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Update #9: Final Update and a gift for our supporters
Blessing of gratitude to everyone that supported us and here is a gift to everyone that has contributed to our new kickstarter campaign. Rishi and I promise that everyone that supports our new project to launch Joysxee Island will receive the pledge rewards even if we do not reach our funding goal. That means if you re-pledge, you get all the rewards at the pledge point you choose!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottmader/grand-launch-of-recycled-plastic-bottle-eco-art-is
We only have six days left and this is such an incredible project and opportunity.
Seriously, who else do you know has built and lives on their own island.
Rishi and I thank you with all of our hearts and please help spread the word about how to turn trash into treasure
Update #8: WE ARE BACK !!!!!!!
Thank you again to everyone that supported us the first time and we are back on kickstarter and confident we will reach our funding goal this time. If you want to continue to support us here is the link to the new campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottmader/grand-launch-of-recycled-plastic-bottle-eco-art-is
Let's get Joysxee Island out into the bay and please, please, please help spread the word.
With thanks and gratitude,
Scott and Rishi
Update #7: THANK YOU ALL
To everyone that pledged - THANK YOU ALL!!! While we were not successful in our fundraising efforts we are thrilled to have so many backers and great comments and well wishes.
Rishi, always the optimist, see this as a learning opportunity so we will be back in a week or so with a new kickstarter campaign with even better rewards and we will double our efforts to spread the word about his eco teaching island and hope to inspire more people to see how to turn trash into treasure.
Thank you again for the pledges and we hope we can count on your continued support when we relaunch the project. And please, if you are ever on Isla Mujeres, come and visit.
With gratitude and love,
Scott and Rishi
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Cathy Chatman on May 30, 2011
Rishi - Sorry you didn't get to your goal this time but the idea is a good one. Don't give up on it. Miss you and the Yucatan very much. Cathy & Clark Chatman
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Lucy on May 30, 2011
Rishi......This isnt the last we will hear from You. Keep it up, we are cheering for you! Guess we will have to come visit you and hear your songs Live!!
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Kenneth V. Jackson on June 7, 2011
Hi! Richie and Scott, I am sorry you didn't reach the target, this time. But you will get there in the end.
I am still hoping to be with you in July round about the middle of the month. I will keep you posted Richard.
Take care and keep on trucking. Ken Jackson.
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Update #6: Count down thoughts
With three days to go, I am feeling grateful for all those who have donated.
There is yet time and so I am holding faith*
I must say though that it does feel rather strange that it ends on my birthday because I have not celebrated that day since I was affected by the "Jehovah,s witnesses" when I was in my late teens. It happened to coincide with the best weather to move to the bay and the time it took to get everything uploaded onto the kickstarter site.
I Love you All*
Richart.
Update #5: ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT
We only have 3 days to go till the campaign is over and we have only raised about 25% of the funds needed but we will not give up hope till the end.
Please help us reach our goal by emailing and facebooking and tweeting and smoke signaling and carrier pigeoning everyone that you know that wants to support the eco island.
We need all the help we can get so thank you again for your support and please help spread the word.
In peace,
Scott and Rishi *
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on May 29, 2011.
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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
