Chris Jordon's Incredible Art

Wow!!! You gotta check out this guy Chris Jordan and his artwork. It is perhaps the most socially and political relevant work I have ever seen. What is amazing is how well he uses visual art to represent numbers that are normally so big when you hear them as statistics it is difficult to really get what it means.
Of course when seen on-line these works are far less impressive than they must be in person when you really can see the scale to which they were meant to be viewed. But even on-line they are amazing. Besides the link I am sending you he has exhibits on Katrina and other important topics.
check out Running the Numbers by Chris Jordon at: (or click on the link in my links section)

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

peace, and in honor of Earth Day which is approaching, and of Chris Jordan's work, let's all make an effort to reduce our waste and use REUSABLE water bottles, coffee mugs, shopping bags, to go containers, etc, etc...
Danny
Below I have a couple examples but you GOTTA check out his site!:

Paper Cups, Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.
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Plastic Bottles: Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

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Ben Franklin:
Depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.


detail when zoomed in:


Prison Uniforms, Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.


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