{"id":1014,"date":"2008-03-08T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2014-06-28T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T02:01:37","slug":"visual-statistics-the-madness-of-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/visual-statistics-the-madness-of-consumerism-1014","title":{"rendered":"Visual statistics - the madness of consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/gallery\/rtn\/\">Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait<\/a>, Chris Jordan has put together a brilliant set of images that...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>... visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourites are:<\/p>\n<p>426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/cell-phones1.jpg' alt='cell phones' \/><\/p>\n<p>Detail:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/cell-phones2.jpg' alt='Cell phones detail' \/><\/p>\n<p>Here's a forest of 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/forest1.jpg' alt='paper bag forest' \/><\/p>\n<p>Detail:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/forest2.jpg' alt='paper bag forest detail' \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some disturbing images in this clever collection.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the rest of: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/gallery\/rtn\/\">Running the Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/visual-statistics-the-madness-of-consumerism-1014#comments\" id=\"comms\">3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/visual-statistics-the-madness-of-consumerism-1014\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/plastic.jpg' alt='plastic bags' class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's a brilliant way to express statistics in visual form. Each vast photograph is a collage of smaller photographs that depict the state of American (and world) consumerism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}