I'm looking forward to the comments for this post.

OMG i agree with michael t! shoot me please!

i think they all went home to rochester and live in their parents' basements.

Everyone come to my hous I have gumballs* and moon$hine.

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*assortd flaverz

bottle service not me?
last time I checked Michael T's weekly "Loaded party" was at Lotus with bottle serve. hm

Where are these two books on sale?! Where is this picture taken from?! If anyone knows, let me know!

it's good to see the smug is still present

"Where are these two books on sale?! Where is this picture taken from?! If anyone knows, let me know!"

according to the "here" link at the bottom of the post, the photo was taken in Tokyo.

‘I don’t bathe and I have a beard’

I'm glad someone said it! Why do all Brooklyn hipsters look alike? Beards, skinny jeans, track bikes. They are all conforming non-conformists. As a resident of Brooklyn (and a native of NYC), the Manhattan scene has always been better.

i couldn't grow a beard if i tried. damn puberty.

I enjoy walking into a Manhattan party and being able to distinguish between people. I'm getting tired of Brooklyn parties, and going home with the same old dumpy hipsters. It's the same anywhere you go.

What's the beef... I mean, what's the tempeh Brooklyn?

I'll take beards over NYU freshmen with fake ids any day.

um...robot rock, high voltage and atomicx seem to be doing okay for weekly parties though. just saying. also, are beards still in?

“Every artist has their peak time, and then you make that mark. Right now, I’m not at that peak.”
- Michael T

Looks like the pics were taken at Powerhouse Books in DUMBO. Great spot if you like photography books!

a party artist? Give me a break. The reason parties suck nowadays is because new york has become so expensive. Even relative shitholes like Bushwick are priced so far in the stratosphere that you have to work constantly just to pay rent.
As it gets harder just to have a roof and a bed, you start going 'I don't have the money or the time to be partying constantly, and maybe i should spend some time in my overpriced dump, just to make it worth it"

maybe the whole 80's kitsch thing is finally on its last legs. boo-hoo.

Quality of life in America has gone down a lot (except for the obvious class of people that are taking over the country). No one has the extra money party, let alone in nyc. Normal, middle class people any way. Ya know, fun people.

brooklyn 'hipsters' are just like kids all over the country who look alike. they just chose to conform to stuff that's "non-conformist". it's so lame what williamsburg has become.

this is great. As far as I was concerned, the whole area went to shit when Micheal T, Jess, Leigh, Ultra and the rest showed up. "Celebrity" DJs. Lollipops and backpacks, remember? Fuck off.

Fuck your yuppie cocktail parties. Real New Yorkers and Brooklynites prefer to wallow in self-pity. How come when I buy a beer at the bodega they don't give me a straw anymore? J'accuse! J'accuse!

That is so true! So many people in Williamsburg have beards! How funny!

Yeah, fuck you too, Albertan Lumberjacks. Fucking Canadian hipster tools. Ooh I'm a working man, look at me in the woods. Dipshits.

they'd be hip if they were completely shaven, walk around with a zip-lock bag of their own hair, a super-glue wand of some kind, legally change their name to Wooly Willy and let people go to town...

wah wah wah.. i guess the new hip thing to do is cry and complain about hipsters. if it weren't for the music and art hipsters create, this site wouldn't exist and you all would have to find something else to cry about.

I prefer the yuppies with mohawks of Manhattan to the yuppies with beards of Brooklyn. But, it's just a matter of personal preference. I'm sure there are some yuppies with mohawks and beards who don't feel accepted in either burrough and that makes me very sad.

williamsburg is such a small piece of brooklyn. the other neighborhoods have people of all types. so instead of saying "brooklyn hipsters" just say "williamsburg hipsters".

and, the reason parties suck now is because people keep trying to publicize and make their party the biggest, most advertised, talked about party of the city. such ambitions can't help but confuse the situation. don't worry, you're not missing anything. chill out and throw a small party with your friends and their friends. you naturally have a good time, avoid the assholes, and get to use your overpriced dump for something fun. remember: practice makes perfect.

williamsburg is such a small piece of brooklyn. the other neighborhoods have people of all types. so instead of saying "brooklyn hipsters" just say "williamsburg hipsters".

That's silly on so many levels. The only "hipsters" not living in Williamsburg are those that can't afford it. Otherwise they'd be there in a second.

@ 1:56 - dead on!

@ 2:24 - that's completely stupid and/or you're not funny.

why insist on having a "party"? why can't anyone just go out to a bar and have a few drinks without dressing up and crying for the camera?

cool trendy bars with overpriced drinks, condos out the ass, fame obsessed fashonistas (& various 20 somethings from kansas who want to be someone now cause they were no one in highschool), photo bloggers & the people who pout for their cameras. THAT is the reason for the death of these parties. lets not forget people who sit online and complain about hipsters rather than being creative and making their own scene/music/writing about or without hipsters. people being too obsessed about shitting all over hipsters/brooklyn/new york is the reason why this CITY IS BECOMING BORING. these are just a few of the many many reasons why myself & many more are losing interest in new york. it just sucks more when new york has always been your home.

I've had a beard since 1993, so, I win.

"people being too obsessed about shitting all over hipsters/brooklyn/new york is the reason why this CITY IS BECOMING BORING."

I hate whiners too, but real estate prices are what is making this city boring.

people see a decline in art (see today's AM) and a rise in real estate, and they immediately correlate the two. rich people = less poor artists -> boring city.

i dont know, you know? i'm just not sure. go to the poor parts of new york, do you see lots of art? i know a lot of artists who are pretty well off, and graduated from expensive private schools with degrees in art. maybe poor people make a different kind of art.

what about the fact that the number of murders this year is one of the lowest ever? less artists=less murders?

i think that all of these initial observations are true, but when assigning blame, let's be a little cautious huh?

The city is getting more and more expensive which is pricing out many creative types. So many have left over the years because of this. The rich are taking this city over. And as far as williamsburg goes, most of those people come from money so they don't have any financial concerns.

right now, the LA art scene is cooler than the NYC one, which is sad and a travesty.

For centuries, artists have always come from rich families. Art was doomed once it went to the middle-class.

It's not a matter of class. Plenty of quintessentially "New York" artists grew up middle class (Pollock, Warhol, Basquiat, etc.). The problem is that young artists simply are choosing to live in other cities because they can't afford the rents here.

AIDS for my app and cancer for my main course

oh please, Michael T. the party is over, you're over, and to tell you the truth..... it never was! yes, you're a well known staple in the NYC scene, but what use do you really have? did you become legend? do they talk about your great parties in europe? will people talk about your parties years from now? nah...

pick your tired ass up & go to a Rubulad party many years too late. you can rehash that scene in 10 years, so you may as well start studying up.