Is it Narnia?

Far from it, its Garbologist HQ this very morning. No camp dancing fawns to be had here, just wet screws, smashed bits of broken wood, and freezing, damp gloves. The sides a bit of a state just now as we await the return of the 14th century Raleigh Racer with 4-decades out of production tyres on it before the bike shelter gets a wee tidy.

V&A Design:Dundee Peh

Opposite are pages from the Garbologists proposal to design the V&A Museum in Dundee. The Dundee Peh will float on the Silvery Tay on a foil peh dish and visitors will enter through a bite in the Peh!

Aye, Right!

We'd hazard a guess here at Garbologist Headquarters that an auxiliary road between Errol and St Madoes isn't exactly a "SAFE PLACE"! Pity the empty handed would-be recipient of this parcel. Lets just hope it wasn't anything serious, like the new edition of Garbologist Newsletter. Or the Viz.

Peacock 'mongst the ruins!

Check out this grand looking fowl parking its royal blue derriere calmly between four traffic cones! Reckon it must have escaped from Scone Palace gardens and fancied a swift half in the afternoon.

Cheers to Ange for the picture, check out her blog on Youth, Care & Inclusion, it's a belter!

Arty Bins!

Swing by Generator Projects artist-run gallery in Dundee in the next month and see these 24o litre wheelie bins dominating the smaller gallery space. They were used as part of a performance by Edinburgh based artist Derek Sutherland, and form part of a riot scene. The exhibition is called DROMOS, and features a cracking monologue performance beginning underneath a Nissan Bluebird car by Welsh artists Bedwyr Williams.

Fresh N' Clean

Evidence of re-arrangement of the office space, with a couple of new document holders - courtesy of a cheerios packet and a bran flakes box- flanking the Tonka on the all new, and even more rickety than the palette table, shelving unit. The Garbologists keep a deft balance of business & camaraderie and maintain high standards of human resource management and productivity in the workplace.

HQ Graffiti

Bit of desk scoring graffiti penmanship in Garbologist HQ:
Graffiti: discouraged at school, encouraged at Garbologist Headquarters.

Boxes of Teleboxes!

Recycling goes well beyond filling your paper wheelie bin with dusty old comics and Littlewoods catalogues. When you dump an old TV, its gets picked up (demonstrated here by driver Steven Carrol) by forklift onto crates & shipped on the motor to a specialist recycling centre, where it then is sperated into its various components and recycled along with all your other unwanted electrical appliances. The Garbologists undertake all sorts of recyling tasks, keep your peepers peeled for upcomig posts about landfill sites!

Garbologist Newsletter Issue 1

A first draft proof of our first newsletter. Four pages of incisive journalism and pictures exclusively covering the activities of the Garbologists.

Key Features:
"Modern Rubbish Is Art" & "Find Of The Fortnight"

"You Got Wires, Going In, You Got Wires, Going Somewhere Else Aswell"

This here image could easily be mistaken for the cover of Athletes seminal single 'Wires' (although the real thing features less wire-based appliances) Wires peaked at No4 in the UK Singles Chart, perhaps if they had more appliances in their cover, it could have trumped the Sugababes, Pato Banton featuring UB40, or Seans Paul to No1 spot?

Image: Enormous pile of electricals (unwanted novelty christmas toasters) awaiting recycling down Friarton Bridge Recycling Park)

Game On!

Skipped items for goalposts! Apologies for conjuring nothing to rhyme with 'jumpers' but 'dumpers' would have been, though fitting with the actions of recycling vehicles, too visual an image for a blog accessible before the watershed.

The things people throw out eh? A Size 5, slightly deflated but ripe for a game of barry (not the name, but punting it off the crossbar alternately with a willing sports-fan on the other side) Premiership issue Nike Football. It was hard to tell if it was frozen rusty water it was in or pure, undistilled, bona-fide slimy skip juice?! Either way, the footies still there.

IN CASE OF FIRE- Sign In Situ

Just to clarify the location of Fire Evacuation sign- next to exit/entrance door above the shelves- in case you ended up lost within the abundant square meter-age of HQ.

Garbologists HQ ups its Health & Safety!

Its officially now completely safe to come into Garbologist Headquarters wielding a match, fag, Roman torch or similarly hot device*, as we now have an airtight evacuation plan. In the nature of recycling, the sign was made with a discarded NO SMOKING sticker, a 'borrowed' pen and a length of sleeve from an old Hi-Viz vest. The images on your left are the 'Haynes Manual' of Garbologist instruction drawings, and should see you through the design and making of your very own 'IN CASE OF FIRE' sign.
Stay Safe.

* Such actions not condonded by the Garbologists

Copy of 1st Legislation

The Garbologists grant full public access to Headquarters, and freedom of involvement & information regarding any of our activities. In doing so, documents will be published on our blog to ensure activity relating to legislation, contracts, correspondence etc is up for scrutiny.
Here is a copy of our 1st Legislation, which explains in brief our aims and activities as the Garbologists - a more detailed exampe will be available soon.

Any queries relating to our 1st Legislation should be emailed to ninetradesfraser@googlemail.com