What the private equity boys really think about you …

5 Responses to “What the private equity boys really think about you …”

1. Karl-Marx-Straße

   on December 14th, 2007 at 11:41

   It’s not only droll, but incredibly artistic too. Has Saatchi bought it yet? A nice use of pen and ink, watercolour, and some pre-ink pencil outlining. Craftmanship at its best. Geographically it’s rubbish, so it won’t have been done by any ex-cartographer who’s winging it in the square mile, assuming there are such people. I have a similar (more accurate) map somewhere, it’s called “A Social Atlas of London”, published by the GLC in the early 1980s. The main difference (apart from the geographic accuracy) was that “very rich” and “losers” were portrayed not in words, but via piecharts, which enable the viewer to diffentiate somewhat more than this ultra-left “bourgeoisie”/”proletariat” model portrayed here.

2. Scratch

   on December 14th, 2007 at 12:05

   Well, at least they’re honest.

3. andy newman

   on December 14th, 2007 at 18:07

   Actually that map is pretty much the way most people in England outside the M25 sees it as well. although without the little red circle.

4. Buenaventura MacLean

   on December 14th, 2007 at 19:17

   It’s, as you might expect, also a much less witty and artistically accomplished take on the famous Steinberg view of the USA, nay the world, from ‘The New Yorker.’ See

   http://www.adambaumgoldgallery.com/steinberg/posters/view_of_new_york.jpg

5. alexander justice

   on December 18th, 2007 at 21:58

   I’ve no doubt Mitt Romney has got his copy and had his chuckle as well.