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You shall recieve a Hi-Res download of Richart's "Two Worlds" Pavement Picture. The original was drawn over a period of two years using pastels on a 4x2 meter piece of recycled paper which was taped to the City streets as he traveled for two years throughout Europe.
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The above plus a message in a bottle. We will put your name and your positive message/quote/poem/prayer/saying/wish in a plastic bottle to be placed under the island. And we will take a picture of it and add it to our flickr account. Your pledge will physically and financially support the island!
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You shall receive the above plus a download of the first two chapters of Richart's soon to be published book "Spiralogical Conversations". This inspiring story about the famous trash to treasure floating island is written by Tanya Samed in collaboration with Richart and is told in conversations as they met over a period of three years. (includes pictures)
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All the above plus plus a download of Richart's album of original songs which was recorded live on Spiral Island.
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All the above plus a download of a 45 minute documentary produced by Barbara Sostaric. Filmed over a period of two years, the documentary shows how the famous "Spiral Island" through trials and tribulations evolved into the current floating plastic bottle Island of “Joysxee”
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All of the above plus a download of Richart's entire book "Spiralogical Conversations"
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All of the above plus we will plant a mangrove tree on Joysxee in your honor with your name on it. Over time its roots will grow through the sand and wrap around the bottles to further strengthen the island.
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All the above plus we will invite you and a friend to enjoy one night in the guest room on "Joysxee". Listen to Rishi give you an unplugged concert as you enjoy a vegetarian meal, sip wine and taste solar baked cake. Then have a wonderful nights sleep on a gently undulating floating Island, arise to a sunrise breakfast and receive a signed lithographic print of Rishi's two worlds pastel pavement picture.
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All the above plus you will receive 10 of Richart's original drawings
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All of the above plus a VIP table for two with wine and a vegetarian buffet on the day we birth Joysxee into the Bay of Isla Mujeres. There shall be much celebration as we are pushed by a 200 hp boat from the lagoon through the channel and into the clear turquoise water of the bay.
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All the great rewards above and your name as a benefactor shall be engraved in the spiral pathway which leads out from the central heart-shaped wave-generator.
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All of the above plus Richart will write you a song on the subject of your choice.
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Everything above plus Richart will create for you a painting on the subject of your choice.
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YOUR OWN ISLAND!!!! At this pledge amount you get all the above rewards plus Richart will build you a 10 meter diameter floating plastic bottle island covered with sand with mangroves planted on it.
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Scott Mader is looking to create an open source organic farm/educational center/artistic community/smurf village in Belize and wants your help. I am happy to house and feed all that are passionate and productive in what they do and are willing to share their knowledge and experiences with those around them.
Richart Sowa was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. From a very early age he was painting pictures for his family, and after working for ten years as a carpenter he began singing and playing guitar as he toured Europe sharing his eco-art and songs. His passion for the ecology grew as he traveled and noticed how our modern lifestyle is exponentially eating away oxygen-emitting green areas and polluting the air and oceans. The idea of turning trash into sustainable, oxygen-producing, water-cleaning land was an idea of his which he didn't think he would ever do, but when he arrived in Mexico and learned about the ancient floating Aztec islands he knew that this was the country where he could build his dreams into reality. You can reach him via this project or at joysxee@yahoo.com.mx
I found the new place. Welcome back.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottmader/grand-launch-of-recycled-plastic-bottle-eco-art-is
Great idea Elizabeth! I doubled my pledge...anyone else care to follow our lead?
Just upped my pledge. Can anyone else dig a little deeper. Richart is really breaking new ground and paving the way for us and for many.
Thanks Richart!
Sending you lots of love, thinking of you and remembering the special time that your Dad and I spent on the island with you and all the wonderful things we did together. Your in my heart always, lots of love Mam xxx
Hi Richie, good luck with the project lets hope you get a lot of last minute backers, we're really proud of you, the island is amazing and me and Mark can't wait to come and see how it is now as its changing so much. With all your hard work and the support from your backers who knows what you will do with it next as I know you have so many new creative ideas up your sleeve. Lots of love, Bernie & Mark xx
You are sharing a fantastic message in a way that folks are receptive! Good luck with the next project!!! Can't wait to come back to Isla and visit with you!
What you're accomplishing is amazing, Richie. We've enjoyed our times with you on Joysxee and on Hidalgo. Keep up the good work and we'll see you again very soon.
Peace.
Hi Richiebro
Keep up the good work. The island's looking fab! Mam sends her love xx
Looking forward to seeing you soon xx
Hey Rishi I cound sit here and not help out but i cant do that, because i know how much this means to you mate........ SO YOU JUST CRACKED 2GRAND enjoy yourself there livin on the the island :))))
Richie is my dad. I am very very proud of him and what he is doing and the message he is sending out. I live in england which is a long way from my Mexico and I miss him loads. :( However i think that his idea is amazing and hope that more people can have the vision that he has and invest in some small way so that we can all see the fruits of his labour and really see, and enjoy, what it is possible to achieve with the right spirit and goodwill of mankind. This is an amazing project and I wish you all the best in the whole world dad. Xxx xxx
Richie and I go back a long way, we worked together in Germany during the 1980's, I had an idea to build a boat using plastic bottles inside, a Reinforced Plastic Hull. Richie has taken that idea a step further and built it ointo an Island, which I hope to come and live on for a short while, in July. Como Esta Ustedes Richie. I'm fine I hope you are too.
See you soon. Ken Jackson.
This is probably one of the smartest things that i have seen, It take pollution and turns it into an arable landscape basically. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you make it, it would solve a world of problems if this works.
Richie,
congratulations and many blessings to you for the continuing takeoff towards bigger and greater manifestations of this dream... you are a true visionary!
I want to share a little story: In 1996 I met Richie in Zipolite Mexico and we became friends. During that time, he started building the early prototype of his floating island, basically a simple, model version on the beach, with solar cookers and spiral artwork. For weeks, many of us hung out and played and made music and dreamed the dream of having a happy life on a self-sustaining floating island, made from plastic bottles and natural vegetation. Only one person was serious, well, as serious as he will ever be... and that was Richie. It was not symbolic for him, it was not a nice little traveler adventure. He was going to do this. And so he did. He started collecting all the plastic bottles he could find and started building, digging himself into the project. People moved on, neighbors and business owners were first, amused, than suspicious, some even hostile... I moved on too. Five years later I visit the Yucatan and I overhear a conversation of someone talking about this English guy living on a floating island nearby. I could not believe it, I was ecstatic. The next day I went to see him and it was all real. He had done it.
If you can, support this dream. Who knows where this could go and what this could become. I only know one thing: this guy is special. Rich-heart. Rich-dream. Good luck to you.