Timeline of Dumpster Archeology!
- Lew Blink learns to dumpster dive in the fall of 2001, spends the next 20 years becoming a world-class Trash Hunter.
- After a stint in New Mexico, ends up in South city St Louis in 2009 continuing a lifestyle of Dumpster Diving.
- October 2015 makes a life shaking discovery in a dumpster outside 2323 Lafayette ave.
- The Lost Psychic Reel to Reels were digitized and the Dumpster Archeology Project Officially begins.
- Summer of 2016 Lew presents the first discoveries at the Strange Folk Festival.
- RFT and St Louis Magazine create articles about the project.
- Throughout the next 3 years, other Death Purges and Soul Collections were discovered, as multiple stories developed.
- In the Spring of 2018 and 2019, two articles were published in All the Art Magazine featuring two different Dumpster Discovered Artists.
- The Project showcased Artwork and Tales at Ripple of Existence Artistic Markets.
- Dumpster Archeology participated in 3 theatrical performances with PRIME’s 24 hour plays, providing set pieces and creating a week long Window Art exhibit called Dream Manager.
- In 2019 this website was formed with the magazine format, as a way to tell the individual stories online.
- Dumpster Archeology began to publish on Medium.com.
- January 2020, a documentary film began principle filming for an upcoming feature about the project.
Show and Tell….as a Medium for historical exploration:


Dumpster Archeology is a method of remembering.
From the Alleyways of St Louis to my first Dumpster Diving Experiences in Tampa. the Project aims to merge historical information with artistic experimentation and create a unique DIY multi-media dimensional mythology for the modern age.
Dumpster Archeology is, in a dictionary sense, the exploration of Storytelling via the outputs of dumpster diving experiences. It is the lives and history of that is being forgotten from the alleyways of my city.

The Project begins with a discovery. A singular moment of time, when something vital, at the edge of Trash Oblivion and is rescued from obscurity. The object is then examined and experienced for possible signs of inspiration and then a Story is told in a way that fits.

This website is a dedicated space for experimentation in the Storytelling genre. Each Rabbit hole is a whole mythology that grows and branches, sometimes into the public forums. These stories and people can be verified and the act of exploration is encouraged.

All the stories ….. are true or at least…true enough!!
Dumpster Archeology is Art Installations, Ted-X style talks, Public experiences, Published Articles, Collective experience, social media presence and whatever seems to manifest.

The Last Paintings of Edward Menges
Death is hardly the end of the story for an Artist. A new paragraph is continually being written as long as their essence lives in […]

A Psychic Reality
She was a real person. A Grandmother and business owner who loved God and tried to be a good person. She died in 1969 and […]

Death Purge
Culture sheds itself like dead skin cells into the void of trash oblivion and is reborn every generation with a new mask. We collectively purge […]

the Lost Psychic of Lafayette Square
The feminine voice came out of the 1970's era Reel to Reel player, months after that fateful day in front of the haunted mansion at […]

Doppelganger – the Randy Titus Memorial
… or how I discovered Randy Titus Thunderstorms were coming in over South city and I was in the open fields of Tower Grove Park. The […]

Clowning in the 5th Dimension
We begin at the St Louis World’s Fare. Not the epic one from 1904, that remains a crowning jewel of the city, in a physical […]
The Further writings of Lew Blink
- Psychedelic Science Fiction
- Psychedelic writings
- Being Magical
- Psychics and Spiritualism
- Cannibals and Witch Doctors
- Anarchist Art Performances
- Clowning at World’s Fare

Boom goes the Sky Wars for Pyromania
the Grand Finale Lew Blink Sep 29 · 9 min read “Count down with me.. 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1……” said the Voice from the crane held speakers. Boom… goes the fireball as the […]

The Hive
What if….within your personal essence there are parts of you, parts that help create your human experience, what if some of those parts were collective […]

Julia Butterfly and figurehead crushes
Lew Blink Aug 14 · 5 min read Newspapers are a rare thing these days, but once, they lay everywhere on benches, waiting areas and doorsteps. I used […]

The Current River and Dadirri
Lew Blink Aug 14 · 4 min read It was so very dark, and a mist drifted across the river as I searched with tiny senses for the […]

The Freedom of my Namesakes
Lew Blink Aug 15 · 5 min read ….Blinks in America…. My ancestor came to America in 1847. It was the dead of winter and he was 17 […]

The Psychedelic Rabbi and the Mystical Question
Posted on July 25, 2017 A psychedelic historical exploration of the mystical: As psychedelic culture grows once again into a wave of epic proportions and […]