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June 18th, 2010 Year 7, Issue 20

Jun-18-2010 | Comments (0)

Followups

* Fewer followups, as three major stories from last week return this week. But as a summary of the economic problems we focussed on in Europe, it would be hard to beat this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

* Recovering Fish Stocks? The pirates off Africa’s Eastern coast have driven away illegal fishing trawlers, so fish stocks are recovering. In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates.“There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use because the international fishermen have been scared away by the pirates,” said Athman Seif, the director of the Malindi Marine Association. Every cloud…

6. The Art of Money

Apr-23-2010 | Comments (0)

Bird’s-Eye: Not the art of making money, and not making money out of art: it’s the art of making art out of money. First people create glorious graffiti on banknotes, and then the government strikes back. But artists win the day by creating art in the shape of money, and finding people willing to buy/accept it. So in the end, who’s got the looney?

* 30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money

* Colombia Tries To Stop People From Drawing Money The Guardian

… Some are transformed into assertions of love. Some become outlets for artistic expression. Others turn into shopping lists. What they are supposed to be, however, are banknotes. Colombians’ passion for adorning, defacing and scribbling on their banknotes is wreaking havoc on the nation’s money supply, prompting protests from the central bank which is weary of replacing millions of notes each year.

* artmoney

Artmoney from BIAM (Bank of International Art Money) is an international art project established by the Danish artists Lars Kræmmer and Flemming Vincent in 1998. Artmoneyitems are original works of art the size of big bank notes (12×18 cm). They are attractive for art collectors, and can also be used as an alternative currency at shops hosts and artists in Denmark and worldwide.