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Hipsticrafts
The industrious hands of the modern hipster are hard at work in San Diego.
Dear DJ:
I’ve heard that hipsters are ushering in a new era of craftsmanship. Is this true? If so, where can I see hip handicrafts? And what, if any, crafts do you dabble in?
— Anita
Coming as he often does from a middle-class background, the contemporary urban hipster yearns for an idealized version of a more honest, simpler past; one in which skilled craftsmen produced more meaningful goods than the mass-produced crap of a post-industrial society. The hipster, generations removed from a life of hard labor, would return to the grueling days of his forebears. I once tried to establish a workable system for wine → wine corks → artisan cork boards, but I had to choose between sufficient sobriety to work my craft and drinking wine to produce corks enough for my purposes. A friend suggested I reclaim corks from bars and restaurants, but where’s the fun in that?
The industrious hands of the modern hipster are hard at work in San Diego. The Reader recently ran a story about a young Hillcrest couple — he bearded, she with an asymmetrical haircut — who wanted to offer the world a better bar-spoon, lovingly handcrafted with the sensibilities of modern art in mind.
I know an ex-barista who works for a skateboard company by day and hand-tools leather goods in his garage workshop by night. I believe he has yet to make a business of it, however. Call him a “gentleman laborer,” perhaps.
Enter most hipster-owned businesses and you’ll find some sort of handicrafts on display, whether hand-tooled lamps (complete with Edison bulbs!) at your local coffee shop or artisanal hand soaps at a small gallery. Hipster handicrafts are all around you.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Hipsticrafts
The industrious hands of the modern hipster are hard at work in San Diego.
Hipsticrafts
The industrious hands of the modern hipster are hard at work in San Diego.
Dear DJ:
I’ve heard that hipsters are ushering in a new era of craftsmanship. Is this true? If so, where can I see hip handicrafts? And what, if any, crafts do you dabble in?
— Anita
Coming as he often does from a middle-class background, the contemporary urban hipster yearns for an idealized version of a more honest, simpler past; one in which skilled craftsmen produced more meaningful goods than the mass-produced crap of a post-industrial society. The hipster, generations removed from a life of hard labor, would return to the grueling days of his forebears. I once tried to establish a workable system for wine → wine corks → artisan cork boards, but I had to choose between sufficient sobriety to work my craft and drinking wine to produce corks enough for my purposes. A friend suggested I reclaim corks from bars and restaurants, but where’s the fun in that?
The industrious hands of the modern hipster are hard at work in San Diego. The Reader recently ran a story about a young Hillcrest couple — he bearded, she with an asymmetrical haircut — who wanted to offer the world a better bar-spoon, lovingly handcrafted with the sensibilities of modern art in mind.
I know an ex-barista who works for a skateboard company by day and hand-tools leather goods in his garage workshop by night. I believe he has yet to make a business of it, however. Call him a “gentleman laborer,” perhaps.
Enter most hipster-owned businesses and you’ll find some sort of handicrafts on display, whether hand-tooled lamps (complete with Edison bulbs!) at your local coffee shop or artisanal hand soaps at a small gallery. Hipster handicrafts are all around you.
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