Monday, December 27, 2010

Trashy

I saw these amazing pictures here, and could not believe these beautiful pieces are made form soda cans. Their purpose is to show the vast amounts we consume in our daily lives. Check out the post below for more information.

Running The Numbers   via

Photographer Chris Jordan explores the phenomenon of American consumerism by making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data. Cans Seurat depicts 106,000 aluminum cans in the form of George Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; 106,000 being the number of cans used in the US every thirty seconds. Mindblowing indeed.

(images from Chris Jordan)

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