I don’t watch American Idol. But, this morning I woke up to a flurry of text messages and emails about Ke$ha’s performance last night–looks like another pop star decided donning a headdress would be an awesome way to show how “raw” and “counterculture” she was. Here’s the selection (via MTV) with her sporting a headdress and face paint: UPDATE 2/25: …
Random Appropriation of the Day!
(Image via http://hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com/) Today’s random appropriation comes from Hipster Puppies, a pretty adorable tumblr feed playing off hipster stereotypes by captioning pictures of dogs. The above image was posted with this caption: “lola got booted from the kickball team after just showing up every week and drinking” In the words of tipster MK: “I’m gonna hope the caption about drinking has …
The Strange Case of the Hipster Headdress
(anyone know the source? I love this!) I think the graphic above (which I totally want on a shirt) sums it up well, but am I the only one who is baffled by the hipster headdress phenomenon? I’ve been trying to break it down, thinking back to the hippies of the past–connections to nature, to the mystical, against the …