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: Mar 5

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

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.

About Junk Drawers 43 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 Francis Lammé Sep 25, 2020.

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 Nancy Bell Scott on December 12, 2011 at 2:05am

Looking forward to seeing your trash-ter-piece tomorrow, Amy.

Mudlarks--the word says everything and I love it.

Yes Diane, of course it's ok. Whenever you do something because "I am sending you some other things too," what more could I want! But it does make me extra happy that you're sending something for my year-round postal scrooge, Thank You. 

Comment by Amy Irwen on December 12, 2011 at 1:26am
Glad you like it Neil...I will post it for you tomorrow..
*!*
Comment by Neil Gordon on December 12, 2011 at 1:12am

I got Amy Irwens incredible Trash-ter-piece in the mail! (Can't post it, no digital scanner or camera); Beautiful rcycled envelope with a finely crafted trashpo book inside, complete with posh faux-pearl button clasp and rainbow warrior ribbon! She is another trashpo Goddess like Diane! Also... hand cancelled stamps!

Thanks Amy!

Comment by DKeys on December 11, 2011 at 10:38pm

Nancy, I'm putting yours in an envelope so you can leave it for him because I am sending you some other things too. Hope that is okay. will send in this am

Comment by DKeys on December 11, 2011 at 10:37pm

London scavengers were called Mudlarks (sounds better than a trash picker doesn't it?) Only the Brittish could make scavenging even sound elegant

According to Wikipedia:

Mudlark is someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, especially in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries.[1]

Mudlarks would search in the muddy shores of the River Thames during low tide, scavenging for anything that could be resold and sometimes, when occasion offered, pilfering from river traffic.[2] By at least the late 18th century people dwelling near the river could scrape a subsistence living this way. Mudlarks were usually either youngsters aged between eight and fifteen, or the robust elderly; and though most mudlarks were male,[3] girls and women were also scavengers.[4]

Becoming a mudlark was usually a choice dictated by poverty and lack of skills. Work conditions were filthy and uncomfortable, as excrement and waste would wash onto the shores from the raw sewage and sometimes the corpses of humans, cats and dogs also. Mudlarks would often get cuts from broken glass left on the shore. The income generated was seldom more than meagre;[4] but mudlarks had a degree of independence, since the hours they worked were entirely at their own discretion and they also kept everything they made as a result of their own labour.

Mayhew in his book, London Labour and the London Poor; Extra Volume 1851 provides a detailed description of this category, and in a later edition of the same work includes the "Narrative of a Mudlark", an interview with a thirteen-year-old boy.

Although in 1904 a person could still claim "mudlark" as his occupation it seems to have been no longer viewed as an acceptable or lawful pursuit.[5] By 1936 the word is used merely to describe swimsuited London schoolchildren earning pocket money during the summer holidays by begging passers-by to throw coins into the Thames mud, which they then chased, to the amusement of the onlookers.[6]

More recently, metal-detectorists searching the foreshore for historic artefacts have described themselves as "mudlarks".

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on December 11, 2011 at 9:06pm

how nice.. so much thoughtfulness...anyone sending something to my mailman, he is not very observant, so write the "for the mailman who delivers to" part in big red stand-out letters. maube circle it.  

Comment by DKeys on December 11, 2011 at 5:05pm

Can't wait to see ChefKat-and me too Sue-you're making me hungry for some Middle Eastern food!

Comment by prettylily on December 11, 2011 at 4:31pm

Spanakopita?  Yum!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 11, 2011 at 4:10pm

Trashing on this chilly Sunday evening. 'Found a stash of old paper Greek spinach pie/bread  bags, so instead of trashpo boekies, I have decided to make holiday trashpo baggies! tis the Season! Will send on soon and a special on for Nancy's postman, too!

Comment by DKeys on December 11, 2011 at 3:56pm

so cool isn't it? I wish there was some kind of computer program that could turn kid's drawings into something like this but that would be very futuristic I guess. Not knowing much about computer technology I have no idea how hard or easy such a thing would be. 

 

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