# life defining kodak moments of hipness what is it with these people its always about needing to be seen as someone who has such moments out of time and outside of normal that is less perfect lives notice how the hip are always off in some distant field gazing at some bs sunset among the weeds and wildflowers the light just so or standing on the end of a rustic wooden pier or on top of a mountain staring yonder laughing together under a public fountain or holding hands down a wedding runway perfect and perfectly isolated images of decaff lattes in late afternoon jazz lite coffee shops downtown steam rising just so from the surface of the designer glazed cup the tabletop perfectly overlayed with long shadows from the blinds a single artisan cupcake with no bites meanwhile breathe by paloalto plays in the faded coffee shop distance your having a moment again plenty for modem researchers to hate with healthy disdain yet arguably the worst has to be those shots of a single outstretched hand on the edge of blue night reaching for the freshly risen full moon yeesh a carefree world of carefully curated consumer objects the lone giant selfie in such vacated skulls of course being elf deconstruct it all now now now // republic of bob