Artist turns dumpster into home from home

AP Television
Brooklyn, New York, US - 8 August 2013
1. Wide pan right from dumpster home to digger.
2. Mid of door opening and Greg Kloehn entering.
3. Wide of Kloehn sitting in dumpster home slicing lemons.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Kloehn (pronounced "klane"), dumpster designer:
"And I saw a dumpster. And I thought 'Hey that's a perfect shaped house.' Looks like a little metal tent. Maybe I can convert that into a viable home."
5. Close of Kloehn opening dumpster toilet.
6. Low shot of frying pan on stove in dumpster.
7. Close of Kloehn opening BBQ.
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Kloehn (pronounced "klane"), dumpster designer:
"Er, I have kitchen complete with toaster oven, a sink and a single burner. A ten-thousand BTU burner. On the outside you can bolt on a barbeque. All that's powered by a five-gallon propane tank. There is a toilet in there. There is storage underneath all the benches. The benches serve as a sofa, and as a bed."
9. Close of Kloehn pulling drawer open to reveal a cooler.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Kloehn (pronounced "klane"), dumpster designer:
"There is a little cooler as far as a refrigerator is concerned. When you drag in a little extension cord that hots up two power strips. One power strip is for lights. The other one for your phone, your computer, the toaster ,oven."
11. Close of Kloehn plugging electric cord into side of the dumpster.
12. Close of dumpster interior lighting.
13. Close of power plug strip in dumpster.
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Kloehn (pronounced "klane"), dumpster designer:
"I got windows. The whole top part that you can crank up. I kinda inverted a trailer jack so it will push up the top, exposing windows."
15. Close of windows emerging from dumpster house.
16. Low shot of Kloehn winding windows up with a jack.
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Kloehn (pronounced "klane"), dumpster designer:
"Why did I make a home out of a dumpster? As a challenge to myself. And as a challenge to see if I could make a home that could go undetected in the city. People would just walk by. It would kinda be in this grey zone of legal housing, illegal housing. And to see if you could take such a small space, and make something that is actually livable."
18. Close of Kloehn opening ingredients rack on dumpster door.
19. Close of Kloehn moving frying pan from stove.
20. Pan from dumpster mini-bar to Kloehn sitting in dumpster.
21. Tilt up to dumpster home.
LEADIN
For some, their home is their castle.
But for one Californian artist his home from home in New York is a dumpster.
STORYLINE:
It's hardly an award-winning location.
But for American artist Gregory Kloehn, this dumpster is a home from home.
The standard US trash container was converted into a house as a holiday home for Kloehn while visiting New York from his hometown of Oakland, California.
Kloehn's art is inspired by mixing grandeur with social irony and that's part of what inspired this creation.
"And I saw a dumpster. And I thought 'hey that's a perfect shaped house.' Looks like a little metal tent. Maybe I can convert that into a viable home." says Kloehn.
The dwelling now boasts all the comforts of a modern home.
"Er, I have kitchen complete with toaster oven, a sink and a single burner. A ten-thousand BTU burner. On the outside you can bolt on a barbeque. All that's powered by a five-gallon propane tank. There is a toilet in there. There is storage underneath all the benches. The benches serve as a sofa, and as a bed."
But it's hardly slumming it, as the dumpster comes complete with a working power-supply and even a mini-bar.
Kloehn's previous art work includes converting bicycles into alcohol-serving bars and even salad servers, but this is his first custom-built home.
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