Posted 2:36 PM by dan gingold
bob and my little brother went last night, brought home tons of bread products and juice. we're going tonight i think, gonna try an earlier approach to see if we can get there before the security guard shows up.

Posted 11:31 PM by dan gingold
no dumpstering tonight, we got rained out. luckily we have a good supply of food, we actually have an outside fridge full of stuff that won't fit in our freezer.

Posted 3:01 PM by andrew morton
testing 123

Posted 2:24 AM by andrew morton
okay photos from tonight

and last month are up.

Posted 1:39 AM by andrew morton
alright, i got everyone dan was sending emails to signed up on the mailing list. please try to keep the traffic on related to the dumpsterumentary, so don't send any forwards about missing children.

Posted 12:55 AM by dan gingold
had our first night out filming, things were good at trader joe's, not so good at the scolaris, there was a security guard. we must have looked a little suspicious cruising in with our headlights off, we saw him and drove around to the front of the building, he drove by us really fast and tore back around to the back of the building. at trader joes though we got some good shots, next time we'll have two cameras and it will be more dynamic. we found tons of cashews, some pita bread, some almond butter (yeeha), some avocados, and some other stuff. Then we came back to the house to do some brainstorming, we're gonna need a bunch of help to accomplish all the stuff we're hoping to do. it's 1 am, i'm gonna go to bed, first i'll eat some more cashews, oh we also found some very good green salsa. hooray for free food.

Posted 10:35 PM by dan gingold
we're gonna start filming soon, things have been set back due to crew scheduling issues. last night we were in San Francisco for a concert and we stopped in Berkeley to check the Clifbar dumpsters, we dug through both of them, and found only one cookies and cream Clifbar. We did get to talk to some weird old guy though, he brought out a broom from his house to help us clean up.

Posted 10:45 AM by dan gingold
Web page is up.
Mailing list is up.

Posted 1:03 AM by andrew morton
The email that started it all...

Date: 5 Feb 2002 01:03:05 +0000
From: "dan gingold" 
To: drewish@katherinehouse.com and other people
Subject: How would you like to help with the Dumpsterumentary? OH yeah!
hello everyone.  I have spoken with some you about this project, but for
many of you this will be the first time you've heard of the
dumpsterumentary.  the dumpsterumentary will be a documentary in which James
Dardis (my roomate) and I will be only eating food that we find in dumpsters
around Reno for a month.  I want to illustrate how much food is wasted, and
to talk about why this happens, and to show that we feel that this is pretty
ridiculous.
I'm writing to all of you because this project will require a bit of help.
We will be shooting a lot, much of this at night, and we will need help with
that, including transportation, lighting, audio and some other things.  Also
it would be an effective and interesting addition if we were able to
calculate the retail price of the food we gather, which would involve trips
to grocery stores to check prices.  aside from this, we will need assistance
with graphic design, publicity if we decide to submit it to some film
festivals, music, research, ect..
If you have interest in becoming involved with this excellent project,
please write me back.  As much as i would like to have some sort of planning
meeting, I know that all of us have very hectic work and school schedules,
and that it would be very difficult to coordinate a time.  I will ask in
subsequent emails about times that folks would be available, with luck we'll
be able to meet before this project begins.  tenative starting date is the
28th of February.
hope to hear from all of ya,
Dan Gingold