On March 21, 2011, the Midway team embarked on another leg of our journey (featured in Health Action last spring
http://www.hans.org/magazine/816/The-Journey-to-Midw...). This time we will be on Midway Atoll when hundreds of thousands of fluffy baby albatrosses are nesting with their parents. In addition to Chris Jordan's photographic work, we are collaborating in a documentary film about our experience that we hope will bring a message of beauty and renewal to millions of people around the world.
The recent earthquake in Japan sent a five-foot tsunami across the Pacific and, as a result, over 100,000 of the albatross chicks died on Midway. We will have the unique opportunity to witness the aftermath of this first hand.
http://www.fws.gov/midway/tsunami.html
Our film will be a powerful visual journey into the heart of Midway's astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On this tiny island near the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Our team of artists is travelling to Midway at each point in the albatross lifecycle, to witness their suffering, their struggle and their rebirth as a multi-layered metaphor for the whole Earth.
Through our journey we hope to rediscover--in the grandeur of the magnificent albatross and its far-reaching travels, and in the unbroken primal cycle of mating, brooding, nurturing and fledgling despite the albatross colony's encounters with plastic--that by turning toward flowing life in all its beauty and resilience, we find a path toward acceptance and inspiration.
Our story will be framed in gorgeous state-of-the-art high-resolution digital cinematography, in one of the world's most beautiful island landscapes. The viewer will enter a paradoxical world of horror and beauty, destruction and renewal, and emerge with their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of other environmental and documentary films, MIDWAY will take the viewer on a guided tour into the depths of despair, emerging with a transformational message of profound reverence and love.
Any donations you make will cover our room and board on the island, which supports the Fish and Wildlife Service in preserving Midway's Marine Sanctuary. Please join now in supporting the Midway project.
For small donations that don't need to be tax-deductible, the Paypal link below makes it easy and fast:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/donate.php
And for larger tax-deductible donations, here is the link to our 501c3, Planetwork NGO: https://www.planetwork.net/transaction/index.html
Important: Please specify "NextNow Collaboratory/Trash Island/Midway Journey" in your inquiry and/or in the memo line of your check.
Please keep a close eye on our just updated website
http://www.MidwayJourney.com and our Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/midwayjourney#!/pages/Midway..., where we will post daily updates from the Island. I will also be updating my own blog at
http://janvozenilek.wordpress.com/
Also check out our brand new Midway film trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudEuDTrSLU&feature=c...