That's not some fancy fractal or cellular automaton, but a shot of nearly half a million handsets. Artist Chris Jordan's composite of 426,000 cell phones measures more than eight feet wide at 200 dpi, but represents only a single day's worth of dead phones.
Jordan has many other such designs, including 65,000 cigarettes (the number of teens that light up a week) and 29,569 handguns (equivalent to the number of shooting deaths in 04).
Running the Numbers [Chris Jordan via Gizmodo]
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