The art of the dumpster

01 May 2009 6 Comments

by madsilence in Art, Culture, Life, Thoughts Tags: Decorative Dumpster Day

MadFriend  Ruby Re-Usable  and friends have joined together to share pictures and links about decorated dumpsters.  A crazy idea for a themed blogging day?  Perhaps but then you may not know Ruby.  Learn more here:  Decorative Dumpster Day.

Here’s an example of dumpster painting from the Yorkton Business Improvement District.

Go  here  to view Keith Hofer’s Dumpster art.  His close-up photos of dumpsters  (there are some dumptrucks, loaders and snowplows as well) are quite fantastic.  They highlight the impact of weathering and corrosion on metal. 

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.  Check out this dumpster art from 2006.

Of course there’s an art to dumpster diving as well.  Check out this article from Campus Progress and Take the Dumpster Plunge.

To freegans, dumpster diving isn’t just about getting free stuff. It’s about boycotting consumer culture and wastefulness.

For a different take on decorative dumpsters, go to Environmental Graffiti to discover Awesome Ways To Recycle a Dumpster.

Image source: Environmental Graffiti

And finally, according to Forbes.com, Dumpster Diving Pays Dividends:

A rare Arts & Crafts chair made by Charles Rolhfs and rescued from the trash made auction history [recently].  Expected to fetch around $30,000, it sold for the record price of $198,000.

~MadSilence

Postscript:

Visit these sites participating in Decorative Dumpster Day. 

My favorite:  Last Night’s Garbage.  Check out the trash can flowers that turn trash bins into art.  This photoblog documents garbage from the streets of NYC.  Cool stuff. 

Crafty Green Poet
The Visible Trash Society
EverydayTrash.com 
Just Another Poet