View Full Version : dumpster diving in NYC
anechoic
01-30-2006, 12:46 PM
need free props for that indie film you're working on? or possible part for a DIY dolly?
check it out:
http://garbagescout.com/
NYC only so far...
strange and cool site.
-rook
Dino Santoro
01-30-2006, 02:04 PM
I wonder who set this site out....
Dino Santoro
01-30-2006, 02:18 PM
I meant set this site UP ;)
Unsomnambulist
01-30-2006, 08:09 PM
Funny stuff... yet practical.
Erik Olson
01-30-2006, 08:20 PM
That rocks!
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FlintMI
01-30-2006, 09:51 PM
This is the best ever. Who needs eBay? Just get a Metrocard and you'll never have to shop again.
hemophilia
02-02-2006, 08:23 PM
Dumpsters are such a great resource. Near where I live there's a factory that makes fancy studio acoustical treatments. I've made a couple visits to their dumpster and picked up tons of 100% fucntional stuff that was just cut wrong or blemished or something like that... nothing sound waves care about.
It won't work for a pro place, but for a home project studio it makes a lot more sense than paying the totally over-priced rates they charge for that stuff (or scrapping together your own solutions from scratch/other materials).
Karl151k
02-02-2006, 08:49 PM
Del.icio.us'ed
cool_splash1
04-23-2006, 04:21 PM
Loyd Kaufman in Make Your Own Damn Movie said he did a lot of dumpster diving by I think the Majors.
You won't believe the stuff people throw away. In perfect condition, they could just take it to the pawn shop, like those books on the garbage websiste to someplace like half price books, or Goodwill, but instead throw it out on the street. A DJ in our city actually found a laptop in a dumpster in perfect working condition.
Check out these books
Art and Science of Dumpster Diving by John Hoffman and his sequel
Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course : How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power by John Hoffman
http://www.dumpsterworld.com/
http://www.dumpsterdiving.net/