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    From the page: "This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)... more

    Reviewed by Daoro Feb 22 2007, 11:05am ( 302 reviews ) • chrisjordan.com

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  • Reviewed by someguynamedkris on Nov 05, 11:39am

    The same preachy message presented in a different way.

  • Rated by Xiane on Oct 20, 3:23am

    From the page: "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming. ~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008"

  • Rated by jebenami on Sep 21, 6:13am

    very creative

  • Rated by lilylavandula on Sep 13, 10:00am

    we're fucked! thanks for pointing it out in an artistic way.

  • Rated by fewer on Sep 12, 4:49am

    Cool idea and great work!

  • Rated by missymiss225 on Sep 06, 6:43am

    very cool ideas :)

  • Rated by nanamomm on Sep 03, 8:10am

    WoW This art is made with dog and cat collars it Zooms into see them.

  • Rated by robertvand on Sep 03, 5:46am

    Couple of figures, facts...

  • Rated by Roy-G-Biv on Aug 20, 11:08am

    The funny (and encouraging) thing about this is that many of these things are things we could live without or at least cut way back on. But in a capitalist society that would mean that people who produce these things would lose jobs. This is one of the great dilemmas of capitalism: how can a person acquire the necessities of life without producing goods and services of dubious value to greater society? But the other political and economic theories (anarchism, socialism, communism, etc.) haven't figured it out either. Goods and services are converted to cash. Cash is converted back into goods and services. But many of those goods an services are of and extremely frivolous nature.