Not A Trashcan

2003-09-29T16:10:00.000-07:00

Not as much photogenic trash out there, recently. Not sure what that means, but I guess it's good. Could be that most of the trash I see is just ugly, though.

I'll try to keep a better eye out!

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2003-06-25T08:08:00.000-07:00

Discard?

Who would throw out this lovely power tool?

If I wasn't in such a hurry, I would have given this guy a loving home and a bright future in the 'bot wars.

(Okay, you caught me, not really trash.)

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2003-06-09T00:39:00.000-07:00

This IS A Trashcan

... but the bench beside it, where someone left their trash, is not.

I mean, who wouldn't want to stuff their refuse down the gaping maw of this shiny fiberglass clown?

Just now, for reasons completely unrelated to this photo (heh) I realized that for New Yorkers, every trashcan represents a temporal portal to New Jersey. Maybe the more sensitive folks among us know that their trash is bound for points west if it goes into the bin, and they really just want to keep it here in the city.

So they leave it on the bench. Isn't that kind?

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2003-05-28T21:59:00.000-07:00

Classic Not-A-Trash-Can

If you're going to put a fancy basket on your bike like this, you're going to have to clean all the crap out of it each and every day.

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2003-04-18T14:43:00.000-07:00

Not A Bartop, Either

It's been a while since I've seen any good trash out there. Perhaps given the impending budget crisis, New Yorkers are mending their ways and making life easier on the Dept. of Sanitation.

Or maybe this is just the sweetspot between winter's snowy mountains of trash and summer's greasy puddles of slime.

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2003-04-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

Not A Trashcan

'Cause when the day is over, and you're done selling all your crack, where else are you going to stuff your trash?

2003-04-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn Funk

hoyumpavision @ 2003-04-09 11:45 said:

A group I have put together, called The Soup Group, is getting ready to create a campaign based on litter...and how much money could be raised for our city (since we are in the red) if they just implement the litter laws! I am totally with you!

I'm quite sure we'll be posting updates on this.

2003-04-07T06:47:00.000-07:00

Headlight

Not sure if this qualifies as refuse or abstract sculpture since this area of the park is about as far away from a road as you can get in Manhattan.

Still, it's a pretty non-standard place for either automotive debris or modern art, so.... not a trashcan.

2003-04-04T17:56:00.000-08:00

Convenient Cup Holder

Man in phonebooth: Dude, this soda tastes funny.
Voice on other end: You think it's 'fected?
Man: I dunno, it's rank.
Voice: Put it down and get out of there.
Man: I'm gonna leave it right here.
Voice: Later.

2003-04-03T17:19:00.000-08:00

Radiatore a la Tree

World's smallest junkyard discovered on Riverside Drive at 118th St. Or maybe the auto parts just grow on trees? Hmmm.

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2003-04-03T17:14:00.000-08:00

Take pictures of misplaced debris. Send them to NaTC. Feed the robot. Have a nice day.

2003-04-02T22:23:00.000-08:00

Not A Trashcan

There's a trashcan on every goddamn corner of this city, emptied at least once a day by the Dept. of Homeland Sanitation.

So why do my fellow citizens insist on finding creative places to stuff their trash? I don't know. I just want to point out that I'm watching.

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2003-04-02T22:13:00.000-08:00

First post.