The scale of things

Post by **Dale** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:30 pm

I'm sure I'll eventually have to move this to the PROCT forum but, in the meantime:

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2 ... ign=center

Boody · Post by **Boody** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:37 pm

It is a sad, messed up world we live in...

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:50 pm

Whoah!

pastorkeith

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:07 pm

Great art.

Sobering messages.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:43 pm

Americans only dispose of two kinds of cell phone, it seems.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:51 pm

Wow!

Nicely done! But is the world paying any more attention to the message?

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:17 am

Astonishing images.

Effective.

Alarming.

Thanks.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:14 am

Who had the patience to stack all that stuff up?

Seriously, amazing, eye-opening images

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:48 am

Enjoyable. I liked the shipping containers.
Many of the problems alluded to by the images are less about stupid human choices and more about the impact of population and how we haven't worked out just how to manage it...yet. maybe.

Some are stupid human choices.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:57 am

32,000 breast enhancements a month. This doesn't surprise me. The pressure for women (and even young girls) to use their bodies to attract men is intense--and incredibly destructive. On a side note to that, an interesting editorial printed in the local paper about the prevalence of misogyny today:

http://www.sltrib.com//ci_7979180?IADID ... sltrib.com

Susan

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:02 am

hi, ho, hi ho,
to the poli board we go

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:33 am

emmline wrote: Many of the problems alluded to by the images are less about stupid human choices and more about ...

At the risk of pushing this to the proctology forum, the images are indeed about stupid human choices. The choice to even create a "disposable" society to begin with.

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Plasti ... galita.htm
"In some areas of the North Pacific Central Gyre, a unique ecosystem, there is more plastic present than biological life."

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:39 am

Strange, I am usually able to get those magic eye things.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:48 am

sbfluter wrote:
emmline wrote: Many of the problems alluded to by the images are less about stupid human choices and more about ...
At the risk of pushing this to the proctology forum, the images are indeed about stupid human choices. The choice to even create a "disposable" society to begin with.

I wouldn't attempt to defend the overuse of plastics as a reasonable choice by a long shot. What I meant was that many choices were made for varying reasons of progress and convenience without understanding of the longterm implications. Plastic bottled beverages for example. Obviously this "convenience" requires major rethinking, but the initial launch of the idea was not based purely on stupidity, whereas I would say that...the huge growth of the tobacco industry, for example, is. Well, actually it's based on more than stupidity. Well, now that I mention it...tobacco was not originally promoted with a clear understanding of its long term implications either...here I go, arguing myself into a corner. But it seems to fall a bit more cleanly into the stupid camp, whereas bottles were designed for convenience.
Nevermind...I'm just pixeling out loud...there is much, obviously, to reconsider about the way our species does things.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:49 am

I.D.10-t wrote:Strange, I am usually able to get those magic eye things.

I am usually not!