Hipsters

Self-confessed dag Samuel Johnson embarks on the first (skinny) leg of his global odyssey to unearth what it means to be a hipster. This episode he travels to Melbourne, London and NYC.

Samuel makes his way through NYC and Berlin exploring the hipster trend of the now ubiquitous fixed gear bike, and diet trends which revolve around the words artisanal, locavore and paleo.Here Come the Hipsterpreneurs.

Selling everything from bespoke burritos to artisanal soap, businesses operated by and for hipsters are now everywhere - and they're often owned by smart, young hipsterpreneurs.

Samuel Johnson takes a misty-eyed look into the past hoping to uncover the reason why hipsters love things that taste, look and feel old in New York, Detroit and Melbourne.

Sam's exploration of the hipsters' love of retro takes him on a Tokyo time-warp where he meets some people who don't simply love retro - they live it.

Sam travels to China and learns that the idea of the hipster doesn't really exist - instead there is a movement known as the cultured youth. This leads Sam to question if hipster as we know it can actually be considered to be a genuine subculture.