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- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -2/+8the grocery cart lawn chair actually looks good.
- aabernathy, on 07/08/2008, -2/+5what a bunch of garbage!
- hepafilter, on 07/08/2008, -2/+5Those trash people sculptures are brilliant.
- EllisAshbrook, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3That picture of the guy smiling is a guy i know. His ***** is effing amazing.
http://tomdeiningerart.com/
How about dropping the names of the creators of the art in that article? A little something for the effort, ya know! - dougvfr750, on 07/08/2008, -3/+6Must resist smartass comment...... sorry can't do it
What a bunch of trash - Samas11, on 07/08/2008, -2/+5Bottle house FTW!
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4One man's garbage is another mans gold
- manzplan, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4as an artist, I appreciate this, have wanted to do similar, but not had the time.
- bipolarruledout, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2It was decent before they just HAD to put the steampunk crap. Since when is streampunk art sustainable? Some of these are cool but they walk a FINE line between creative and kitchey.
I would like to see some sold for outragious amounts of money and have it end up in some board room.... then watch as it becomes trendy... or not. - AmyVernon, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4weburbanist is fast becoming one of my fave sites...
- bipolarruledout, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2***** for ***** sake isn't art... now if he was trying to make some sort of statement on human waste then perhaps he could have pulled it off..... but in general douchebags need not apply.
- JamesAJanisse, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Er... tongue-and-cheek?
I believe it's tongue-in-cheek. - chubbybubba, on 07/09/2008, -2/+3Turning trash into art is the exact opposite of what Paris Hilton does to music.
- littlewing82, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Recycled Art FTW!
If you are interested, San Francisco has an artist residency with the city's recycling program
http://www.sfrecycling.com/AIR/aboutus.php?t=d - werries, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1This really reminds me of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. A guy named Tyree Guyton basically took a street with a few abandoned houses and really transformed it.
http://www.heidelberg.org/ - littlewing82, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1that piece is by a couple. It was made using 6 months worth of their garbage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Noble_and_Sue_Web ... - DerangedPenguin, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1As much as I rage about my home city being a little too weird a little too far to the left, there are some really good points to San Francisco. The historic trolley cars, salvaged from cities around the country, are still serving in public transportation. These functional museum pieces, are an example of "Trash to Art" These pieces of equipment are only distant memories for most American city dwellers.
- SPLASTiK, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Not the greatest picture, but when I was in Bruges, Belgium earlier this year there was a wall withe broken beer bottles embedded into the top I thought was kind of neat:
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/844/00035qx0.jp ... - chadlewis76, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I grew up right across the street from a bottle house just like the one in a picture, in a crappy little suburb just north of Detroit. Man I wish I'd taken pictures of that thing, and the crazy looking old man who lived there.
- DerangedPenguin, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I find the reclining trash piles, sipping wine makes a great visualization of the saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
- DerangedPenguin, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I find the shipping container housing interesting, because a friend of mine and his family in the Netherlands live in several joined together. The ends are set with sliding glass doors bringing in lots more light than the historic apartment they used to live in, they have twice the square footage (meterage?) The two 53 foot living containers were "reefer" units and are super-insulated combined with solar heating and photovoltaic panels and LED lighting their energy costs went way down. Two 20 foot units are used as a garage and storage a luxury in the outskirts of Amsterdam.
The U.S. housing market for too long has been +3000 square foot "Starter Mansions." designed not as a place to spend time with the family and quiet retreat, but a building designed to stroke your ego and impress the neighbors. Some of the "Starter Mansions" I have looked at while house hunting are built like crap with inferior grade fixtures and hardware. When I commented about the quality of items used in the house, the real estate agent said, "It really only needs to hold together until you move to a more prestigious neighborhood." Prestigious neighborhood? The house was $700,000, in a neighborhood where the cheapest home was $500,000 and the most expensive was $1,000,000! Twenty years these homes will be recycled or more likely just be junk in a landfill. - rngf, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0At least they use all of our trash to create something that could appeal to someone, somewhere. We all buy too much stuff we don't really need anyway, and create trash in our lives that we cannot take with us when we leave so why not use this trash creatively!
- jessxcessories, on 07/28/2009, -0/+0Wow, the grocery cart lawn chair actually looks good. Do you sell them?
- BeAmazing, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0It might be trash but someone's trash is someone else's treasure :) I find the work quite interesting, honestely.
- pmoneyLA, on 07/09/2008, -4/+1my friend got really drunk one time and pooped in someone's yard. evidently i should have put a toothpick umbrella in it and took a picture for the art community to drool over.
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