Plastic Bottles, 2007 60x120" Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Art speaks louder than words? Lots more: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php
He starts to get really creative further down: Cans Seurat, 2007 60x92" Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Partial zoom: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Detail at actual size: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
redarmy11, you must eat out of the p[alms ogf your hands. guess thaey serve food that way in U.K lets kill everyone who drinks a can of British beer.
You're a moron. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (ok, I'll explain. I think it's interesting, and beautiful in its way. Clearly you've mistaken me for some kind of rabid environmentalist.)
While John99 has a point (plastic bottles and cans are used all over the world and most often in developed nations), U.S. uses plastic items such as plates and forks more often. You'd come to a cafe here and get a plastic cup of coffee, pizza on a plastic plate, and so on. There are good and bad sides to it. The bad side is that it's too much plastic. On the other hand, it's dishes that don't have to be washed. You'll never get your coffee in a dirty cup, never catch an illness because of a poorly washed dish. In Britain, they don't use as much plastic to serve food and drink; but their workers don't even wear gloves when cleaning up dishes and meddle in leftovers with bare hands. Yes, that's less plastic, but it is unsanitary and unsafe. Regarding the photo essay: BORING.
Well yes, she's clearly in one of her strops - as evidenced by this hurriedly-posted 'photoeassay' [sic]. So let me just say that, although the huge numbers involved are probably uniquely American, this detritus is the legacy of, not just America, but every wasteful, modern consumer society. Better?
Way to generalise. As me mam always said: "you've got to eat a bit of dirt before you die". She never has explained why but, taking her at her word, I always demand that my Mississippi Mud Pies contain at least a dollop or two of real mud. Needless to say that, like the majority of my fellow citizens... I'm on my last legs. Kidding: think I read somewhere that kids are falling victim to more and more infections these days because they're all sat on their backsides, staring at their Playstations*, instead of being outside shoving worms down each others backs. Not building up those vital immunities, see. And you yanks are the worst: obsessed with cleanliness. And that's what's unhealthy. Wrong again, whitewolf. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! *Or TV screens. Or whatever.
Misunderstood as usual. *sigh* I was just stumbling and came across it, thought it was nice and put it up in Arts and Culture.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
See my first three posts, then blame them. You know - them. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The first photo should have included an elephant or a grey whale for scale. The second photo should have actually used pointilism as in the original work of art. Interesting though. I recall a bit by George Carlin where he posits that humans are just the Earth's way of making plastic.
But you never "stumble" across anything that shows Indian in a bad light, do you, Sam? Your "stumbling" seems to be rather consistent in it's denigration of USA and Americans. That, most certainly, is indicative of some sort of personal vindetta, ain't it???? Baron Max
I don't blame you for "stumbling" upon things, Sam, I blame you for taking note of ONLY the bad things about the USA and about Americans, and I blame you for posting them here just to make the USA look bad. You never seem to "stumble" onto anything bad about India ...and damned sure never post it if you do. But perhaps that's because Indians censor their news so the rest of the world don't know how shitty and impoverished and divided and corrupt India really is. Baron Max