The captions really make this site. It’s like a very high-brow Garfield minus Garfield. justine: colinkloecker: unhappyhipsters: It became their routine. And so the evenings stretched out before him: still, gray, and gravel-strewn. (Dwell, November 2006) Unhappy Hipsters is my new favorite thing on the internet. As a young architecture student I coveted the pages of Dwell so it’s a mindfuck to see them recontextualized so effortlessly here. The magazine trumpeted the fact that they were putting people back into architectural photography, yet the photographs that resulted often felt just as lifeless and staged. Unhappy Hipsters is a fitting testament to this. A quick aside: photographer Iwan Baar, who was featured in last Sunday’s NYT, seems to possess the antidote to this.

The captions really make this site. It’s like a very high-brow Garfield minus Garfield.

justine:

colinkloecker:

unhappyhipsters:

It became their routine. And so the evenings stretched out before him: still, gray, and gravel-strewn.

(Dwell, November 2006)

Unhappy Hipsters is my new favorite thing on the internet.

As a young architecture student I coveted the pages of Dwell so it’s a mindfuck to see them recontextualized so effortlessly here. The magazine trumpeted the fact that they were putting people back into architectural photography, yet the photographs that resulted often felt just as lifeless and staged. Unhappy Hipsters is a fitting testament to this.

A quick aside: photographer Iwan Baar, who was featured in last Sunday’s NYT, seems to possess the antidote to this.