Must Watch Video: Republican Women for Obama

Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party's views are no longer aligned with their own. They don't support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women. 

As they share:

"If you truly believe in a small government. That government shouldn't be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body."

"There is no way on God's green earth that I would consider voting Republican." 

"I don't even want to think about them having control—as a woman I don't."

"If you're a conservative woman, and you believe in small government, then Barack Obama is your candidate because he's keeping the government out of the decisions that should remain between you and God, and you and your own conscience."

"My voting record: 92 Bush, 96 Did not vote, 2000 Bush, 2004 Did not vote, 2008 McCain, 2012 No question in my mind--- Obama The GOP has turned into a radical right wing party. Republican party has turned into a hate group. They hate women, gays, blacks, foreigners, middle class, poor. It has become the party of rich white men who look down on a good portion of American citizens. Romney's racist birthirism comment says it all. This man is not presidential material. Obama all the way"


Learn more: http://OFA.BO/WbWDgC

Born in the USA

The President Responds via Twitter to Romney's Ill Advised Birther Joke:

Barack Obama ‏@BarackObama

Song of the day: Born in the U.S.A. http://OFA.BO/irL3ZV

Retweeted 1388 times

Love that our President has a great sense of humor and great taste in music!

Gregg Chadwick

American Dreams: Obama Study

Opening Thursday, August 9, 2012 at the LACDA: Electron Salon

Gregg Chadwick
Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick
44"x36" digital photograph on paper
On Exhibit at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 
 August 9 -September 1, 2012

"Within the scale of the life of the cosmos, a human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a visitor to this planet, a guest, who has only a finite time to stay. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time lonely, unhappy, and in conflict with our fellow visitors?"

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion, 2011

I am honored to announce that my photograph Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick will be included in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's Electron Salon exhibit which opens this Thursday, August 9 at LACDA. The artist's reception runs from 7-9pm as part of the Downtown Art Walk. The gallery is located at 102 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, California 90013

Hope to see you there!

los angeles center for digital art presents

Electron Salon

August 9-September 1, 2012

Artists Reception August 9, 7-9pm
in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk

Adriane Biondo
Donna Cohen Lane
Andrea Rosenthal
Ty Cummings
Maria Martin
Beau Comeaux
Anna Chupa
Phil Althouse
Maureen McAuliffe
Mary Ciani Saslow
Julia and Amy Bautz
GUILLERMOHFORNILLO
Sal Morales
Lillian Abel
Melinda R. Smith
Bridget Klappert
Kristin Glover
Claudio Vazquez
Gregg Chadwick
Alli Curtis
Mike Pace
Elke Brand
Jane Gottlieb
Marjorie Albano Renno

© 2012 Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
All Rights Reserved

Works of individual artists remain the intellectual property and are copyrighted by their respective authors. No unauthorized reproduction, all rights reserved.

• NEXT ART WALK: AUGUST 9, 2012 •

Directions From...

Hollywood to Art Walk

Pasadena to Art Walk

San Fernando Valley to Art Walk

Santa Monica to Art Walk

Take the 10 Freeway East and merge North onto the 110 towards Pasadena. Take the 3rd/4th Street exit and merge onto 6th Street. At Main Street turn left and continue a few blocks to find parking at Downtown Artwalk.

Vale Robert Hughes: Influential Author, Artlover and Art Critic Dies at 74

 "I have always tended to take art contextually. If I have any merits as a critic, they have to do with my ability as a storyteller — and above all I wanted to tell a story."
Robert Hughes in Salon, May 23, 1997

Robert Hughes in New York City - 1970's

In a 1997 piece on "60 Minutes," correspondent Steve Kroft said to Robert Hughes that he was the most powerful art critic in the world. Hughes deftly avoided the moniker and described his job as being akin to being the most important beekeeper in the world and that his influence said more about Time magazine than it did about the importance of his writing. But Robert Hughes writing is important. For many of us it was the first real taste of the transcendence and power of great art. Since I discovered the art criticism of Robert Hughes in Time magazine when I was a teenager, I have eagerly awaited each of his new works. Robert's articles, books, and documentaries helped open the worlds of art and history to me. Robert wrote clearly about art, taking pains to avoid jargon and faddish arguments. Hughes expressed that he was drawn to artworks that explored the questions: "Why am I here? And what am I doing here?" This search for philosophical and metaphysical concepts underscored much of the great art that Hughes explored in his work and shared with us. 

The Critic's Eyes
Robert Hughes - 2008

With great sadness I note that at the age of 74, Robert has died after suffering through a long illness. Robert Hughes will be greatly missed.

Robert Hughes on 60 Minutes in 1997

Robert Hughes in Italy - 1960's

The Mona Lisa Curse
Written and Presented by Robert Hughes


More At:
Robert Hughes Dies at 74: The New York Times
Hughes Views in Salon

Teddy Bear Airdrop Over Minsk, Belarus Draws Attention to the Oppressive Lukashenko Government

Last month two brave Swedes wearing teddybear masks took off in a small plane from Lithuania and flew unannounced into the airspace of Belarus armed only with a sense of humor and parachute equipped teddybears. The plush arrivals carried leaflets proclaiming "We support the Belarusian struggle for freedom of speech." As noted on their website: "A dictator can be hated, despised or feared. The only thing he cannot survive is being laughed at." The oppressive leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, now knows what it is like to be laughed at. And the people of Belarus now know that the world has seen their plight.

More at:
Studio Total
Minsk Teddybear Drop

Powerful New Video From the Obama Campaign

A Powerful New Video From President Obama's Campaign


You work hard, stretch every penny, but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him: Mitt Romney made $20 million dollars in 2010, but paid only 14% in taxes—probably less than you. 

Now he has a plan that will give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2000 dollars a year. Mitt Romney's middle class tax increase: he pays less, you pay more.



More From Nate Silver:
Obama Extends Electoral College Advantage


And A Must Read In The New York Times From UCLA Professor Jared Diamond on Mitt Romney's Misappropriation of Diamond's Important Book - Guns Germs & Steel :


"Mitt Romney may become our next president. Will he continue to espouse one-factor explanations for multicausal problems, and fail to understand history and the modern world? If so, he will preside over a declining nation squandering its advantages of location and history."
-Jared Diamond