noticed several memorial / RIP captions with this one, pretty sweet and sad
this is from a movie rather than music, but i found it while going down this rabbithole so anyway here's pulp fiction
people are also... very into the overdose scene?
back to music here's elvis
a lot of michael jackson tattoos are a little overwrought for my taste but here are some that I like
bob dylan I think has actively resisted allowing himself to be iconized – these are the best I can find. all his album covers, etc are kinda bland, on purpose I think
the white stripes
sia
(h/t @orangefroman for pointing out that she's uncommonly iconic)
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David Bowie experimented a lot with his appearance and image – you could say maybe he tried 100 styles – and of all of his looks, it's the lightning bolt – Aladdin Sane – that has become the designated Bowie Schelling point, the universal Icon
when writing an earlier tweet I found myself assuming that the lightning bolt persona was Ziggy Stardust, because that's the name I've heard most often associated with Bowie. But no, Ziggy predated Aladdin Sane, and there's a moderately iconic outfit associated with that persona
I suppose the sun(?) on the forehead was an attempt – and to be clear, people do still appreciate this. it succeeded at what he was trying to do
what's a scene or environment from a video game that makes you feel wistful and nostalgic? not a cutscene or a character or a story beat, but like, a *place*
everybody has the right to charge whatever they want for whatever services they want to provide. if you are a completely inexperienced child and you want to charge $1,000/hr for advice on how to make "phbtbttbtt" sounds, you are free to do that
you can do whatever you want. be shameless. be audacious. you don't have to let other people's negative self-talk and internalized bootlicking worship of traditional authority, gatekeepers, guilds, etc define how much your services are worth. you can let the market decide.
charging more doesn't mean you have to become some sort of ivory tower elitist. you can charge your top clients big $$ so that you can afford to provide free and discounted services to kids and underprivileged folks who need it. in a way you're redistributing the wealth