Sunday, April 01, 2007

Mass Destruction

2.3 million folded prison uniforms (number of US prisoners in 2005)

1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags (used per hour)

29,569 handguns (handgun deaths in the US in 2004)

From photographer Chris Jordan's series, Running the Numbers. (via Next Nature).

3 comments:

Jonathan Versen said...

a nice find-- does the visually pleasing aspect make it grimmer?

C.M. Mayo said...

Peculiar priorities...

MT said...

How much grief must we go on inflicting on the world to wallpaper our desktops? We were better off with DOS.