April 2010
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Hipster Diaspora Update: Go west young hipsters,...
As we all know 2010-12 are the years when the hipster diaspora will commence. Let’s face it-rents are only going to go up in Silver Lake, Williamsburg, Green Point let alone all the hipster persecution that has recently started via urban guerilla violence against american apparel outlets. Hipsters: NYC/LA is too overpopulated by your type, go west, to the site of the future hipster...
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The Day Hath Cometh, Lindsay Lohan Redeems Herself...
Ever since the post-Freaky Friday post-Mean Girls era of Lindsay Lohan dawned upon us, we never thought we’d see the day where Lindsay finally cleaned up her act and morally redeemed herself.
But yet, through all the sluttiness and the cocaine, the DUI’s and the lesbian street fights, a new day seems to have finally arrived…
The glorious cheerful exalting day may have finally...
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BEHOLD: Art!
This is more artistic than MILF ISLAND and BITCHUNTER combined…
ART!
ART!
Commentary above.
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America's Fave Church (Westboro Baptist) to Picket...
The Museum’s favorite ‘that shit’s hilarious’ organization, the Westboro Baptist Church (creators of the ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan / cultural meme), is back to present more epic displays of so-not-funny-that-it’s-borderline-hilarious hate advocacy. This time, it’s with that Mississippi high school student who wasn’t allowed to attend prom with...
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That Shit's Hilarious presents: Remembering THE...
For some of you, this past weekend may have been just another plain old ordinary slipped by the wayside nothing eventful happened weekend.
But in some parts of the world (and by some parts, we mean one very special part), thousands of people were having what VH1 would probably like to call “THE BEST WEEKEND EVER”…
So were you having the BEST WKND EVERRR this past crazy ass...
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"Reading Books is Cool @ ur Library" in the...
The Museum is a proud supporter of these fairly compact paper products that have been around for a lot of years that contain lots of words that you can read… they’re called books or something.
And you can find them at your local, uhhh, iBookstore. No thats not it, ummm, oh! library! That’s it, your local library. We’re not sure if your local community still has that,...
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America, in GIF form (mini LOL of the Day)
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"Are There Really No Hipsters in China?": A Nation...
Irony-resisting Chinese bicyclists have skipped the fixed-gear trend that has swept the rest of the world.
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BEIJING — A multicolored messenger bag slung over one shoulder and short-brimmed hat cocked to the side,...
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WatchInterview Magazine once again takes pure cultural mediocrity and makes it look savvy / classy / artsy. How do they do it? / Why do they do it?…
This time its the fellas from “Jersey Shore” in a photoshoot with bombshell babe Bar Refaeli.
Read the full article, interviews, photos and videos here: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jersey-shore
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Sexed-up Shrek and Friends Photoshoot
Coming soon to Vman Magazine, a sexy photo spread featuring hardly-clothed horny teens/20-somethings with the characters from Shrek.
Ohnotheydidnt has more:
“Paramount and DreamWorks Animation reps say they regret allowing a men’s magazine to portray Shrek and friends in a bizarrely metrosexual photo spread. The green ogre and his castmates will be featured in the summer edition of...
Fox News Reports: Osama Bin Laden has a Facebook...
wonder if he has farmville…..
“The al Qaeda leader, or someone posing as him, is using the social networking site as a platform to show videos and speeches to Islamic militants.
His address is given as “the mountains of the world.”
On Thursday, security experts urged Facebook’s U.S. owners to shut down the profile page, named “The leader of the...
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Coachella Tips, Presented by "one of the floozies...
Sometimes, Carles, the douchey ‘hpstr’ blogger from Hipster Runoff, sums things up better than the Curators of the Museum ever could. An example of this is his recent post about Coachella tips that come to us from the ‘The Hills’ star Whitney Port.
hipsterrunoff has more:
“From what I understand, The Hills is one of the most popular cable television shows of all...
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Newsworthy: Dead man wins mayor's race in...
The Museum is proud to continually bring you compelling and culturally provocative news, like the following story:
Dead man wins mayor’s race in small Tennessee town
April 14, 2010 | from the Associated Press
TRACY CITY, Tenn. — A dead man has been elected mayor of Tracy City, Tenn.
Carl Robin Geary died suddenly a few weeks ago. But he received 268 votes anyway in Tuesday’s...
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Guido's Sister-Culture, Beverly Hills/Brentwood...
And now for the least-shocking news of the day… For the entire population of Los Angeles who watched MTV’s “Jersey Shore” thinking to themselves, “So guidos are basically like the Italian version of Bev Hills Persians,” your ‘pat on the back’ moment for your keen insight has arrived.
Coming soon from the people that brought you “Jersey...
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Urinal Art with a Hidden Message, Pee and Find...
The following is an excerpt about a new Art installation place on urinals where the art is heat-sensitive and thus the paintings change as one pees on the art. But really.
“A collaboration between artists Alex Schweder and Dieter Janssen yielded both an art installation of heat-sensitive urinal decals and a board book called Peeple.
In the designers’ words “Peeple are...
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“…My music isn’t just music — it’s medicine. I want my songs to touch people, to...”
– Kanye West
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Every time you listen to “Gold Digger” and “Heartless”, think that we’re getting one step closer to ridding society of Leukemia. Or don’t, don’t at all.
(via alt-fuck)
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Tween Update of the Day: Nick Jonas Nip Slip
So uncensored, so filthy.
(We’ve got nothing, its been a slow day)
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I Wanna Be A Hipster Kid (via Justin Bieber)
When I grow up/get younger, I wanna be a hipster. But not just any hipster…
I wanna be a Justin Bieber hipster. I wanna wear Justin Bieber wayfarers with Justin Bieber fur around my neck.
I wanna be a Justin-Bieber-skinny hipster. I wanna wear Justin Bieber blue and black plaid. I wanna have Justin Bieber teeth.
I wanna be a Justin Bieber hipster kid with a hat in multiple...
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Playing a Concert with T-Pain?, What's Whatsername...
The Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum has been, for nearly a year now, providing social commentary on the daunting issues of modern culture and its implications on society for the entire world wide web to see and experience.
But starting today, we feel that it is important to go beyond our mere role of ‘cultural commentator’ and for the first time ever extend ourselves to those in...
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The Museum Supporting Other Museums: the warhol.
Next time you’re in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we’re really sorry.
But while you’re there, consider supporting another museum besides just this one… We’d like to introduce you to “the warhol.”, a museum glorifying the art and life of 20th Century Scholar Andy Warhol.
Artifacts of Modernity is proud to support “the warhol.” because of how we...
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Indie is Mainstream, Hipster is Top 40, Yadda... →
She & Him, Neon Indian, and Grizzly Bear all get the spotlight treatment in Apple’s latest iPhone commercial. Which leaves us wondering, has the day finally come? Is this the day that Billboard dies? Will the Hype Machine be resurrected in its place?
Are Zooey Deschanel and Ronald Gierhart (of Neon Indian) the new T-Pain and Christina Aguilera of popular culture? Will music...
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