Well, the parody is a little bit nasty but sort of on the nail as well. Whenever you post photos of yourself, you do seem to fit neatly into the "guy-at-the-art-gallery-opening" convention. You think you're being creative and imaginative bu there's something actually very conventional about the way you dress. And your lifestyle sometimes comes across as almost too parodic to parody. The thing about the hipster/art gallery opening tribe, is that they are far more tightly prescribed by convention than they think they are, because they think they're the creative types, unlike the boring middle classes or whoever. But go to an art gallery or a hip happening or a groovy photography bookshop or whatever, and it's the same wherever you are, whether it's London, Buenos Aires, Melbourne or Paris. The parameters are very tight.
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Date: 2005-08-26 02:52 pm (UTC)