Little Orange Kitchen

The Etsy Trashion Blog has a  nice little interview with Laura of Little Orange Kitchen on her salvaged paper designs (photo of hot Frida wallet ripped from Etsy).

Trashionistas

Organicasm has compiled a handy list of the Top 50 Green Fasion and Design Blogs. [Full disclosure, everydaytrash made the list.]

Last Night’s Garbage

I posted on this once before, when I first discovered this site, but let me say again that Last Night’s Garbage is a truly lovely garblog.

Posts usually consist of an ephemeral photo of New York City trash paired with a deadpan citation from a related reference source.  A photo of paper plates and clam shells spilling out of Coney Island trash bin, for example, will be accompanied by an excerpt on the history of quahogs on Long Island.  I adore specific projects and Last Night’s Garbage is a blog that does a lot without straying from its mandate.  Also, the photography is kick ass.  Case in point, this ripped image of a woman sleeping in the East Village.

Trash love, a two way street

The incomparable Little Shiva over at The Visible Trash Society made my day with a digital collage and glowing post dedicated to….everydaytrash.com!  What an honor, especially coming from a respected colleague.  Little Shiva is an artist, trashie and graphic designer who lives in Belgium but has her virtual finger on the pulse on the broader art and garbage world.  It’s via Visible Trash that I’ve discovered things like the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, Joshual Allen’s air bear (of which, you may have noticed, I became a huge fan) and the fantasticly eccentric Friesno Boning (who I then hit up for  Trashtastic Tuesday Q & A).  But my favorite aspect of The Visible Trash Society is that Little Shiva practices what she preaches and makes stuff out of trash.  Go puruse!

With love and squalor

Everydaytrash received some TH blog love yesterday for hosting Carnival of the Green (thanks Tree Hugger!). This little shout out plus links back to the carnival boosted Web hits all week. Logical enough. Wanna know what else boosts web hits? Mentioning Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel DuChamp and interviewing Francophone North African trash art curators in Norway. Google searches for Rauchenberg and DuChamp bring in hits every day. In fact, the day Rauchenberg died everydaytrash.com reached an all time record in page views (Heath Leger’s death caused a spike as well as googlers seeking info on “Michelle Williams” clicked through to a post where I once mentioned that she lives in my hood). On a less morbid note, external links to the Trashtastic Tuesday Q & A featuring Samir M’kadmi feed a steady stream of readers my way. Which reminds me, I need to scan some images and post more on Jon Gundersen, a Norwegian found object artist I met in Oslo through M’kadmi.

Photo of pacifiers collected by GUndersen ripped from the Du Store Verden! site

Reblog: WebUrbanist on Trash Art

One of the fun things about going out of town and slacking off on the trash research for a bit is that when you finally get around to rooting around for what you missed, there’s quite a bit out there. Treat yourself to this excellent WebUrbanist post highlighting 7 trash artists. You’ll see some old favorites, like the miraculous silhouettes made from trash shadows to the world renowned trash people to street art made from trash. But there are some new (to me at least) discoveries in there as well: turkeys made from scrap metal and this lovely bear head made of woven plastic bags. If you ask me, there’s nothing sweeter than a plastic bag bear.

Photo of an Eden Project sculpture via Flikr via WebUrbanist

The Trash Map

I’m not even going to attempt to rip an image for this post.  To get the full effect of this amazing interactive map of trashumentary photography, you’ll have to click here and peruse the recent contribution from Last Night’s Garbage to The New York Moon.  Thanks for the tip, Joe!

Posting on Composting

Ever find yourself deciding between a composting bin and composting tumbler?  Or what kind of container one needs to house a worm condo?  The good people of Composters.com have a blog that may help to answer some of those questions.  Here’s the link.

2nd best

Someone out there is ranking garbloggers. Update: the author assures me the blogs aren’t listed in any ranking order. My bruised ego may now begin the process of healing. Note that everydaytrash is now listed first (feeling a little childish now).

Weekly Compactor: Blogroll Edition

This week in greenlogging and garblogging:

• Visible Trash discovers the supercool Winnipeg Trash Museum;
• Ecorazzi reports on the Malawification of Hollywood;
• La Vie Verte tracks hybrid buses in Paris; and
• GreenGirlsGlobal worries that corporations are sucking the creativity out of kids.

Speaking of garbloggers…

You may have noticed a first this week: an everydaytrash post written by someone else.  That someone else is tipster cum contributor Kimberly.  Stay tuned for more insightful reporting from the wonderful world of trash, perhaps now with a little more regularity.

Ugh, I have so much to tell you!

Hey trashies, I’m back from my unannounced but by now unsurprising hiatus. Everydaytrash has, faithfully, run itself for the past week-plus as in the comments I’ve discovered trashonista Little Shiva and her site Visible Trash (that’s her in the head shot).  Or rather, she discovered us, either way it’s a happy day for garblogging. Anyway, check out the site. I’ve also been meaning to report back on the trash lecture I attended over a week ago now, but have loaned away the camera on which I took photos. More to come.

Last Night’s Garbage

People! How is it that the Star Tribune found out about a new trash photoblog before me? Looks like I and my tipsters have been dropping the ball. Good thing my mother lives in Minneapolis.

Photo from Last Night’s Garbage

A year and a bit

So, it’s been more than one year since I first set out to upload my fascinating collection of trashy factoids in the hopes of sharing them with others and meeting fellow trashies. And in my book, this calls for an Oscar-speech-style post as a nod to the many people who helped keep this small corner of the World Wide Web trash-filled and mildly entertaining for so many days!

First off, thanks to you, dear reader, tending to everydaytrash has surpassed all of my expectations. By starting this blog, I have discovered a world of creative solutions to waste and excess, an on-line community of green thinkers, an array of artists repurposing rubbish and a slew of novice trash reporters quick to forward me the latest in solid waste happenings. Thanks for the support and keep the trash tips coming!

Special thanks are due to tipster-in-chief Kimberly, logo-designer extraordinaire Ricardo and fellow highly-specialized blogger Emily. This first year also yielded not one, but two features about everydaytrash on BlueEgg and in the Brooklyn Papers. Thanks to Jenn and Dana for making those happen.

Here’s a brief overview of (what I believe to be) the best of everdaytrash to date:

• Literary Trash, a week of Q & A’s with trash authors;
• Trashtastic Tuesdays, such as those with fashionista Miss Malaprop, composting middle schoolers in Brooklyn, and a professor of trash; and
• Notes from a trip to Northern Malawi.

Here’s to taking trash to the next level in year two!

Love,

Leila

Reblogging: Trashion

Holy trashion bloggers, Batman!  Check out the newly posted team from ETSY.