It seems like the true underground dirty design style hipster drunks have discovered the blog form, substituting over wraught and/or snarky verbiage with sexy drunken photographs of friends, lovers and other celebrants.
Now it is not that photoblogs are at all a _new_thing. Blue Jake and (my personal fav) Slower take beautiful pictures and they have been putting them up forever (and I am sure there were others around long before them but this is not a fucking history lesson.
The sites I am talking about ascribe to a slightly more lecherious, drunken, dirty, and generally less yuppiefied (though no less monied) aesthetic. I love the pictures on three in particular (which I delve into more specificly below) for my own personal reasons but I am trying to grasp for some sort of theory type strand for them to latch onto. I feel intuitivly that they rely on a newfound exploration of the 'curitorial culture' we reside in.
In anycase, most of them have great pictures of pretty girls and boys
This girl Amy has her interweb of radness. I found her shit through a friendster and instantly became addicted last winter. It seemed as though she was at all the same parties as me... and taking pictures. Her world seems to straddle art/drinking downtown and she even makes some fun photo essays. She has not updated in a while but it is worth checking back in on every once-and-a-while.
The spawn of her loins was the photo blog of her 'intern' patrick who is a skate photographer, or so it seems. I don't know the cat personally but we seem to end up in a lot of the same places and his pictures are fab (as are the captions). His world is Epicly Laterd.
There is a slightly more keen looking one; Polaroid Scene by this LA kid cobra who seems to spend a lot of time out this way. I am loathe to place him in here as he has some terrible pictures of me up there, but, well who the fuck cares.
I am not sure there is any sifnificance to these last three sights, they are simply a more direct version of old school photo-albums that I have of drunken high-school nights or the party photos section of numerious magazines...
Just there specific hipsterific focus is... I dunno, you tell me.
Posted by thickeye at September 5, 2004 05:56 PM | TrackBack