Pun Intended - Hipsterpotamus - Hipsters- Funny Design is a piece of digital artwork by Paul Telling which was uploaded on June 1st, 2016.
Pun Intended - Hipsterpotamus - Hipsters- Funny Design
A mate of mine and I came up with some cool tshirt design ideas all based around stupid puns, ie turning names of people or things into the reality... more
by Paul Telling
Title
Pun Intended - Hipsterpotamus - Hipsters- Funny Design
Artist
Paul Telling
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Graphic Art And Illustration
Description
A mate of mine and I came up with some cool tshirt design ideas all based around stupid puns, ie turning names of people or things into the reality of the object. Etc So we have had some fun doing some mashups etc. Essentially he calls me up and says hey Paul imagine this, and then says alright get to work on that and I'll see you again some time...Then it takes me about 6 months to draw the thing and actually produce it for print on demand. Anyhoo this is where we are at.
This is one of my ideas I was drawing the hip hopopotamus again in a different more detailed funky form and thought of this what would happen if you combine a hipster and a hippopotamus well of course you get a hipster potamus, a bearded, glass wearing bike riding hippo, that probably resides in newtown or surry hills and loves books and coffee and retro clothing...hehe
The hipster subculture is one of affluent or middle class young Bohemians who reside in gentrifying neighborhoods, broadly associated with indie and alternative music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility (including vintage and thrift store-bought clothes), generally progressive political views, organic and artisanal foods, and alternative lifestyles.The subculture typically consists of white millennials living in urban areas. It has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior".
The term in its current usage first appeared in the 1990s and became particularly prominent in the 2010s,being derived from the term used to describe earlier movements in the 1940s. Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative to describe someone who is pretentious,overly trendy or effete. Some analysts contend that the notion of the contemporary hipster is actually a myth created by marketing.
In Rob Horning's April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, he states that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics." In a New York Times editorial, Mark Greif states that the much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff"
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another (usually correct) expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another (sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous) expression. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which “the same sentence appears to offer two independent meanings, but it is only an appearance; in reality there are two different sentences made up of different words, but claiming to be one and the same because both have the same sound”.3 Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, given that their usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture. For example, “Camping is intense.” (in tents)
Puns are used to create humor and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand. Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Carlin. The Roman playwright Plautus is famous for his tendency to make up and change the meaning of words to create puns in Latin.
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June 1st, 2016
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