Paul Newman's Legacy

For ages, mankind has desired immortality. People have always tried to figure out how to live beyond death, either metaphorically through legacy, or literally by some other means. Paul Newman figured it out. There is no better way to secure your legacy than creating a salad dressing line and posting a drawing of your head on each and every bottle. I am a perfect example of the perpetuating life of this bygone actor. I had no idea who Paul Newman was until one revelatory dinner in which this man's mug prompted a dinner conversation that filled me in on his celebrityship. Now Paul lives on through me.
So maybe it doesn't have to be a salad dressing line, but think about it. People sho would otherwise have been "gone with the wind," have lived on by gracing future generations with their faces. Artists, for example, understand this concept, and, as a result, often paint their faces into their pictures; despite the fact that they often have no reason to be in the context of the painting. Michaelangelo was perhaps the most creative at this. He immortalized himself in one of his paintings by painting himself as just hollow skin. Gross. The warped thinking of artists is a subject for another day.
One last example is the Incan king who had himself carved into the side of a mountain at Ollantaytambo, Peru. No one today really cares more that he lived as opposed to anyone else, but there he his. Immortalized by his face.
With the increasingly easy creation of media, we are going to have to get more creative at leaving our faces behind. Paul Newman got salad dressing. I call hot air balloons...