Link Love: 9.9.10

• Such an amazing collection of Volkswagen literature! Imagery spans from the early 1930s and goes all the way until 2005.

• Fear. Debt. Money. I’m 45 and scared. What are you supposed to do next when you’ve ‘done it all’ and hit a dead end?

• A very intriguing Vanity Fair profile on the normally press-shy genius, Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and Facebook.

• My newest guilty pleasure is English 50 Cent. Behold the Real 50: “Soulja and fab kicked it they cool now aint no more beef you cock suckers have a nice day lol” which was interpreted by the Queen’s English 50 as, “Soulja and Fab have reconciled their differences, but have run out of meat. Warm regards to my homosexual followers. *laughs*.”

• Identity Designed is a brand new “showcase and forum for those involved in the design of brand identities.”

• Avoid blogger burnout: 5 tips to save your sanity.

• Too many people feel let down because their life and looks aren’t ‘fabulous’ all the time. In Making Magic 2: On the Tyranny of Image, Rachel Hills says, “…One thing I believe quite firmly is that we’re sold a lie that through changing our appearance, we can change our lives. That if only we lost weight, had “better” hair, the “right” clothes, we’d be able to access that certain, indefinable magic we’re convinced the people who do have that aesthetic possess. I’ve been speaking with women who do have that magic – that capacity to make amazing things happen to them – and unsurprisingly, what I’ve found is that it isn’t about what you wear or how you look at all.”

• New celeb status: having so much traffic that Twitter dedicates entire servers to you.

• Fashion blogs versus fashion magazines.

• Designer Promise Tangeman weighs in on copycats. She says, “Now, I totally understand that sometimes copying can be a good thing and help in the learning process. As an art student I had plenty of assignments where I would have to copy a famous painting technique, color scheme, or exact drawing. And I DID learn a ton in that process. But in the professional competitive business world it cheapens your brand.”