On the contrary, some shippers and investors have pilloried Economou for tarring the entire industry by signing controversial deals, often involving family members, that blur the lines between DryShips and his privately held Cardiff Marine, a ship management outfit.
The members' faces were blurred, by request of the group's spokesperson who provided the photos, because of their fear of being identified by "cartel and gang members".
An enormous painting of small children sitting in a row; the four members of Blur, each on a Dazed & Confused cover.
In fact, if you consider the members of Blur, and how far they've moved from their early-90s incarnation, it's only Coxon who appears to be the same: still living in the same house in Camden, still rocking the same lo-fi look.
So the members of Blur – singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bass player Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – trod very carefully and quietly as they put all the pieces in place before going public with news of their album The Magic Whip, the first they have made as a four-piece for 16 years.
Impish intelligence The sight of fortysomething year-old men sweating is admittedly somewhat different to that of four twentysomethings glowing with youth and invincibility, but the years have been kind to the members of Blur and they have happily retained that look of impish intelligence.
It is easy to see the affinity Opie feels for Hiroshige: Opie's own depictions of motorways, lakes and woods, figures and faces (think of his button-eyed portraits of the members of Blur) aim for a similar lucidity and clarity.
The last time he was in Russia, he had come with other members of Blur to perform in Moscow for thousands of wild Russian teenagers.
After reuniting in 2009, the four members of Blur have been hazy about when exactly fans of the British pop outfit could expect a new album.
Gallagher maintains that the rivalry was conceived by the magazine NME and members of Blur's entourage as a ploy to raise their respective profiles, and that since this point he has had no respect for either party.
