Less than a Rosy Picture

Well, this is an interesting take. And I have a feeling this will be one of those articles we think back about in a few years. The country is entering the incredible point of borrowing more money than we even have to pay bills we cannot pay. Many, many will be hurt, many will be devastated. It simply will not work to borrow billions of dollars against a plan that has no history of ever working, everywhere it has been tried. And the destruction in its wake will be brutal.

WPPh Marketing Two (World Press Photo):

"All the money I had squirreled away to pay my future taxes and something for Mr and Mrs Norfolk’s old age has disappeared in a bizarre Icelandic banking collapse. So my prognosis about the economy over the next 5-10 years is not very optimistic, I’m afraid.

I gave up trying to make a living from editorial a few years ago, instead selling my work as limited edition fine art prints through galleries in London, New York and Los Angeles.

I still work for magazines - most of what goes on the gallery wall starts out as a magazine commission - but I see magazine fees as start-up capital.

If they ask me to work for three days, then I see that as three days to get what will make them happy and then I’ll stay on and do as much as it takes to satisfy myself and my print-buying clients.

I try not to accept work just for the sake of working and I try to always have a final masterplan in mind. If a story in anyway contributes to my long term project about ´The BattleField´, for instance, then I’ll say yes."