Week Seven

Mass Resignation of High Level Bankers

According to this list, there have been 81 resignations of major bankers/political figures since November 7th, 2011. More precisely, there have been 75 resignations since February 15th, 2012. This is, as of today, an average of 6.25 resignations a day.

Please notice we're not talking about small and random bankers here. We are talking about high influential figures, such as the head of the World Bank, the Romanian PM, Haiti PM, Pakistan PM, German President, and MANY CEOs of major banks. We also know that Goldman Sachs' CEO will resign somewhere this summer.

And I’m also wondering whether these mass arrests and chief executive resignations are linked to a speech that Lord James of Blackheath delivered to a practically empty House of Lords a few days ago, in which he revealed his suspicions, backed by a convincing paper trail, of  a huge fraud to the tune of  $15 trillion dollars possibly involving “a major American department agency …gone rogue and … seeking to get at least 50 billion Euros as a payoff.”

Hopefully this will cleanse the greed and help restore some stability to the financial structure of the entire world. I have to speculate that these bankers are being told to resign by someone even higher than they are, or they are trying to get out while they can, before the entire system collapses. Maybe they all know something we don't?






More Street Art

I decided to highlight another article on street art, I found a lot of stuff I have never seen on Street Art Utopia, and thought it would be nice to share it here. "In an anti-establishment movement that’s taking the art world by storm, 6 of the world’s most famous Street Artists whose work is intricately connected to the urban environment were commissioned to paint the iconic river façade of Tate Modern exterior walls with 45 foot (15 meter) high towering artworks for the first major public museum display of Street Art in London." - taken from Lifeinthefastlane.com. I could talk about specific work in the link, but you just have to see it for yourself. 








Art for this week



Since I haven't been able to attend class for the last few meetings, and since I was unable to attend the field trip, I will share this happy little painting I did a few days ago. I rediscovered the old "The Joy of Painting" show and had pretty much all of the materials I needed to attempt it, except I used Acrylics instead of oil (which proved difficult because they dry very quickly). It turned out pretty nice, I will be doing a lot more in the future once I get some oils to work with, the paintings will be a lot softer then.