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07/10/2014 01:54:25 PM · #1 |
| Another fascinating series. Disturbing and somehow beautiful and intimate. |
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07/10/2014 02:19:55 PM · #2 |
Lessons learned:
- Don't have kids
- Old dudes living alone drink a lot
- College girls eat a lot of oranges
- College boys eat a lot of pizza (knew that already though)
- That chick that smokes a lot, also cleans a lot
- Dudes that live alone eat like crap...
...and, people don't look good when photographed from above like this. Let's see those jaw bones, people! |
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07/10/2014 02:22:48 PM · #3 |
I found both the images and  aliqui's observations very interesting. Thanks. |
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07/10/2014 02:39:55 PM · #4 |
The question would be.. had it changed the people recycled or ate after these pictures??
Quite interesting.. just proves to me some people are just weird.. not sure if they are the photographers or the people in the trash :-))
thanks for the share
Message edited by author 2014-07-10 14:40:43. |
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07/10/2014 03:07:13 PM · #5 |
| According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces about 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day, or a total of 29 pounds (13 kg) per week and 1,600 pounds (726 kg) a year. In my neighborhood the trash containers come in 40 gallon and 80 gallon sizes, and there are very few of the 40's out for weekly pickup, Mostly 80's and mostly stuffed to the point the lid won't go down. It sure looks like the folks in these pictures are producing about 1/4 of the trash that they would if they were typical Americans (the exception being the smoking girl). The quantity of refuse depicted for a family of 4 looks like my junk mail for week. Interesting project, but...It seems like people are editing their trash to the point that it calls into question the object of the project. |
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07/10/2014 03:40:12 PM · #6 |
despite the diversity in trash that commenters are noticing, the pictures look too similar to me.
maybe the people ought to be interacting with their trash in different ways.
or perhaps wearing it? or better yet, have it floating around them at appropriate levels.
but maybe these ideas have already been done.
about trash - a hilarious, scary, adult-oriented article in 'cracked' was picked up by huffpost today:
5 horrifying things only garbagemen know about you |
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07/10/2014 04:09:23 PM · #7 |
| I'll never live down the fact that one year when my son was about five, I had the brilliant idea that he would go trick-or-treating as a bag of garbage. He stepped into a trash bag, and I mounted soup cans, pop bottles, food boxes and the like to the inside and outside of the bag. He wore a Cheerios box on his head. He loved it, much to my wife's chagrin and neighbors' bemusement. At the end of the night, the costume was already neatly packaged up for the garbage man. |
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07/10/2014 05:44:04 PM · #8 |
| that is indeed brilliant, lucky kid! |
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07/10/2014 06:03:22 PM · #9 |
| Hm. The pictures have no reduce-your-waste effect on me. Instead, most of the people look oddly well-integrated with their trash. If their eyes were closed they would start to resemble corpses. Maybe in this throw-away culture we have adopted that same attitude toward people, including ourselves. |
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07/10/2014 08:28:55 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by bvy:
I'll never live down the fact that one year when my son was about five, I had the brilliant idea that he would go trick-or-treating as a bag of garbage. He stepped into a trash bag, and I mounted soup cans, pop bottles, food boxes and the like to the inside and outside of the bag. He wore a Cheerios box on his head. He loved it, much to my wife's chagrin and neighbors' bemusement. At the end of the night, the costume was already neatly packaged up for the garbage man. |
hhah that is funny!! Smart kid! |
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07/10/2014 10:31:26 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
despite the diversity in trash that commenters are noticing, the pictures look too similar to me.
maybe the people ought to be interacting with their trash in different ways.
or perhaps wearing it? or better yet, have it floating around them at appropriate levels.
but maybe these ideas have already been done.
about trash - a hilarious, scary, adult-oriented article in 'cracked' was picked up by huffpost today:
5 horrifying things only garbagemen know about you |
I love cracked. They're wicked funny |
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07/10/2014 11:18:12 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by bvy:
I'll never live down the fact that one year when my son was about five, I had the brilliant idea that he would go trick-or-treating as a bag of garbage. He stepped into a trash bag, and I mounted soup cans, pop bottles, food boxes and the like to the inside and outside of the bag. He wore a Cheerios box on his head. He loved it, much to my wife's chagrin and neighbors' bemusement. At the end of the night, the costume was already neatly packaged up for the garbage man. |
My older daughter also went dressed as a garbage can once for Halloween. My husband and she built the costume. She won a prize at the local Halloween parade. I wish we still had a picture. Reminds me of the time my best friend and I went trick or treating as a clothesline. |
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07/11/2014 12:39:55 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Another fascinating series. Disturbing and somehow beautiful and intimate. |
Yeah, meh - not as impressive as I wanted them to be or as it felt like they could have been. Certainly did not make an impression on me regarding garbage. But glad you posted the link - interesting nonetheless.
Interesting and funny article. Our garbage trucks come by with one driver and a big hydraulic arm that picks up the can and dumps it in the truck. The "garbage man" never touches or even sees the garbage for the most part and I am doubtful they know anyone on our street and vice versa. Not like the old days. I did one time leave specific items in the trash like near-empty rolls of duct tape, some pieces of rope and a big garbage bag stuffed, rolled and taped up to look like a body. Don't think anyone even noticed. |
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07/11/2014 12:58:50 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
... and I am doubtful they know anyone on our street and vice versa. Not like the old days. I did one time leave specific items in the trash like near-empty rolls of duct tape, some pieces of rope and a big garbage bag stuffed, rolled and taped up to look like a body. Don't think anyone even noticed. |
WHY does this not surprise me.
You're so weirdly fun, Ken.
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