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Hipster ipsum: filler text for your next design project

Xeni Jardin at 2:31 pm Mon, Aug 15, 2011

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"Do you need some text for your website or whatever? *sigh* Okay… " Hipster Ipsum generates "artisanal filler text for your site or project." (via @sfslim)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • nosehat

    Heh heh!

    Although one good thing about using the standard Lorem Ipsum is that you can search for it in the final draft, just to double check that everything was properly replaced. 

  • mccrum

    Lomo mixtape ethical scenester gentrify, mlkshk blog vice 8-bit quinoa.
    Freegan sustainable farm-to-table lo-fi mustache. Organic wayfarers
    dreamcatcher, lo-fi wolf gentrify you probably haven’t heard of them
    keffiyeh aesthetic trust fund salvia twee portland whatever DIY. Homo
    retro terry richardson cosby sweater mcsweeney’s keffiyeh jean shorts
    mustache, viral seitan. Dreamcatcher portland tofu, gluten-free PBR
    synth raw denim williamsburg. Trust fund four loko DIY salvia, etsy
    lo-fi 3 wolf moon skateboard carles. Bicycle rights before they sold
    out wolf squid, cardigan quinoa sartorial gluten-free cosby sweater
    brunch readymade vinyl letterpress art party.

  • SamSam

    I see all the good stereotypes there. Although master cleanse? Isn’t that something that Hollywood celebs do? I didn’t know hipsters cared about the state of their colons…

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I didn’t know hipsters cared about the state of their colons…

      It may not be their own colons that they’re concerned about.

    • BarBarSeven

      This is also the perfect Japanese ironic t-shirt text generator!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shiva-Yam-Hologram/625965534 Shiva Yam Hologram

    Is that a young Spock in the middle of the picture?

    • metaleaf

      The whole original Trek cast’s there . . . although I can’t for the life of me figure out who the guy on the left is.

      • Marktech

        The whole original Trek cast’s there . . . although I can’t for the life of me figure out who the guy on the left is.

        Under that hipster jacket he’s a redshirt.

      • http://inchoate.myopenid.com/ Inchoate

        That’s Anton Yelchin as Chekov. (I like this image, so I tracked down the original: Hipster Trek by deliciousnewyork on deviantART.)

      • papercup mixmaster

        Chekhov, Pavel Andreievich. I’m thinking the artist is shooting more for the Abrams Trek than TOS.

      • Eddie Perkins

        Maybe they were working from the new movie Star Trek cast. The new Checkov, other than being male and wearing a yellow shirt, doesn’t look anything like the original Checkov. Might also explain the huge Dr. McCoy. 

      • http://twitter.com/mizunocaitlin Caitlin Austin

        Chekov as played by Anton Yelchin in the new movie. 

    • Alexander Somma

      I think it’s the young hipster version of some of the the Enterprise crew. Kirk’s got hipster glasses on.

  • BeaverBeaver

    I read once, maybe here, that dragon myths existed at the same time across many cultures that had no contact and the reason, assuming dragons are not real, was that dragons represented all of the dangers man has faced during evolution. Claws,Fangs,Scales,Wings,Fire. They were essentially the sum of all of our natural fears. I am starting to feel like “hipsters” are the same thing. Hipsters don’t own any of the individual things listed and many of them apply to all sorts of groups. It’s sort of like how Chinese dragons differ from European dragons. Someone who lives in New York has a completely different hipster in their head than someone who lives in Philly.

    I just wish the trend of classifying and commenting on “hipsters”would fade. I am starting to find it more annoying than the hipsters. My hipster dragon is anyone wearing flip flops and a scarf and/or wearing wayfarers.

  • Marktech

    Lorizzle ipsum i’m in the shizzle izzle get down get down, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Daahng dawg own yo’ velizzle, bizzle volutpizzle, suscipizzle black, yippiyo fo shizzle my nizzle, brizzle. Pellentesque doggy tortizzle. Sizzle erizzle. Shizzle my nizzle crocodizzle fo shizzle my nizzle sure dapibizzle boofron tempizzle pimpin’.

  • kongjie

    Couple notes. First, careful if you use this for a project as there are at least 2 NSFW words in there. Second, the advantage of the original Lorem ipsum is that, assuming you don’t know Latin, you don’t notice any individual words, so it disappears and you can focus on form. However, I should note that the actual hipster ipsum has more Latin strewn about and is not just hip terms.

  • RJ

    Trying to read the entire ipsum gave me douche-chills.

  • http://www.facebook.com/roboton Gregory Morgan

    I love that Austin is the only city mentioned, LOL

    • Joshua Bones Hulsey

      Portland and Marfa are in the screenshot, but aren’t capitalized.

  • http://www.facebook.com/josh.eyre Joshua Thomas Eyre

    Brooklyn hipsters are rarely dressed that well…

  • http://twitter.com/dhmspector David HM Spector

    What no references to BlueBottle, Ritual, the Mission or Tartine?   …and I mean that ironically, btw.

  • http://BrianEaston.net/ Brian Easton

    I don’t think that PBR is considered craft beer.

  • http://timsevenhuysen.com Tim Sevenhuysen

    This is hilarious.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIT6UX7YPRSYJZKP5RZOCIAXFI Kellis

    meh.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HD5EBZMZTKWRTTLY7WCFGCZLXM john

    whatever