{"id":543,"date":"2008-11-17T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=543"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:07","slug":"running-the-numbers-an-american-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2008\/11\/17\/running-the-numbers-an-american-self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.  photo credit: Chris Jordan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just learned of photographer\/artist Chris Jordan&#8217;s brilliant exhibition, <a title=\"Chris Jordan Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\"><em>Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait<\/em><\/a>. <strong>Chris combines specific quantities of something<\/strong> (such as plastic cups), <strong>statistics<\/strong> (one million plastic cups are used on airline flights in the US every six hours) <strong>and photographic inventiveness to present viewers with a real and stark understanding of America&#8217;s outrageous consumption patterns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.  photo credit: Chris Jordan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Chris Jordan Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\" target=\"_self\">You can view the complete <em>Running the Numbers<\/em> series on Chris Jordan&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind: <strong>The images are not Photoshop creations<\/strong>. You are viewing the actual number of items such as toothpicks, plastic bottles, etc. as enumerated in the captions.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Chris Jordon Photography - Running the Numbers\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/paperbags.jpg\" alt=\"Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.\" width=\"458\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.  photo credit: Chris Jordan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just learned of photographer\/artist Chris Jordan&#8217;s brilliant exhibition, <a title=\"Chris Jordan Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/\"><em>Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait<\/em><\/a>. <strong>Chris combines specific quantities of something<\/strong> (such as plastic cups), <strong>statistics<\/strong> (one million plastic cups are used on airline flights in the US every six hours) <strong>and photographic inventiveness to present viewers with a real and stark understanding of America&#8217;s outrageous consumption patterns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}