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Running the numbers, portraits of consumption

Running the numbers, portraits of consumption

Chris Jordan’s incredible gallery of consumption culture (this skeleton is made from 200,000 packs of cigarettes) artist’s statment – This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans […]

Hexagram shirt

Hexagram shirt

Zazaziza writes – We’ve put together a wearable randomness generator and display that, by way of a simple gestural interface, shows hexagrams from the Book of Changes (I Ching). The Hexagram shirt was inspired by and conceived to fit into the dystopic universe of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, a novel […]

Giant white glove

Giant white glove

The white glove tracking project has an interesting outcome, Michael Jackson meets Mickey Mouse… – On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is […]

“Steamy” Justice League mods

“Steamy” Justice League mods

Check out these awesome re-imaginings of the Justice League as Victorian-era superheroes (inspired by the Gotham by Gaslight comics). And while you’re on this modder’s site, be sure to check out the other amazing collections, such as Dune: House Atreides, Star Wars: Re-Vision, and a number of other custom figure galleries. Gaslight Justice League – […]