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The LA Times follows hipster photographer extraordinaire The Cobra Snake to find out what makes his camera click. His real name is Mark Hunter, he shoots with a digital Canon D20, and he's been deemed "the Ron Jeremy of photography." While The Cobra Snake spends much of his time hanging out with the stars of hipsterdom, he spends the rest of his time riding his bike and waiting to turn 21.

What's next for The Cobra Snake?

A backlash, it seems.

nice title, susannah.

seconded.

Hipsters are... Interesting. Even Goths don't try so hard to be exactly the opposite of what they are.

Also, 'Die You Trendy Scenester Fuck' is possibly one of the most enlightened statements of this century.

[Edited on Nov 06, 2005 by Frank]

I'd like to see The Cobra Snake and The Bronques in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.

"People are posing, he says, "like, 'This is how I'm going to be, on purpose.' It just doesn't come off as genuine."

It must be tough to be a hipster, trying to figure out what they're supposed to be bored with from week to week . . .

I went to high school with this kid. Pretty genuine weirdo.

Thirded.

haha.. great article..

I Don't see anything but drunken snapshots
I Don't see any talent when I look at that guys stuff

it could be that as a photographer Im jealous of all the Cred he's getting

when I shot at clubs in LA for a short time a certain club told me they didn't want me anymore because they Didn't look enough like theCobraSnake

I fucking resent that guy so much

that's nuts, those pictures look just like the drunken pics every club here publishes on their website every week.
maybe the people were a little prettier than average but the photography seems nothing special.

the title of this post made my day

hipsters=posers it's true-they are addicted to fads and smiles

the only good hipster is a dead hipster .

His photos are average at best and his ownimage seems very contrived. He is trying too hard I think, but he is LA, and although it is likeable, it tends to breed that atmosphere; but he seems to have accomplished what he wanted: getting more attention.
The funny thing about the attention he's getting is he ends up burning his candle at both ends.
Twice as bright, but burns out twice as fast.
He'll end up having a cameo in a fillm maybe, and he'll be satirizing himself, which in my view equals redundent.
But so is this rambling post on the boob.......going back to bed.

Mj

Whatever man. This thread was so much cooler when it first came out.
-Leaves to go buy an $80 ironic t-shirt-.

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I love Tale of Two Cities.

I'm not gonna say this guy has *no talent. I mean, he keeps his fingers off the lens, uses flash when it's too dark etc...

But christ, I'm better than him, and I'm 8-steps away from being anything close to prefessional-grade. I know a couple of other photo-buffs friends of mine that are better than him. I've seen a bunch of pics on this site that are miles better as well. It kinda bothers me that image beats out substance because I know a ton of people who have more talent that make absolutely nothing on it beause they lack the right branding to make their pics cool enough to "sell."

I hate hipsters. Scenster shit is a way for no-talent hacks to use image to sell people music and other crap that isn't worth a dime on its own. It's homebrew ashlee simpson and Backstreet boys. Buying it because "no-one else is buying it" is just as bad as buying something because everyone does.


All this being said, he doesn't seem like a bad guy, He'll likely get flushed out of the scene at some point because you really can't have much of a shelf life in that type of atmosphere.

I'm not so sure about that.

What irks me about hipsters is how they have no identity other than this "get to it before anyone else does" bs. I mean, you should like what you like, not like it because it's popular in your "scene"

Liking music on your own terms, because it sounds good to you, is vastly different from liking music because it is new and not *yet, popular, then ditching it as soon as it becomes tired in your eyes. Music shouldn't be a status symbol.

The Onion isn't really hipster, imo, if only because everyone and their kid brother knows what the Onion is. Therefore, regardless of its humor-content, it's off limits to them.

I had been wondering what "the Ron Jeremy of photography" was supposed to mean. Perhaps that he was short, fat, and hairy. Or that he had sex with all of his models. But I think Roethke cleared it up for me indirectly.

There's only one way I'd like to be compared to Ron Jeremy; that wasn't it.

Or, more accurately and less spitefully, it means you live in Los Angeles and leave your house every now and then.