Imagine if the 2.5 million plastic soda bottles consumed in America in one hour were dumped in one big colorful pile. Or the 426,000 cellphones retired in one day. Or the 750,000 shipping containers that pass through American port daily. Sure, these images would be meaningful and a far better representation of our over-consumption than bland statistics. But who knew they’d be so beautiful? Link [via BoingBoing]
I had a tought time figuring out if/which of the images were digital collages and which (if any) were actual installations. Some, like the contrails were obviously created in sillico, but some seemed almost like they could be photographs. Still, it’s very interesting to see the numbers in physical context (although I agree with the comment that the prints look completely different in person).
The picture you have posted reminded me of the work of Christo and Jean-Claude, actual installation of 13,000 colorful oil barrels called The Wall: http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/gaso.html
For some of them (like the plastic bottles), it looks like the detail (actual size) picture is a real photograph and the other versions might be tiled images. But yeah, the magnitude of the number is kinda lost in web images.
That Christo/Jean-Claude installation looks so cool. I wish I could’ve gone and seen the gates.. :(
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