An Island made from plastic bottles by Richart Sowa

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A floating artificial island built in Mexico by British artist Richart "Rishi" Sowa. He's first Island was destroyed by a hurricane in 2005; a replacement, Joyxee Island, has been open for tours since 2008.
In the waters of Isla Mujeres, the "Island of Women", near Cancun. It opened for tours in August, 2008.
The new island was initially 20 metres (66 ft) in diameter, which has since expanded to 25 metres (82 ft), and plants and mangroves are already growing on it. It contains about 100,000 bottles. The new island has three beaches, a house, two ponds, a solar-powered waterfall and river, a wave-powered washing machine and solar panels. Volunteers helped with the project. Sowa will continue to make improvements to the Island, so it will always be a work of art in progress.
Spiral Island has been featured in a number of newspapers and TV documentaries around the world, including in Japan and South Korea, and has been featured in an episode of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! TV series, and on the MTV program Extreme Cribs in 2011.

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this is what a free person looks and acts like

samekogan
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If anyone is criticizing him for being a hippy, you're not the genius riding his own floating island.

yuwztpt
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Didn’t want funding, didn’t ask for money. Didn’t get creepy. Just bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. Clever and eccentric. World needs more people like him.

sixmetre
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“In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane.”-Spock

mattmobile
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he created his own universe, and now he's happy and free, the negative comments on here are ridiculous, this guy breaks free from the rat race and lives in his own terms, and now everyone says he's crazy,

KingKumari
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There is a fine line between genius and insanity and this wonderful man is riding it the whole way.

frilledb
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Who else noticed he didn't talk about funding or riches to achieve his idea's. Now where am going is, most of us think to solve a problem we must stack wealth, otherwise we are failures. This man is a genius.

greenpill
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Brother! I remember hanging with you on Zipo beach back in "97. It was sad to hear your island was taken by the hurricane when I came back a few years later. So good to see your success. Love you bro!

hughhempner
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This kid wins an award for the best school project ever

noahthenomad
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20 yrs later: Plastic island has now become a country

davidfasthands
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I'd say He's a Mad Freaking Genius and I'm glad he's not an evil one.

deweyb
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness - Aristotle

mythtree
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those are the kind of engineers we need in this world

Mimi-ivbk
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This is the single most solarpunk thing I've ever seen

cameronforester
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What a lovely man. What a great story. Praise the people who break from the norm.

xXOFrannieOXx
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Looking at the comments people calling him crazy, he thinks your crazy too with your normal job and your lack of priorities

SKOMPAS
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it would be fucking awesome to see this dude flying an island over my house some day...

crazyharmless
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I rewatch this video a few times a year, I just can't get enough of this man and this video is the best representation of him that I've seen. Well done

brettridings
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Probably one of the coolest things ive ever seen

ryandavis
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The great thing is that at first impression he seems insane with a hobby, but after awhile he actually gives scientific reasoning behind how he's built it... Kinda hard to say he's insane with such grandeur understanding. Ingenuity is really what it is.. and zero budget too!

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