Speed of Life

"Highway Patrolman" from the album "Nebraska" Recorded live at Brendan Byrne Arena on August 5, 1984 Film clips are from the Sean Penn directed movie "The Indian Runner" (1991)

"... I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world." - Jackie Robinson, 1972 Many are "more dedicated to order than to justice," offended by kneeling during the Anthem & not by racism & modern-day lynching. #TakeAKnee pic.twitter.com/E23oM1ZW6X — The King Center (@TheKingCenter) September 23, 2017 To Trump, the NFL Players are mere property and he is calling out to their “owners” to discipline them for speaking. This sounds familiar. — deray mckesson (@deray) September 24, 2017 Symbols matter. Protest works. Patriotism is taking a stand against injustice in whatever way you can. pic.twitter.com/G5QRhWfRnz — Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) September 23, 2017 And here is what the Pittsburgh Steelers sideline looked like during the national anthem pic.twitter.com/1QOQJagAco — Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) September 24, 2017 Trump tried to intimidate the players into not kneeling....

“Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons are to be learned in these pages.”   —David McCullough,   two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Walter Isaacson, author of a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci , discusses the Renaissance genius' wildly eclectic notebooks that contained everything from landscape sketches to math equations to 'to do' lists. For more about Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson http://ow.ly/cHwn30d8Yrg Book available for purchase at Amazon and Powell's Also by Walter Isaacson

"Laced with 22 tracks,  Trip  shreds the public's perception of Aiko and allows everyone to walk into the life of Penny, a nickname she was given by her great-grandfather when she was a child. For the first time, Aiko gives listeners a front row seat and allows them to watch her undergo a whirlwind of emotions, including love, pain, depression and, ultimately, triumph." - Carl Lamarre, Billboard RIP Miyagi! 

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away

by Gregg Chadwick Sergio meets Sergio! Thanks to everyone who came out to the Santa Monica Art Studios last night to see my exhibit  Luchador's Dream which was inspired by the incomparable Sergio Arau. El Presidente Sergio Arau with his portrait in my studio tonight! What an evening- thanks for all who stopped by tonight.  #art #music #Mexico #Luchador A post shared by Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) on Sep 15, 2017 at 11:23pm PDT

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Generation Pink 14”x11” oil on panel 2017   Generation Pink,  inspired by the Women's March held on January 21, 2017,  will be exhibited at  Art & Home 2017 : a benefit for LA Family Housing - hosted by Room & Board in Culver City.  Along with around 750,000 others, I marched with my family and friends in Los Angeles to show the world that we stand for love, inclusion, diversity, and social justice.  Generation Pink  is part of a series of paintings exploring the Women's March and the continuing protests in this volatile time. As an artist, I often use my creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses attention on social and political change. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.”   In collaboration with Angeleno magazine, please join us for a special art show at Room & Board in Culver City on September 13, 2017. Over 100 local, contemporary artists...

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau) 56”x86” oil on linen 2017 With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha libre, Mexican wrestlers such as El Santo are defenders of the poor and vulnerable. By taking on the persona of the Luchador (wrestler), Josh Kun writes in Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America , Sergio Arau and his bands have mixed "the traditional with the contemporary, the rural with the urban, the American with the Mexican, the charro with the rockero."  My paintings in Luchador's Dream  carry Sergio Arau into a Los Angeles seemingly pulled from the lyrics of his songs or gathered from scenes of his f...

Friday is Int'l #LiteracyDay ! Literacy skills are essential in an increasingly digital 🌏: https://t.co/4oJ7W3d19Y pic.twitter.com/basXy08ywR — United Nations (@UN) September 7, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick 100 years ago today, the seminal artist Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When Lawrence was in his teens his family moved to Harlem in New York City, where he studied art with Charles Alston at the Harlem Art Workshop. When Lawrence graduated from the American Artists School in New York he became a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project.  The young artist broke new ground in 1941 with The Migration Series which garnered national attention. I find the video below from the Phillips Collection  in which Lawrence discusses The Migration Series  fascinating: During World War II, while in the United States Coast Guard, first as a public relations specialist on the USS Sea Cloud, and then as a combat artist on the USS Gen. Richardson, Lawrence created a series of artworks documenting his vantage point on the war.   Jacob Lawrence No. 2 Control Panel, Nerve Center of Ship, gouache and watercolor on board Co...

Trump cynically cut Obamacare outreach by 90% so that Americans won't know these dates. It is up to us to spread this critical information. Folk's lives depend upon it. November 1, 2017: Enrollment for 2018 health insurance begins. December 15, 2017: Enrollment for 2018 health insurance ends. Please share #ACA enrollment deadlines for health insurance. More at: https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/common-health-questions-answered/