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Brixton Pound Note Features David Bowie/Alladin Sane - The Brixton pound (known as the B£) launched back in 2009 as the UK’s first urban local currency has been redesigned. This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll agency designed the notes to feature images of four notable cultural figures from the area; David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) features on the B£10 note; Chicago Bulls basketball player, Luol Deng, on the B£5; and WWII spy, Violette Szabo, on the B£20. Len Garrison, the co-founder of the Black Cultural Archives appears on the B£1 note. The new notes use a host of printing techniques such as fluorescent inks, foils, holograms and watermarked paper stock. More on the Brixton pound at brixtonpound.org.
Surprise?! The Rich Are Getting Richer
“Such a level of economic inequality, not seen in the United States since the eve of the Great Depression, bespeaks a political economy in which the financial rewards are increasingly concentrated among a tiny elite and whose risks are borne by an increasingly exposed and unprotected middle class. Income inequality in the United States is higher than in any other advanced industrial democracy and by conventional measures comparable to that in countries such as Ghana, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan. It breeds political polarization, mistrust, and resentment between the haves and the have-nots and tends to distort the workings of a democratic political system in which money increasingly confers political voice and power.”
Buzzed on Coca Cola and Ice Cream, Bidders Giddily Bought $222.5 Million in Art at Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale - Roy Lichtenstein’s “Still Life with Lobster” sold for $6 million at Sotheby’s evening contemporary art auction on Tuesday. Andy Warhol’s “Coca-Cola” (as mentioned earlier) went for $35.4 million
