BS: running the numbers

Subject: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 09:05 AM

I posted this link in the ASDA thread ... but I do think it deserves a seperate thread on it's own. It is the art of Chris Jordon a photographer out of Seattle. Take a look, it's very interesting.

chris jordon

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 09:20 AM

Talk about making a point. Jordan is great.

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Beer
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 09:48 AM

In creditable.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: gnu
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 02:10 PM

Oh wow man! Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 12:46 AM

What I found interesting was the "Ben Franklin" especially when compared to the "Building Blocks". Different, but stark reality in perspective.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: ragdall
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 01:53 AM

Fascinating work, Bill. Wow!

rags

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: M.Ted
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 04:06 AM

I don't even get the point--it's a lot of stuff, but so what? It's a big country, with a lot of people--if you layed them out end to end, you could go around the world seven times, or eight times, and then what?

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: DMcG
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 04:14 AM

My criticism would apply to a lot of current art. There is a good idea here, and it is executed well.

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Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 07:46 AM

DMcG ... I persume you are also not a fan of Phillip Glass. :)

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 08:10 AM

M.Ted ... "if you layed them out end to end, you could go around the world seven times, or eight times, and then what?"

What's the point .... well, you'd fall off the edge of the world. That's what.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 03:09 PM

Thanks. His work makes one think about quantities and the problems they cause.

Breast implants- the number is mind-boggling. How can one be sure....

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: M.Ted
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 03:15 PM

My point is that these images don't really convey any specific message at all. What you see depends totally on your value bias. If you are horrified by plastic bottles and cups, the images are distasteful, but if you like them, they are fun--

I remember when exactly this sort picture was done for, say, Life Magazine, by whatever industry, bottle caps or batteries or Barbies, to essentially say, "Wow! Look at all the stuff we produce! Isn't it cool?"

The images are value neutral--they don't show consequences, or even relationships of any sort- so they are easy to read either way--even though the artist seems to have intended them send a strong message--

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 04:36 PM

The viewer develops his own message.

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 04:40 PM

Your are correct Q ... that's art.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 07:12 PM

"if you layed them out end to end"

Did you know that if you laid all the population of the earth end to end around the earth, - well first off they'd stop breeding, and secondly, about 75% would drown...

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 11:28 PM

Did you know that transporting a megaton of TNT (equivalent to the explosive yield of a very moderately sized hydrogen bomb) would require a freight train 400 miles long?

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:39 AM

Impressive!
How many balls of string would it take, to get to the moon???
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One, if it were long enough!

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 10:14 AM

Sanity .... what kind of string ??

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Paul Burke
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 11:23 AM

Did you know that transporting a megaton of TNT (equivalent to the explosive yield of a very moderately sized hydrogen bomb) would require a freight train 400 miles long?

Not quite. With a reasonable axle loading of 15 tonnes, a four axle 40 foot boxcar vehicle could carry 60 tonnes. TNT is 1.654 tonnes/ cubic metre, so 60 tonnes would leave plenty of space. The train would be 10077 cars long, or about 76 miles. Even with more standard 60 foot vehicles, we're only just getting to 115 miles.

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 11:31 AM

Pual ... what about narrow or broad guage?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 07:57 PM

Oh no! Not Roman carts again!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 10:34 PM

no Rowan ... not Roman carts ... we're talking railroad stuff now.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 03:06 AM

If we talked about Rudall Cartes it could go above the line....


How many Rudall Carte 1867 system flutes would you need to hold a megatonne of TNT?

I estimate that one flute has an internal volume of about 0.0075 cubic metres, that's 0.0126 tonnes of TNT. So we would need about 792 million flutes, which is about 100,000 times as many flutes as the company made, so the fact that you wouyld need more suicide flautists than there are people in the world wouldn't matter.

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 01:45 PM

suicide flatulates ???????

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biLL

Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 09:12 PM

Paul Burke...what a buzz kill.

just kidding.


The National Geographic specials show some these with great effect.

Mostly it was about how many of certain things we use in a lifetime.