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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Kaleidoscope, a poem by Victoria Sloan Jordan
In this poetic offering, a plastic filled bird carcass becomes a symbol for awakening. Filmed and edited by Jan Vozenilek Music by Christen Lien
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Harbor Trap
Young albatrosses making their first foray out to sea can become waterlogged and exhausted, drifting back to the beach to rest and dry out. This disturbing video shows the plight of those unlucky enough to become trapped by the high metal retaining walls in Midway’s harbor. The doomed birds drown in an entanglement of dead [...]
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food III – Looking into the Mirror
Chris Jordan peels back the ribcage of a decaying albatross chick to reveal yet another belly-cargo of plastic. The ever present bottle cap is joined by a ballpoint pen cap, fishing float, and other assorted plastic junk from the human world that albatrosses forage from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, mistaking it for food. Video [...]
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food II : Our First Dissection
Stomach contents of another dead baby albatross are revealed as Chris Jordan cuts the bird open with scissors from a dissection kit provided by US Fish and Wildlife Service. Filmed by Victoria Sloan Jordan Music by Christen Lien
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Midway Brushstrokes III
Young Laysan Albatrosses look wizened and world-weary in their grizzled down, but they have only just begun to test their wings on the wind and water, and the success of their journey remains uncertain. Jan Vozenilek captures the presence and vulnerability of the fledgling birds of Midway in this next installment of his Brushstrokes vignettes. [...]
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food
Brace yourself for this short video of the horrifying contents of the stomach of a dead baby albatross on Midway Atoll. The island will soon be covered with tens of thousands of carcasses like this, as the plastic-filled birds die from starvation, dehydration, and choking. Video by: Jan Vozenilek Music by: Christen Lien
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Zoom lens? The Albatrosses of Midway
Seabird photography calls for telephoto lenses, camouflage clothing, and stealth movements, right? Well, not on Midway Atoll. On their second day on the island, Chris Jordan, Jan Vozenilek and the rest of the Midway Journey team are adopted as brothers and sisters by the charismatic albatrosses of Midway. These magnificent creatures inhabit the vast and [...]
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – First Impressions
Dear Friends and Followers of Midway Journey, Thank you for your patience as we have taken a few days to find our bearings and connect to the Internet. We are astonished and delighted to find ourselves back here again on remote Midway Atoll. The tiny island is now covered with several hundred thousand fledgling albatrosses [...]
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Return to Midway
Dear friends and followers of Midway Journey, As my team and I prepare to travel back to Midway Atoll, I cannot help but note the macabre juxtaposition of the environmental disaster that is happening in the Pacific Ocean, with the one that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. The two phenomena are oddly parallel, [...]
MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Plastic is Fantastic – Teaser