Not for the first time someone is using Garbage as art. Even if this does not qualify as art it is, at least, a very weird souvenir.
The artist picks up bits of New York garbage (subway tickets, fast-food wrappers, broadway tickets) and arranges them in numbered, dated and signed plastic cubes (they dont smell!). Apparently over 700 cubes sold around the world.
Weird souvenir, but at the same time very apt. Stange Swedish souvenirs I have seen are canned/tinned air! and moose dung in a jar!
Found Magazine is based upon a simple but fascinating idea. The magazine is made up of other peoples debris. It could be small notes, doodles or pictures which other people have lost, dropped, thrown away or forgotten. This is simple social commentary at its best.
This belongs to the things I should have blogged about ages ago but keep forgetting. The idea for BookCrossing is to take a book and “release” it into the wild. The book is marked with the label below and the idea is that the book will travel around and if the original releaser is lucky then he/she will get email reports on were the book is.
Never heard of bookcrossing? It has even made the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as a new word.
A similar project is Phototag which periodically releases a series of disposable cameras into the wild. The cameras are labeled and have instructions for unwary PhotoTaggers to take one picture and pass the camera on. Postage and a return address are included on the camera so that it may simply be dropped into the mail to get back home when all the film is used up.