I’m working on a new project, it’s my first narrative short in over two years. I’ve been working over the last years searching to find my artistic voice through producing many projects. I’m at the point where I feel comfortable approaching a serious short and test my skills by raising the bar a notch.

A bit of background about me:
I’m 36 years old and an American immigrant in Berlin. I’ve been here since spring 2004. Before then I’d been... (More)

Greece Shouldn’t Descend Into Banking Populism

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Deflation seems to taking the edge again this week.

Lack of Consumer Spending Points to U.S. Economic Slowdown

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. . . global warming/climate change put a beat down on Russian wheat crop.

http://maxkeiser.com/2010/07/30/wheat-rises-to-14-month-high-on-record-heat-in-russia-excessive-rain-in-canada/

Bonds are set to continue to trade down in Russia where the collateral value of the ecology continues to erode.

http://maxkeiser.com/2010/07/29/russias-drought-raises-bondholder-risk/

Connecting With Fans… In The Porn Industry?

The same professors who recently wrote on the Freakonomics blog about how restaurant innovation thrives without copyright recently wrote another post about how the porn industry is also thriving despite widespread infringement. Even though there is copyright on porn works, with rampant infringement, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of less porn being made these days. The professors make the argument that the overall... (More)

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/07/29/will-skilling-soon-taste-a-bit-of-freedom/

Here you go. Your two biggest safety stores, long-term treasuries, and the Japanese yen, are busting out again.

Their charts, not surprisingly, are almost identical.

The yen:

http://www.businessinsider.com/major-breakout-in-treasuries-and-the-yen-2010-7

Meet The First Big Exec To Pay For “Unintentionally Defrauding” During The Credit Crisis

http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-crittenden-made-20-million-while-unintentionally-defrauding-citi-and-only-has-to-pay-100k-2010-7

Since Athens agreed to budget cuts approaching 11% of GDP, local governments have seen a sharp decline in funding. Yesterday, the cut-off caused the city of Piraeus to announce a stop payment on $275 million of debt.

http://www.businessinsider.com/greek-city-defaults-piraeus-panayiotis-fasoulas-2010-7

Europe’s debt crisis is “far from over” and the most likely outcome is closer fiscal ties among nations as officials seek to strengthen the region against future disasters, UBS AG analysts said.

“Euro area-wide policy measures announced and enacted in the last few months have already created fiscal transfer mechanisms,” UBS analysts Justin Knight and Andrew Rowan in London said in a report today. Proposals for a European Monetary Fund... (More)

Vivian Norris de Montaigu is set to direct this new project.

reserve shares while they are still available.

reservations for shares in this one will surely be all gone pretty quickly.

At Syngenta, along with other agricultural science and research companies, we are trying to do our part. Across our industry there are many products that that help crops use water more effectively while maintaining and even improving yield.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/syngenta-agriculture-responds-to-our-terrifying-map-of-americas-water-crisis-2010-7#ixzz0v55PDUBv

An animated film of this sounds interesting for sure.