Susan Burnstine’s beautiful ethereal photographs are not made with conventional cameras and digital massaging. Her photos are created in-camera, with cameras that she makes herself out of, basically, junk. An old magnifying glass, plastic, rubber, garbage bags, cinema foil, cardboard, vintage toy camera parts. Might as well toss out the old Nikon, eh? TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
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“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” ~a pithicism~ “One man’s hoarding is another man’s sustainability. This goes for women, too.” ~Two-bit Guru~ I was thinking about some of the habits of my sustainable lifestyle. Trash picking, recycling, upcycling, saving jars (with and without lids), saving nails, bolts, and screws, composting, saving cardboard boxes, making [...]
How would you like to have a neighbor who actually delivers salvaged goods to your door from numerous sources? If you’re a trash picker like me I’m sure you’d answer with an enthusiastic Yes! Please contain your envy because I enjoy such a situation. My trash-purveying neighbor is a landscaper and he comes across all [...]
“Trash Pickers of the world, Unite!” ~Two-bit Guru As with anything, the key to organizing clutter is to define the broad categories first, then work down to the specifics. The broadest category of junk is one big pile of stuff with everything in it. You know everything is “There.” It’s easy to find larger objects [...]
“Oops.” ~Two-bit Guru In an earlier post I said today I would to tell you about how to organize your junk but this dang rant broke loose like an oil spill and I couldn’t stop it. Organizing junk next time, or hoarding, or something. When most people think of junk they probably think of a [...]
Why do I have more leaky garden hoses than anyone else in the entire village? It’s not only because I’m a gardener but also because I absolutely adore stuff that other people have thrown away. It’s all free! I love trash picking the way some people love major league baseball, or ballet, or Sudoku. I [...]
I was planning to make a small stand for a barrel of worms (another post for another time), using saved or salvaged scrap lumber from the basement. It wouldn’t have cost anything, except my time, but time’s one commodity I’m often short on. Then one Sunday morning we were out for a walk and came [...]
Whenever I set out to save the world I usually start in one place and wind up somewhere completely different, often frustrated. You’d almost think the world doesn’t want to be saved, at least not single-handedly by me. When recycling came to our community years ago I applauded it. Even before there were vehicles dedicated [...]
