Speed of Life

Music video for The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte by Sparks, from the new album of the same title.  Starring Cate Blanchett

I'm sick of Donald Trump's brand of fake patriotism. Our new video: #DemocratsStandTall pic.twitter.com/3aqLhpBe9F — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 12, 2020

Watch Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. deliver what one person called "the most important breakdown of racism in America." https://t.co/wT9LFMhEt6 via @HuffPostPol — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) October 22, 2019

Powerful and Timely! Kudos to The Killers and Spike Lee "We got more people locked up than the rest of the world Right here in red, white and blue Incarceration's become big business It's harvest time out on the avenue" "So how may daughters, tell me how many sons Do we have to put in the ground before we just break down and face it We got a problem with guns" A real national emergency is the epidemic of gun violence in America. On average, 96 people die from it every single day. Let's do something about that. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 12, 2019 Bob Lefsetz writes,"The message of the song, the message of the video. What does America stand for? But that wall hasn't been built yet and the Killers don't want it to be. They're making a statement that will reach their fans more than anything in the "New York Times," never mind Fox News. That's the power of art, to change minds. And if ...

by Gregg Chadwick   Generosity of Eye: Art Transformed into Education from brad hall  (Full Film) Generosity of Eye: Art Transformed into Education is a must watch documentary by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall that documents William Louis-Dreyfus, Julia's father,  as he explains why he decided to sell his bountiful art collection to benefit the Harlem Children's Zone - an educational program in New York, created by Geoffrey Canada to break the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and their families in the Harlem community.  Julia is often on screen with her father and their scenes together are rich with familial affection. As Julia interviews her father about the art that William has collected over the years and the artists who have created it, she is often overcome with emotion as she discovers the depth of her father's passion for art and for justice. Geoffrey Canada, William Louis-Dreyfus, and Julia Louis...

 Bruce Springsteen On His New Album High Hopes : I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add “High Hopes” to our live set.  I had cut “High Hopes,” a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the 90′s.  We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it.  We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with “Just Like Fire Would,” a song from one of my favorite early Australian punk bands, The Saints (check out “I’m Stranded ”).  Tom and his guitar became my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level.  Thanks for the inspiration Tom. Some of these songs, “American Skin” and “Ghost of Tom Joad,” you’ ll be familiar with from our live versions.  I felt they were among the best of...

by Gregg Chadwick   Today in Ireland, Bruce Springsteen dedicated his powerful song 41 Shots (American Skin) with a call to justice for Trayvon Martin. The verdict in the Zimmerman case was tainted by the stench of ALEC's odious "Stand Your Ground" legislation.  "Stand Your Ground" laws are abhorrent. They are fundamentally biased. A recent study has shown that white people who kill black people in 'Stand Your Ground' states are 354% more likely to be  acquitted of murder.  Denise, an active duty US Marine, wrote a compelling argument against the jury's decision on twitter tonight, "If a man watches a woman while he is in his SUV, follows that woman in the dark  and  kills her because she fought him. Is he justified?" As I write, more than one million  Americans have signed petitions demanding federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. There is no doubt that Zimmerman killed Trayvon and yet has not  spoken  one word...

Early this morning David Bowie celebrated his 66th Birthday with the release of his first single in a decade.  This song  Where Are We Now?,  taken from Bowie's forthcoming album  The Next Day,  is accompanied by an artful video directed by the contemporary artist Tony Oursler . Set in a black and white Berlin of memory and dream, Oursler's video combines with Bowie's voice and lyrics to  question the themes of human bondage, release, freedom,  doubt, ageing, and death.   The video opens with a shot of a crystal skull on a table. Reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's evocative paintings of human skulls, this  visual entrance to Bowie's musical memento  mori ,    reminds us that in Berlin we  wrestle with the dead as we walk through a haunted and enchanted city. After the fall of the wall,  Berlin has come to embody the future while at the same time carrying the scars of the past.  Bowie sings : ...

by Gregg Chadwick   GreggChadwick As I write this, an impromptu vigil is forming in front of the White House in Washington DC to mourn the victims of another senseless mass shooting and to call for much needed gun regulation. Today, a quiet school in Newtown, Connecticut was violated by a gun wielding murderer packing semi-automatic weapons with a back up assault rifle in his car. The shooting was horrific and preventable.  This is a national tragedy that needs a national response. Our glorification of weapons and our embrace of the use of violent force to resolve conflicts has led us to a crisis point. Do we continue to let our children be slaughtered in schools and theaters? Will we continue to allow almost unfettered access to military grade high powered weapons? Will we continue to cut funding for preventive mental health care? Today, we make a decision as a nation. Twenty children and six adults were killed today at a Newtown, Connecticut school. I refus...

                 Gangnam for Freedom - Anish Kapoor and Friends  The British sculptor Anish Kapoor and a group of his human rights oriented friends have released a new video in partnership with Amnesty International and PEN International to bring attention to the ongoing persecution of artists and writers across the globe from China to Russia who have been harassed and imprisoned because of their work. Taking up where Ai Wei Wei's recent Gangnam Style video left off, Kapoor's own Gangnam Style romp combines symbols of imprisonment and torture with the names of many who have been persecuted in their artistic strivings for freedom. Please watch, visit the links, and find out what you can do to help shed light on this growing problem of censorship and oppression. As an emigré from India to the United Kingdom, Anish Kapoor has often been concerned with the ideas of freedom and dislocation in his artwork. I have posted a few exam...

Columbus is packing the Nationwide Arena to see  Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z, and President  BarackObama !  Watch now! Free live streaming by Ustream Bruce Springsteen and President Barack Obama Embrace in  Madison, Wisconsin on November 5, 2012

Provocative Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Creates His Own Gangnam Style Video Here's Ai Weiwei's twitter announcement: @aiww   艾未未 Ai Weiwei 给债主的礼物。。疯转吧！！！RT  @aiww : 草泥马style http : // t.co /OmLdJjP3  来自  @youtube October 24, 2012 3:15 pm  via  weiweiweb   Reply   Retweet   Favorite

Watching these poignant videos of Eddie Vedder singing with Bruce Springsteen and knowing that Tom Morello was offstage waiting for his next turn, I am called to thank the numerous mentors in my life. As an artist, sometimes it is only the artwork itself that carries its influence into your life. Other times it is the day to day connection with a teacher, colleague, or partner. And for me it has also been the powerful influence of my family and friends. From my blazingly intelligent wife MarySue Heilemann , to my brilliant brother Kent Chadwick , to my supportive parents Bob and Peg Chadwick, to my teachers Sam Amato and Jan Stussy at UCLA and Dale McConathy and Richard Martin at NYU, to my colleagues at the Santa Monica Art Studios , to the always inspiring writer Peter Clothier , to my gallerist in San Francisco Sandra Lee , to my collectors over all these years, to my new friend and colleague in the arts Barbara Drucker , to my agent Gwenda Joyce , to the insightful film and the...