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Thursday, February 11, 2010 • Noted • by Eva Wisten • #

30 Seconds of Aluminum Cans

Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan continues his reflections on American consumption. Jordan is trying to make us actually understand and feel the numbing numbers that are constantly tossed around: The pounds of plastic dumped in the ocean each day (2.4 million); the number of cell phones discarded in the US every 24 hours (426.000).

Watch the Seedmagazine.com Slideshow “The Age of Impossible Numbers” here:

Below: The number of aluminum cans consumed in the US every 30 seconds.

Jordan used the colored dot that is each can to digitally reinterpret Georges-Pierre Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte with the same technique, pointillism (the creation of an image by using small dots of pure color) that Seurat used for the original painting.