–Via 54 Monkeys, an article in New York Times Magazine about rebellious branding:

…The supposed counterculture nature of his brand might arouse some suspicion. Manufactured commodities are an artistic medium? Branding is a form of personal expression? Indie businesses are a means of dropping out? Turning your lifestyle into a business is rebellious?

…Perhaps they‚Äôre trying a new tactic in the eternal war against the corporate suits who co-opt the rebellion, style and taste of every youth culture and sell it right back to the generation that created it. Perhaps the first lesson of the brand underground is not that savvy young people will stop buying symbols of rebellion. It is that they have figured out that they can sell those symbols, too.

–A girl photographs herself every day for 3 years, resulting in a short film. See also Diego Goldberg’s Arrow of Time. It would be cool to do project like that, but I know I would forget.