ART AND THE BOUNCY BANKER: Margin Call

The Bruxist Collective's take on Art and (as Alfred Jarry might put it) P'finance.

A numerically dyslexic artist (and reluctant consumer) shares his dearth of financial wisdom and resulting frustrations with his Bank Manager. Read personal letters from the elusive Art to his even more elusive Bank Manager. See a comic rendition of a Day In The Life Of The Bouncy Banker. Art struggles to make sense of the senseless as the Authorities of Finance wobble but never quite fall down. Full of hot air they float above it all! When they bounce it is with impunity! Why are there no Remorseful Bankers? Can Art and Finance ever coexist? Do you have a Blue Chip on your shoulder?

When bankers get together they talk about Art. When artists get together they talk about money. Oscar Wilde

Friday, October 21, 2011

Margin Call

A new movie, Margin Call, by J. C. Chandor, takes a different tack on Wall Street attempting to look at a more human side—to be precise it looks at the eery quiet that pervaded Lehman Brothers the day it went down. From an article today in the New York Times:

JoJo Whilden/Margin Call Productions

"As I avoided security guards and surreptitiously filed reports from a men’s-room stall, what struck me most was the absence of panic, the strange stillness that seemed to permeate the place: the melancholy silence of a once-great global corporation staring into the void."MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM