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January 2008 
Screw the Hipsters: On Frankfurt and Banking
Posted on Aug 13th, 2007
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P'SAL
P'SAL
Call it sacrilege against my own kind, but when I think about Germany, I don't immediately get hipster-indie chills when picturing the "new Williasmburg" of Berlin. No, my interests are more captured by Frankfurt, birthplace of banking. Why? Because it so verboten to an artist like me. If I can make the obscure abstractions of the accrual and dispensation of finances somehow aesthetically compelling, then perhaps the "starving artist" ethos can be something forever buried. Berlin may be all retro-Kommie cool, but Frankfurt is the new Omaha, as in Mutual of Omaha.
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