Premo

I could tell his stuff story just fine, even without the high-tech web page catalog support Premo offers.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

I could tell his stuff story just fine, even without the high-tech web page catalog support Premo offers.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

Speaking of handy tools, while Premo boasts a toy adding machine, we have a Burroughs hand-crank job, circa 1900, Bud bought for $10 from his friends at the typewriter repair place, who overhauled it for good measure before they sent it off with him.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

In a contest between pre-Boomer Premo and the post-Boomer generation, my money is on the elderly.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

I could tell his stuff story just fine, even without the high-tech web page catalog support Premo offers.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

I could tell his stuff story just fine, even without the high-tech web page catalog support Premo offers.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

In a contest between pre-Boomer Premo and the post-Boomer generation, my money is on the elderly.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

In a contest between pre-Boomer Premo and the post-Boomer generation, my money is on the elderly.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

There are other significant toys I would put up against Premo's whiffle ball any day.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

It is the work of collage artist Mac Premo -- who was never one to throw anything away -- and he says the dumpster-art is "a portrait of a life."

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011