First off, if you are not familiar with Chris Jordan's work, take time now to check him out. Don't be turned off by the dead albatross on his homepage; it's a story that needs to be heard and told. Jordan and his crew visited the Midway Atoll (Northern Pacific--exactly half way between the U.S. and Japan) last year and documented the tragic tale of what our plastic waste is doing to these birds. Thousands upon thousands of albatross chicks are dying every year because of the plastic "food" their parents feed them - all caught from the giant sea of plastic just miles from their breeding grounds. The adult birds mistake the floating sea of plankton-like plastic for food, fill their gullets with it, fly back to their chick and regurgitate it the way many bird species do. The chicks eagerly take their fill, only to die a slow and painful death (their stomachs eventually rupture from the mass of plastic). Chris and his crew watched in sorrow as desperate parents, in a frantic measure to help their dying chicks, fed more and more plastic to them right until their last breath. With only one egg laid each year per breeding pair, and with more than 2 million pounds of plastic waste entering our world's oceans EVERY HOUR, it is only a matter of time before the numbers of living vs. dead are reversed. Please help; reduce the amount of plastic in your life as much as you can. Together, we can make a difference.
...more than one million plastic cups are used on airline flights...
...every six hours.
To depict what you've seen above, Chris took a picture of one cup. He then copied the rim of the cup and used his photoshop program to copy and paste the rim lots of times until a certain look was achieved, making all those bends and formations you see in the picture. Then he photostitched blocks of that particular work, stiching here and there to make for seamless pipelines, until one million cups were depicted. Six hours of U.S. flights alone.
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