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Liking The Things You Hate

March 6, 2017October 31, 2018 by JohnnyKillmore, posted in Johnny Killmore, Writing

There are some long standing tropes in motorcycle advertising. In a cluster they'll get called something like, "hipster douchebag videos" and they are easy to spot. They have sparks from a metal grinder, random close-up shots of a motorcycle (usually showing nothing out of the ordinary), and plenty of slow motion shots of someone riding … Continue reading Liking The Things You Hate

Before It Was Cool

December 17, 2016January 1, 2017 by JohnnyKillmore, posted in Aviation, Johnny Killmore, Writing

The Wright Brothers may have been pretty hipster, rolling around building wing-warping biplanes and beach racing, but they weren't hipster enough to build a fixie cafe racer bicycle. Maybe, at the turn of the century, it was avant garde to embrace technology instead of pay too much for "authentic vintage?"