Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

Toothpicks, 2007
Depicts 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.
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Plastic Bottles, 2007
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
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Plastic Bags, 2007
Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.
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Chris Jordan’s website
interview

A Writer from the Weekly World News Dishes the Dirt

The Wake ‘n’ Bacon

Woody Allen Shoots a Moose, 1965

Sheffields, Where Jesus is Lord, from the film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

For Sale: Self-Adhesive Sunroof

Rosemary Fiore’s Ceramic Roadrunner Death Scenes

“Storytime” by Terry Gilliam, 1968

International Collection of On the Road Book Covers from Over the Years

The Most Insane Online Romance Story You’ll Read All Day

Three Songs by Leadbelly, 1945 (Pete Seeger, ed.)

Criminal Portraits from the Sydney Police Archvies, 1920s

The (Free) Timbaland Five-CD Box Set

The Elliot Condensed Bible

David Foster Wallace’s Intro to The Best American Essays 2007

At the Window

Asako Naharashi, “Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water”

The Andy Kaufman YouTube Motherlode

Retro 3D Erotica

My Interview with Roger Ballen