Ramdom Not-Fashion Thoughts

[hooplah]

never actually been into bikes but goddamn





http://www.banditnine.com/

[bels]

Feel like this thread should just be merged into the feeltalk thread.

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

I love motorbikes, but they're so dangerous. I had one while I worked abroad and I LOVED it - I wanted to bring it back to the UK but it just didn't work out.

The Honda '67 (this one isn't mine, because my phone was nicked, but it's exactly the same)



We had some good times, although I'm half glad I couldn't bring it over.

[teck]

i have a fantasy of riding motorbikes across the United States.

im surprised we havent talked about fixies. anyone ride? i did for the longest time. i had very aggro Felt TK2 and crashed it a few times commuting like a dumb hipster before selling it. i sometimes toy about getting into track cycling because i have decent leg strength and it would give me a reason to buy track bikes.

[rjbman]

How often should one's avatar be changed?

[charybdis]

I feel like it's a trend thing. Where one person changes their avatar and it becomes a chain reaction.

It's kind of fun.

[schiaparelli]

how often do you change your jeans
or underwear

whenever you want, man

[charybdis]

ramdom not fashion thought:

It's really good to have schiaparelli back in my life.

[ballast]

this is cool
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit ... ng-evolved

[starfox64]

[can-]

the good news is that Brooklyn is awesome

[starfox64]

First off, that article reminded me of this

The neighborhood where I live in Seoul (Itaewon) is rapidly changing, with foreigners and shitty goods that cater to tourists and American GI's being pushed out in favor of upscale bars and restaurants. It used to be a hub of prostitution, but that's also being cleaned up. Well, actually, all of Korea is a hub of prostitution, and it's being cleaned up all over the place (huge red light districts being shut down, etc.), but Itaewon is/was an area that catered to non-traditional prostitutes (gay, trans, ones for foreigners) and that's being phased out. I came to Korea on vacation once during 2008 and in that time the area has changed a lot and become a lot nicer place to hang out on weekends, even though it still has the kind of grimy foreigner stigma, it's a popular place for like yuppie Koreans to come. One the one hand, it sucks that rent is really going up, but on the other hand it's nice to be able to find some decent foreign food, even if it costs 50% more than a similar Korean dish. Regardless, though, it's probably better to call this development or redevelopment than gentrification, as there is not the same kind of racial undertones that I associate with 'gentrification'.

Also, every time I read an article about like fucking hipsters ruining things, I wonder, "am I a hipster? am I ruining things?" Then I think about the things that I enjoy, and I realize that I am probably one of the fucking hipsters that everyone complains about, even if I don't have an ironic mustache or ride a fixie.

[ramseames]

Vancouver has a similar situation with the expansion of gastown (historic industrial area turned trendy high end neighbourhood) farther east into the downtown east side (4 block radius containing the vast majority of homeless people/safe injection sites/low income housing in the city).



Difference between this and what they're talking about in Paris/seoul is that there's basically nothing to be displaced. That restaurant opened in a vacant lot.

[starfox64]

link is broken for me.

isn't haven in gastown?

[ramseames]

Different article but it should work.

Haven, Roden gray, inventory, neighbour, stussy, livestock, etc are all in gastown. Haven is relocating from their current temporary store to a location on the far east edge of the neighborhood, coincidentally.

[teck]

[RycePooding]

Trying to figure out what I'm going to do next year. Options:

Bicycle with a tent for a while and see where that takes me.

Find a job.

Go to school for something I'm not sure I want to do.

Move to Boston (or somewhere that I know a couple people) and see what happens.

Thoughts?

[schiaparelli]

ryce

what do you want to do in life
what intrigues and enthralls you
what do you need in your life or you will be miserable
what kind of people do you become a better, more interesting person around
what kind of work can you stomach and even enjoy doing as a 9-to-5 or whatever crazy schedule college kids are on

personally i'm a fan of anything that doesn't involve incurring student loans without deliberate reason and conviction

[sknss]

DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL WITHOUT A CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
I REPEAT
DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL WITHOUT A CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO

[RycePooding]

There's so much pressure to 'do something with my life already'.

But I'm 23.

That's young as hell, right?

[can-]

yeah dude u have so much time. 20s are your odyssey years. doing anything but nothing will be productive

[teck]

shit man im in my thirties and every day is a opportunity to remake myself.

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

Life: Do what the hell you want until you have someone who depends on you.

[RycePooding]

You guys are all so great.

[smiles]

if i dont get into the schools i want next year im planning to bum out hard in nyc or londontown.

[parastexis]

I'm still in school but most of my friends have graduated and are working. Just like that they've become boring and I get the sense they're comfortable and have found routine that they will follow throughout their remaining youth. I don't think you should have to do something and to me living in the moment is better than getting ahead a few years.

[hirokinakamura]

i don't know what i'm going to do with my life after i graduate

i don't know what i want to do

i guess i just don't know

[BobbyZamora]

i've always wanted to pursue art (digital painting, concept art) but it's an incredibly hard field of work to get in to and i get frustrated by my results every time i try and draw or make something

[kewks]

i think after i graduate i'm going to try and move to tennessee to be with my boyfriend. i really don't want to live in the middle of nowhere though so it'll have to be knoxville or nashville, hopefully.

i feel very tied down with the job that i have right now though.

[smiles]

Londoners. How much money might I expect to bring/spend for a Week in London. Including food and transport but not Accommodation.

300 pounds? 400?