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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The tightening of credit that “is coming”? I thought it had been here for a year already? What’s coming next is a major economic slowdown – if not collapse.<BR>
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Sorry for the downer...perhaps I’ll get drunk with Patrick then?<BR>
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Simon<BR>
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On 30/9/08 15:49, "Patrick Lichty" <voyd@voyd.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I just checked it again, and it's very green all over.<BR>
It's interesting that I think this was written by Mark Wattenberg, also a <BR>
respected New Media artist. I had lunch with him at his office overlooking <BR>
Ground Zero in 2001...<BR>
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The confluence of events is very funny.<BR>
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However, with the tightening of credit that IS coming, I think that shows <BR>
like Holy Fire _might_ forecast an overall move towards art-materiality in <BR>
the short term.<BR>
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> After yesterday's bailout rejection and the huge stock market drop, I <BR>
> checked out the Map of the Market and saw this:<BR>
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> <a href="http://blog.burak-arikan.com/back-to-materiality/">http://blog.burak-arikan.com/back-to-materiality/</a><BR>
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