Just simple utility...

I needed to figure out a blog name that wasn't already taken - and spontaneously thought of "Black Bag". It proved to be taken already.
I "googled" references and most of what came up had to do with CIA operations or "Black Ops" or kidnapping and extortion. Sinister associations is not what I had in mind.

My thoughts was on a very specific bag. In a way that bag too had to do with some form of cloak and.. well not "dagger".. but at least cloak.. mentality. Mind you, the color of the bag just happened to be black. It could have been any color. The bag wasn't designed to be especially discreet. Rather perhaps the opposite. The large corporate logo and brand was meant to be conspicious. My friend, who owned the bag, tried to conceal it.

The background was that he had signed a contract with a prestigious modeling agency. The agency gave him several promotional items.

My friend gave almost everything away immediately, mostly shirts. Really cool designer shirts.. but that's another story. The only item he kept was a black bag. However, he removed the name and logo from it. He did that for the same reason as he had given the promo stuff away to friends. He couldn't stand the attention that the prestige surrounding the agency name was rendering.

The bag was useful for my friend in one respect - as something to carry things - namely his gym and sports stuff - in. To be in the center of (mostly) girl's interests had no appeal to him while at the gym.

Most people, gluttonous for attention, couldn't "understand" and accept the difference. They failed to recognize that there's a huge difference between using every possible channel to try to fill a desperate need to be "seen", versus finding various practical uses for things or situations which, as a social side-effect, may catch people's superficial interest.

Working for the agency had one main purpose for him - he got paid. It was of secondary importance that his job was on the catwalk or in front of a camera. Outside those environments he preferred, even needed his privacy. Attention, in my friend's mind, served mainly one purpose: ir was a means to communicate an idea or make a request (for example: "pass the salt"). Hence, the reasons behind the birth of the legend of the black bag.