Amazing images: Visualizing the Stats of America's Excess


	Amazing images: Visualizing the Stats of America's Excess

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2-7-2008 4:27 AM

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images, statistics, america, american, iraq, iraq war, heath, healthcare, trade

quickstar says:

This is just incredible. Be sure to go to the source to view the interactive slide show of these images showing the real impact of various statistics from the United States, including: the cost of the war in Iraq, the number of American children without health insurance, and more! Enjoy, clippers!

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by Richard B. Woodward
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This piece was inspired by a news item on diets</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay">Photograph by: Chris Jordan</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay">
  Chris Jordan keeps his eyes open for staggering statistics, and the more alarming the better.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay"> What sets his 44-year-old heart racing is some new figure expressing American excess and neglect—the number of disposable batteries manufactured by Energizer every year (6 billion) or plastic beverage bottles used every five minutes (2 million) or children without health insurance (9 million). Think of him as the unofficial artist of the Harper’s Index. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay">He has completed 19 pieces for the sardonic series he calls "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait," and he has more in the works. (<A href="http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2007/12/running-the-numbers" >View Jordan's photographs.</A>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay"><A href="http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2007/12/running-the-numbers"><IMG width="168" height="102" alt="numbers" src="http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/editorial/Flash/interactive-feature/2007/12/running-the-numbers/numbers-medium.jpg" /></A>
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<A class="readMore" href="http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2007/12/running-the-numbers">View Interactive Feature</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay">translates what he calls the emotionless sums he finds</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay">into visual metaphors.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/540DD15C-965F-49EC-9BD9-FF98E5909D0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>