They say necessity is the mother of all invention. And year after year after year, it seems like people's "needs" are growing with more and more technology being deviced. Since technology changes so fast, with new ones offering better results and services, people are anxious to be out with the old and on with the new.

Hence, these pictures by Chris Jordan. He's captured images of the "old technology" that we have literally thrown out. Click on the thumbnails of the images to see Jordan's Portraits of Mass Consumption. Above is a 44x90" photograph of cellphones thrown. Images below show circuit boards, cars and cellphone chargers.

For more of this "Intolerable Beauty", as Chris Jordan has dubbed them, visit his website here.