From a series entitled Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, Chris Jordan looks closely at statistics of contemporary American culture. How closely? Have a look at his piece, Plastic Cups (2008), one million disposable plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the United States every six hours. At first glance it looks like an intricate pattern of plumbing, or ant factory work, but look closely and you’ll see stacks and stacks of cups, weaving their way into an untraceable road leading us nowhere. Best seen live, these prints offer a glimpse into our real consumer culture, a sobering visual representation of the stats we usually only hear run down during a speech or campaign.

View the entire series of portraits here.

Watch his 2007 pop!cast here.

Peggy Shea Andrews

Phew…Day 2 was a big one. And there has been some really great pick up on the web. Our blog partners at Pop!Tech 2007 have done an outstanding job in sharing the Pop!Tech experience with the rest of the world (and that includes the rest of the non-English speaking world!)

Here are some of the posts about Pop!Tech 2007:

Rob Katz’s offers his expert coverage and great a one-on-one speaker interview for WRI/NextBillion.net

Andrew Mack synthesizes the day’s topics for AmGlobal (with awesome image choices!)

All Together Now with Zinhle Thabethe, Krista Dong, Jeff Fisher, and Paul Shuper - Core77

Joel Johnson of Boing Boing covers Christian Nold’s BioMapping

Live from Pop!Tech: John Shearer–Powercast Sends Power Through Air - TreeHugger

Fast Company’s Live from Pop!Tech bloggings

Tiago from Brazil brings Pop!Tech to Portuguese speakers

MedeaMaterial has been posting speaker by speaker in Spanish

Paris Marashi’s (This Iranian American Life) blog are available in English and Farsi

Mark Anderson keeps the Wired readers waiting for more

Nicole Dyer, editor of PopSci , blogs about Fish Texting, the Nigerian Space Agency, and living dinosaur

Ethan Zuckerman of My heart’s in Accra has 10, count them, 10 thoughtful posts from today.

Down the Avenue - Renee Blodgett

Summit on the future of the corporation - The Obvious?

Pop!Tech 2007: Off to a great start - TrueTalk Blog (Tom Guariello)

There is plenty more where that came from…