Continued Contemplation

Thus began the 1950’s era of the "eternal virgin" and "dizzy blonde bombshell," in which popular culture reinscribed the ideal female as desirable either for her asexuality and domestic potential or for her naïve, yet overt, sexuality. As such, the postwar U.S. constructed "the ideal American woman as [either] a dependent and happy homemaker . . .[or] sex object, kept childlike by a permanently arrested development."

To The Riot Grrrls

Contemplating a lady friend's nude photo

Modern consumers are like children doing spin art: we pour our favorite colors all over a
fast-spinning lifestyle, fling pigment in all directions, and hope that some will stick to
observers long enough for them to notice our composition. -Geoffrey Miller

Seattle Tacoma

Ok, so I'm  not Ansel Adams, but these pics have special significance to me.