Ah, yes: Kari Farrell, the Williamsburg Grifster -- née Hipster Grifter -- a story we're both ridiculously tired of and still, can't seem to get enough of (to Sig Gissler and our homeboys on the Pulitzer committee: remember the name Doree Shafrir). And now, just when you thought/hoped it was all dead and over, some (no doubt) plucky design student moves the ball a little further downfield. See it after the jump.
A little reminder: girl moves from small town (Salt Lake City) to big city/ground zero of American Hipsterism (Williamsburg) and rolls a bunch of hipsters for cash, hearts, and cell phones along the way. She propositions young men to give "handjobs with (her) mouth" and signs notes passed across bars like Union Pool "Korean Abdul-Jabbar," which I still find incredibly funny. She meets and charms every lonely, sad, bearded hipster in Williamsburg with a Rivers Cuomo-like fetish for young, tattooed Asian women. She gets a job at Vice, they Google her after a week of sketchy activity, consequently fire her when they realize she's one of the SLC 5-0's most wanted for $60K in bad checks and other assorted cons. The Observer breaks the "story." New York, Gawker, Gothamist, Free Williamsburg follow suit. We get the "exclusive" on her bedroom content. She gets the Hipster Runoff treatment. She gets a fake Twitter account. Shirts, even.
And then, spotted on the way to work this morning (and promptly removed from said wall) on Bedford and North 4th, plastered to a wall, this beauty:
Yes, some graphic design student too bored to blog about how the design of everything else sucks decided to immortalize her for a poster and staple a few to a Williamsburg wall. The nice thing about this is that it was obviously made by a hipster too oblivious to realize the egregious misspelling of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last name. Even the Hipster Grifter herself got that joke right. Anyway: Hipster Grifter Happy Meal toys, tattoos, movie option to come. In the meantime, you get Jason Statham comparisons and Real New York Poster Art! Huzzah!


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