"It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success."
--Malcolm McLaren
July 06, 2009 5:56 AM  (go back to main view)
Lady Liberty
I've always loved this photograph because of what it embodies, a promise of America that is spirited, youthful, sexy, driven, rebellious, hopeful, outrageous. Lensman Douglas Kirkland clicked this now iconic image of Ann Margaret in the Las Vegas desert in 1971. I was 4 and living in Southern California during its prime.

It might now seem like the winter of this nation, what with twisted priorities ike a government paying for a pop star's funeral when a legion of teachers are getting their pink slips.
But life can be good again. Hope springs eternal, right? Promise is in the pictures.

Happy Independence Day.
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Love this photograph our good friend Armen Sansarian snapped of us ages ago. He just shared it with us yesterday, and we love the dreamy effect of the iPhone and candle light.
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