Portland Gutter Punks

Attributes may include unkempt dreadlocks nose rings mohawk hairstyles and tattooed faces.

Portland gutter punks.

They lampoon the fuck out of hipster culture in portland. I think they have the credentials to make commentary on punk rock culture. Besides armisen used to be a drummer in a punk band and brownstein was in sleater kinney. People like john young white homeless panhandlers are typecast as gutter punks often pierced crusty and ragged addicts.

The gutter punk subculture is for the most part apolitical and nihilistic or anarchistic by nature. Saw this on portlandia the other day and had to upload it. For those unfamiliar with the term i ll defer to wikipedia to describe this millenial genre. Portland and new orleans.

Photographer stephanie bassos captured photos of the youths she calls gutter punks during the summer of 2011. Attributes may include unkempt dreadlocks nose rings mohawk hairstyles and tattooed faces. At issue here are the gutter punks that vast unbeloved subculture run roughshod over the french quarter. There seems to be little foresight to this life style.

After spending 17 or 18 years around this type of people i found this hilarious and true in too m. As most portlanders have noticed our city. And they jab at any other extremes they see in culture including gutter punks crust punks. A gutter punkis a homelessor transientindividual who displays a variety of specific lifestyle traits and characteristics that often but not always are associated with the punk subculture.

According to john a 27 year old homeless traveler from portland now living in new orleans flagrant threats from authorities are not uncommon. Have you ever watched the show. The live for today kind of mentality that is inherent to the street kid way of life is dangerous and conducive to drug and alcohol abuse violence and general risky behavior.