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What creators can I follow/watch who just loooove making stuff out of trash?
I personally love making things out of trash and I like watching people who love to make stuff out of trash and talk about how great making things from trash is.
I suppose I mean the concept of "making do," upcycling, recycling, mending. But there's a couple creators who revel in that it's specifically trash that was going to be thrown away but instead they made something amazing out of it.
Examples are:
1. Studson Studio: I made this Mario Odyssey miniature out of Garbage
2. The environmentalist drag queen Pattie Gonia: TRASH BUT MAKE IT FASHION
Do you know any other trashcore creators like this? Who proudly love garbage?
(To make this post more respectable, I'm guessing I love these videos & creators because they're a balm to consumerism, and more specifically, how whenever you get into an art or craft you are supposed to go spend money on a bunch of new things or watch youtube tutorials where the person has an amazing and beautiful studio and a million very specific one-job tools and everything is perfect. I love the idea that instead of that, you can go make some stuff out of what you already have.)
I personally love making things out of trash and I like watching people who love to make stuff out of trash and talk about how great making things from trash is.
I suppose I mean the concept of "making do," upcycling, recycling, mending. But there's a couple creators who revel in that it's specifically trash that was going to be thrown away but instead they made something amazing out of it.
Examples are:
1. Studson Studio: I made this Mario Odyssey miniature out of Garbage
2. The environmentalist drag queen Pattie Gonia: TRASH BUT MAKE IT FASHION
Do you know any other trashcore creators like this? Who proudly love garbage?
(To make this post more respectable, I'm guessing I love these videos & creators because they're a balm to consumerism, and more specifically, how whenever you get into an art or craft you are supposed to go spend money on a bunch of new things or watch youtube tutorials where the person has an amazing and beautiful studio and a million very specific one-job tools and everything is perfect. I love the idea that instead of that, you can go make some stuff out of what you already have.)
Best answer: Check out Bill Making Stuff on youtube. He transforms odds and ends into nerdy artifacts, mostly tabletop game bits -- terrain, figures, that kind of thing.
How To Make A SPACESHIP Out of TRASH
Crafsman SteadyCrafting does some of this to, tho it's not a primary focus of his channel. Crafsman is a damn treasure, his bob ross vibe is solid.
Melting pill bottles into robots
posted by Sauce Trough at 5:02 PM on January 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
How To Make A SPACESHIP Out of TRASH
Crafsman SteadyCrafting does some of this to, tho it's not a primary focus of his channel. Crafsman is a damn treasure, his bob ross vibe is solid.
Melting pill bottles into robots
posted by Sauce Trough at 5:02 PM on January 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
Best answer: It depends on what your definition of "trash" is but Tim Sway makes stuff, mostly musical instruments, out of reclaimed items such as hollow core doors and water skis. He's very anti-consumer and generally seems like a decent human being who wants to do good.
(fun fact: I once made part of a MeFi secret swap gift out of some wood Tim sent me that had been reclaimed from a schooner from, like, the 1890s or something. I don't even know the guy, I just asked him for some and he sent it to me. He's good people.)
posted by bondcliff at 5:13 PM on January 19, 2023 [1 favorite]
(fun fact: I once made part of a MeFi secret swap gift out of some wood Tim sent me that had been reclaimed from a schooner from, like, the 1890s or something. I don't even know the guy, I just asked him for some and he sent it to me. He's good people.)
posted by bondcliff at 5:13 PM on January 19, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: There is a movie associated with the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura
posted by aniola at 10:41 PM on January 19, 2023
posted by aniola at 10:41 PM on January 19, 2023
Sue Webster and Tim Noble. They make things Out of trash, with the correct lighting the silouette is a shape, eg a person or animal etc
posted by 15L06 at 6:05 AM on January 20, 2023
posted by 15L06 at 6:05 AM on January 20, 2023
Response by poster: Yes good, even more trash please.
posted by moons in june at 2:27 PM on January 20, 2023
posted by moons in june at 2:27 PM on January 20, 2023
Chris Berthelsen makes interesting things out of junk he finds around Auckland, New Zealand.
posted by slightlybewildered at 10:51 PM on January 20, 2023
posted by slightlybewildered at 10:51 PM on January 20, 2023
El Anatsui
posted by bookworm4125 at 1:31 AM on January 21, 2023
posted by bookworm4125 at 1:31 AM on January 21, 2023
This is a great opportunity to post my Great-Aunt Rosie's scupltures - the family business was a scrapyard for most of her life, and she took up welding. Every time I visited Grandma (who lived down the street), we'd go visit her and I would admire her poodle.. (That's my personal album - if you want professional photos and an article, here's one.)
posted by restless_nomad at 6:53 AM on January 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by restless_nomad at 6:53 AM on January 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
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You may like Dollightful, specifically her stockbox series. Her whole channel has a let's not waste any of this vibe, but her stockbox series in particular is more specifically focused on reusing and repurposing than her regular content.
Bentley House Minis makes miniatures & dioramas out of recycled and repurposed stuff. She does unboxings, except instead of what that means for most of youtube, it's her and other crafters that have crammed a box full of their own trash to send and share with their friends.
posted by phunniemee at 4:23 PM on January 19, 2023 [1 favorite]