Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     2m 2 minutes ago Sant a Monica, CA Kidnapped elephant calf reunites with her mother after years apart http:// thedo.do/1GhVjbU   https:// youtu.be/YslTuEvudfU  

User Actions    Follow  Art For Amnesty ‏ @ ArtForAmnestyUS Calling all artists! Help us demand safety & justice in our communities @ ManifestExhibit : http:// bit. ly /1agM5yC   Reply Retweeted Favorited More WHAT IS  MANIFEST : JUSTICE ? Communities around the United States and worldwide are filled with good people living in fear. Our city, state and federal spending priorities are broken and institutional bias and racism has eroded trust, access and representation. Enough is enough. We demand more empathy, more accountability, more economic opportunity, more compassion, more dignity, more power and more opportunity for all. We demand healthier communities, which means more from each other; more from our school systems and more from our judicial systems. The time has come to illuminate our resilience and to take back our streets, our schools, our communities and our hope. Together we must lift our voices, ass...

by Gregg Chadwick Currently on display at the Thacher Gallery at USF is the powerful exhibition  Hiraeth : The 3.9 Collective Searches for Home .  Abhi Singh on the KQED Arts page  explains the origins of the exhibition: "San Francisco’s Fillmore district was once a vibrant African American community, known as 'the Harlem of the West.'  But in recent decades the Fillmore — like San Francisco as a whole — has witnessed a startling black exodus.  A group of artists known as the 3.9 Art Collective are responding with work that both reminds us of San Francisco’s more diverse  past and expresses their resistance to present trends. Their name comes from the percentage of African Americans that some predict will remain in the city by the time the next census takes place, in 2020.  The Welsh word Hiraeth roughly translates to a longing for a far-off home — one that may not even exist or has been changed by time or idealized by memory....

by Gregg Chadwick Billie Holiday would have turned 100 today.  John McDonough on NPR writes: " Most artists belong to their times, but  Billie Holiday , born 100 years ago Tuesday, fits in the present. In a way, she died before her time, just as the country was beginning to talk about race, drugs, feminism and misogyny — all of which converged in her life." Still  from 1957 CBS show The Sound of Jazz, Billie Holiday and Lester Young.  Photo courtesy the New York Public Library. Billie Holiday changed jazz singing and popular vocals with her stylistic innovations and haunting sound.  Holiday's vocal style pioneered new ways of manipulating phrasing and tempo.  When asked to explain her singing style, Holiday said, "I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn. I try to improvise like Les Young, like Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my...

21 years on and so poignant. Depression is so misunderstood. It is my fervent hope that the stigma surrounding depression will recede in the near future. The National Institute of Health has an  informative site  - " Most likely, depression is caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. Depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain. Brain-imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have shown that the brains of people who have depression look different than those of people without depression. The parts of the brain involved in mood, thinking, sleep, appetite, and behavior  appear  different. But these images do not reveal why the depression has occurred. They also cannot be used to diagnose depression. Some types of depression tend to run in families. However, depression can occur in people without family histories of depression too. Scientists are studying certain genes that may make some pe...

by Gregg Chadwick Happy Birthday to Jean Honoré Fragonard, born on this day in 1732. http:// met.org/1NH0QHX     Nat. Gallery of Art I have loved this painting since I first viewed it at the National Gallery in Washington, DC as a young art student. Fragonard's rapid brushwork seems to capture the energy of this young woman's thoughts as she ventures into the realm of the mind. And for me, her rich yellow dress with the alizarin  violet bow brings forth the colors of Spring.  Jean Honoré Fragonard French, 1732 - 1806 Young Girl Reading c. 1770 oil on canvas overall : 81.1 x 64.8 cm (31 15/16 x 25 1/2 in.) framed : 104.9 x 89.5 x 2.2 cm (41 5/16 x 35 1/4 x 7/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Mellon Bruce in memory of her father, Andrew W. Mellon

Details on the project from the creators: View photos and full project at  http://GothamCitySF.com This idea came from the  aether ; it emerged over time. Several years ago (2012) while exploring my passion for black and white photography I found myself wandering into a look I call ‘Gotham’.  I have a passion for  timelapse  as well, so it wasn’t long before the two processes started to merge in my mind, and the concept for Gotham City SF was born! Over the intervening years I have collected and edited this footage while juggling my freelance career and time working at Lytro (a new camera technology). This film means a lot to me. It is one of the biggest personal projects I’ve ever worked on. I searched for music for months. Finally deciding to work with James Everingham: a talented 14 year old from the UK. ( Now  16) He ended up composing a full custom composition and it came out perfect! I also want to thank my friend and college David ...

Must See Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum I will be discussing the important artwork of Kehinde Wiley at TRAC 2015 (The Representational Art Conference) in Ventura, California in November 2015 From the museum's website: The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures. Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives. The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with...

Fascinating Trove - Yale’s Beinecke Library Buys Vast Collection of Lincoln Photos http:// nyti.ms/1G6d786  

  Happy Birthday to Vincent Van Gogh! - born on this day in 1853. " Self-Portrait ," 1889 http:// 1.usa.gov/1jdIrEA   @ ngadc Self–Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) , 1887 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas; 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm) Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 (67.187.70a) Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art