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This has been a bad week for hipsters.

n+1 has announced it’s working on “What Was the Hipster?“, a book on “the rise and fall of the hipster.” It’ll cover what happened to sneaker shop Alfie Rivington and weigh in on that age-old debate, Hasids versus hipsters.

American Apparel lothario, um, CEO Dov Charney maybe got his hands on an advance copy. “Hipsters are from a certain time period,” he told the Village Voice. “The stereotype of a hipster is not something people aspire to anymore. Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster.”

And The New York Times is declaring even the word itself over. “In any case, hipster’s second life as hip slang seems to have lost its freshness,” Philip B. Corbett writes. “It may still be useful occasionally, but let’s look for alternatives and try to give it some rest.”

Looks like that hipster remover may be working.

Better Book Titles does for books what those movie trailers that cover the entire story arc do for movies. Comedian Dan Wilbur posts a new title rewrite each day. The result is a funny, painfully true synopses for classics and blockbuster bestsellers alike.

“Production company Another Company commissioned street artist KAWS for this video teaser for Cerveza Dos Equis. The video documents the artist creating the brand identity for the new Dos Equis packaging featuring the iconic KAWS double X. The pairing between artist and brand is almost a perfect match as the double X is a shared element in both the existing brandmark, and well as a key element in most of the artist’s works to date.” via Hypebeast

Graffitini.

Sweet, funny, sexy, sad, touching, reverential – everything life is is summed up wordlessly via word association.

“Words” by Everynone

Broken Bells has just released an interactive video for “October,” a trippy little song with a synthy chorus. You can sit back and let the video navigate itself or take your own trip through its world with some 3-D glasses and a mouse. If you feel like retracing your path, “save your journey” at the end.