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I have glimpsed hipster utopia. And I don’t mean that as an ironic statement.
So-called “hipster” or “indie” culture is often hard to embrace because to participate almost always feels like becoming part of a solipsistic, cynical marketing demographic. 5oo Days of Summer, American Apparel, Pitchfork: these are the icons of the culture within which I operate and I can only engage in this stuff by maintaining some critical distance, lest I become another mindless consumer. But it’s so damn tiring.…
David Bowie’s son has directed a sci-fi art film (with a trailer) à la Solaris. This makes complete sense.
Michel Gondry is self-releasing a second compilation of his videos via his website on April 14.
Jim Jarmsuch confirmed that Melville influence on his upcoming The Limits of Control that we identified earlier, plus a bunch of other cool references.
Did you know that the guy from My Chemical Romance wrote comics? And that they’re being made into films? Do you even care?
The internet has responded to the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are with almost universal love. But it’s the more cynical reactions which have caught my attention. Richard from Gawker is “a little wary of just how hip it seems” while Mel Campbell of The Enthusiast complains that “what really ruins this trailer is its surfeit of hipster whimsy.” Are the reservations legitimate or has the hipster witch-hunt gone too far?
