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LOVE! Unhappy Hipsters

16th Feb, 10

If, like me, you’re tired of magazine editors telling you to live a hipster, minimal existence, then you’re going to LOVE Unhappy Hipsters. Chalkful of snotty interior magazine photo layouts (Dwell mag seems to be a big offender), anon author adds wry humorous tag lines to them.

Daddy was making them watch yet another documentary on the impact of Bauhaus on American architecture.

Photo: Marc Seelen, Dwell, September 2008

At the art opening, he’d been convinced the blank canvas symbolized endless possibilities. Back at home, it was just one more reminder of his own desperation.

(Photo: Raimund Koch; Dwell, April 2009)

It was unclear how her life had become so riddled with obvious metaphors.

(Photo: Paco Perez; Dwell, July/August 2004)

The dog’s ability to fully surrender aroused in him a feeling of discontent and resentment.

(Photo: John Clark; Dwell, April 2009)

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

(Photo: Dean Kaufman; Dwell, November 2006)

He reassured the distraught homeowner: Though there was only one window, the twisted stack of boxes was eminently livable.

(Photo: Andy Friedberg; Dwell, March 2007)

The things that once so defined him — shag carpeting, Room & Board sofas, monogamy — now suffocated him.

(Photo: Dean Kaufman; Dwell, September 2009)

Hahahahahahaha! Unhappy Hipsters is the same idea as Awkward Family Photos but funny for completely different reasons. Those interior decorating ads, oops I mean mags, are so dry sometimes. Seriously you want us to live in a concrete box with no windows? Or “relax” on hard white sofas? Or play outside on gravel backyards? What’s up with everyone in the photos looking bored and discontent?? Well I guess if my house looked like that I’d be pretty miserable too.

Down with beige! LOVE LIVE COLOR! Yeah you heard it hear first.