Mirror Mirror

The web site I will be reviewing is http://www.hipsterrunoff.com

The web site talks about things happen in the modern day Alt/Hipster scene.

The word hipster comes from the West African word "hipi", meaning "to open one's eyes" or it is slang for opium. Either way its a good time, wink. Hey what dose opium mean? Its like a huluahoop right.

To understand this website you must understand the hipster. If you are the adventuring type, be sure to book a safari to one of these places. Wicker Park, Silver lake, Williamsburg, Portland, Austin, or Seattle.

Or Hell heck you can look in the halls and oats of this fine College or any art school, Its filled with people who willing to gentrifi you and your belongings.




You could Even consider the Arthur of this article to be a hipster. Above is an illustrated likeness.

Tho his (my) knowledge of Star Trek, would concider him to be a geek, Rather then a Hipster.

Maybe he or they all use's cheep flannel as a disguise, to be part of a larger whole that isn't part of the larger whole.

Or is it Just the Alt/indie music scene is just to sweet for them to not devour.
(By the way did you check out the Crystal Castles song Empathy, Its a pretty rad jam Bro
( O ya I knew of Crystal Castles back in O 5. I was at there first show. It was just me and this dude Dave.))

On The web site Hipster Run off things like this and many more are discaused.

The site dosn't review art it self but rather the people that make it, and are Fanatic's of it.

It take's time to review different aspects of the scene in a satirical way, witch is all most necessary with people who some times take there obsession too seriously.

So check it!

Treme

David Simon is creator of one of the best narrative's in past 20 years, the T.V. show The Wire.

(If you haven't seen or heard of the Wire, drop that meatball sandwich, Take some of your sick days off, go buy the dvd's or get HBO to watch it on demand, and soak in the gritty realty of Baltimore.

Ok, Wasn't that a great show? Your Welcome!)

Last Sunday HBO premiered David Simon's New show Treme.

Treme take's place 3 month's after Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans. The show Mainly focuses on musicians.

It starts with a parade down the streets that look like torn paper mache, and ends with a slow funeral march. Both are led by the same New Orleans jazz band. Tho they play the same instruments, and even the same notes, the sound that comes from the two times are vastly different.

In the back drop of neighborhood homes where the high water ends the old mardi gras decorations begin. In the foreground are the character's.

There Is no star or main character perspective witch the story is told. There is no villein or thing to beat. Rather a Assembly of people who are trying to get back to there life that was swept away. There is no question or answers just a story to be told.

Each character is a different perspective of this story.

Steven Zahn, who you might know as that one guy from That Thing You Do, and a hundred other movies that he was good in but the movie was still bad plays A Disc Jocky, who after smoking a blunt is eger to get to next the music venu.

Wendell Pierce plays trombonist who is so broke he cant even get to his next gig.

Melissa Leo plays as a civil rights lawyer who is searching for a man that has been missing since the flood.

John Goodman plays Galactus, devourer of worlds a college professor with a strong opinion.

Its a different show then the Wire, and that can be a good thing. Where The Wire showed what a modern city city look's like. Treme focus more on the sound. Music plays strong role in the
show.

The music tells a story of a great city that once was, but now crippled by economic and natural disaster.

The show of captures the live music experiences. You feel like you are at a crowed Jazz bar, or watching on the band march on streets.

It feels like a long Form documentary rather then a fictional show show.

Treme has the possibility to be a great show, or just some thing that was really preachy. I hope that show continues to focus on the small people rather then the big picture

Gothic homes of the brave stand between the winners and losers.

Words built on words to sound nice will sacrifice the most important part of the sentence and this is to tell information.

Buildings don't have to be this though.

In a metropolis we are surround by a Grand Cannon of human constructed memento's to the past. It's hard to understand how the Jetsons will look back at the buildings made the turn of century of Y2K. Most modern architecture seem to try to fulfill the dream of a bad Sci Fi novel.

Giant glass structures are trying to watch over are children, but they are Children them self's. They are wearing the hand me downs of design's past. Can we escape a world that looks like its made buy Apple Computers? If we continue down this path it seems a walk threw a City will be the same as a walk threw a hall of mirrors.

Even Worse are the buildings that steal from the past. They are just cheep black and white print out of old photo graphs, that hold the same amount of value as a year book of a stranger. They don't belong to the past or present and most importantly the future.

How is it that box's are the most outrageous forms of modern architecture. It such a reflection on the present generation, that boldest things we have to say is nothing at all.

I want awkward intrusions in to my world. I want black sheep that turn Thanksgiving dinner In to heated arguments.

City's are made to give of light in the darkest night to blind out the stars and keep us in the lie that we are important and not surrounded by a endless cosmos. Even in this super simplified rules of what is, we still lose at the game we created. Instead of turning out city that is a sand box of creativity, we make fax machines are homes.

Splash

Water

Waves

I am talking about Aqua building in Chicago.

A Building that is just confusing. It find's it self in some thing new, or dose it? It's lost in between a Joy Division album cover and Steven Seagal dress In old Chinese formal wear. Sure its cool and new now, but I have a feeling that soon it will be as cool as your Dad with a head band.

I do give it credit for being new. It reminds me of that scene in the Matrix's when the helicopter crashes in to a building.

That's what's wrong. It feels like a 1999 awkward vice president Al Gore running for president. I want a 2010 noble prize winning bearded dude who is cool with him self, but still wants to change the world.