Posts Tagged ‘dumpster’

Trash Cam Carries On

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Trash Cams—pinhole cameras constructed by German binmen out of dumpsters—were easily my favorite finding of Decorative Dumpster Day last year.

Photo by by Mirko Derpmann via Flickr

Photo by by Mirko Derpmann via Flickr

So I was delighted to be reminded of the project by a recent unconsumption post. The project’s Flickr page hosts a number of wonderful images including an adorable folder called The Tonnographers comprised of photos of the men taking photos with dumpsters; as well as the eery, arty pinhole images they captured.

Photo by by Michael Pfohlmann, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann via Flickr

Photo by by Michael Pfohlmann, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann via Flickr

I just love the photo captions noting the type of camera as a “1.100 litre garbage container.”

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Reblog: Wallpapered Dumpsters

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Check out C. Finley’s clever and trashy street art, wall papered dumpsters.

C. Finley

C. Finley

Via Wooster Collective

On a mostly unrelated note, I saw a racoon (at least I hope it was a racoon, it could have been a very large possum or a big freaky rat on steroids) at the corner of Smith and Bergen last night. It looked like it was about to walk down the steps to the F train platform, but some people walked by (without noticing it) so it ran under a car instead. I imagine it was checking out curbside dining options from all the restaurant trash bags on that block. I’ve seen racoons in Brooklyn before, but never one that looked like it might get on the Subway.

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