MetaFilter posts tagged with trash

Where your recycling goes

caddis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:57:50 -0800

Your cafefully separated recycling heads to the dump. Reporters in D.C. follow some of the trucks around town and watch them dump the trash and the recycling together into the same truck. (previously)

Harmony Korine's Trash

philip-random — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:02:33 -0800

Trash Humpers A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism,it is a new type of horror; palpable and raw.

Lunar Leftovers.

gman — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:03:46 -0800

How the Moon Became a Trash Can. "The biggest trash can outside of earth's atmosphere is in fact the moon."

I'm nobody, I'm the king of rock and roll

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:46:37 -0800

Los Marauders live on Public Access TV Fans of the Psychobilly genre will remember them as making one perfect album, released on LP only in 1991 inexplicably by indiepop label Teenbeat Records (defunct) . Now (well, since 2006) we can for the first time see what they look like in interviews and onstage. Full 28 Minutes of Wigglin' on Myspace

Gasification.

gman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:55:49 -0800

Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash.

Hello Hello

srs — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:47 -0800

Hello Hello Finally a myspace blog post worth seeing: funny window messages about neighbors with trash disposal concerns, vaguely reminiscent of the window messages in "You and Me and Everyone Else We Know" Please suggest websites for more funny window messages. Is this normal?

What Gets Left Behind

netbros — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:17:43 -0800

Federal and state government officials and border activists say the garbage dumped in the Sonoran Desert by illegal immigrants and their smugglers is staggering. The cleanup is costing taxpayers millions. The Southern Arizona Project(pdf) is a multi-year program setup by the Bureau of Land Management to mitigate the impacts to the ecology by illegal immigration and smuggling. In 2006 alone, more than 1.18 million pounds of trash was collected along the southern Arizona border.

Momma Mia!

snsranch — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:56 -0800

Holy Shit! What am I going to do without MOZZARELLA!!!!! I don't know what the guy is singing in the first YT link but I recognize plenty of "dirty words". (NSFW in Italy?)

I Want To Blow YOU Up!

gman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:30:35 -0800

A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. MTV made a show out of her because, amongst other reasons, she has over 2.5 million friends on myspace and she claims not to discriminate. The cast bios are ~~interesting~~ fucking ridiculous. The latest has her and some dude named Bobby breaking up. Fan sites are abuzz.

Making a point, the pigpen way.

desjardins — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:39:24 -0800

This guy saved all his trash for an entire year. It amounted to 96 cubic feet. Perhaps not surprisingly, his message is conservation.

The Garbage Man Can

brooklynexperiment — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:03:04 -0800

The Garbage Game. What would you do with 64,000 tons of garbage every week? The Gotham Gazette is a not-for-profit newspaper that reports on New York City politics and policy. On their site is a highly informative game that puts you in the place of a resident and then the Sanitation Commissioner, shedding some light on NYC's garbage problem.

"Put your boob in my scotch. Come on, put your tit in my drink."

6am — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:44:03 -0800

Bob Log III plays distorted trash grimey blues slide guitar with his hands, he drawls through a telephone attached to the bubble face of the motorcycle helmet he wears, and he drums with his feet. He is known to ask women to stir his scotch on stage with their breasts, which is sadly Not currently Safe for Work. Sometimes he asks them to sit on his knee, bouncing up and down on the blue glittery jump suit he wears whenever he plays. Bob Log III has an official site. The official site has officially NSFW videos. Of course Bob Log III has a wiki, some content of which is pretty amusing. Bob Log III is just generally not safe for work, and as such is absolutely fantastic.

Ban The Bag

chuckdarwin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:39:47 -0800

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation's video Synthetic Sea is pretty shocking. "All we can do is stop polluting and hope the system will clean itself up in hundreds of years." So, what will be the fate of the plastic bag until the inevitable ban comes? Should they be Taxed? Should they be Banned ? Should stores charge extra for them? We don't really have a lot of time to argue about it.

Converting Garbage into Energy

jonson — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:22:29 -0800

Mr Fusion - coming soon. Startech Environmental Corporation's "Plasma Converter" works like "the big bang in reverse," creating nothing out of something. With the ability to break down any type of material (other than nuclear waste) into component molecules and and actually generate energy in the process, we may be at the twilight of the landfill industry. Via.

Trash or Art or Both?

fenriq — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:05:42 -0800

The SF Dump's Artist in Residence Program currently features Sudhu Tewari and Nome Edonna but will be welcoming Ellen Babcock and Nathaniel Tookey shortly. Its an idea that's been around for a little while. "Many artists find and recycle materials in their art, but no one else has this much material to pick from," says Program Director Paul Fresina. The 2,000-square-foot art studio is located at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.'s Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center. The 44-acre site is where most of San Francisco's garbage and recyclables are temporarily dumped before going to a landfill or recycling plant. Throughout a residency, each artist talks to young students and adult tour groups about the experience of turning trash into treasures. Previously and via.

To live is to remember.

maryh — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:06:49 -0800

Ilha Das Flores video "A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. The end? No. ISLAND OF FLOWERS follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear." A remarkable and devastating 12 minute film from director Jorge Furtado.

trashfan.com

keepoutofreach — Wed, 31 May 2006 09:22:01 -0800

Music video gems and reviews from the spandex era. It's called trashfan although not all of it is trash (Springsteen). But some stuff definitely deserves to be there (Shalamar? Colonel Abrams? Pepsi & Sherley? Eew). And yes, I used to have Junior's "Mmmmmmama used to say" 45 rpm. And you know you liked it too!

Retro Product Packaging of the 50s, 60's & 70's

jonson — Mon, 29 May 2006 18:45:03 -0800

Dan Goodsell (of the unbelieveably great - and previously linked - Tick Tock Toys) has been keeping a blog for the last six months or so covering a variety of subjects (including his webcartoon, Mr Toast), but largely focused on U.S. pop culture ephemera of the 50's though the 70's, with a ton of great stuff.

The Epistemologist of Despair

matteo — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:56:43 -0800

Drama is impossible today. I don't know of any. Drama used to be the belief in guilt, and in a higher order. This absolutely cruel didactic is impossible, unacceptable for us moderns. But melodrama has kept it. You are caged. In melodrama you have human, earthly prisons rather than godly creations. Every Greek tragedy ends with the chorus — "those are strange happenings. Those are the ways of the gods". And so it always is in melodrama.
His career as a film director lasted more than 40 years, but Douglas Sirk (1900-1987) is remembered for the melodramas he made for Universal in Hollywood between 1954 and 1959, his "divine wallow": Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), The Tarnished Angels (1958, William Faulkner considered it the best screen adaptation of one of his novels), Imitation of Life (1959) -- all considered for decades little more than a camp oddity. Now audiences are beginning to look deeper at the films of Douglas Sirk, at how, in megafan Todd Haynes' words, they are "almost spookily accurate about the emotional truths". Now, lucky Chicagoans can enjoy "Douglas Sirk at Universal", matinees at the Music Box. More inside.

Reduce, Reuse,...

santiagogo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:46:10 -0800

Where do your recycleables go? Minneapolis' Star Tribune has created a very interesting, informative, interactive feature, describing where your recycling goes after it is picked up from your curb. An educational way to spend your afternoon!

Fast-Food Trash

stbalbach — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:55:26 -0800

Recent surveys show that fast-food packaging makes up about 20 percent of all litter, with snack foods comprising another 20 percent. Oakland, CA is the first city to tax companies who create "Fast-Food Trash".

PEAK GARBAGE!

loquacious — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:03:55 -0800

Your Mr. Fusion is ready. Sort of.

Dumpster-diving forum

mediareport — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:20:19 -0800

Dumpster World - "Your Dumpster Diving and Curb Crawling Resource." [via Information Nation, which also links to that story of a woman who was recently unloaded into a garbage truck]

Oh My God I Threw Out All This Stuff And I Was Like WEEE!

fandango_matt — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:15:00 -0800

The WEEE Man is a huge 3 ton figure standing 7 metres high and is composed entirely of WEEE (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment)--from washing machines to mobile phones and electronic toys. The WEEE Man represents the amount of waste a single person in the UK is likely to produce in a lifetime. Measure your own footprint here.

Throw paper in the bin

kenaman — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:08:12 -0800

Throw paper in the bin game. - Satisfying.