Chris Jordan's photos of disturbing consumer stats: interview

Chris Jordan's photos of disturbing consumer stats: interview

Chris Jordan renders American consumer statistics as art. For instance: above, 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day. At left, an idea of what the 60 x 100" piece looks like from a distance; at right, detail view. I imagine they'd look amazing IRL.

We've blogged his work a number of times here on BoingBoing (1, 2), but here's a Link to a new interview with him, by Nicole Pasulka in The Morning News.

posted by Xeni Jardin