Speed of Life

"The Battle of #Stonewall - 1969"  by Sandow Birk 1999 Oil on Canvas, 96" x 120" Collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ http://sandowbirk.com/stonewal l 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #OTD in 1969 patrons of the Stonewall Inn in #NYC rebelled against police who entered the bar to harass patrons. Stonewall is considered a galvanizing event in the #LGBTQ #CivilRights movement. The Stonewall is National Historic Landmark. We Are #SantaMonica #History #Pride pic.twitter.com/dZJ3h11gi3 — Santa Monica History Museum (@SMHistoryMuseum) June 28, 2022

"Car-dependent suburbia is subsidized by productive urban places. That's why American cities are broke. But how bad is it, and who is subsidizing who? Watch the rest of the Strong Towns series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Urban3 is a consulting company that helps cities better understand the economic impact of development. They have worked with many American cities to better understand and visualize the costs of development, and uncover which properties are productive, and which are not. Some municipalities have been willing to share that information, and it has provided a fascinating glimpse into the financial problems caused by sprawling car-centric suburban development. https://www.urbanthree.com/ This video explores some of the cities analyzed by Urban3, and provides some lessons that cities should learn about how to build Strong Towns." Watch this video ad-free on Nebula here: https://nebula.app/videos/notjustbike...

They Knew. They ALL knew. https://t.co/7UoMPlsrXq — Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) June 28, 2022 Whoa. Testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson feels like the smoking gun. Don’t let them say they didn’t know what Jan 6 was going to be. They knew. pic.twitter.com/5FdLQubC9C — Julie Cohen (@FilmmakerJulie) June 28, 2022 Wow! Trump was told about the weapons at the 1/6 rally, Hutchinson testifies. He harangued the mob *after* this, including directing the mob right at his vice president! — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 28, 2022 Cassidy Hutchinson is Alexander Butterfield. She’s connecting Jan. 6 right back to Trump, who did not care that insurrectionists were armed. He knew and still told them to go to the Capitol. — Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 (@reneeygraham) June 28, 2022 "You know, I don't f'ing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the F'ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let...

At Glastonbury Olivia Rodrigo brought Lily Allen onstage and spoke out against Friday's horrendous US Supreme Court ruling: "I'm devastated and terrified that so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this. I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who have showed us that at the end of the day, they truly don't give a s*** about freedom." Rodrigo then went on to name the five justices who ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, with Chief Justice John Roberts filing a concurring opinion.  "This song goes out to the justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh," Olivia Rodrigo said as the crowd roared. "We hate you." Thread: https://t.co/LsgTcKEYSa — Christopher Knight (@KnightLAT) June 27, 2022

Full video of Bruce Springsteen performing "Working On A Dream" and "Dancing in the Dark" with Coldplay/Chris Martin at #ColdplayNJ - June 5 | via @buckIands pic.twitter.com/c9ocxRgahU — CPing Media (@CPingMedia) June 6, 2022 Impossible to capture the magic of tonight’s show in one photo but this one captures how I feel. Thank you New York and New Jersey. PH pic.twitter.com/bxxPyvhcJR — Coldplay (@coldplay) June 6, 2022

  by Gregg Chadwick 44 years ago today, Bruce  Springsteen's  fourth album  Darkness on the Edge of Town was released. The wide open romanticism of Born to Run was missing from this new album. Instead we were greeted with a powerful mix of  Steinbeck, Hopper, Woody Guthrie, and Springsteen's unleashed guitar. Bruce's new guitar sound was both lyrical and powerful. I put that sound into my artistic toolbox and pull it out when I need to. In the opening track Badlands, Springsteen howls that "It ain't no sin to be glad your alive." I've held on to that line as a call to action ever since.  Gregg Chadwick Love In Vain (Castro - San Francisco) 16"x20"oil on linen 2016 I had just finished my freshman year at UCLA and  this was my first summer on the Monterey Bay in central California. The pace of life was so much slower than Los Angeles or Washington DC and I found time for study and reflection in the hours after my temp job finished. I would go fo...