Intricate, massive, overwhelming and visually obsessed with quantity, Chris Jordan's work portrays "contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics" in pursuit of a "different effect than the raw numbers alone" (source). Squeezing down Jordan's work to fit here will doubtlessly remove some of its impressiveness but there are successive zooms (clicking on the last one in a series will reveal actual size). Shoot over to Jordan's site to see more but here are a few choice bits from Running the Numbers.
Nearly half a million mobiles phones - the number retired in the US every day
1.14 million paper bags - the amount used in one hour in the US
11,000 jet trails - the number of commercial flights every 8 hours in the US
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