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Chris Jordan’s photographs provoke a response by making visual the mind-boggling numbers of statistics. In his series, Running the Numbers he deals with the epidemic scale of the physical and ecological effects of human habits. The photo above is a detail of Barbie Dolls (2008).
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation [...]

Here’s a great video from the very addictive Ted talks. In this talk, we meet Dave Eggers, the founder of independent publishing house, McSweeney’s, who along with publishing great contemporary novels also put out The Believer magazine, Wholphin DVD series, Voice of Witness, and the McSweeney’s Quarterly. All of these publications are unique in their [...]