MONEY - financial investment

Financial investment
Originally uploaded by Reluctant Aquarian

A page in my glue book made with savings receipts from the 1920s, a vintage picture that came on a junk mail postcard, a fortune cookie fortune, and some colored foil from a candy bar.

No Gold Standard

I take it that dragons aren't impressed by paper money...

Original is about 6" x 9.5" on 60 lb. sketch paper. Watercolor and pencil.

if you have too much money...

sometimes too much money can change your mind: like Harpagon's of Moliere. since that time you will not sleep very well...

NO MONEY

Hello guys! Miss you a lot! I’ve been very busy lately to participate in MA, but I wanted so much to post so I did this simple character for this week’s subject. Very simple illo, but I hope you enjoy it. See you!

- I added some patterns but I guess the Plain sketch is better, what do your think?

money

The challenge word on Monday Artday this week (at my suggestion) is "money".

On February 26, 1981, in Philadelphia, a twenty-eight year-old, meth-addicted, unemployed longshoreman named Joey Coyle had his life changed forever. Joey and two of his friends were on their way to buy drugs. They were driving behind a Purolator Armored Services truck that was returning from a pick-up at an Atlantic City casino. As the truck pulled away from a stop light, its back doors swung open and two money bags, containing 1.2 million dollars, fell out. As Joey grabbed the bags, his troubles began. Joey's friends tried to convince him to return the money, but Joey could only see dollar signs in his eyes. He became the most popular guy at a South Philadelphia bar, handing out hundred dollar bills and bragging about his windfall.
Later, becoming nervous and paranoid, Joey tried to launder the money through some mob connections. Meanwhile, Joey's friends, who were with him when he found the money, told authorities. Joey was a wanted man and planned his escape. However, he was arrested at Kennedy International Airport as he was checking in for a flight to Acapulco, Mexico. He was carrying $105,000 in 21 envelopes with $5,000 each. The envelopes were stuffed around his ankles in the tops of elastic socks. In February 1982, a jury found Joey innocent of theft by reason of temporary insanity. The armored car company recovered all but roughly $196,000 of the money.
In 1993, while awaiting sentencing for his sixth drug conviction, Joey hanged himself with an electrical cord.

Money - Pennies from hell...

“Hurry back! Hurry back! Be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us. Make final arrangements now! We’ve been dying to have you!” Thus moans Little Leota at the very end of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride, after you’ve left the “hitchhiking ghosts” and are on the moving walkway. She’s tiny and for some reason some people feel they must throw pennies at her. Poor little thing. She’s named after Leota Toombs, an imagineer at Disneyland that acted for Madam Leota (the head in the crystal ball) and Little Leota - Madam Leota’s voice is another actress but Little Leota’s voice is Leota Toombs.

It costs HOW much???

Why is it that sometimes the more we pay for a haircut, the more we hate it?

Money

This is how it feels when I am trying to save money!

Weekly Challenge - Money

Josh Pincus suggested a few topics and I'm going to use some of them, starting with "money". I can think of a few songs, movies, and corporate crimes right off the bat, so this should be a good one.

Illustrate your concept of the word "Money".