NYC Garbage a study in the importance of package design, you can purchase a signed Garbage of New York cube for $50. Over 1300 have sold.
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Your blog is so inspirational! Thank you for sharing all these ideas and beautiful pics. I am currently renting with my boyfriend and our one year old and am doing my best to make our tiny flat a pretty home! Thanks for all the ideas xx
…really? Really?
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Really?
I know, it kind of leaves one speechless, I think that’s a normal reaction
Oh my goodness! Really? You can buy actual trash from NYC? And people ARE?!!
I’m all about thrifting, hand-me-downs and even picking up something someone else is throwing away, but, um, wow. Maybe I should make some of MY trash into art. Then, pretty soon, my house would be covered in “art” …
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out … “
Wow. $50, huh? Wish I had thought of it.
I know, right!?
Wow! But I say “good on that guy”. He took the risk and I guess it’s paying off.
You have GOT to be kidding me. Actually, I think this is really sad. 60% of the children in schools in this country are eligible for school lunch programs because they do not have enough money to buy a lunch. And people are spending $50 to buy garbage disguised as art? There’s something really wrong with this.
I’d dare say that most of the people in the world would call most of what we buy for $50~ trash.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Oh and this is a fun site that the same guy started–it’s called Needs for sale and all the proceeds go to charity http://www.needsforsale.com/
Not far from where I live is a giant trash pile that I am sure has some NYC trash in it. Yup, someone made a landfill with this stuff here in beautiful Maine. Hmmmm. I need to buy some Lucite boxes and a shovel.
Having said that, it’s kind of like conceptual art. If only one were made.
Dixie
Made in America baby! Wonder if his dad was a pet rock breeder? Hahahahaha!
This is funny. Well I like this. It is very interesting.
That’s really interesting. I don’t know how I feel about that.
Umm… *scratches head* ummm…. yeah, I got nothing. As my grandmamma used to say, “That’s for folks with way more dollars than sense.”
ohhh, I like that!
I am so gonna steal that line… and say it with a southern accent!
Wow! Why would anyone want a cube of NYC garbage for $50? I live here and can give you some for free!! Just give me a heads up if you want some!! :-)
I guess it’s all in the packaging!
I think this is a lesson in capitalism more than package design…
HOWEVER. I love New York, and you can’t love all the awesome things while turning a blind eye to it’s realities. It’s a big, beautiful, dirty, sparkly, dark and dazzling city. The trash is just part of it, you either love all of NYC or not…
good point
The beauty of Art is that it is all in the eye of the beholder. As you have pointed out here all month, who says you can’t do what you like? Be it decorating or art, books you read or clothes you wear, it’s all a matter of personal choice. Are there lines that should be drawn? Sure, decency is a cultural thing, and a culture has the right to defend itself; yet is garbage in a cube really an attack on our culture? Or perhaps simply a statement of how many nowadays lack the common to use what they have to the best of the material’s abilities. Feed-sacks to clothes to quilts was once a way of life, now it all heads to the trash. Sure, there are families that struggle with finance, and it would be nice if more people gave willingly, yet it seems just as indecent to insinuate that someone should not be allowed to buy something another doesn’t approve of simple because of the financial situation of yet a third person.
Interesting topic today! We’ve been looking at using objects in a different, and inspiring way, this is just an extension of that idea!
well said!
Hmmmm. I thought of an interesting idea after seeing this. I have too many ideas. That’s one of my “problems”. ;-)
fantastic! on my next trip visiting family I will bring you all some, you can all have it for $10 ea.
bwahahahaha
My first thought: ewwwwww. $50? Wow!
tee hee!
I’m not a fan of the trash cube. But then, I wasn’t a fan of the plastic spoon wreath either. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am often inspired here and yet sometimes left scratching my head. I certainly think the guy who thought of the idea of the trash cube is brilliant! If someone wants to spend $50 on trash, go for it. It wouldn’t be me. However, I would spend $50 on a pretty art print or an old quilt someone else would probably think is trash.
oh Amy, for some reason I’m kind of happy that sometimes you leave here scratching your head!
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That’s why I love to come here. I love coming to a place that makes me think. I love seeing something in a whole new way and realizing I would have never thought of that. It may not all be my style but it inspires me to find MY style in ways I never would have thought of before.
I’m glad you weren’t offended when I said I leave scratching my head. That isn’t always a bad thing!
as an artist this is inspriational. there’s such beauty in decay, i love it!
I think the artist is a genius and if someone wants to spend their $50 on that…well, then more power to them! I’m not going to buy it personally, but I do think it would be a great conversation piece to have. But then again, I’d be afraid that the conversation after they left my house we start something like this: “Can you believe she spent $50 on that?” Hahaha! I think it’s better off as a conversation piece on your blog, you get the conversation for free this way!
made me laugh
Call me crazy but I think it’s cool! haha I wouldn’t buy it, but the guy is clearly smart if he’s making money off of garbage! I am not gonna hate on his creativity :)
gives whole new meaning to “Don’t touch that, you don’t know where it’s been!”
by the way, if you say the word “garbage” 10 times in a row it starts to sound really weird. what an odd word, Garbage.
Nothing like turning trash into treasure! Love it. Also, love NYC!!
I thought this was crazy until I checked out their website, and saw that they also offer “specialty cubes” that are specific to an event. Then I realized that you are actually buying a little piece of history. The Yankees Parade or Obama’s Inauguration…these are mini time capsules from current happenings that will soon be historical events our grandchildren will study in school. So although it is technically trash, don’t I do the same thing every time I visit my local antique/thrift store and get a rush when I find something unique (and full of history) that was discarded, but I find value in?
I think it’s gross. It’s also kind of funny. I can’t believe someone would pay good money for that!
Good soul! That’s just crazy that people will actually buy such a thing.
People will really buy just about anything won’t they? I’m going to start packaging my dog’s poo and market it as environmentally friendly “art.” In a smell proof, 100% recycled package of course.
BTW, doing an entire week of giveaways on my blog.
Well in Texas and OK you can buy Cow Chips…..that’s funny too!
Oh, to be one of those people with a seemingly crazy idea, who gets the last laugh. It’s the pet rock all over again……:)
amen.
my high school boyfriend used to keep a mason jar of cow manure sealed tight on his bookshelf in his bedroom. he made it for himself when he moved away from the “farm in iowa”…
he loved that thing.
he said that he applied some to his face every night and that was how he got the gift of manly facial hair where his friends were lacking.
he didn’t really apply it every night.
but i loved him because he loved his jar of farm.
i should have charged somebody $50 for this amazing story.
the end.
-angie
Oh my word…maybe I am not artistic enough but this is just silly that people would think this is art. Although I would be more then happy to sell my garbage and I will even sell it at a bargain of $25!
Creative! Unnecessary and ugly … but creative.
It is all about perception.
I think it is cool. kinda funky.
I think the outrage is the fact that peope are paying $50. for it. THAT is more crazy to me tha the actual idea of Garbage as Art.
xoxo
Wow. That’s……….amazing, I guess. It really IS all about packaging and presentation. If someone were to show up with a grocery sack with NYC garbage in it and want $50, they would get laughed out of town. BUT, you put it in a nice box, with a title, and an ARTIST signs it—-and, by golly, it sells for $50. Crazy world we live in.
You have got to be kidding …….Where are these idiots that are buying garbage … If you just want to get rid of your money then send it to me….. I’ve always said some people will buy anything!
I love it!! I am amazed at what some people throw out sometimes. And even more amused at what some people call art!!
Wow…to have the money to BUY garbage!
And want to!
Complete Insanity :-)
This is definitely making direct profit from taking a man’s trash…and then selling the man’s trash.
Ok, now I want to know what people do with it after they buy it? Just sit it up on a shelf? Hmmm.
PS:
Anyone interested in some Asheville, NC trash? Hee, hee.
I am amazed at what people will spend money on! But, I imagine that most of it has to do with the New York City part of it. So many people are enthralled with NYC. I’m not into enough to buy garbage labeled NYC, although kudos to the guy who thought of doing that!
Wow…seriously? There are just no words…
I’m betting a few of my friends think the magazines on my coffee table are trash…so here’s to trash in a box that won’t go out of style as fast as this month’s “stlye watch” magazine!
Too funny, everyone’s comments. Not the trash idea!
so, now wait a minute. do the proceeds from buying the trash for $50 go to a good charity organization? If that’s the case, I get it. Some of the stupid fundraising crap that we buy for our schoolchildren and girl scouts is just about garbage. I would prefer to buy an innovative package of trash if it was an efficient fundraiser for the needy.
Ew.
Oh gosh, I thought that maybe it was just the cube itself and people were paying that huge amount of money for an “artistic” trash container…but to buy NYC’s trash too? That goes a little too far…but okay then! I guess if you’ve got the money to blow, you’re bound to buy a bunch of weird things.
Wow! I don’t really know what to say. Kind of makes you wonder about who is spending money on trash. Maybe I should inspect my can before sending it to the street. LOL.
I’d buy it.
:) Just kidding.
This is so funny! When my 17 year old daughter was 5 she had a “collection” in her desk at school that I didn’t know about until a teacher conference. When the teacher mentioned Joanna’s “sculptures” I asked what she was referring to…. Instead of telling me, she showed me. In Joanna’s desk was a small gift bag, filled with trash! Erasers that broke off pencils, paper clips, wire found on the playground, bits of gum wrappers, etc. When Jo was finished with her work she would pull out the bag and make sculptures from these “treasures”. I was at the school picking up a friend’s child the other day – that teacher still has one of Joanna’s trash sculptures on her desk! CRAZY!
Pay big bucks for big-city, designer garbage? No way! I make my own at home. I’m wicked crafty that way…