Chris Jordan - Picturing Excess

**keith** · 01-24-2009, 07:05 PM

http://www.ted.com Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.

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YouTube - Chris Jordan: Picturing excess

Pictures include:

- the number of prisoners in the US (1 out of 4 people in prison in the world).

- the number of American women having elective breast augmentation surgery.

- the number killed by smoking annually.

- may other views of our culture.

Regards,
Keith

dgridley · 01-24-2009, 09:10 PM

I've seen that prison statistic before and I think it should really make you stop and think. Granted, we have a large population here, but you'd think China or India would have a similar if not larger proportion of people in prison.. can we really, then, call ourselves The Land Of The Free?

pk · 01-25-2009, 12:02 AM

Just amazing. Thank you Keith for sharing this with us. Everyone should take the time to watch this very interesting video. I also went to ted.com and found it a very worthwhile website. I will definitely spend time checking the many interesting videos here.

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