If you have a party pic site, do u have a personal responsibility not to take pictures of mainstream bros in Abercrombie gear? Would this be sort of like a 7th grader having a party pix site where every1 on the site wearing Hollister, Abbycromby, and polo shirts with the huge dragon EXPRESS logos?
Do you think Abercrombie/Old Navy/Hollister should pay for the free product placement in yearbooks by high school students who take their photos wearing shirts that have the brand name written across them?
I think Crombies invented ‘party pix’ out of the need for photographers at Greek Life events at colleges, but alternative photographers started the ‘lifestyle brand’ photo sites.
Does any one know the origin of party pix?
Who took the first PARTY pic?
SERIOUSLY though…which came first…LastNitesPartie? Cobrasnake? EveryoneIsFamous? Please email me a complete history if you know these answers, and the order in which party pix sites swept through major metropolitan areas.
Anyways, I just wanted 2 say: FUCK CROMBIES.
I read in a wikipedia entry that ‘crombie’ is a derogatory & hostile term for a ‘mainstreamer.’
Love all yall AmericanAppies, though.
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these people look like the american exchange students at my university here is aus
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i’d say the first party pic was probably THOMAS JEFFERSON. He was known for POURING DRANK INTO HIS SLAVZ MOUFS!
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Raffael_058.jpg
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History of the modern partypix:. Although its origins can be traced back through the 60s and 80s. The partypix died with the recession of the early 1990s. But with September 11th came the return of the club scene and thus of party photography. It really all began with early 00s phenomenon myspace.com. People wanted a “cool” and “hip” default picture so they would use photographs of them drinking, having a good time, and most importantly partying. This let the world know they were not living in fear after the twin towers fell. This lead into the rise of the Misshapes clubscene in NYC. One was considered “in the know” and “more hipster than thou” if yr myspace photo featured the signature red wall (later a ‘white’ wall took its place). The rise of Misshapes also gave way to the rise of LastNightsParty which at first featured many of the same clubgoers as Misshapes. Soon after another partypix sensation started to rise on the east coast. This was Cobrasnake and the fledging alt celebrities of the east coast such as Cory Kennedy. The Misshapes peaked, declined, and soon ended with many of its altcelebrities running off to LA and Philadelphia. The fall of The Misshapes let LastNightsParty, Cobrasnake and the countless other imitators flourish in the scene we now know today.
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andy warhol took the first party pix. its tru.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crombie_%28clothing%29
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YEAH!!! I’m famous!!!
But that’s a terrible angle, try:
http://www.we-are-awesome.com/nights/circus/img_0031.html
and
http://www.we-are-awesome.com/nights/circus/img_0032.html
those are both much better photos.
I love abercrombie, just like i love nascar, budweiser, cleaning my shotgun, and watching NFL.
I’m so stoked. I’m on the same page as Kanye West, and Scarlett Johansson. I love being a mainstream bro. FUCK YEAH!!!
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I HATE BROS. HATE
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dont hate the playa.
you can be a bro too. It’s easy. Just beef up, get rich, buy a swank car, get some bitches in tow, and you’re sorted!!!
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sometimes i wear clothes from express and get hit on by alt bros. sign of electro-recession?
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Bru, I don’t have an opinion. I only like going to gym, and the other stuff I mentioned up there.
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DEAR HRO
I miss myspacers worth blogging about.
obv, crombie party pix are great, but I miss my myspacers
luv, anon<33
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http://www.positivecurfew.com/wp-
content/uploads/2007/03/headspins.gif
pre hat spinning?
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midlife crisis mainstream bros = the next best human accessory!
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it is true- haterz only make crombiez more famous!
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I cant stand
Crombies!
…THere were loads of them back in my high school….everywhere…i mean EVERYWHERE!
I dont get it….why do they all wanna wear the same look-a-like shirts.
douches
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I’m not 40. I’m just incredibly cool. And now famous. Wicked
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This is hilarious! And I think that bro is HOT;)
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that guy is so pumped to have a his pix on a blog and so desperate for attention.. whattafag.
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is carles a crombie?
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i used 2 be a crombie until i realized around 16 that it really isnt that cool to look like a pack of quintuplets w/ ur bros. that doesnt get you women, and especially not alt women.
do u think bouncers at clubs should automatically kik crombies out for wearing such hideous attire? and really we’re just as bad when we flaunt hip tats and brobrasnake tees 2 all our alternative friends.
oh and carles 5:46 in da morning? do you go 2 church w/ ur grandmother?
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you’re not funny stanleycharles leave the blogging to the bloggers
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fuck crombies!!!! Fuck that stupid big-nosed douche!!! what a FGGT, anyone who wears those brands should be shot on sight…and not with a camera.
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no, you’re not famous…you’re just a perfect example of FGGTness and what not to do. You’re also on the same page as: Ugly babies, FGGT alt-bros, skinny trannies, faggy videos, child predator wanna-bes, super gay douchebag yardsales, predator masks and pharrel’s ugly ass chair. Good company right? I have to admit that seeing someone on here with FAGGOTCROMBIE & BITCH takes the award for Douchebag of the year…and it’s only JUNE you dumb FGGT!
THX
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blog about thomas jefferson
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maybe some guys in justice jackets beat that crombie up right after the pic was taken.
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oh flip, you guys are so alt that you’ve become mainstream. you know what’s funny is that you are all behaving worse than a poor crombie who actually doesn’t give a fuck what he’s wearing – only wears t-shirts like that cos his girlfriend brought it back for him from America. so go flippin cut your wrists faggots x
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Polaroid – you know the camera that provided the instantaneous pictures for everyone to see!
Edwin Land – inventor of party pics circa 1947
Users – Polariod SX-70, Polariod Land Model, Polaroid Square Shooter…
Polaroids met their fate due to popularity of digital, point and clicks, one times, re-usables, Holgas, SLRs, and DSLRs, and mass production of Myspace, Facebook, and Photography fiends who replaced reality with Adobe Photoshop… go Rony Alwin for partypics a la polariods!
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what’s the diff between a mainstreamer being proud of wearing abercrombie and some FGGT hipsters wearing americal apparel? its the same fucking thing where people are proud of associating themselves with some brand that they think is cool . i don’t really give a shit . you guys think americal apparel is so cool now but later youll be bashing am. app and says stuff like ‘its so played out’ or ‘am .ap has gone so mainstream’ when you FGGTs are the one who made it so mainstream…. i can see the demise of am. app. now
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…it’s not what brands “we” think is cool, it’s MTV that tells us what’s cool, right? …or is it the Mall?
By the way, how has HRO leaked out to mainstreamers?
I think pseudo alt-bros are finding out about HRO then seeing their FGGT mainstreamer or fellow wannabee alt-bro friends in party pics here then telling them. Then they make faggy comments and mis-abbreviate American Apparel (it’s AA, not am. app.) and using our abbreviation for faggot(FGGT).
Nothing is sacred anymore…now I have to find a new identity…maybe I’ll go uber-goth and paint my face white and shit…long live Hot Topic!
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wow joke hate on alt bros, which are just bro’s in different clothing? wow cat this post is just phony. express is classy alt bro wear, I’d rock it at an alt party.
wow cant believe all this crombie and express hate but you’ll let the AA’ies trash run your blog.
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and post above me, when did abbrv become exclusive? this whole post and comments are grippin and sipping on some srs hatorade….
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HRO = Hater RunOff
ANthony is a little bitch express wearing FGGT getting his feelings hurt, don’t you guys understand irony and sarcasm? Go back to your own faggy blogs and talk about A&F, Creed, puppies, rainbows, popping up collars and hair gel.
Hatorade is the drink of choice around here…
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Cheers FGGTs!
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looks like just another prick ass bitch frat boy that has no sense of style thus resorts to wearing bunches of AnF.
if he was sporting a button down its collar would be popped.
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Bro looks like he was drinking YAGA BAAMS all night.
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Some ppl just don’t understand sarcasm. It’s a bloody t-shirt. Get over it.
the evil ‘mainstreamers’ lol! lame.
have u noticed how common the whole emo/alt scene has become? Saw one dewd the other day who was practically anorexic. yeah, that looks healthy, we should aspire.
find something worth blogging about.
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WOW. people don’t understand sarcasm when they see one.. so sad.
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no alt wears AA or crombie anymore. it’s all about perez hilton’s new gear.
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Only FGGTs shop at Express…seriously.
You are what you wear.
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lol guys stop bitching come on commenter self-policing
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OK pnuttxo, you can take your nose out of Carles’s ass…
what a swabby goon.
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YOU GUYS! is mainstream readership of HRO a sign that electro nuclear winter is descending on us in a few short months???
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I’M SKEERED
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chill time fggts
chill time
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i bet you he’s a real sweetie in person. stop the hate. power to the peaceful.
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i swear to god, carles, its like you just discovered this shit last week… where do you even LIVE?? im really starting to think that you’re a 35 year old, balding, d&d champion who lives in his parents basement in topeka, kansas and you somehow fell upon all of this during a late night filled with mt. dew and frosted flakes eaten straight out of the box.
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so much irony here, lolz
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let the anon wars begin!
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i would be ashamed if caught with the likes of him 2
u go gurl
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Hey, I’m the bro in this pic and I want a box over my face too.
Thanks,
-FGGT
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Man, being a hipster is hard work and a lot of pressure. I don’t think I want to be part of the scene anymore…I really hope my GAP gift card from 2k1 is still valid.
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I love you all
besides someone saying about listening to creed. no, we cant even joke about something that serious
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dont hate the crombie, hate the game.
all yall alt bros should thank every crombie you see out and about. it is BECAUSE those crombies exist that allow you to pat yourself on the back and tell yrself “i am an alt bro, not a crombie like this guy” and feel SO above it all.
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do they even have AA in africa
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AA is shit. clothes stretched and more overpriced than fggy GAP. but you fuckers will eat it up when it comes to cape town. shame. to match your “politically-aware” hamas scarves.
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Clothes are for FGGTS, P0ST MRe N00DZ!
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the broad has hairy arms, i think it’s a bear
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hey some ppl just wanna look good without being soo special. they go to the next store and become a crombie, being a FGGT is a matter of different things like what a good friend you are or when you don´t know that your jeans is too tight.
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thats the crombie’s arm you dumbass
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party pics started as something that promotion companies and clubs did pretty casually all through the 90s, probably earlier. It wasn’t that big of a deal – you might see a handful of photos in the back of Blackbook or maybe Flyer in NY, but this is when the club scene was split between “serious” clubbing like Body and Soul and the uber-exclusive shit like Bungalow 8…you didn’t dress up for the former really b/c it was supposed to be underground and all-inclusive.
You’d see people bring in duffle bags and shit and dress like it was laundry day b/c they planned on leaving sweaty. I was pretty young at the time, but had someone suddenly shoved a camera in my face at Vinyl or Twilo I would have flipped. I know what I look like at 5 AM at a club and I don’t want it immortalized.
After 9/11, electroclash and Misshapes, Berliniamsburg, etc brought in the more colorful crowd, the outfits got more photo-worthy and vapid celebrity culture got embraced IRONICALLY (which I don’t think is the case anymore) along with the 80 and that whole gutter-glam thing. Instead of looking back to rave culture they looked back to Disco 2000 among other things (read up on the Michael Alig murder if you haven’t), which probably had that faux celebrity thing going on too. Instead of flying out celebrity nightlife photographers to other parties the flew out famous club kids like Richie Rich.
Larry Tee was a part of that scene so it’s not surprising that his brain child “electroclash” kind of took on that character (and we all owe his night at the Luxx for modern club shit). LNP and Bronque was the first modern one I’m pretty sure and it was a great way to see beautiful people (and casual porn) at these parties and then it steamrolled from there w/Cobrasnake on the West Coast and Clayton in Chicago.
(Sorry this is so long) Look at the early pics on EveryoneisFamous though and you can see Chi past-times go from dodgeball with the art kids to Floss and co. running shit. It’s cool when party pics are chronicling a scene – it’s not cool when it’s the only excuse for going out.
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in correct order as follows
misshapes
thecobrasnake
lastnightsparty
junk-mag
drivenbyboredom
oneoctobernight
outwithme
nickydigital
everyoneisfamous
indierotica
shadowscene
and then all the rest that followed are just lame
ohsnapkid / redslurpee / weownthiscity/ wemadeoutonce / icanteachyouhowtodoit / ronysphotobooth / annieray
LAME LAME LAME
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One more thang: Chill on the “Fuck Crombies” shit. Realize the “alt” (I can’t believe anyone still uses that term)/normal divide just means you shop at different stores in the same mall. Get over it. You found your way to electro at the same time they did – when it went mainstream and accessible. All things considered, the 8th generation hipster-lites and the Abercrombies deserve each other. Hearing someone on this blog bitch about Abercrombies infiltrating their “PARTIEZ” or whatever and defending electro is like hearing someone defend grunge and then go listen to Silverchair. This electro-lite got absorbed into the mainstream and now you have to deal with mainstream people who listen to the same music but don’t shop at American Apparel. You’re the same people shopping at different stores.
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r u sure he isnt being ironic?
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yo. oh snap kid is far more talented than everybodylooki’maspindoctor
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John is obviously a HUGE FGGT…
FUCK CROMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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John also uses vowels so his posts don’t look like they’re a TXT from teenage GRL, you twat. Sorry if the Crombies hurt your feelings in gym class but you’re same kids different clothes. Have fun partying together.
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oh yeah!
p.s. fuck anony comments!
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im disappointed john’s name didn’t link to a blog :(
its funny that so many readers/posters are kids that have never seen a scene die…at least you’ll have all your FGGT tats and party pix to remember them by.
you are more timestamped than any other cultural movement as of yet.
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haha. perfect. lets just leave it at that. how did I even land up on this site?
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I love you no matter what you wear babe x
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I <3 party pix
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