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chrisjordan.com — American Consumption Art

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  • fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44that died faster than soviet russia jokes
  • shibubu, on 10/12/2007, -12/+26What a wasteful people we are.
    • chrisbarr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5wasting the servers you mean?
    • victorycig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Oh, quit your whining and start consuming! We've got to compete with China nowadays!
    • RubeusEsclair, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Yeah, we are too wasteful. To combat this waste, I propose putting a ban on jet trails, throwing away cell phones, painkillers, weapons, paper products, plastic products, truck logos, orange clothes, aluminum products, caps, currency in general, and shipping.

      That should prevent some waste. :-)
    • Mier, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Yes we're wasteful. Lets all just fire off the nukes and end human existence since we're the problem, let the cockroaches take over.

      You do realize that every time you exhale you're causing the world to warm .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%

      Stop breathing.
    • manningbc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11speaking of breathing. they should have done one for cigarette consumption.
  • AllLitUp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Here are a couple of the images:

    1.
    Depicts 30,000 reams of office paper, or 15 million sheets, equal to the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes.
    http://photoslivehere.com/viewer.php?file=hrzonzahatyxkgyqjjzn.jpg

    2.
    Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.
    http://photoslivehere.com/viewer.php?file=gimem2g1jmzvgn1gzjuy.jpg

    3. Depicts 213,000 Vicodin pills, equal to the number of emergency room visits yearly in the US related to misuse or abuse of prescription pain killers.
    http://photoslivehere.com/viewer.php?file=mzmtmljvmndzimjmmxmm.jpg
    • Adma1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22The plastic bags one really makes me sick, I'm not trying to spout hippy crap or anything like that, but this site has a counter at the top that illustrates this kind of thing as well.

      http://www.reusablebags.com/

      ps. they also sell bags that you can reuse for shopping, no i do not work for them, yes I own some, they are great! The only thing that's weird is going to a grocery store and having to stop the bagger and explain to them, "oh hey I have my own bags" always gives weird looks.

      edit: If you want my recommendation for price usability, I suggest these.

      http://www.reusablebags.com/store/ecobags%AE-classic-cotton-string-shopping-black-p-14.html

      I own 5 or so, and they can hold A TON, and none have ripped or anything, it's actually more comfortable to carry than plastic bags, and there's no guilt =D
    • shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14The money spent in Iraq is dumbfounding... so many better things that money could be used for.
    • imnotquitesure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I love the brown paper bags. My mom never threw them away, she uses them for her kitchen trash bag, so they are recycled in a way. Plus I like the smell and they are sturdier. I wish my grocery store still offered them.
    • socalrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know if you guys have been to Ikea lately, but last time I went to my Local one, and for the normal plastic bags they now charge you .05 for each one or like .99 or .59 for a reusable blue one. Supposedly all the money from the sale of the plastic bags goes to help plant trees, but I'll still just carry my crap outside myself. I already pay CRV for those cans in that picture and don't get that back (my city has a recycle can that you put out next to the trash and they take your recyclables) so I don't need to spend anymore money.
  • murty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5its hard to believe how much of this earth we are living on gets chewed up. those pics are just U.S, imagine if it was world wide! im surprised there hasnt been more damage on the environment then what there is.
  • Toasterstrudull, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6wordpress lasts longer than that site...
    • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36Your mom lasts longer than that site...
  • kindpastor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Goebbels would be proud.
  • adogg06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+860,000 plastic bags every five seconds?!? Cool pictures, but 60,000 bags every five seconds = 518,400,000 plastic bags per day...where did they get that?
    • ragingflamerboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8When grocery stores are pulling in well over a million dollars a day, i'd say that's not very unbelievable.
    • nincrumpet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It seems entirely feasible that each person in the United States uses an average of less than two plastic bags per day. They double-bag at the grocery store, they bag up a candy bar and a Red Bull when you go to the convenience store, and if you tell them that you don't need a bag as they're taking the bag out of its receptacle, they look at you strangely, take it out anyway and then throw it away.
    • ArnoldTPants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@adogg06

      It's actually double what you have. It works out to 1,036,800,000 bags per day. That's 378 billion bags a year. 1,261 bags per person every year, including babies. If you remove people under the age of 18 it would be about 1,700 bags a year per person. It would require every single person over the age of 18 in the US to be using 35 bags a week. The number is pure fiction.
  • vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22If it wasn't for all those Vicodin I take, I'd really feel guilty about all that stuff.
  • HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Anyone else notice the darker Denali logos are actually the word "denial?" Cute, but the art made the point a lot better than the wordplay. And besides, why use Denali? Couldn't they have used a more known SUV, instead of something they could make a pun out of?
    • mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Denali is the region of Alaska depicted in the image.
  • lulax, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Sooo... none of the people who upgrade their PC all the D@mN time are at fault? No offense I know the U.S. F's up the environment, but stacking it somewhere is not that bad. I really would like to see the "true" data on people who "digg" this compared to those who digg and contribute to the cell phone stat. Hippocrates. Oh I'm green but I can't stand to not switch to a treo 750 from my 650. And I will totally switch to an Iphone in JUNE. BTW I have had my sprint 8300 for coming up on 2 yrs and am totally getting and IPHONE, but I'm blasting the BSERS!
  • jamiemcconnell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Amazing pictures, i wonder how long it took? doesnt seem to be patterns in the pictures...
  • mikeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Submitted:
    8 days ago, made popular 53 minutes ago "

    I think this is the first time I've seen a digg hit frontpage that is older than 24 hours.

    Looking at the pictures, I'm scared to think of how big it is when you see it in person.
  • danconia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3God those pills look yummy. Yeah sure look at how much we consume but nobody every looks at how much we produce...
    • MewTwo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah... you don't have to call it "guilt" art for some of those pictures...
      I think it's just a comment on consumption in the American culture, like the description says.

      Although, I think we should feel guilty about those ***** SUVS and, of course, prison uniforms.
    • capellathestar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Well, I think the prisoners should feel guilty for the uniforms. I didn't do nothing.

  • SilverBack101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Should make one where a fat person regurgitated what they eat three meals a day (plus snacks and comfort foods) for a year.
  • JIB428, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Shows how much America wastes......a lot
  • merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Some of these would make great wallpapers...

    ::waits for someone to post link to high res pics::
  • crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1http://www.chrisjordan.com/images/current2/1170734659.jpg

    this looks good.
  • Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6there's 300 million people in the united states, and 6 billion people in the world. honestly what people think of as "waste" and "throw away" is simply matter being moved around. really folks...

    George Carlin was right, the PLANET IS FINE!...the people are *****.... and i tend not to believe that either.

    id like to see some real evidence that we as humans are ***** up the environment, there is a knee jerk reaction among every single group of people in the developing world to spring up and shout "how dare you say we arn't ***** up the world! just LOOK AROUND!?"...well i do look around, i see that everything is fine, sure things are a bit messy but its a human mess, and it will go away.

    We don't go stomping into lion dens or ant hills and telling them to clean their mess up do we?
    • banderbe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I couldn't agree more.

      I think people actually LIKE to believe that we're on the cusp of destruction, that the world is going to hell, etc. It makes life more dramatic, and gives people who love to "get involved" a litany of causes and gripes to work with. Then of course there's the politicians who get elected promising to stop this disaster or that catastrophe, as if legislation could possibly control global temperatures.
    • swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"id like to see some real evidence that we as humans are ***** up the environment"

      ..Then read up on some of the thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles that provide evidence of that very fact. The thing is, you won't read any, because you wouldnt understand the science behind them. Thats why we leave the studying of the environment to scientists who have devoted their lives to studying this subject, and thats the reason why we should trust their scientific conclusions over the conclusions of people who say " I do look around, i see that everything is fine, sure things are a bit messy but its a human mess, and it will go away." That logic is similar to creationists who say "prove that Evolution exists! I am looking around and I dont see monkeys evolving into humans anywhere!" And its even easier to disprove, just cite one of millions of examples of species that have been driven to extinction by human activity.
    • kindpastor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@swrostmore

      That's what they call an "appeal to authority" fallacy. I really wish they still taught logic in school.

      BTW I have read some of those Peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, while the methodology reports may be hard to understand for the laymen, the summaries and conclusions are not. All the reports I've read use language like "may" "possibly" and "there is a chance" when describing doomsday scenarios brought on by global warming. If you cared dig into the latest IPCC report, they say that only a dramatic reduction in Carbon Emissions: Read: get rid of ALL cars and ALL factories, would stop anthropogenic forcing. And yet the IPCC is now "proof" that we need to pass pissant carbon emissions standards.

      I think its safe to assume that anybody who says "read a scientific journal article you ninny" has never actually read one themselves. Unless of course, they are kind enough to provide a link
  • winterorange, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5213,000 Vicodin pills, equal to the number of pills that House abuses each and every episode!
  • roprot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Where does one get those cell phones? If they're all being discarded, where are they going? I can think of tons of uses for old cell phone electronics .. if only there were a decent way to get a few 1,000 of the discarded product, crack them open, and run my own code on 'em ..

    • Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Plus I'm sure you'd be able to find someone happy to take a mobile phone off your hands.
  • mulberryx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7was anyone else waiting for the 3-d picture to pop out?
  • bushface, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When i read "American Consumption Art", I was expecting art made from the phlegm of an American tuburculosis victim or something. That would have been FAR better.
  • banderbe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2These images make me proud to be an American. Our economy makes it possible for billions of people around the globe to have life sustaining work that they would not otherwise have.

    And, I'd just LOVE to do a little dirt digging into the "artist's" lifestyle. My guess is that he drinks pop, uses plastic bags, etc., etc.

    And what's with the prison jumpsuits? We're supposed to feel bad because a bunch of scumbags are in prison where they belong? Oh, wait, you're right. They should be getting executed so we don't keep wasting money on them. Line 'em up, mow 'em down. Keep it moving.
    • mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Lighten up, it's just the facts. I don't feel guilty about it, but it's obvious you do. It isn't about hypocrisy, the main point is just to show how much we consume as a people. It's difficult to grasp it in your everyday life, you only see what happens in your vicinity. Seeing it like this gives a different perspective, facts presented to a candid world, it shows the scale of what's going on.
    • lunasunshine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@ banderbe
      wow. ignorant much?
    • banderbe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@lunasunshine

      That's quite the substantive response there :) Please, expound on your idea a bit. What am I ignorant about, hmm?
  • iburyfamilyguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0The can one should have zoomed in on the little girls face...
  • Noxieas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ok this is a bit strange, but if you scroll through the hundred dollar bill picture (IE: smoothly up and down) it forms what looks like the eye of providence (on the back of your dollar). I could be crazy but it looks like some sorta image resembling an eye.
  • profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Random question... How BIG would each of these be, at actual size? I'm thinking about the pop can one in particular... how tall and how wide would a wall of that many pop cans be?
    • Bizarrkley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Count the cans, measure your favorite brand of soda drink (use as average height) and then do the math.
      Knuckleheads always be wantin' other people to do the work for them.
    • profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see what you did there.
  • swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"Depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq."

    ...Every hour! And people wonder why Bush refuses to accept a timeline for withdrawal?
    • swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Digg me down, but who do you think is paying that bill? Heres a hint: WE ARE.
  • allywilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know why in the plastic bag one you can clearly see a Tesco's plastic bag? I thought it was US only?
    • *jooloop*, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the NUMBER is reflected as US only; the props... who cares where they are from?
  • SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Quilt maybe
  • paulcano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cached by Google here: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:0LJTf9bPm0EJ:www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php%3Fid%3D7+http://www.chrisjordan.com/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a
  • buryyourhead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Dammit should I feel guilty for this? I mean I don't own an SUV. In my entire family (aunts, uncles, cousins) they own 1 SUV, and that's out of 36 people. I recycle plastics, recycle each and every can I use, fly on a plane maybe once every 2-3 years, have owned the same cell phone for 4 years, which by the way I GUARAN-*****-TEE japan wastes a lot more of....don't own a gun, don't ever use paper at the grocery store. I'm sick and ***** tired of being told I should feel guilty for living in the country I was born in. That's like saying every German nowadays should feel guilty for the Holocaust. ***** the hippy who made this *****.
    • dewfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wouldn't call this "guilt art". Its just art that reflects the reality we live in. Whether you feel "guilty" or not is irrelevant.

    • radix33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He just used the word "guilt" to make you stop and look. He succeeded.
  • Stay521, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was more impressed by the soda can pointillism, than the weak attempt at a guilt trip.


    I would love to drink up "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte".
  • scjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Vicodin would be better if they read Watson.
  • N3XUS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice to see artists have "discovered" photomosaics.

    Seriously, who wonders if they actually counted the number of bags or guns or whatever in the pictures? Looks like there is a lot of stuff, but I'm not going to be the one to find out...
  • bingo000, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1The best piece of artwork I've seen by far.
  • killtrocity, on 05/11/2008, -0/+0I'm not sure all of this stuff is doing the planet that much harm. Obviously, the extinction of many animal species has been caused by human activity, but the world still seems to be fine as a whole. If this is the amount that we pollute and we still haven't seen any significant changes? I would say good ol' planet earth is pretty resilient.
  • erichines, on 05/29/2008, -0/+0I agree killtrocity, things go extinct, the strong survive and produce better stronger organisms to survive in the current environment, 99.9% of species that have lived on earth have gone extinct, the main survivors have been certain strains of bacteria, sharks, roaches, and spiders.

    All in all though the art is pretty cool. Is it fine art? who knows maybe he didn't take any art classes at all and he is more of a math computer guy.

    http://www.thegluckmethod.com/howtodraw/larrygluck ...
  • sentai, on 09/10/2008, -0/+0http://www.s92.info
    Great stuff
  • ericember, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1this art does not make me feel guilty.

    http://stores.ebay.com/Mission-Renaissance-Art-Sup ...
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