Filmed on The Front Lines in Ukraine - Imagine Dragons - Crushed (Official Video)

 

Imagine Dragons' video for Crushed was filmed on the front lines of Ukraine. It follows Sasha, a young boy who endured months of shelling in his town.

Sasha's story is heartbreaking, and there are thousands more like him who desperately need help.

Even today, his family is without electricity and other basic utilities. Please consider donating to United24 and raising your voice for this cause.

Credits:

Director: Ty Arnold

Producer: Ty Arnold, Roman Ostrovskyi, and Igor Shcherbyna

Production company: Black Box Films

Lyrics:

I suppose she’s supposed to be exactly what they want her to be

So pretty in pink

Necklace and ring, don’t be heard

Just be seen

But that’s not who I am

She said I can feel, I can feel too much

And I wish they’d go away, go away

Cause it’s crushing me

It’s crushing me

Don’t you know that you don’t have a say and the scarlet “A” on

Your neck so pretty in red, eyes are all dead

What they haven’t said gets stuck in your head

The silence is deafening and your heart is bleeding out

But they don’t care, no they never cared at all

They never cared at all

That’s not who I am

She said I can feel, I can feel too much

And I wish they’d go away, go away

Cause its crushing me

It’s crushing me

It’s crushing me

It’s crushing me

She just wants to be free, take it or leave it

Eyes like the sunrise

Colorful rainbow

She said I can feel, I can feel too much

And I wish it’d go away, go away

Cause they’re crushing me

They’re crushing me

(I can feel, I can feel too much

They’re crushing me

I can feel, I can feel too much

Oh they’re crushing me)

Crushing me

Crash down on me

Crash down on me

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Gregg Chadwick

Home Guard (112th Territorial Defense Brigade - Kyiv, Ukraine)
20"x16" oil on linen 2022

Singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan takes on Springsteen's 'Nebraska'

From PBS:

"It’s not unusual for a singer-songwriter to perform songs written by others. But it is unusual for an artist to take on performing an entire album’s worth of someone else’s material, particularly if that someone else is a giant of the music world. Grammy-winning musician Aoife O’Donovan is doing that on her latest tour. Tom Casciato has this story for our arts and culture series, CANVAS."

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Also - 

Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

Great Excerpt from "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska" by

@WarrenZanes

https://lithub.com/of-songs-and-stories-what-bruce-springsteen-learned-from-flannery-oconnor/

via @lithub

Gregg Chadwick's "Elephant Song" at the Los Angeles Zoo's Beastly Ball 2023

Gregg Chadwick

Elephant Song

30"x24" oil on linen 2023

"Elephant Song" depicts an African Elephant in its natural environment.  The title refers to the low frequency method of elephant communication. Elephants sing using the same physical principles as humans - using their immense larynx to produce very low notes.

Pitched below the range of human hearing, these infrasounds can travel long distances and enable elephants to connect with other elephants in hearing range. 

"Elephant Song" will be featured in the upcoming Beastly Ball benefit for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. The event is held each Spring at the L.A. Zoo and this will be my third year participating. For 60 years, the nonprofit Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) has funded exhibits, capital projects, field conservation efforts, education and community outreach programs, and more at the Los Angeles Zoo, an international leader in the preservation of wildlife and care of animals.

 The “best party in town” returns on June 3, with favorite L.A. eateries, special animal experiences, dazzling entertainment, an incredible silent auction, and more. It’s the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association’s largest and most important fundraiser of the year, bringing in critical support for our work on behalf of the Los Angeles Zoo and its efforts in wildlife conservation, public education, and creating innovative experiences to connect people with nature. 

The Beastly Ball's online silent auction features a range of wild items and experiences. Browse the offerings starting on May 19 and make bids when the auction opens on May 26, all from your phone, wherever you are.                         Pre-register now to receive updates.

Beastly Ball 2023

Saturday, June 3, 2023, 6 p.m. 

Hosted by Joel McHale 

Beastly Ball Honoree: Diann H. Kim

Betty White Conservation Hero Honoree: Tom LaBonge, posthumously

An unforgettable evening of adventure and philanthropy, benefiting the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association

Link to more information on the Beastly Ball at https://lazoo.org/plan-your-visit/special-experiences/beastly-ball/#auction

Beastly Ball 2023 - Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (LA Zoo)

Let the wild rumpus start! - Thinking of Maurice Sendak

On May 8, 2012, author, artist, illustrator, and visionary Maurice Sendak died. On that day I wrote some thoughts on his life and work. Now eleven years later I am reposting those words with some further ideas. 

“Dear Mr. Sendak,  How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there.”

 -From a letter sent by an eight year old reader to Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak
 Where the Wild Things Are
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper  1963

Maurice Sendak was an artist in love with the world and with things that go bump in the night. Sendak looked deeply at the world around him. His vision included the visible nature of  our existence and the invisible, but no less real, world of dreams. Sendak's beautifully crafted artworks for his books began with simple pencil sketches that were then enlarged and fleshed out with pen and ink which was then layered with glowing watercolor washes. 

The finished paintings on paper reflect what Dave Eggers described in a Vanity Fair article on Sendak as the "unhinged and chiaroscuro subconscious of a child." Sendak's books and images appealed to readers of all ages. Sendak took the deep mysteries of life head-on and allowed us all to journey to where the wild things are.

 In an interview with Terry Gross in September 2011, Maurice Sendak reflected on his mortality and the transient nature of life in general:

"Yes. I'm not unhappy about becoming old. I'm not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. And it's like a dream life. I am reading a biography of Samuel Palmer, which is written by a woman in England. I can't remember her name. And it's sort of how I feel now, when he was just beginning to gain his strength as a creative man and beginning to see nature. But he believed in God, you see, and in heaven, and he believed in hell. Goodness gracious, that must have made life much easier. It's harder for us non believers.

But, you know, there's something I'm finding out as I'm aging that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they're beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. You know, I don't think I'm rationalizing anything. I really don't. This is all inevitable and I have no control over it."

Maurice Sendak
Outside Over There
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper 1978

We are fortunate that Maurice Sendak's love of beauty and the mystery of existence forged a unique vision that led to his magical books and images. He has been greatly missed. I like to think that there is a bit of Sendak's influence in my paintings of animals. My latest pachyderm inspired artwork "Elephant Song" carries a bit of a magical world into its painted environment.

Gregg Chadwick

Elephant Song

30"x24" oil on linen 2023

Elephant Song will be featured at at Los Angeles Zoo's Beastly Ball in May 2023.

Let the wild rumpus start!  

Portrait of Maurice Sendak by Annie Leibovitz 

More at:

Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83

Sendak on Sendak Exhibition 

Terry Gross Interview With Maurice Sendak - September 2011

P-22 - Hollywood Nights

 

Gregg Chadwick

P-22, Hollywood Nights

30"x22" gouache and monotype on paper 2023

In Hollywood even Mountain Lions become stars. The wild cougar dubbed P-22 by the Park Service roamed Griffith Park for 12 years. After a few scrapes with dogs and humans in December 2022, NPS biologists captured P-22 in the Los Feliz area and transported him to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for a thorough health evaluation. Results showed P-22 had several severe injuries, such as significant trauma to his head, right eye, and internal organs from a suspected vehicle strike, as well as multiple chronic health illnesses, including irreversible kidney disease, chronic weight loss, an extensive parasitic skin infection over his entire body, and localized arthritis. Due to his poor condition, CDFW made the extremely difficult decision to euthanize P-22 on the morning of Dec. 17, 2022.

My gouache and monotype on paper artwork "P-22" was inspired by numerous images of the mountain lion including Steve Winter's photos as well as the big cat paintings of Delacroix and Géricault.

My Apple algorithm keeps featuring Bob Seger's ode to L.A. - "Hollywood Nights."
I listened to the song as I painted "P-22."
As if in Seger's song and my painting, P-22 slinks across the Hollywood Hills looking down on the lights of L.A.

See this artwork and more at our upcoming evening Open Studio Art at the Airport event on May 13, 2023 from 5-9 PM.

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An Invite to my Studio

 

I am excited to invite you to my studio at the Santa Monica Airport for an evening of art and camaraderie.

Art At The Airport Open Studios

Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 5–9 PM

Location:

Studio #15, 18th Street Arts Center, 3026 Airport Avenue

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Free to all. Feel free to invite friends and family. All ages are welcome!

Free Parking

Please register in advance:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-at-the-airport-evening-open-studios-tickets-607740065897

Art At The Airport is made possible by Art of Recovery, an initiative of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.

Pictured: Collector Tiffany Montgomery @drtiffanymonique with her new addition to her growing collection of Gregg Chadwick paintings.

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 #SantaMonicaArtsCommunity #SantaMonicaArtScene #BuyArtFromArtists #SupportLocalArtists #SantaMonicaArtCollective 

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Matt Berninger of The National | Broken Record

From Broken Record:

"Today we have part two of our run of interviews with The National in celebration of their new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. Last week Broken Producer producer Leah Rose talked to guitarist and composer Aaron Dessner, and today Leah picks up the conversation with the band’s lead singer, Matt Berninger.

Matt, whose fear and anxiety are often on full display in his songwriting, talks about overcoming a debilitating bout of depression in the period before he started writing songs for the new album. He also explains how the combination of weed and iced tea help him spark creativity. And why he hopes his songwriting impresses Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift. Subscribe 🎧 https://bit.ly/3EamIjM #music #podcast #thenational #taylorswift ABOUT BROKEN RECORD For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world. Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers. Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by producer Rick Rubin, writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam."

Bruce Springsteen - Badlands (Official Lyric Video)

Featured in the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Soundtrack

Two Straws

Gregg Chadwick

Two Straws

24"x36" oil on linen 2023

The fresh fragrance of linseed oil and linen fills my studio as I just put some finishing touches on new work. My oil on linen painting "Two Straws" is a short story in paint.
A woman sits at a table in a diner with an empty seat across from her. On the table is a milkshake with two straws. Will her companion return? What do you think will happen in the next scene?

"Two Straws" is the latest cinematic painting in my L.A. Stories series that explores the wonderfully diverse and sprawling city of Los Angeles.

See this artwork and more at our upcoming evening Open Studio Art at the Airport event on May 13, 2023 from 5-9 PM.

 

#art #SantaMonica #SantaMonicaArt #contemporaryart #worksonpaper #artattheairport #oilonlinen #diner #milkshake

Nil's Lofgren's "Ain't The Truth Enough"

Put on your headphones and listen now -

Nils Lofgren's blistering new song "The Truth Enough” was written in the wake of the January 6th insurrection and “reckons with the ways that misinformation and demagoguery can tear families apart and silo us in our own realities."

Rachel Brodsky on Stereogum writes that about “Ain’t The Truth Enough,” Lofgren said:

One early desert morning, strong coffee in hand, I tuned my Martin D-35 acoustic gifted to me by the great James Caan (bless you Jimmy) to an open G and said ‘write’! Soon the title and main riff were coming through me… “ain’t the truth enough!” Lucky me! I felt I had to go deep and with the global war on women, and man’s deadly epidemic of lies and spin for money and power, I imagined a fierce, loving mother and wife dealing with a husband recently home from the insurrection. (Cindy Mizelle added the woman’s voice with great soul and power here) I felt inspired and a day later this special song was done. Not mean spirited, all truth, harsh reality.

1st single “Ain’t The Truth Enough” out today from upcoming album “Mountains” Honored to be joined by ⁦@ringostarrmusic⁩ drums, Kevin McCormick bass, ⁦@cindymizelle9⁩ vocals. Rest is me. Produced by Nils n Amy ⁦@azsweetheart013⁩ enjoy!https://t.co/76QJicng9n pic.twitter.com/BEXssWQMds

— Nils Lofgren (@nilslofgren) May 3, 2023

@nilslofgren Gets A Lift From Ringo Starr, Neil Young, David Crosby On New Solo LP
‘Mountains’ will be released on July 21, with first single ‘Ain’t the Truth Enough’ out nowhttps://t.co/6x2l38TdtS

— Gregg Chadwick 🇺🇦 (@greggchadwick) May 4, 2023

RIP Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Listen to Gordon Lightfoot's “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” and pour one out for a true original who is out riding that big Mystery Train.

Gregg Chadwick's "A Walk With Obama" Featured in Saatchi Art's Gouache Paintings Collection

 

Excited that my gouache on paper painting "A Walk With Obama" has been included in the new Gouache Paintings Collection on Saatchi Art.

Barack and Michelle Obama were recently seen dancing with Bruce Springsteen at his concert in Barcelona. Michelle was onstage with Bruce, The E Street Band, Patti Scialfa, and Kathleen Sue Spielberg (Kate Capshaw) during the song Glory Days. Barack was offstage hanging out with Steven Spielberg.

Megan Wright, Senior Curator at Saatchi Art put the collection together and writes:

"When artists seek the richness of opaque color but the fluidity of water-based paint, they turn to gouache. Discover the unique charm of the medium in this expertly-curated collection."

This artwork and a group of my recent works on paper will be featured in my next open studio on May 13th from 5-9 PM.

Link to the gouache collection at https://www.saatchiart.com/.../Gouach.../1012074/726501/view

Link to "A Walk With Obama" at https://www.saatchiart.com/.../Paintin.../25560/9700617/view

Reserve your Free Spot at my Open Studio on May 13th here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-at-the-airport-spring-open-house-tickets-607740065897

#art #SantaMonica #SantaMonicaArt #contemporaryart #worksonpaper