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Baloney Detection Kit

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How to ask quality skeptical questions. Show this to your kids. Via BB.

I’m Fat and Nobody Likes Me

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Awesome teen angst comedy mischief pop by Chair. Kind of NSFW, sophomoric and juvenile.

Surveillance Means Security!

Remixed War Propaganda book.

1972 SSP Lineup

ssp racer Pull that T-stick baby!

Tickler Pineapple Uke Unveiled

ukuleleAmy Crehore has been letting the paint dry on Tickler No.2 for about the last 2 years. It’s now available for viewing, and its a STUNNER!

Seiji Plays Satisfaction

self satisfaction video
A Rolling Stones fan does a nice one-man Satisfaction Cover

Cigar Labels

cigar label artHere and here you will find some nice, high-res cigar label scans to view.

Spoon Slide

spoon slideHere is quite a lovely spoon slide guitar performance.

Iphone + Ukulele = Awesome

ukuleleCheck out this great little ditty produced by Dan Cederholm, using an iphone app called Four Track and Garage Band.

Slide Guitar in D

slide guitar Inspiring tutorial on open D slide blues.

Psycho!

sonics Start your day with some outstanding go-go in-a-box to the Sonics, and the rest will just fall into place naturally.

Thee Headcoats

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Comanche!!

The Hoffmeister Kink

kink Voted the #1 best car design element of all time by Jalopnik readers.

Telecaster Body Blueprints

telecaster plans Here is a pdf of the Fender Telecaster guitar body plan.

Giant Wind Chimes

giant wind chimesGreg Payne’s Giant Wind Chimes.





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Trashballs!

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There is looking at life’s debris (see finkbuilt masthead), and then there is encapsulating it in one-inch diameter clear plastic balls and selling it in gumball machines. D.C. junkman/artist Christopher Goodwin does the latter with his wonderful Trashball! project.

Mail Order Trashballs

If you’re not in the D.C. area (currently the only city that has Trashball! machines) you can have them delivered right to your door for the unbelievably low price of $3.00 for a randomly selected 4-pack. Being the debris enthusiast that I am, I found it irresistable to give Trashballs! a try, and today my order arrived - a mere 3 days after I placed it.

The Balls

The actual capsules that the trash treats are packaged in are not your ordinary gumball machine bubbles. These clear polycabonate spheres are not meant to be easily opened. The only place that I have ever seen a case like these is at the core of of one of those light-up superballs. I actually had to destroy one ball to get it open. So what did I get?

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Trashball 1: Rather uninteresting register receipt for $2.09 worth of flooring materials from National Wholesale Liqudators.

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Trashball 2: Also sort of uninteresting bit of refuse, a baggage claim ticket.

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Trashball 3: Slightly more intriguing, an auction lot stub for 2 chairs from a school auction in K.C. Missouri

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Trashball 4: Here is where it gets more interesting, at least for the visually oriented like myself, this one has the most story to tell. An unmounted frame of Ektachrome showing a woman in a nightgown helping a little kid in the late 1980’s or so, trying on his new prize-fighter gear that he presumably just received for his birthday or Christmas.

At $3.00 for a 4-pack, I probably won’t be ordering more, but if there was a Trashball! machine at my local watering hole, I would deffinately be plunking quarters into that thing like a blue-hair at a slot machine.

Try some yourself.

5 Responses to “Trashballs!”


  1. Chris Says:

    For what it’s worth, the baggage claim ticket holds some interest simply because it’s from a defunct airline (although I suppose those are a dime a dozen, for that matter). At any rate, thanks for featuring Trashball.

  2. Steve Says:

    Hey Chris,

    Don’t get me wrong. I was not at all dissappointed to see either the receipt, or the baggage claim ticket, or trying to imply that they did not belong inside a trashball. I was just putting them in order as my “unballing” reached a crescendo with the discovery of the slide film.

    Keep up the good work!

  3. Ken Says:

    It looks like someone lit a ground bloom flower on the hardwood floor in that last pic. See the burns?

  4. Steve Says:

    ken- That’s actually emulsion damage from the film being wadded up inside the ball.

    s

  5. not a doktor Says:

    I’d use the balls a x-mass tree decorations

    maybe just set them on the branches

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