Chris Jordan at TED: Running More Numbers

We've featured the work of photographic artist Chris Jordan several times before -- aside from his work playing the numbers game and highlighting the excess of New York, he's talked to TreeHugger Radio, proven quotable on greener gadgets and popped up at Pop!Tech -- and now he checks in from TED in California.

His latest work, part of the ongoing "Running the Numbers" series, depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours -- that's the full print above; a partial zoom of the image and actual print size are below the fold. The other new image -- skewing more toward social commentary than environmental, but with numbers no less shocking -- depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006 and waits after the jump. Careful, it's probably NSFW. ::Chris Jordan and ::TED Conference

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