We were there when our good friends at Fox Tax signed the lease on their new office/gallery space, and the transformation is incredible. It turns out that Mark and Alyssa are not only tax/accounting wizards, but they can get those ten-key hands dirty with fantastic results as well…we suspect illegal elfin labor of some sort…
Very interesting interview with Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar – or Ootje, as his friends call him. From 1966 until 1985, Ootje worked for the Nederlandsche Bank on a series of banknotes that many consider to be the most beautiful money in the world. Check it out, the design and artwork on this currency is absolutely incredible…and some unbelievable quotes in there:
On the 1000 guilder note, it became a “sport” for me to put things in the notes that nobody wanted there! I was very proud to have my fingerprint in this note – and it’s my middle finger! It was too late when they found out and though the director saw it he said he wouldn’t stop the whole production.
How can you not like a guy named Ootje?