Trying to pass them prompted a search, and getting through required leaving the main road entirely to follow a series of garbage-strewn paths that eventually led to the hotel route.
The film observes the creation of his recent monumental series, Pictures of Garbage, for which Mr. Muniz, who grew up poor, returned to Brazil.
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One of Mr. Winters's most popular characters, she appeared in a series of commercials for Hefty garbage bags, which also featured Mr. Winters as a garbage man dressed in a spotless white uniform and referring, in an upper-class British accent, to gar-BAZH.
Known as an advocate of Afrofuturism, Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru offers stunning photography of himself in a series of improvised masks made from garbage and spare metal, which he calls "C-Stunners" (the C is for Cyrus).
Lying beneath their plans was an unusual technology: a series of tubes that literally suck garbage from buildings at speeds up to 60 miles per hour to a central collection point, where the trash is taken off the island by truck or barge.
Mr. Mohseni posted a link to this subtitled trailer for the series, which is a fake documentary look at office life in the mythical country of Hechland's ministry of garbage: As in the original BBC series, and the American version it inspired, the comedy seems to revolve around interviews with a deluded, self-important figure — in this case, Hechland's minister of garbage.
In the photography series, Mirus, the conceptual artist turns wayward pieces of garbage into still life.
When a series of strikes by London trash collectors left towering piles of garbage on street corners, Lydon started wearing the trash bags.
