paging doctor cool monster

My Name’s Matt. I’ve been a reader of you for years. I’m doing my Thesis at Parsons: The New School for Design, on Social Subculture and Sociocultural Effects in New York City. It’s a book I’m putting together with photography, video stills and my writing. A portion of the book is about “cool bending”, the death of the word hipster, and how social media is used to define “cool”, hip and fresh. I’m a photographer, media studies student yet am writing my thesis on the above topic, to marry the two, and to get ready for a documentary I’m going to shoot based on this publication.

I was wondering if you had a few moments, to answer a few questions. You’re one of the only bloggers, I’ve followed for almost the last 6 or more years (wow, thats a lot longer than I remember) and was curious to hear some of your thoughts based on your popularity and also that i enjoy your honesty and style of writing.

If you do have time, I could write up some questions tomorrow in the AM, and send them your way. Although my documentary is written from and to New York, it’s also stressing the importance of how this subculture (or mainstream) depending on how you look it, is seen, transmitted and borrowed from all over the world, and in some cases, thats part of the next step.

If you’re wondering if I’m some creeper creeper, i actually had a friend that wrote about you, interviewed you many years ago for undergrad, shes jessica *****. shes french. blogger etc. anywho. they’ll be quasi entertaining questions for you to answer.

This would be greatly appreciated. Hope to hear from you soon!