A Brooklyn Culture Mafia
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- ..is that a scene emerging .or are you just happy to see me benedict arnold my hero blue balls in brooklyn brooklyn bestiary chemical kev dasha nekrasova demonology e-girl wanking like fuck all over her commie face fresh pond road hail girard hearts heal hegelian e-girls its not stalking its research jamaican voodoo gang from marked for death on the outside looking in pass the rock pum pum portraits restraining order righteous narcissism simping for the revolution skidmarxism speaking on behalf of the working class that place does not look fun at all the 20 hottest e-girls the colonies what's a bpd lion? woke and broke xoxo
wektor
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lovely interior, reminds me of the chinese place down the road from where I used to live in Forest Hill
shakahislop
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i was in ridgewood the other day. the gentrification frontline is ridgewood, bed-stuy, crown heights and flatbush i reckon. kind of amazing how its not happening at all in queens (ok i know ridgewood is in queens but i'm talking about like sunnyside), and uptown is happening at snails pace. all the expansion is in brooklyn. its like what. half of it is a bit gentrified now? maybe a bit less. but its a big place. wpnder when it will end, if there is a high watermark anywhere. the process has gone in one direction only since the 70s, that's a long time now.
shakahislop
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t-shirts and totes of the fashionable people in the coffee shop i'm working in down the road from dimes square: gem spa, lana del rey and david zwirner
shakahislop
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I'd be absolutely shit at that. I'm spending a lot of time in cafes writing (boring academic things) at the moment so that's what I mean by workig. I mean I'm shit at this as well but probably not as bad as I'd be as a barista.
sus
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Let's cowork sometime! I'm always game to go to new exotic cafes to watch the local wildlife
shakahislop
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Clinamenic
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Again? Maybe you should have bottled it and sold it as Sus Juice.
"Taste the vibe shift"
The King of Pussy Gettin
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i cant stop looking at it
IdleRich
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There is an episode of CSI NY where designers go to Crown Heights to take pictures of cool people to inspire their fashion designs (and then they start killing each other). I assume CSI knows where the cutting edge is at.
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shakahislop
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Periodic revolutionary moments notwithstanding, the young bohemians expressed their disdain for the bourgeois way of life with shocking public spectacles far more often than direct political action. Their infamous antics reveal the lengths to which bohemians went to shock the bourgeoisie or épater le bourgeois . A group of Parisian students known as the Badouillards “took an oath of vengeance on the bourgeoisie” and would boisterously sing obscene songs as they marched through the city at night. To endure the heat of Parisian summers, Petrus Borel and his clique of Romantic writers known as the Jeunes France (French Youth or Young France) would hold backyard luncheons in the nude in plain view of their dismayed neighbors; to add to the spectacle, they would drink from human skulls, noting that they were “tasting the human condition”. One of the more renowned members of the clique, writer Gerard de Nerval, would walk his pet lobster through the Tuilleries (the formal gardens originally created by Catherine de Medici as the backdrop for her 16th-century palace), explaining to curious passersby that he had adopted the crustacean because “it does not bark and knows the secrets of the deep
1830s paris latin quarter, the first bohemains / hipsters. there's at a mimimum something interesting about the continuity of some of this stuff over time, the desire to shock, the association of a group of people with some fairly central part of a city
1830s paris latin quarter, the first bohemains / hipsters. there's at a mimimum something interesting about the continuity of some of this stuff over time, the desire to shock, the association of a group of people with some fairly central part of a city
shakahislop
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Their bohemian lifestyle manifested in their housing, attire, sociality, attitudes toward work, and intimacy. Groups of young writers, artists, and students shared minimally furnished, overcrowded, low-rent apartments often located in the attic or garret. Unable to afford the typical attire of the day, they created their own style out of unusual fabrics and strange admixtures of clothing. Many of the men let their hair and beards grow unfashionably long. They even spent their time unconventionally. After working at their craft during the day, they would cavort around Paris in search of nocturnal entertainment and casual amorous encounters.
shakahislop
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Fortuitously, the demand for writing and art suitable for a broad audience increased as education became more accessible and literacy grew in the 19th century. Many young writers capitalized on this opportunity and turned to the increasingly popular newspapers for income. Bohemian writers such as Gautier, de Nerval, and Borel contributed serialized novels, short stories, reviews of plays, and other creative works to newspapers and published their own journals on art, literature, and politics. Likewise, bohemian playwrights such as Henri Murger and his circle of impoverished writers, who were known as the “water drinkers” of Café Momus, produced scripts to entertain the growing population of bourgeois theatergoers (Seigel 1986). These writers filled an existing need with their writings on politics and culture at large while creating a niche for themselves with accounts of their titillating bohemian adventures, readily devoured by both bourgeois and bohemian audiences.