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Subject: [Leica] Annie pawns her life's work
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed Feb 25 19:42:16 2009
References: <2F123A75-70CA-4F09-989B-FB5137BEC6C7@mac.com> <8FB0FF1A-A11D-4148-A035-41F754241610@charter.net> <7ac27f4f0902251149u301f5c86u3691b3405c9735f2@mail.gmail.com> <F32FC936-5935-49F7-9236-2E107968BA10@charter.net> <49A5D1BB.9070601@wanadoo.nl>

The way is to sell the stuff, not use it as collateral and pay usurious
rates of interest. Like Damien Hirst:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7617878.stm
Annie is in a credit crunch all right.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl
> wrote:

> I think it is smart.
> Better have the money now then after your death.
> If Rembrandt, Mozart or Van Gogh could have done this they wouldn't have
> died as beggars.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michiel Fokkema
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> I'm basing my comment more on generational evolution.
>> It's somewhat outside the mechanical scheme of economics.
>> Here in Los Angeles, her work is considered linked to an earlier
>> generations interests.
>> sd
>>
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>>  I don't know her finance or spending habit at all (I mean may be she
>>> spends
>>> all her money on fru-fru things), but I disagree. People are down in this
>>> economy for different reasons, and some times it's simply that the credit
>>> they were expecting to do day to day business shrinks while the sales and
>>> revenue drop.
>>>
>>> We will recover and while I hate some of her commercial stuff (google
>>> Michael Johnston's blog for a reference, or two, or three...), I am
>>> rooting
>>> for her in this :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov
>>> <s.dimitrov@charter.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>  Another decorator of the Second Gilded Age goes down in smoke.
>>>> My two cents, I don't think she'll recover from this.
>>>> sd
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
>>> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com
>>>
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