chris jordan photography
Gotta check out his By the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait exhibition. It's the intersection of statistics, social commentary, and art. I'm certain web images don't do it justice, but it's better than nothing.
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
Lots more.
Via Eyebream Reblog
The Glory of Carniola
Not a bad place to pay your debt to society. More pictures and funny analysis if you follow the link.
Via We Make Money Not Art
When She Was White
Fascinating story of a black girl born to two white parents in South Africa in the late 50s. A very rare occurrence, but aparently genetically possible. At the age of 9 she was expelled from her school because her designation changed from white to "coloured" and she was not allowed to live with ehr parents except as a servant. Supreme court battles were fought and her designation changed. Then she left home at the age of 15 and was disowned by her parents for eloping with a black man.
does it suck?
I rock harder than boingboing and flickr!
Fun little infographic toy. You put in your search terms and it creates a ratio of positive to negative references to your term and normalizes it to 10. What a surprise that I rock arder than my favorite places. I knew I would rock harder than Bush, but I was surprised that Cheney rocked harder than bush, so I tried entering their whole names. Apparently they suck equally. Bush on it's own is lower, could it be due to pr0n sites being anti a different kind of bush?
Via Neatorama
cbs5.com - 'Psychology Of Evil' Prof's Last Stanford Lecture
"Individual military personnel those who stripped prisoners and leashed them like dogs are only as culpable as the people who created the overall environment in which the soldiers operated, Zimbardo told undergraduates enrolled in Introductory Psychology."
Way to go out swinging.
