Chris Jordan on the Colbert Report
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uhhh, the shit only stacks up is manufactured and allowed,because the machine has by the short and curlys, even the elite imbeciles recycling their own saliva to make the world a "sustainable''place..... they are otherwise fr the most part, ineffectual uber-consumers, bent on strangling salmon by hand to get what they feel they deserve.....What's in your wallet????

>> ^choggie:
uhhh, the shit only stacks up is manufactured and allowed,because the machine has by the short and curlys, even the elite imbeciles recycling their own saliva to make the world a "sustainable''place..... they are otherwise fr the most part, ineffectual uber-consumers, bent on strangling salmon by hand to get what they feel they deserve.....What's in your wallet????


Read the title. "Picturing excess" the title is not "Captain planet wants you to save the world"
it is about perspective. The perspective our brain misses due to the fact of the minute contribution that each person adds to society but that as a whole becomes significant. This is about the deep behaviors that society fails to grasp most of the time because the nature of those behaviors are unconscious habits.
what the artist tried to do was to condense those behaviors through pictures. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED talks, art, statistics, externalization, pollution, consumption, waste' to 'TED talks, art, statistics, consumption, waste, social ills' - edited by calvados

His work is amazing, but the idea that we're not talking about people dying from smoking is far fetched. I guess if you spend all your time in a studio you miss out on national conversations.