All Things Trashpo

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All Things Trashpo

This is a place to explore all things trashpo (Trash Poetry)and found objects.  Trashpo is 1) economical 2) environmentally responsible and 3) challenging. It's a great way to repurpose all the trash that our planet is buried in!

Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/706383319419704/867342513323783/
Location: the dumpster, junkyard, waste basket, landfill
Members: 200
Latest Activity: Jan 8

Quote from DKult Member Meeah Williams

"If trashpo has taught me anything its that every windblown street corner and cyclone fence is a veritable Dick Blick of free art materials."

Discussion Forum

About Junk Drawers 45 Replies

Not that kind of junk and not thse kinds of drawers... Hey, we all have them. I have several. They are veritable trasher troves of useless and useful-but-forgotten stuff. Papers, letters from lost lovers, dried up fountain pens, church attendance…Continue

Started by Dan Mouer. Last reply by Eduardo Cardoso Jan 8.

Restroom News 67 Replies

Ya'll I haven't done any mail art lately as I just can seem to find the creativity for it. I've been in a long derth. But I do collect some odd bits of paper that I enjoy. I am an educational consultant and visit schools. Here's a great news sheet I…Continue

Started by Holly Cooper. Last reply by Bradford Mar 4, 2021.

DKULT KookbooK. 28 Replies

Please post your recipes for inclusion in the first and last ever Dkult KookBook!! This has been a long time coming since the pre_Dkult days of DKatering. We have certainly come a long way!here is the cover!!!…Continue

Tags: cookbook, dkult

Started by DKeys. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Dec 18, 2019.

Official Trashpo Handbook & DKult Directory 12 Replies

OFFICIAL TRASHPO HANDBOOK & DKULT DIRECTORY(This document is always under construction. Your comments and contributions are welcome! Just leave a message/pics in the comment stream, and I will update.)Aesthetic Trashbook - (see Trashbook) Angie…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by De Villo Sloan Jul 23, 2018.

The TrashPo Litzer Prize - Landfill of Fame 432 Replies

Mail-artists are making astonishing breakthroughs in Trashpo, and they are recognized through the TrashPo Litzer Prize. Nominations for the…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by De Villo Sloan Jun 3, 2016.

LIFE SUGGESTION BOX 2 Replies

ongoing collaborative art project please leave your comments all suggestions virtual and in person will be placed in the suggestion box for a later showing…Continue

Started by DKeys. Last reply by Nancy Bell Scott May 26, 2015.

trash-po trans-po tation 4 Replies

somewhere in LA in an underground garage...

Started by Lucky Pierre. Last reply by DKeys Jul 11, 2014.

What the hell is DKult? 28 Replies

DKult was originated by DeVillo Sloan-- a Kult comprised of my 'fans' ---DKulters. He was the only one at the time and possibly even now.   But It has evolved into a friendly neighborhood Kult devoted to the worship of trash and  the creation of…Continue

Started by DKeys. Last reply by De Villo Sloan Jan 18, 2013.

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Comment by DKeys on September 6, 2012 at 7:49pm

my reading of your poem through my filter:

Once Human

Uncanny

Wide Idea ...about

News obsessed

Virtual Resistance

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2012 at 6:16pm

I know what you mean about things getting language-heavy.

Because what you're doing is vispo. It has colors & images, and that is really part of the whole thing.

Transcribing the words is like a script. What if you performed those scripts as a spoken word thing? What would it sound like? I would like to see (hear) that, definitely.

DK Spoken Word.

Comment by DKeys on September 6, 2012 at 6:09pm

It's a great collaboration seeing it through your eyes

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2012 at 6:06pm

DK - for a long time I've been wanting to transcribe the words on your Trashpo to see what it looked like as more conventional poetry. I think the first one came out really well. 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2012 at 6:04pm

See Erni, you're a poet too. That's very linear, which helps a lot for things that someone might want to transcribe.

DK will often put things down sideways or paste things over the top of something else. THEN you get into the idea that the poem is an object, the collage is one-time phenomenon that you can maybe photograph but trying to describe it or transcribe, it's really not the original work any more. 

Nice vispo Erni.

Comment by DKeys on September 6, 2012 at 6:03pm

I LOVE what you did with that DVS-and Erni that trashpoem looks great. What I take away from it is Club Kid Loves Kulture

Here is my most recent trashpoem, but I guess this one is made entirely of words-a bit of a cop out maybe:)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2012 at 4:54pm

Hey, thanks Erni & Alicia (good to see you at IUOMA again) and of course DK deserves all the credit.

Definitely Erni, very much a DaDa poem. I transcribed it as accurately as I could from a piece on DK's blog. At core, or on one level, she did a word collage using random fragments of the trash.

Comment by Alicia Starr on September 6, 2012 at 4:14pm

Looks like you nailed De Villo!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2012 at 3:56pm

Has anyone ever wondered what DK's Trashpo would look like if it were transcribed on a page like "real" poetry? I transcribed one, and I think it came out really well. DK is definitely a poet:

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 6, 2012 at 2:59pm

AA&S: lol!

 

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