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I'm immediately reminded of the background Ze Frank has used in his web series, "A Show"[1]. In the videos, Ze regularly places a single white bookshelf with a mishmash of objects on it, mostly books. He either uses the bookshelf often enough to arrange the objects in unique ways regularly, or re-arranges it for every individual episode of A Show he records.

When I see videos like those Ze creates, I know they're staged but can't help but feel like my life, too, should be filled with knickknacks, books, clutters of inspiration.

There's some sense of: "If my environment looks like that environment, I'll be able to act like that person does." I imagine much of pop culture influences how we imagine our rooms and homes should look.

1 http://ashow.zefrank.com/

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