad for even getting that far.

19 Name: ∠､( l ‿ l ),､ゝ!ESpeoN/nPA : 1993-09-6583 11:11

>>17
Am I a hipster then?

20 Name: ∠､( l _ l ),､ゝ!ESpeoN/nPA : 1993-09-6583 11:28

>>17, I'm not smart, huh? What should I write about, a machine vision? It's not "hip" nor "ster". If I fuck up my grammar every second sentence or can't write something complex, it's because the World Wide Web is, you know, world wide. Shame on me for being lazy and slacking off instead of revising English.

For this I'm eternally sorry.

I'm sorry for ever being born.

Though I can always say that mistakes are RAD and SWELL.

21 Name: ( ˃ ヮ˂) : 1993-09-6583 12:57

Don't be sad. This is DQN. We're all bozos on this bus.

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