Fascinating - artist uses abstracts to portray overconsumption by Americans

[Phillycat]

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

Really thought-provoking stuff:

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.


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Detail at actual size:

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. It's likely the first thing that future archeologists will dig up...

Interesting work!

[Heidi]

4. Cell phones and disposable diapers.

Archeologists will plow through our baby sh!t to find our adult sh!t and wonder how so little could have changed between our infancy consumption and our adult consumption.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i like it a lot. has anyone else noticed that cell phones are almost made to break in a year or less

[BarenakedLady]

3. This one

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

[Heidi]

5. This is brilliant work, and heart-breaking.

Someone should make the same piece and compose it of the faces of the children whose futures we're pissing away. :cry:

[DS1]

6. I'd like to see where he gets his stats

426,000 phones discarded each day. Even if only ten percent of those required a new phone number, we'd run out of numbers in a few months.