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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Plastic is Fantastic – Teaser

Jan Vozenilek — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:24:04 +0000

Coming soon… Chris and Victoria enjoy the wonders of a plastic lifestyle in their makeshift house on Midway Atoll.

MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Kaleidoscope, a poem by Victoria Sloan Jordan

Victoria Sloan Jordan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:16:28 +0000

In this poetic offering, a plastic filled bird carcass becomes a symbol for awakening.

Filmed and edited by Jan Vozenilek

Music by Christen Lien

MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food III – Looking into the Mirror

Chris Jordan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:36:51 +0000

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 by Jan Vozenilek
Written by Victoria Sloan Jordan
Music by Christen Lien

MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food II : Our First Dissection

Victoria Sloan Jordan — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:55:26 +0000

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

MIDWAY JOURNEY II – First Impressions

Chris Jordan — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:38:21 +0000

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 inhabiting the paths, walkways, roads, meadows, and even the runway.

It’s hard to describe the complex mixture of feelings that arise in the presence of this incredible abundance of wildlife, especially as we are keenly aware of the devastating effects of the plastic that fills the stomachs of a huge percentage of these young birds. One purpose of this leg of our journey is to witness their annual die-off, which will result in thousands of plastic-filled carcasses covering the ground as we saw when we visited here last September.

We’ve already begun to acquaint ourselves with the new stories that this chapter of our journey holds, and we look forward to sharing them with you over the next couple of weeks. Thank you for joining us in this process.

With warm regards from Midway Atoll,

Chris, Victoria, Jan & Joe

Video by: Jan Vozenilek Vimeo.com/JanVozenilek

Music by: Christen Lien itsnotaviolin.com

See the area where this video was filmed on BlooSee’s satellite imagery.

A visit to Cortes Island

Jan Vozenilek — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:44:07 +0000

A walk on the shores of the remote and wild Canadian island of Cortes illustrates that plastic is polluting even the most remote and beautiful corners of our planet.

Midway Journey members Chris Jordan, Manuel Maqueda, Jan Vozenilek and Bill Weaver reunited in May 2010 to attend the Media that Matters conference in Hollyhock, Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Music by Christen Lien

Video by Jan Vozenilek

First Dead Albatrosses

Bill Weaver — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:02:06 +0000

On his first morning on Midway, Chris begins searching for the remains of albatrosses that have died from ingesting plastic. It didn’t take long to find his first photographic subjects.

-Bill Weaver

Voiceover by Chris Jordan