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Chris Jordan: Picturing excess

http://www.ted.com Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing numb...  
 
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MonkayMan (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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live simply so others can simply live
Sinha333 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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This and Chris Jordan's work on Albatross chicks is very thought-provoking! Thank you.
MultiChowder234 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I went to this place thingy. o ya go me. lolz not.
FrankieSpankie666 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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yeah, its called abortion, get used to it...i think it would be good if people did it more often...especially dumb poor people
xwsftassell (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Drachmonoid creep.
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xwsftassell (3 months ago) Show Hide
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And smoking too. I took up smoking in the late Seventies, and haven't had a cold or flu since then. Not even once. It's time people woke up to the fact that we've been lied to about tobacco. The chief reason governments have sought to ban it is that every time you have a cigarette your I.Q. doubles. Can't have that now, can we? Also: The Greeks have the lowest cancer rate in Europe, and are the heaviest smokers in Europe - go figure.
sk8ram (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Are you serious, you need an asylum sir.
Does lung cancer and research mean anything to you?
xwsftassell (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Baa-aaa-aaa. I'm sure you're as much of a stranger to research as you are to grammar and punctuation.
textbook321 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Powerful visual arts, Chris.

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