Are we hipsters? Is this lighted pyramid hip? Where can we find truth?
Are we hipsters? Is this lighted pyramid hip? Where can we find truth?

To hell with “artsy fartsy hipsters!”

But what, exactly, are surf hipsters? Do you have a clear idea?

And how would you define the “hipster movement” in surfing or, more specifically, surf film? Did it begin with Kai Neville and his crew? The Modern Collective? With Dane Reynolds and his Marine Layer? And what were its marked characteristics? A lingering camera? A lit cigarette? Throwaway airs and birds?

Or does it mean single fins and beaver tails?

I don’t exactly know, to be quite honest, but there is certainly a backlash against it these days. There was, of course, Death 2 Hipsters (Did you watch? How was?) and now there is Couch Tour II which implores you:

Don’t hold your breath for some artsy fartsy “hipster” surf movie. This is going to be a down and dirty surf flick . Let this teaser set the mood featuring Balaram Stack, Ryan Carlson and TJ Gumiela. Keep an eye out for a plethora of mental clips from all the UnsOund team riders and friends.

I don’t know…something about it turns me on.

But isn’t retro 1980s font and electroclash music hipster? Oh let’s solve this riddle once and for all!

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Caroline Marks Eyedrows
Caroline Marks Eyedrows
10 years ago

Hipsters are Sunday night at Deus in Canguu with their man buns, sleeveless tees, rolled up shorts, boat shoes and i ride a single fin tatt!

Caroline Marks Eyedrows
Caroline Marks Eyedrows
10 years ago

Oh yeah and sandy vaginas!

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

Great idea I’m getting one of those tatts!

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

Fuck off with all this hipster bashing. Hipster flicks are better than all this lame try hard punk shit or bogans or hippy shit or mainstream $200 Hurley boardshort wearing shit. I choose hipsters over any other subculture out there… but i am captain blackboard king of the hipsters.

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

Also this clip was fuckin terrible. How many air revs do they need in one trailer?? Shoulda hired some hipsters to edit this shit…

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago

Well my 150$ volcom baggies ( that reach my knee btw) have lasted 4 oceans,3 glassing factories and more sessions than I could ever dream of counting,no rash and they’re stretchy which helps for doing lame air reverses or in your case soul arching past the best section of the day.

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

Cool story bro. Yeah my $40 Afends boardies have lasted just as long and just as many surfs and rather than doing lame air revs I tend to utilise the face of the wave doing actual turns or getting shacked. I don’t really surf waves small enough for airs cos I’m pretty hardcore.

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago

Cool story to you too, but I think you left your american spirit burning in the ashtray while trying to measure dick sizes. Might want to go finish it.

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

American spirit? Da fuck? I’m Australian mate

Lemmy
Lemmy
10 years ago

this music is fuckin horrendous

longtom
longtom
10 years ago

hipsters>jocks

Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll
10 years ago
Reply to  longtom

Buzzy Trent>hipsters

Jocks
Jocks
10 years ago

Surf hipster is fashion over function

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago

Seriously what the fuck was that?

Captain Clark
Captain Clark
10 years ago

Hipsters are similar to spring breakers. They all believe they are setting some sort of precedence when in fact it has all been done before.

Mariano Landa
Mariano Landa
10 years ago
Reply to  Captain Clark

Replace “hipsters” with “surfers”?

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago

Being a hipster and being insane are very similar in that the more you run around saying ” I’m not…..” the more likley you are. Denial is not just a river in Africa.

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

Wait where is the river?


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