I gotta say that even liberal me has been shocked by the images in the new Harvard Square store. When the store was being remodeled before opening and had huge images in the window to prevent people from seeing in there was a very clear Vag crack shot in one of their (admittedly sexy) models. There was another one I saw the other day which was not full-window size, but was a female model widely spread-eagle with super short-shorts on.
Now, I'm definitely no puritan and I admit these pictures are hot, but I have to admit I'm a little bit shocked. Harvard Square is a family destination and while no one should prevent such pictures from being taken or even presented in certain locations, perhaps the middle of one of the busiest retail destinations in the Boston-area isn't the right place!?
Very hip site
Is the site (and its blog) a marketing tool?
And if this website is, in its own way, a pitch, then are you branding yourself?
Or are you eliminating the middle man? Why identify yourself with a brand, when you can identify yourself with...yourself?
I think most blogs are a form of self-promotion, if only for the reason that the dominant style of blog writing is of a more subjective, first person P.O.V.
But you have a good question, Sabrina, about whether or not "self-branding" is really just self-promotion. It brings to mind all the hipster kids at college, you know the ones? All the kids who grew up in New York City or the Bay Area, or some place cooler than your hometown, and had ironic T-shirts before you could buy them at the Gap? If you're making your personal style stand out, or making it recognizably yours, I'd call that self-branding -- although does that term imply too much intentionality?
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