Flickr Find: Recreating the OS X Trash Can in real life

Drewm over at Flickr recreated the Mac OS X trash can in real life. It's an absolutely beautiful three-dimensional nod to the OS X dock. It makes you kind of wish he'd recreate the entire dock but searching his account only found 1 result matching "dock".

A blue acrylic clipboard appears to have given him the inspiration. See this earlier picture of his of the same can full of coins. The photo was shot using a Canon digital camera. In terms of visual beauty, this is a big step forward from the OS sculptures Apple used to display at the Apple Campus garden in Cupertino.

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Source: http://flickr.com/photos/drewm/131314233/

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Drewm over at Flickr recreated the Mac OS X trash can in real life. It's an absolutely beautiful three-dimensional nod to the OS X dock. It...

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finch

this isn't news... this is an example of one of the many pathetic filler articles on this site.

June 22 2007 at 7:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jerid Hill

That trash can doesn't look like the OS X trash can in the dock.

This one is curved, whereas OS X is flat. This one is brushed metal, whereas OS X is more of a mirror finish. And the grating is a different pattern.

I think sxtxixtxcxh had it right with the pencil holder.....

June 21 2007 at 8:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sxtxixtxcxh

is it not this:
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/50502_PE147175_S4.jpg ?

June 21 2007 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

spil

Heh, I have a trash can like that. I got this idea to take a picture of the real life things of everything in my dock and make the picture their icon. If I ever have the time, I should do that.

The only thing I couldn't think of was a microsoft word icon. Am I just supposed to take a picture of blue construction paper "W"?

June 21 2007 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stef Geiger

Pretty sure that's an Umbra product, not IKEA (they sue each other all the time about copying). If I'm right, then that can is about 3 inches tall (it's a pencil holder kind of thing).

June 21 2007 at 3:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete

A better recreation would have been to shoot the can from a slight angle on top, and reduce the amount of trash a bit...

Just my .02

June 21 2007 at 2:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

morgan m

the content readings on this post are off the charts!

June 21 2007 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ahmad

I used to have the same trash can from IKEA that looked almost identical to the one in my dock. But my roommate stole it when we were moving out and then he denied it all when I asked him about it.

bastard

June 21 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply