Archive for category: Money

“Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars” by Noah Wunsch, NYC

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales Event themed “Making Ends Meet” The email simply reads, “I’ll pay you three hundred and fifty dollars. Three hundred and fifty dollars.” I lie down and I think about this. I think about a three, a five, and a zero. […]

“How to not make ends meet, or: how to make ends that met un-meet and piss away all your money” by Pippen Wigglesworth-Weider, Berlin

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” Wie üblich, dachte ich als Kind, alles Geld sei Spielgeld. Das wäre keine Problem gewesen, hätten meine Eltern mir nicht so viel davon gegeben. Ich habe es nämlich verschenkt, so wie man Postkarten oder wie […]

“What Wealth Is” by Lawrence De Geest, NYC

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT EVERYWHERE the economist should say that wealth is the present value of one’s worth, the sum of what he has and what he owes, and always in confident speech should make clear that value is always a figure computed and not drawn. He must use always […]

“Making Ends Meet” by Guy Lesser, NYC

topic: MONEY medium: VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet”

“An Informative Powerpoint Love Letter” by Oliver Hartman, NYC

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” I’m happy that you all made it here tonight and am especially relieved to see so many non-liquid edibles. It makes filling my sandwich bag-lined pockets a little easier. Ha, you can laugh if you […]

“I like money” by Afeeni Islam, NYC

topic: MONEY medium: CONVERSATION “I like money. Money I need. Gotta get money. Money over bitches! That’s my mantra, so write it down! But seriously, money—or assigning value to human life essentially—is equally evil and necessary. Money is what creates our culture in its current form.  The people at the […]

“What does ‘Money’ mean to me” by Liza Gnirke, Massachusetts

“What does ‘Money’ mean to me” by Liza Gnirke, Massachusetts

MONEY PenTales Intern Matthew Gutierrez takes to the street to talk to New Yorkers about money Meandering through the streets of NoLita, I stopped in a local coffee shop to gently prod the usual café-goers for a donation.  The pitch: “Help a growing boy build a working, on-the-ground definition of what “Money” […]

“burning question” by Lee Shirk, Pennsylvania

“burning question” by Lee Shirk, Pennsylvania

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT   “Money…always the burning question…in the forefront of my mind….or is it the lack of it?….We worry when we have money…like how do protect and make it grow…Will I make the right choice?…Is this investment really worth it?…And I worry when I don’t have it, which […]

“Money is paper” by Jessica Benedict, Pennsylvania

topic: MONEY medium: text “Money is paper. It’s the means to be comfortable and not having to worry about eating or paying the bills. Having it means I can keep my family from knowing the hardships that some people have to face. You need it for survival, but beyond that, […]