Probably my favorite band logo/ symbol of all time is the Crass symbol by David King. As I understand it, the symbol was not originally intended for the band but was adopted a bit later. It represents symbols of power or 'icons of authority,' with the Christian cross, the Union Jack and the Swastika, eating themselves in the form of a two-headed snake. I'm not sure who placed it on the worn out back of this shattered human being? Maybe King himself? Either way, power destroying itself on the backs of average human beings is ever-so-timely. While this symbol will forever be associated with noisy British anarcho-punk from the early 80s, it stretches far beyond that time and place.

Penny Rimbaud on Skateboarding

Ammon Deep in the SW hills

So is the spirit of rebellion alive and well?

“Of course. It’s more powerful than ever,” insists Penny. “There will always be those that say, ‘No, I’m not going to stand for this shit’… I’ve always loved skateboarders for that. They’ve turned the urban landscape into a playground; it’s become their mountain, or beach. And that undermines authority in a way that no amount of political rhetoric will, or can, undermine it… Everyone can do that sort of slipping the system. That’s where it starts. And it should be a game.”

Penny Rimbaud Huck Magazine

Barbary Coast

From my visit to the Neon Graveyard in Las Vegas

"Located on the Barbary Coast (Salé, Algiers and Tunis), those pirate bases were havens for Muslim Renegade Corsairs from the 16th to the 18th century. The pirates, dubbed "Barbary pirates", ravaged European shipping operations and enslaved many thousands of captives. However, thousands of Europeans also converted to Islam, forming the "Renegados" and joining the pirate holy war... ...these men and women were not only apostates and traitors, as they were considered in their homelands, but their voluntary betrayal of Christendom can also be thought of as a praxis of social resistance."  _wiki page on Peter Lamborn Wilson 'Pirate Utopias.'