Friday Photography | Visualizing the Numbers
Photographic artist Chris Jordan is doing an interesting series called "Running the Numbers" that means to visualize the sometimes abstract statistics that define American material culture.
Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
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Depicts 75,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every day.
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Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
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Very sobering. In any case, Happy Friday!
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You can see Chris's work exhibited in Second Life. More details here
Then there's two more to be considered: the depict of architects in this world, the depict of blogger in this world, and the depict of architect who blogging in this world. Amazing pictures.
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