4+ months of rent a fantastic european 2-week summer vacation a semester of school a new (to me) car my credit card debt more than a year's supply of health insurance how much money i should have saved up in the bank (i dont!)
Almost half a year in rent A trip to the arctic Fluency in a foreign language (i.e. 7.5 courses at the The Chapel Hill Institute of Cultural and Language Education) 1540 sheets of large format film
2,296.84 at the current federal minimum wage ($6.55) = 351 working hours (almost nine forty hour weeks) John Thain, of Merrill Lynch, earned 83 million in 2007. 60 hour work week would equal 28,819 an hour, which would mean 2,296.84 = 55 seconds of working time. Just in the time it took me to figure this math out, Thain probably just made more money than I will this month and next. (at forty bucks a second it couldn't be that hard)
Comments written down at Golden Belt from January 15 through February 5, 2009
1/8 of what I make a year!
1/12 of a year's take home salary
This would amount to about 30% of what I made as an artist last year.
Not scraping change together to buy cocktails after this show.
I'd have more to give to the Scrap Exchange, ECWA, Planned Parenthood, ENC …
1 year of medical insurance and extra
6 months of rent
A year of psychotherapy
Man- that's a lot of microbrews L
OMG. Give me the $s and I'll buy a flat screen TV and other stuff to jumpstart the economy.
I'll rent a place here which is a really awesome place to live!
How about health care, social security?
College
When we were foreclosed on, this amount would have kept my family off the street.
A year of groceries.
Down payment on a car or college $
College money
Healthcare
This is more than I bring home each month. I'm rarely able to save money after paying rent and bills. I could use $2296.84 to pay down my debt (some of it anyway).
A woman once said to me, "If you make a dime you can't afford to give a dime away." 30 seconds later she asked me for a quarter.
Sixty-five times as much money as I have right now.
In fact, the sum is much more, considering the amount of reckless money creation the
Comments written down at Golden Belt from January 16 to February 20, 2009
Car payments, insurance, mortgage
Who gives a shit? What difference does it make? I give a shit! This is lubricious! Me too, a-hole.
Rent
Almost all of my property tax.
Hmmm… $2300 would “print-near” buy me a car. Maybe if I “give” my personal percentage of the bailout to the auto industry…they would “give” me a car? Nothin’ fancy. Beggars can’t be choosers.
Two weeks coke.
½ of my current car.
More than a month’s salary- non-profit social worker.
¼ of a funeral.
¼ of school that won’t even matter in the end.
2 maple trees that I want to have planted in my front yard to someday cool the house, take in CO2, put out O2, beautify the street.
6 months’ health insurance,
1 % of a college education.
2 months’ pay- part time educator.
A scooter…to save on gas.
1/8 of my grad school loans.
3 months of childcare for my 4 year old.
One month mortgage, child care, car payment, groceries and health insurance.
The first down payment of my first car so I can get better work (I’m 24).
Next month’s rent and paying off my credit card debt.
2/3 of my health insurance deductible.
$2,296.84 is almost exactly the pay cut I will take next year. It’s 14% of my current income.
I am an independent scholar and curator. I have been researching and writing about the artist Ray Johnson since 2006. I am also interested in photography, Black Mountain College, and artists associated with Fluxus. My writing has appeared in Black Mountain College Studies, the Independent Weekly, Raw Vision, Art Lies, and ...might be good.
I have a M.A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was a Critical Studies Fellow in the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2010-2011.
Maybe 22 hours of law school classes. Not even two weeks.
ReplyDelete4+ months of rent
ReplyDeletea fantastic european 2-week summer vacation
a semester of school
a new (to me) car
my credit card debt
more than a year's supply of health insurance
how much money i should have saved up in the bank (i dont!)
3 months rent
ReplyDeleteor 367.5 months of my monthly donation to NPR
or 24 2/3 months of my health insurance co-pay
or 7 3/5 months of my grocery budget
a new furnace and 3/4s of my yearly sour patch kid budget.
ReplyDelete3 months rent
ReplyDeleteor paying off my student loan
or 31 months of my insurance contribution
6 months of my food budget
ReplyDeleteif $700 billion can be reduced to a number that makes sense in my life, it just reinforces that there are too many people in this pyramid
ReplyDeletemoney i don't have!
ReplyDeleteAlmost half a year in rent
ReplyDeleteA trip to the arctic
Fluency in a foreign language (i.e. 7.5 courses at the The Chapel Hill Institute of Cultural and Language Education)
1540 sheets of large format film
Comments written down at the opening on 1/16:
ReplyDeleteTwo month's mortage payments
A new Macbook Pro!
Two weeks salary on top of the 30% they already get.
Comfortable excursion to Montreal or Chicago.
Almost my entire debt owed to Bank of America.
About 1/2 of that custom titanium road bike I want but won't get.
Almost enough support for 5 Haitian children for a year of food, clothing and books.
A 1/2 semester of community college.
(arrow to previous Bank of America comment)- I am paying mine off now.
Nothing compared to the big picture.
A piece of sculpture I can't afford.
Huge payment on college loans.
Feed everyone at Urban Ministries for more than a week.
1/10th of my mortgage.
Pay down art making expenses.
New Wii games! Whoa! Yeah!
I could go camping with family for quite a long time!
2 mortgage payments!
More than my Honda Accord
Down payment on a dream house/sculpture.
Money I would rather have given to a production for peace.
Food, power, water, phone, field trips for my children, life...
Joanthan's Vespa!
4 months of substance abuse counseling= 1 less addict
Getting my house painted to keep up neighborhood morale, caring about your neighborhood builds a sense of community.
Rent, food, insurance, gas, Sallie Mae and utilities.
6 sets of Lenin's Collected Works.
Two minutes rent of this gallery.
Food/warmth
Dog?
Fascism hates trees
Holden Nordickback drives a vehicle
Half of a new roof for our house
Pay for 4 white nights at Urban Ministries of Durham
Down payment on a house
6 months of car insurance
quit.
Donate it back to the Government
I would pay off my medical bills (I have no insurance)
No child left behind. Please give me planning time so I can teach!
I have insurance but could pay on some of those bills.
College loans
1 1/2 summers in El Giusano, Mexico
Mortgage, bills, musical equipment, food, living!
1/2 of my credit card debt
I would donate it to charity
College funds/ put it in da bank!
A nice budget for a 20-minute short film.
I would pay personal debts, student loans, etc.
Loans, surgery- or vacations and escape?
down payment on a tractor
Chance to pay off approximately 1/6 of my credit card debt
A new banjo ukulele plus $1900 for my loans
NOT MUCH! / a very lot
2,296.84 at the current federal minimum wage ($6.55) = 351 working hours (almost nine forty hour weeks)
ReplyDeleteJohn Thain, of Merrill Lynch, earned 83 million in 2007. 60 hour work week would equal 28,819 an hour, which would mean 2,296.84 = 55 seconds of working time.
Just in the time it took me to figure this math out, Thain probably just made more money than I will this month and next. (at forty bucks a second it couldn't be that hard)
83 million/(60hoursx4weeksx12months)=28,819
sourced from-(http://www.usatoday.com/money/graphics/ceo-comp/flash.htm)
remember how great Tracy Chapman was
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A MUSIC HALL - MMF-9.1 TURNTABLE w - Carbon Fiber Tonearm & Goldring Eroica LX that I will never have.
ReplyDeleteComments written down at Golden Belt from January 15 through February 5, 2009
ReplyDelete1/8 of what I make a year!
1/12 of a year's take home salary
This would amount to about 30% of what I made as an artist last year.
Not scraping change together to buy cocktails after this show.
I'd have more to give to the Scrap Exchange, ECWA, Planned Parenthood, ENC …
1 year of medical insurance and extra
6 months of rent
A year of psychotherapy
Man- that's a lot of microbrews L
OMG. Give me the $s and I'll buy a flat screen TV and other stuff to jumpstart the economy.
I'll rent a place here which is a really awesome place to live!
How about health care, social security?
College
When we were foreclosed on, this amount would have kept my family off the street.
A year of groceries.
Down payment on a car or college $
College money
Healthcare
This is more than I bring home each month. I'm rarely able to save money after paying rent and bills. I could use $2296.84 to pay down my debt (some of it anyway).
A woman once said to me, "If you make a dime you can't afford to give a dime away." 30 seconds later she asked me for a quarter.
Sixty-five times as much money as I have right now.
In fact, the sum is much more, considering the amount of reckless money creation the
Fed is currently involved in.
Amount I owe on a credit card.
One more year of graduate school.
Comments written down at Golden Belt from January 16 to February 20, 2009
ReplyDeleteCar payments, insurance, mortgage
Who gives a shit? What difference does it make? I give a shit! This is lubricious! Me too, a-hole.
Rent
Almost all of my property tax.
Hmmm… $2300 would “print-near” buy me a car. Maybe if I “give” my personal percentage of the bailout to the auto industry…they would “give” me a car? Nothin’ fancy. Beggars can’t be choosers.
Two weeks coke.
½ of my current car.
More than a month’s salary- non-profit social worker.
¼ of a funeral.
¼ of school that won’t even matter in the end.
2 maple trees that I want to have planted in my front yard to someday cool the house, take in CO2, put out O2, beautify the street.
6 months’ health insurance,
1 % of a college education.
2 months’ pay- part time educator.
A scooter…to save on gas.
1/8 of my grad school loans.
3 months of childcare for my 4 year old.
One month mortgage, child care, car payment, groceries and health insurance.
The first down payment of my first car so I can get better work (I’m 24).
Next month’s rent and paying off my credit card debt.
2/3 of my health insurance deductible.
$2,296.84 is almost exactly the pay cut I will take next year. It’s 14% of my current income.
That’s more than my work-study.
My car insurance!
1 month’s salary.
Comments written down at Golden Belt February 20 through March 7
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$4,870.10- 1 full year of health insurance and 2 months rent
What's life worth in comparison to a stronger America?
$4,870.10- Just about a whole year of rent on my house.
$4,870.10- A freakin incredible vacation.
$2,296.84- A semester of school.
$4,870.10- 18 week programming series at Elsewhere
$2,296.84- back pay
$4,870.10- peace of mind
$2,296.84- real estate taxes
$4,870.10- a years health insurance
(no amount circled)- opportunity to donate
(no amount circled)- disaster
Comments written down at Golden Belt March 7-15
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$4,870.10- a large portion of a down payment on a house.
-medical insurance some can't afford
$4,870.10- money for college
$4,870.10- About $400/mo. rent for a year