Another piece from The Winnipeg Trash Museum courtesy of Frieso Boning.

Frieso Boning’s “children of the landfill” installation for The Winnipeg Trash Museum.

Brussels, Belgium is the de facto capital of the European Union (EU). A city of wealth and power, it still has people living in the street. A group called Polymnia works with homeless people, training them to give walking tours of the city for 50 euros a pop. The tours, attended by students, social workers and even plain old tourists, reveal the ways in which homeless people survive on the street and brings positive attention to their existence.

photo by Little Shiva

Diane Kurzyna a.k.a Ruby Re-Usable has made some new artwork in conjunction with a street art show at The Black Front Gallery in Olympia, Washington. Shown here is her Dumpster Diva. The show, on through April 30th, includes Adie Janci, Diane Kurzyna, Joe Penrod, Skie Road, Laura Sharp, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and a crew of grafitti artists from around the Northwest: Sine, Baso, 1+1=3, Veks, Slutz, Jeans etc.

Tine Kindermann tipped me off to this street sculpture by Joshua Allen Harris. These pics are from the Wooster Collective website.

A foaming trash bin from Michel Blazy’s show, Post Patman, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris last year.

photo by -anna- on flickr 

Who knew a simple trash collecting expedition would turn into Orwellian pop art with a deconstructivist twist? The short version: crap we consume is made all over the world, so we have little ability to build community using local resources. Totalitarian tyranny sucks. Read the long version here.

artwork by Troy Ouellette, photo by Julie Sando

photo by 2cauldrons

Here’s how they collect trash at the Casbah in Algiers.

photo by Léda