It's Friday night and I haven't even worked a day at Levi's yet. It was like this last year too. Everyone's hours gets cut dramatically after the holiday season. I already reduced my availability to only Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so I should expect to have more days off like this. It won't help my bursting bank accounts, but now I have more time for school and the inevitable graduation.
So I spent some of the day outside, walking around Clement St. I ended up spending money. From Goodwill I bought an old disposable camera that hadn't been used at all. It said to use by 02/2000. I'm guessing it's around 15-20 years old? Can you believe that it hadn't been used at all?! So cool. It was only $3. In hindsight, I think that it should have been a dollar, but whatevers, I had to buy it. I also got a small lamp for $5. A few storefronts down at Green Apple, I bought a Photography Annual magazine from 1976. It's a compilation of "the world's finest photographs" of the time according to the editors of Popular Photography. It's so old yet in such good condition! It was $5.
I've always wondered this, but why are old things considered hip? Like secondhand stores. I member mom buying me clothes from Goodwill when I was small and in high school, all my clothes was either from Savers or Pacsun. I never thought getting second hand things were more cool than brand new stuff. It was just cheaper, which was the main appeal. And about two years ago, I was really into those old style mopeds. So much so that at one time I owned 2. I just liked them. I didn't think other dudes who rode them were cool (actually thought they were really lame). Is it the object that is hip in turn making the person hip or is it the person who is hip in turn making the object hip? I don't know where I'm trying to go with this. I wish I didn't have this concept of "hip" in my head. I like not brand new stuff. Not all the time, but you know.
Here's pictures from Goodwill and Savers in Hawaii.
I'd say there are probably inherint aspects of the object that make it cool to some people, but that people also give old things a new "hip" image sometimes. Like with the mopeds, they were cool to you because of your personal taste before, and now their just generally hip because hipsters have decided to start using them? I dunno..
ReplyDeleteI like the picture of ben a lot though
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ReplyDeleteCool photos/musings as always.
ReplyDeleteSome thoughts on the word 'hip':
This kind of secondhand stuff is hip because it's ironic that someone our age would wear things that their parents might have worn. Instead of distancing ourselves in an obvious manner (i.e. extreme [style] aestheitcs, manners, etc . . ) from past/future generations with a unique newness, we are half-dressed like the past while, in reality, we are in the present. It's like a nostalgia for something we've never really known, which is why it's "new" to us --- and thus hip, fresh, etc . . .
Yeah my mom used to buy me clothes from Savers/Goodwill when I was younger and I thought it was so gross because it was from the one in Kalihi.
ReplyDeleteBut now that I'm older I've definitely learned to appreciate it. I think the other day she bought me a shirt that said, "FLIRT" and argued with her for 5 mins on why I wasn't going to wear it.
I guess it's hip cus you know no one else is gonna have it since they're either too old or discontinued.
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