Check out the photographs yourself at Ithaca College: http://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20080226103722440
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Tony Del Plato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear TC Sustainers: > Tom Shelley has done a magnificent job on his plastic bag project (among > other things) and the following link not only touches on the this issue in > photographs, but so much of what makes the modern way of life > unsustainable. > It's not hard to imagine how waste & disposal of nanotech gadgets will > pile > up on us. > Tony Del Plato > > This website is worth checking out! The pictures will take your breath > away! > > > http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?icl=7 > > *Running the Numbers* > An American Self-Portrait > > This 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) 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 > 2.3million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every > fifteen > minutes. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of > our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands > of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of > the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, > incomprehensible, > and overwhelming. > > My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person > to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, > their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these > little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to > arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you > are > in a position to do so. The series is a work in progress, and new images > will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned. > > ~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007 > > > > = > _______________________________________________ > Geactivists mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://geaction.org/mailman/listinfo/geactivists_geaction.org > > > > -- > In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by > everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the > exact opposite. > - Paul Dirac > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
