Tag: Garbage
New York comedian Chris Gethard, whose 30-minute show debuts at Fusion in May, is already enlisting the help of his viewers. In a new video, Gethard, sans shirt, asks his fans to send in kitschy crap from their homes so the set of The Chris Gethard Show feels like an authentic basement. “I want it […]
A new study about New York’s abundant wildlife has found that bugs are competing with rats for scraps of our food. It’s the “half glass full” scenario for any New Yorker, offering promising news if you hate rats, or, if you’re cynical, confirming the belief that the city is filthy and overrun by more critters […]
Don’t be too surprised if, somewhere between Elmhursts’s Woodside Avenue and 73rd and 74th streets, you spot the Obsessed Garbage Collecting Lady. DNAinfo has profiled Jen Mantovani, a four-year Elmhurst resident who has taken to dutifully patrolling the messy streets with the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, will notice the garbage and, like her, clean […]
Artist Jennifer Maravillas is mapping Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn. “The name of my map is 71 Square Miles because that’s how big the borough is,” she tells ANIMAL, peeling old crinkled flyers off posts and picking up scribbled-up, torn-out paper from the sidewalk. “I’m interested in trash because it shows so much about people’s lives. It’s language and […]
This week has been a busy one for ANIMAL, so I had to shoot something quick and dirty for this week’s “Zoom In.” With the help of the same hacked lens that I used to shoot street food and Times Square, here are a few macro-photos of things I found in the garbage can outside our […]
This group of Philadelphia-based artists and scientists is fascinated by the stuff you throw away. So fascinated, in fact, that they’ve spent the past 15 months collecting, photographing, recording, and analyzing garbage, compiling their findings into a Taxonomy of Trash website and book. Now, the artist, photographer, biologist, and sound engineer are taking to Kickstarter […]
