Day 6

Editing my story. It will be done the week after vacation now that I have enough time. I don't know if anyone took up the opportunity to draw hipster sketches for my article but I hope they did. If not, I have a google chart and I'll be able to pull photos from somewhere, I'm sure. Perhaps pictures that demonstrate the evolution of hipsters, from the 30s and 60s and 90s until now.

Day 5

ALMOST DONE!

I think my first feature is nearly there. I've connected all my thoughts and it flows nicely. It gets my point across rather clearly which I am very pleased about. I'm glad it has taken the direction that it has. The only thing I need now it some sort of quotation or two, which I'm still undecided about. Truthfully, I'd like to leave other people out of it all together and turn it into more of an opinion piece, because it essentially is but without saying "I". That would be simpler and smoother. Since I am writing about a social issue there is not much fact. There is only what I've observed and what I believe to be true. It's sort of a sneaky opinion piece because you can't really tell right away. I think. But my other approach is to turn to academic essays and pull quotations from professionals while simultaneously making it seem relevant. That would be much more relevant than having student interviews. I'm not too worried about connecting with the TA audience because the topic of hipsters is not an obscure one (which is ironic) because most everyone (especially the students) know what hipsters are already. So I don't need to interview students in order to draw them in. Though, it would draw them in more I feel like the rest of the article would suffer from it.

Day 4

My piece is coming together. I hope to be done by the end of the week. I still need an interview or quote of some kind but I am wary of it because interviewing students would be seemingly random for such a short piece. I may pull quotes from academic essays. Otherwise, I'd just have a quote from this random person and that random person, neither of whom have anything to do with hipsters (necessarily). I don't want to go up to people who I think look like hipsters because that could be a sticky situation. I'd feel best about quoting a reliable source

Day 3

Shortened class because of unnecessary amounts of drug questions.

working on story more. Getting more information on the origins of hipsterism in other decades.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1913220,00.html

Day 2

Wrote more and edited article. Struggling with how much there is to cover about hipsters, and how much great research has already been done! A fascinating topic to me, but there is a lot of it. Need to focus in and make it relevant to TA. Need interviews. Doesn't matter with who, as long as I get a variety of opinions.

Also, while writing today I had an epiphany about hipster and therefore the central idea of my article has been modified.

Day 1 to Feb. Vacation

Mrs. Hall, I am sharing my google doc of my hipster feature so you can monitor my progress. I have a good start and have been building the story since the first class of the semester. It should be finished a few classes from now. My goal with the story is to entertain and educate. I want to define what a hipster is (as more than a fashion trend) and also defend them (lightly because it's a light "issue") as a social group that is often the butt of the joke.

I've contacted Mrs. Merry and she will announce the opportunity to sketch hipsters for my article. Hopefully I will have those by March 1st, which is the deadline I set for the students.

http://thehipstereffect.com/2012/04/02/a-new-definition-of-hipster/

SEMESTER 2

Features:

• Ireland journal log
• Hipsters

Extras:

• Where's Waldo? spread
• Pepperell Squares profile