An Island made from plastic bottles by Richart Sowa

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.
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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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[@འཇིགསམེདརྣམརྒྱལ]

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

[@sideridely]

wish I had my own island

[@འཇིགསམེདརྣམརྒྱལ]

Ashley Rohleder Who wouldn't lel

[@sideridely]

Ogyen Gyatso I dunno, just wish I had my own. I don't care about you and yours

[@dynaryda8857]

Ashley Rohleder you're a top notch bitch

[@universalscientist9684]

Man you are a fucking legend!

[@sixmetre5316]

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.

[@servobot]

He did want 50 peso for a tour

[@servobot]

But i think thats not that much

[@SuperDonkeyslong]

@@servobotit’s around $3 so not much for the amount he shows you, plus the fact it’s unbelievably unique. But yeah, he does technically ask for money 😅

[@waltersobchak9427]

For 3$ I think it's more about awareness than trying to making it rich.

[@unicornkitteh5332]

He makes a little bit of money for his tour. Its not much. Its interesting. Its educational. And if people are willing to pay in exchange for an experience, how is that any different than paying a few bucks to go to a museum or a park? (Even free parks often have parking fees) Rather than funding,, he asks people for trash at the end 😂 in his beautiful little song lol

[@samekogan]

this is what a free person looks and acts like

[@xaiano794]

This is what a societally useless person looks like

[@samekogan]

+Xaiano says the person who has no idea what it is to be free

[@xaiano794]

Sam kogan I like being useful - like a cog in a machine. You be a free rock rolling downhill if you wish, I'd rather be a part of the engine driving up.

[@samekogan]

+Xaiano I just don't think you understand nor see the brilliant resourcefulness this man posses. you think you're headed up the hill? this guy has shit figured out once the engine breaks down and causes your vehicle to roll down backwards. this is using his surroundings to its fullest and finest. if you can't see that now then maybe you never will and that's fine. but it's amazing that you cant.

[@xaiano794]

Sam kogan Don't you see the folly in your own statement? You say 'once it breaks down' - and go on to state that it is THEN that his work would surpass my 'machine', but that statement infers that PRIOR to it breaking down, my 'machine' is most definitely superior and furthermore that there is only a chance of it failing at some unspecified point in the future. Therefore, given a choice between guaranteed inferiority now, or possible inferiority after an uncertain amount of time, it is obvious that your 'free person' is always the lesser choice.

[@greenpill810]

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.

[@sinfullyblondie]

Well said Phil.

[@chupacabra9357]

That guy definitely had money to start with.

[@itchyvet]

@@chupacabra9357 I'd say he did, but the question is, How much ?

[@survivortechharold6575]

He is far from poor.

[@josullivan5189]

Honestly if he had money he could probably figure out how to build it more quickly and effeciently.

[@noahthenomad]

This kid wins an award for the best school project ever

[@pacukluka]

Noah Stemann 'kid'

[@theempireisback9004]

Noah Stemann he would get a A+++++++

[@KingKumari]

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, WOW......

[@victorv1395]

KING KUMARI he is great naturalist and he loves earth .you are right

[@AntivistDragz]

KING KUMARI this guy is 4real a fucking genius

[@KingKumari]

gnarly sniff Abso-fuckin-lutely my friend.

[@davemarx7856]

the thing is - this guy could care less about any of the negativity here, if he even knows it exists. which he probably doesn't. so... he wins?

[@Xiolee1]

he is defiantly an inspiration.

[@frilled2b]

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

[@evanbrown4820]

My thoughts exactly

[@ronniesanchez3432]

exactly what i was thinking....but people like this are soo necessary.

[@evanbrown4820]

Ronnie Sanchez​ agreed

[@darkroadsahead]

sounds like me in the next 20 to 30 years

[@ryantrue9372]

Perfectly stated, and some how I love this fellow.

[@hughhempner]

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!

[@oakandthepack4887]

if you truly know this guy...i am envious. id LOVE to meet with him for even a day. shit maybe even start my own and combine it with his

[@tantrika.exotica]

💞

[@theconsciousmovement9669]

😂😂😂😂

[@mamachicken1548]

People saying this guy is crazy. He is not crazy but a "THINKER". Something our society has gotten away from. "using your mind to think". I love his philosophy in the opening of the video.

[@MaanOnnTheMoon]

straight up Mama chicken. they kill all the leaders and thinkers until we’re left with nothing but lil yachty. god save our children 🙏🏼

[@1truthbegettingtold275]

But my smartphone is like 50% + of my environment and everything on the apps and social media create my thoughts for me, if I have a thought, it more than likely came from something I saw on my smartphone.

[@Martin1519]

In today's society we need permits to do stuff which is what stops people from thinking

[@Jpw333]

Exactly...

[@sew04ss]

People call others crazy when they think differently and outside the box

[@crazyharmless666]

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

[@IronheadOfScroteus]

Now I want to watch Laputa.

[@osmanyousaf7866]

Fingers cross he doesn't flush the toilet at the moment.

[@crazyharmless666]

Osman Yousaf His toilet doesn't flush! It's compost!

[@isaacandrewdixon]

he can dump his fertilizer on my head anyday

[@andywest2465]

Joseph b

[@SKOMPAS]

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

[@cameronsprague101]

Matthew Heal this serial killer here, he thinks your crazy with your pointless emotions and not killing the worthless.

[@SKOMPAS]

Its all about point of view, watch Dexter!

[@DaRocketGuy]

I'd like you to watch 9:00

[@TacticalBe]

Pythagoras was called crazy when he said the earth was round.

[@m3m3s89]

What, are YOU living on a plastic island too?

[@brettridings5594]

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

[@brettridings5594]

Hey Brett from one year ago. I'm back

[@resiliencewbcsbyankita]

so much positivity,so much optimism....that is what our world needs right now

[@fattlebieldproductions3198]

Arpan Mukherjee right

[@AqierDesigns]

Arpan Mukherjee lsd for everyone

[@katwestmark2576]

This guy is a genius!!! It's a shame all these people thinks he's insane just because (1.) he's doing something that's never been done before and (2.) he's not buttoned up. Smartest person I've ever seen...

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

Kat Westmark yes! Idk why anyone would place any sort of violent vibe on this guy. He starts off talking about love as the greatest healing force

[@springranch1384]

M M Agree.

[@bensons999]

"not buttoned up" I've never heared that term before, I like it! I'm taking it!!

[@rclayton0187]

Kat Westmark he is very smart but I think everyone thinks he's insane only bc of the last few minutes haha

[@murburyempire3643]

Kat Westmark it's bullshit!! were is the before & after pics?? he ain't show nothing!! everything is word of mouth!! This is a hoax!! just want views for the channel!!!

[@JRR-Rafael]

The legitimate definition of a mad genius

[@magiv4205]

I know, it's beautiful..

[@JRR-Rafael]

Magi V it is

[@MaLu-nz7fy]

This man is brilliant ( :

[@naysay8858]

Damann 123 Zombie proved

[@Korronikov]

phuck ewe and fertilizing his garden with human feces

[@deweyb3458]

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

[@21owlgirl72]

Im pretty sure hed br qble to make a doomsday device from plastic bottles, glass and poop

[@Geisteskr4nk]

​@@21owlgirl72 Minmatar one. xD For explanation, it's out of EVE Online, Space Game, where are the Minmatars are the Race who uses ships fixed with duct tape, basically flying metal scrap/garbage. And the biggest ships in there got a "Doomsday Device", which is their main weapon. xD

[@claires9100]

Glad scientist. Not mad. Haha.

[@col2959]

Dewey B good call dewbey

[@lisaanngarrison7794]

He's brilliant

[@joshstans]

I could only imagine the wealth of knowledge and info this guy is just waiting to teach a young person willing to listen.

[@PaperSlyPika]

some car company will find him and ask him how to make their cars fly and he will give the proper answers

[@vladark138]

Ha-Ha, don't be ridiculous. It's just a fun project, very primitive. If you are into seasteading, there are plenty of resources...with modern technologies :P

[@lotmyle5465]

This guy is about as crazy as a person can get and still be harmless... in fact, he has managed to channel his crazy into something interesting and potentially beneficial. Just goes to show that crazy is not always a negative thing.

[@ladylyssa5130]

It's usually the geniuses that are deemed insane by the rest of the world.

[@cosminionita9429]

We call geniuses crazy people because we are so stupid. Seems logic.

[@fungusmungus]

people diagnosed with metal disorders are just normal people

[@lotmyle5465]

Depends on your definition of normal....

[@middlek8]

shit, what is normal anyway? i kinda wanna know what is in this 'trash' he is putting into the ocean, god forbid a tornado tho. lol

[@davidfasthands474]

20 yrs later: Plastic island has now become a country

[@rodenhuis2]

floating in the air

[@Geoxor]

trump would prob build a wall around it lmfao xD

[@ROADHouse702]

Geoxor 😂

[@Cpowers1990]

Gold X gaming Plastandia

[@martinward3063]

Gold X gaming 15 Years later Mount Cheeseburger

[@kermitthecrog7262]

This man is an absolute genius!

[@Mimi-iv9bk]

those are the kind of engineers we need in this world

[@user-xw1yh2py4j]

The mass production of islands.

[@mjr819]

376 G IKR........I wish there would be a lot like him.....

[@Mimi-iv9bk]

Eu4 PLeb both I would say

[@tehblacksmith9302]

engineers are supposed to use logic... im not saying he isn't smart he is just slightly unrealistic scientifically.

[@Mimi-iv9bk]

Teh Blacksmith he's not unrealistic anymore since he actually make it till the end. He literally built a whole functional island out of materials we would have never imagined you could give them the use he did... That my friend is engineering

[@c0l1n_m45]

The human race is not as terrible as I thought before. We need to fix this planet before we move on to the next. This man is genius.

[@cameronsprague101]

c0l1n_M4 why?

[@sinatraforeign]

c0l1n_M4 Move on to a new planet? dont you ever think earth happens because its the luckiest planet on our solar system? first it got just the right amount of suns to support life. second it got jupiter who protect earth from meteor crash. third it got its own moon so the sea wave doesnt go crazy. finding one wouldve not be that simple. and dont you ever think of the travel? itll takes years. human will most likely fix earth than moving to a "new one"

[@c0l1n_m45]

Nasa has plans to colonize Mars

[@carlose6010]

Yoga Nuclear winter "fix".

[@N3kr0n15]

never is a long time

[@DeJMan]

If pixar and disney movies have taught me anything, it's to not discredit people who seem crazy. You go fly that island, good sir!

[@xXOFrannieOXx]

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

[@dug5940]

this guy is either a total genius or batshit crazy

[@Rob-ue6ij]

You have to be batshit crazy to be a total genius.

[@garyfisher1503]

Dug Impossible, he is both of those things!

[@hagalathekido]

all geniouses were viewed as crazy at some point

[@PurpleHurrple]

A little bit of both comes a long way

[@dekoning2262]

wright brothers were called crazy look what we fly in now :D

[@AlistairSutter]

There's two types of people in this world: people who want to buy islands and people who want to build islands.

[@knowbuddy0]

I guess I not human, because I don't want either lol

[@n52nb30]

Lmao

[@JaguarKnight-hk7gl]

I'm planning on building one

[@dukeofxesbury3950]

and conquer too. bruhhh

[@صالحالعمرو-ز6ن]

Jeffrey Kemper dubia isn’t a country😂 it’s a city in the uae

[@justintai8725]

this guy is a genius I love him, how much weed did he smoke before thinking this up?

[@IntelCoreI77700K]

+James Sykes He is beyond an FaZe MLG PRO Player

[@grizzlybear4122]

bales

[@Ocodo]

+James Sykes More like... how much acid does he drops..

[@justintai8725]

Ocodo haaaaaa yer that too utterly amazing!

[@bliz2912]

+James Sykes ...Please it's a fucking trash pile

[@ryandavis4689]

Probably one of the coolest things ive ever seen

[@neemguy81]

Damn, i was all into this until he talked about flying the island with the tornado he's going to make.

[@hakugin15]

peyote is one helluva drug

[@dancamp8429]

Lol I was thinking the same thing

[@batterycock]

if im going to believe anyone, im going to believe someone who built their own island.

[@tomcarey5938]

Yes, same

[@PettyClipper]

yeah... same lmao

[@walruspictures]

I feel like this is the kind of guy you'd meet after an apocalypse... slightly eccentric living in a ramshackle shack but immensely creative and very intelligent.

[@sirknightcape]

not so intelligent his island blew away no more lol

[@sheepshitonastick]

haha yeah. fallout 4

[@Entropian2012]

sirknightcape What you mean the island blew away?

[@sirknightcape]

Entropian2012 Look it up Buddy

[@ginigarden]

You are right about the builder being "immensely creative and very intelligent" but I wouldn't call his island home a "ramshackle shack" - it is really quite beautiful.

[@dewinmoonl]

he sounds like a hippie but all his understandings about climate, temperature, sunlight, soil-making, waves, are all spot on. maybe not the flying island part, that part was too crazy :p

[@tonystroemsnaes554]

ikr, love this guy, but the physichs behind the island tornado didn't really make any sense

[@MrImachickenlol]

you guys cant tell its a joke?

[@laggedoff]

I'm not sure he meant a literal giant tornado. But the flight was more or less a joke, unless he was speaking of little gliding with a light enough island, and enough lift, it'd be more like a hop than a flight. but making your own tornado is entirely possible if you set it up correctly, as hot air rises rapidly, cold air will rush in, the trick to making your own mini-tornado is finding a method to control how the cold air flows down again. the hot air would have to be REALLY hot however.

[@lennartweber2228]

dewinmoonl i bet he recognized one day that there is no place for creators and nature caring guys like him on the land, so he thought about his own little place. and hell guys, this private island is a dream

[@AqierDesigns]

he IS a hippy and why do you assume a generall hippie is irrational? hippies are very rational. a hippy is just someone who believes in love, acceptance, tolerance, peace. Most hippies get that believe from lsd and well I can guarantee you that this man had lsd at least once aswell. If you once had lsd you just see who had the universal understanding, and he has it.

[@mattmobile]

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

[@Galemor1]

So true, whenever someone breaks free from the norm, they are called crazy.

[@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline]

Which show did that quote come from?

[@FishAdvisor]

@@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline star trek

[@MidnightsFire2099]

Well said!

[@freda2758]

Could not have said it better.

[@immarksman7875]

He is so creative and cool but 1% insane

[@hagalathekido]

100% insane yet 100% genious

[@Haneix1]

Do you know the definition of insanity???

[@Wheremy]

Haneix doing the same thing over a d over again expecting a different result

[@smonyboy]

-YT- Awaken where's your man made island? you are dumber than an 'insane' man if you have none.

[@OverDoseBrian]

-YT- Awaken the percentage might be a little higher than that 😂

[@mstexasg6243]

This man is providing a key to sustainable development for life in the future.

[@HungryArtistTV420]

You are completely wrong! For everyone saying that this man is a genus, solved mankind's problem for a sustainable development, or that he is making huge leaps forward in to our future...... you're completely wrong. What is sustainable about having a house made of "PLASTIC" and "Garbage". Did you guys not go to school? Garbage in our ocean is not sustainable, but in fact destroys our environment, the worst being PLASTIC! It slowly disintegrates in to microscopic pieces of plastic, which fish then eat/breath/absorb and it is one of the worst problems we have with our ocean right now. You do not want plastic in our water guys!!!! How is everyone so blind? Yeah it looked cool..... Don't be fooled by the visual aesthetics, this place is horrible for the environment and everyone who thinks this is a "Genius" idea, is either blind, ignorant, voted for Trump, or perhaps all of the above. Open Your Eyes people!

[@uncut119]

@@HungryArtistTV420 He is repurposing/recycling the wadte.

[@randyman8984]

@ Jonathan Marin, WTF Hows many times you gonna post that, You posted that shit on every post here, Sounds like you are just a hater

[@supercoolio120]

what a genius and the fact he had the balls to do all of this. respect.

[@pigtailsboy]

He made a floating island. I think that's all that's worth talking about. He also has the time to invent a no cost life. It's so difficult to make living work and he's very close to eliminating normal responsibilities.

[@jacobjacob4139]

That's all we ever need, thanks.

[@ambersykora352]

This man is my hero. If he could just work on starting a floating food island, with a couple chickens, he'll be totally set. Maybe a floating fish farm attached to the Island to ensure he could collect various varieties and grow them out wherever he travels to and be able to breed them

[@pcgamersam2750]

this guy seems to say some words with an English accent some with a Irish accent and some with a kind of latin american twist

[@edd6820]

It's what happens when you're a bit mental

[@pcgamersam2750]

yeah his parents must have been a bit mental when they were naming him like did they press the 't' key instead of the 'd' key

[@laionemeihetahikoulakanate9515]

PcGamer Sam I Biulding my self a Island. fie the trolling through You Tube. 😅😆😁😂😃😄

[@pcgamersam2750]

eh, ok good for you.

[@luksor4724]

Sowa i propably Polish surname, which mean in English an owl ;)

[@theundergroundera7985]

This seems like a dope place to smoke and chill

[@theundergroundera7985]

Forreal

[@TheTrojanMaker]

grow some food and weed on it and live on it somewhere :D:D

[@theundergroundera7985]

Alex R. Can't forget that tasty rum. I'd be livin like Jack Sparrow up in there

[@Jop3lius]

maintaining place like this takes work and weed makes you lazy sack of shit so those dont go well together

[@Jop3lius]

of course, they will produce the weed they are gonna smoke and thats it, thats your production

[@CameronKerrBocher]

He'd get about 10 minutes on his Island in the U.S. before some environmental agency would put an end to it. What he needs is a grant to go to the middle of the Paciific (the garbage patch), and build there were materials would never be a problem. Perhaps semi melt the plastic into float able cubes in a form design to interlock. He would have enough material to build his own floating continent. People could volunteer to assist in the cleanup/build as a vacation spot in the South Seas on a budget.

[@tr2461]

Fear is bull shit

[@CameronKerrBocher]

Where did fear come into play?

[@RogerHankins]

Now thats thinking .

[@CameronKerrBocher]

Bet it would be about the only to cleanup this Texas sized mess at a reasonable cost.

[@RogerHankins]

We all should recycle reuse to save us,our children and our planet that God is letting us Borrow while were here

[@AbdoolraufAhmedSoodee]

This man sounds highly intellectual, he's got great concepts and that is soo lovely 🤩

[@network735]

This guy has a good knowledge of physics and science in general.

[@noahschuler6388]

Except for the tornado part.

[@DaYouKlu]

yeah definitely not in that part

[@masonparker4473]

a tornado in the ocean?

[@echoedinnocence]

tornado on the ocean? called a waterspout. It happens all the time. more than you think. ask Amy floridian.

[@echoedinnocence]

any*

[@patsycav]

This man will go down in history, but I hope somebody else doesn't try to steal his credit for being the genius who could possibly be igniting the spark for something huge for mankind.

[@zonunihauhnar6219]

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[@Jarheads4Yeshua]

Share good ideas, so that they're not stolen. Don't even share bad ideas. If the bad goes public, then refute bad ideas in rational debate, and certainly don't cling to bad ideas.

[@vincevegacustoms8860]

Its on video documented.not like the content they can steal from your computer phone etc. People see it and they can confirm where its coming from

[@Angry.General1461]

Pat Cavanaugh I'm sure some rich guy would.

[@mentallyilldarkjeroid5378]

In America he'd be in jail for violating environmental laws or some shit. I wish a diver swam under it and filmed what it looks like below. People need to buy up my "Impact" a James Grider novel on Amazon so I can afford a used car. Imagine if we had a James Grider fight someone on that island while it's crumbling apart.

[@concertslivehd3336]

This man knew that earth could provide him with everything he needed.

[@albertawheat6832]

And it all started with a plastic base...Don't get me wrong better to see a use full self contained purpose for it. Very smart concept.

[@KaraokeNig]

Made it fun also

[@tim49013]

We need more people like him with great ideas...

[@dunhillsupramk3]

dude he is talking about flying the whole island, meteorite, large fish, the captain of the sea told him to build it after he had a meltdown.... oh and did you see the leaf toilet?!

[@RavemastaJ]

dunhillsupramk3 Did you see his tax form? I didn't either. When crazy people can live for free, then maybe, just maybe, they aren't crazy.

[@dunhillsupramk3]

ravemastaj where are they going to post it to?

[@RavemastaJ]

dunhillsupramk3 101 Crazy Island Guy Boulevard? He wouldn't be hard to find if they wanted to deliver an eviction notice, but they won't because he's clearly out of his gourd. I.E., he gets to squat on land, in a house he built with his own two hands, pays no taxes, and has a cottage tourism industry. He sounds like he has it made.

[@dunhillsupramk3]

ravemastaj as far as home less people go i would admit that he has made it...

[@gabrielwan1187]

He's literally Leonardo Da Vinci. Ahead of his time, an undeniable genius, great hair, and crazy AF. I wanna be like him so bad.

[@clouwds5739]

TruePanda me too

[@rebeccastarr2851]

Clouwds + Me three !!!!!!

[@kingsley15]

A genius and an absolute inspiration! Glad this was recommended.

[@hafizx1018]

Kingsley's Tech Channel im glad it was in my recommended too :)

[@joey9811]

Yes true

[@PO13GR3G]

He's not a genius hes a idiot. Plastic bottle's brake down to micro plastic.

[@matthewroberts1878]

PO13GR3G over what sorts of time scales?

[@labrya4]

depends on the type of plastic and exposure to sun.

[@jimskie9286]

"It's the only island in the planet called woman" 😂 I like this guy already

[@kevinkane5911]

Next: Transgender Island

[@concertslivehd3336]

He just wanted to live inside a woman.

[@javierrodriguez2863]

30 minutes from cancun theres an actual island named ' isla de mujeres' , very popular for tourists!

[@juliusbockholt6468]

i love how he goes full crazy at the end :D

[@sue598]

lol Julius I could have done without the singing.

[@tcstrackteam]

How can you not just love this guy and his unique outlook. Inspiring !

[@soujinmoritv5731]

He's no ordinary, he is a Legend.

[@gourleygirldebbie]

I am almost speechless.... what a wonderful glorious man with the most beautiful dreams. Dreams do come true... sending loads of love, light, and angels his way...

[@mobspeak]

+Debbie Bellinger You forgot unicorns and flying spaghetti monsters.

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+Debbie Bellinger if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M

[@truths33ker83]

LOL hes guna flying his plastic bottle Frisbee island with glass mirror tornado power generator. this guy is a beast haha

[@marich91]

I died reading that comment :')

[@drakeweddner]

Truth S33ker i cant

[@feetthong624]

Truth S33ker I lost my last island to a hurricane

[@readein]

power to him. you wont be laughing when he majestically flies his tornado island across the sea

[@elizabethbennet4791]

beast mode activated

[@santinofasulo4292]

One mans trash is another's treasure

[@BigCatchGaming]

*Island

[@SoNiKSh0t]

Treasure island

[@heru-deshet359]

Trashure Island.

[@Planetugm]

Heru- deshet lmfao..... the best reply

[@albertawheat6832]

" One mans trash...Is another mans Island."

[@scorpionblade4112]

Hippie skill unlocked: SCIENCE

[@leifcian4288]

Yeah... he already had one destroyed, so I'm sure the limitations are already clear enough... Lol ''Revenge'' for what? Being a lot more resourceful than the vast majority of people who just throw stuff away without a second thought?

[@nealbeard1]

@Petrazenka what motives you to be a twat?

[@holyn8]

acid

[@doczirebeka8312]

*Senku likes you.*

[@modz3418]

Dude has his own freaking island!!

[@saimoninuku6032]

PopularMods 1 Yeah Dude....Daaang.!

[@charredskeleton]

That he built!!

[@killervirus57]

Yea, until gov comes in and breaks it up because "it isn't safe". Like LA did with those homeless $1200 little houses.

[@mrsleep0000]

@@killervirus57 Lol, it isnt safe, built by an artist...the fuck does an artist know about construction? It's made out of garbage, a small fire would tear that place up in a few minutes. There's a reason he built it in Mexico and not someplace the enforces building codes.

[@SnapTrack111]

@@mrsleep0000 And theres a reason USA turns to shit. Freedom my Ass. And people like you are the reason.

[@faze4968]

He seems so happy

[@cerebral3591]

Wave power passive AC is brilliant. Also, he's not wrong about the artificial tornado. The idea has been around for a few years and was called Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE). They would use the convection to drive a wind turbine generator.

[@cerebral3591]

@Aron Speedy Yeah... doubtful on the flying part. A thunderstorm able to make even a weak tornado able to lift a house requires more energy than a nuclear bomb. Moving a wind turbine would be on the order of a small dust devil, which is feasible. To make a large tornado artificially would be near impossible, much less controlling it.

[@robertdevito5001]

I actually though he was planning on a wind turbine right up until he said fly the island... At which point I lost it

[@ambersykora352]

Also, hurricanes create gold as an after effect. Just a tid bit. A brilliant man once went on shark tank, and proved it's possible. They laughed at him it was too expensive....and couldn't be regulated enough to ensure a return. I don't believe it though. How the duck else did all the gold in the world turn up and continues to turn up....crazy past weather storms for hundreds of millions of years

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@cerebral3591 check out darpa Geoenginering weather modification and haarp facilities

[@JohnPritzlaff]

​​@@cerebral3591the plastic reservoirs underneath the island must simply be filled with a lifting gas and the reservoirs must come to points where they meet the ocean's surface with very little friction as a spiral shaped heptamaran or pentamaran. Light potting soil type amendments, or even hydroponic or aeroponic type mediums must be used as much as possible to save weight, etc.

[@aubreylee2360]

this man is so lovable and pure omg my heart

[@lesliebouchard6496]

hahhahahahahahaahhahahahahahhahahahaaa !.... that's also what i thought until i saw the pedo logo going !

[@aubreylee2360]

@@lesliebouchard6496 wait what? I missed it.

[@Neilukuk]

@@lesliebouchard6496 Please explain what you mean?

[@lesliebouchard6496]

@@Neilukuk check at 4;05... clear as day

[@lesliebouchard6496]

think about it.....away from glaring eyes.... now i can't unsee this, it bothers me

[@mimib7970]

this guy is just freakin delightful

[@mimib7970]

he uses physics when hes talkin about moving the island but isnt obsessed with seperating it from nature like this modern industrial world does all the time, yay

[@creativeplanetjanet]

My thoughts exactly!

[@michaeldob9526]

+Mimi B, he seemed somewhat knowledgeable.

[@jmbalash]

dreamers make social and scientific breakthroughs. Tesla was laughed at mocked and said to be crazy. Well we live in a Tesla world today. We may end up on the ocean like this, to avoid future problems.

[@suelacey3253]

He is totally delightful

[@tomkelly8827]

This guy is a mad man. A good kind of mad. His little song at the end is the best!

[@osmanyousaf7866]

So did he manage to score the chick that night or no?

[@osmanyousaf7866]

starquant wow, always one uneducated illiterate coward who can't but vomit his ill-manners hidden behind the anonymity of the net.

[@osmanyousaf7866]

starquant Actually.... NO. There are clearly huge degrees of differentiation between my comments and yours! In fact, I wonder why your previous comment is deleted?! Now take a deep breath and relax before you have an heart attack! I would also appreciate if you take it easy on the insults. They serve you no good, only displays in public your obnoxious character.

[@osmanyousaf7866]

starquant I got no problem in displaying such jokes in public. Now you do the same and display your behaviour, and you would probably swallow a punch at a glance, and you know it!

[@osmanyousaf7866]

starquant Good, cause I'm not interested in prolonging what ever this is with you either.... pervert!

[@sparespade8050]

As amusing and silly as this was to read, i hope you realise how far you two are getting in this arguement of yours. Nowhere. You're making a mountian out of a mole hill and throwing insults at eachother from a comment that, if it insulted you, could have been easily ignored. Now stop fighting like little kids and shake hands. :)

[@noone-sl5cd]

think about it.. no spiders.. no centipede.. just.. 100% no bugs!!

[@EmperorDionx]

a big ass snake might slither onboard though

[@alexbacon137]

Nuub Troll must be a big ass fish

[@TheTrojanMaker]

you would actually need bugs to make the island stronger, they fertilize the earth

[@anthonysanders6654]

Alex R. you fertilize the earth

[@ROADHouse702]

Alexbacon 😂😂😂😂😂

[@qasw287]

this guy is so smart, it makes me happy just listening to him speak

[@sherimorgan7107]

I really like this man. He has so much really cool information in his head. I would love to spend a month hanging out with him just learning and soaking up knowledge. He's great!

[@grahamwood156]

love it he is full of life

[@brandonsmomhorn7322]

+Graham Wood Yeah I like that too.

[@grahamwood156]

Yes his a good man with a good heart i think

[@Ocodo]

+Graham Wood He is probably on acid, you feel exactly like that on lsd.

[@grahamwood156]

Some people are very passionate about life

[@rachyrack]

i think hes just high on life

[@patman0250]

he lost me at fly the island

[@vanessapeart5746]

me too. lol.

[@zurue99]

+patman0250 lmao i saw this right before I heard it. damnit

[@striveforselflessness3220]

+patman0250 I suggest to rethink. Not the flying bit but rather judgement in whole. He is after all human and not perfect. Much of the rest of his ideas and accomplishments are fantastic so why so quick to get "lost"? Had this island not existed and he made claims to fabricate it with plastic bottles would you have been so quick to dispel that idea as well? Most people probably would have, yet he did it despite the doubt. Have patience. Not all ideas come to fruition, and that's ok. I think it should never stop us from dreaming. Dream big! Be well.

[@striveforselflessness3220]

+patman0250 I suggest to rethink. Not the flying bit but rather judgement in whole. He is after all human and not perfect. Much of the rest of his ideas and accomplishments are fantastic so why so quick to get "lost"? Had this island not existed and he made claims to fabricate it with plastic bottles would you have been so quick to dispel that idea as well? Most people probably would have, yet he did it despite the doubt. Have patience. Not all ideas come to fruition, and that's ok. I think it should never stop us from dreaming. Dream big! Be well.

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

+patman0250 he lost me at tornado from light...

[@marich91]

I don't know what's more amazing : that this island has its very name on Google Earth or that it's still floating and working well in 2017 :') Actually, doing this in a very, very broad scale could help both reduce plastic waste (until we find a way to simply recycle or replace plastic) and also lower water temperature by reducing its exposition to the sunbeams. 100% ecological, yay!

[@richartsowa9461]

Richart Sowa here,,,, right on thank you,,,

[@gurumac8992]

..or maybe manufacturers should be orientated to using hemp, instead of oil..!? I know its crazy hippie talk, yet I'd rather a sustainable eco-friendly option than current systems of environmental pollution & destruction!!

[@vincevegacustoms8860]

Exactly!!!

[@vincevegacustoms8860]

Bob its never crazy hippie talk. Whe need to deal with what we have made.this is the best way to accomplish it,why burn or dump it when you can use it for greater cause.he creates land from nothing while others get screwed their whole life.the queen wont be happy.if i was him i would send a card to her with my ass standing on MY land hahaha I would also love to join this guy and build a freaking country. Its possible!diy land fuck the queen!

[@musicbox2466]

Bob no, that is a bad idea because any kind of fuel still kills the planet. it is also stupid to do so much work to power technology if we can use the wind, the sun and the water combined with gravity. you can make biodiesel out of any biomass, it does not have to be hemp. but, the governments are about to invade rivers and the sea to strip the bottoms off of life and plant algae to feed them with gmo corn and then harvest them to make fuel.

[@MrBiggins9999]

He has such an interesting life. I'm jealous.

[@bellabryce8324]

Retrova ☹️ Want a free book? That might make you smile! ☺️👧🏼

[@spiritualwarrior864]

it look like crap the island

[@elizabethbennet4791]

don't be jealous- get interesting :D

[@springranch1384]

Spiritual Warrior Hey Troll, STFU.

[@necatisen9149]

Dragonetta o

[@rodrigueznuke8247]

I don't know what to say about this man. He is a genius, multi-talented and a brilliant engineer. This man got a lot of fantastic ideas. He made his own private island out of trash🤔. Like it... 👍

[@camedelic1365]

Eventually we'll have those flying islands!! 🙏🏻

[@estherlontoc5471]

Wow! How I wish I can make a small floating island like this, just 100 square meters of it in a fishpond lake... Thanks for sharing this to the world. Love it!!!

[@seatails223]

mad singing skills

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+Robert lenzy if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M

[@tedphillips1977]

+Rose Robin ---look, our oceans are full of plastics. at least somebody is doing something with it. Hell, I think it's great.

[@denispahor3634]

Flying islands,enough for me

[@kesolling942]

Robert lenzy

[@user-hb3ru8ul3r]

AwesomeCrabman 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MageTezzos]

This guy is a modern day da vinci, with all his crazy experiments a flying island! only a da vinci would think of something so marvelous. Mad scientists aren't considered mad in the future, they will be considered smart before their time, this man belongs in the future. Hopefully one day he will inspire generations to come.

[@Victor-tl4dk]

He's doing what he likes, and isn't hurting anyone. and he is tying up plastic in the process.

[@yodad7925]

This guy is a genius

[@darrendavenport3334]

He is not only a genius he is also very smart .....

[@sunnybigmc90]

I was totally gonna say the same thing

[@callummacdonald2389]

Who else can say “that’s how I lost my last island” 😃

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

ikr!

[@utetrahemicon]

Or would say... "You could even fly the island like that".

[@tobo26]

But will it be safe from a sharknado?

[@altair1983]

nah.. as long as Ian Ziering is with you, you'll be fine.

[@henryphelps3590]

Richard Sowa loving gratitude for the beautiful alkaline environment you create !!! Your mind's eye truly creates with loving freeing Beauty !!! Heavenly loving genius !!!

[@ricksmith4201]

He didn't just say he could fly that island, did he?

[@dunhillsupramk3]

ROFL..... he did...

[@vinceevan1079]

too much Rum Mate

[@vinceevan1079]

You gota becarful... ye wana come down again.

[@vulvatronic]

Rick Smith flying islands are the future, dah. like the new automobile, ipad and aeroplane. thats only obvious when you realize it.

[@2salzig2spucknapp]

Rick Smith i think he is a bit crazy

[@shawntco]

This dude is my favorite type of crazy person: the kind who is frickin smart and knows how to express himself in a coherent way. :D

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+youssarian91 if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M

[@rf-bh3fh]

Goodness is all I hear 👂. A very wealthy man. Kindness, life and all he needs.

[@jasonmgavitt2357]

This dude deserves some kind of award for doing this.

[@RailGunsDayZ]

You don't hear " that's how I lost my island" everyday

[@fishhuntadventure]

NOAH MATTO nor do you hear, “that’s how I lost my mind,” either

[@expressrobkill]

um actually homeless people say that all the time.

[@thequestion6883]

Is anybody wondering what will happen to the island if a storm came

[@Adam-tu1in]

maybe he uses solar energy

[@tbestig4164]

Elite Chinese Learning Channel It's all in the video. He has a 'toilet' that he puts leaves in to help it not smell, he uses solar panels for electricity, and probably an electric pump for his power.

[@fgbae8220]

it actually got destroyed by storms a while ago lol

[@fletch9413]

i hate it when you lose your island to a hurricane.

[@nwgoku2011]

Marco I hate when people don't give their trash to you.

[@PuerinTheHunter]

There is a dude in Rio who did similarly and parked his 1980s Chevy Opala on it and installed a pool. The island was floating on top of very dirty polluted waters and he built it from the trash that was floating on it.

[@timfriend2263]

thats one crazy genius

[@dunhillsupramk3]

well he got the crazy part down, i'm not to sure about the rest

[@timfriend2263]

he has done well dont you think? not sure if his air con idea will work though, that sounds dodgy

[@dunhillsupramk3]

tim friend oh that is the part that sounds dodgy to you? didn't you hear the part where he plans to fly the island using a hurricane???

[@timfriend2263]

no that sounds lagit to me. you could probably lasso some flying unicorns aswell for extra power

[@dunhillsupramk3]

tim friend lol... hey maybe he can use unicorn farts to power the ac... the funny part is that i think this guy is on kickstarter to build a bigger island, and people actually give him money

[@SunnieDae1]

Brilliant original thinker...he thinks outside the box..what a lovely chap..need more like him. :)x

[@Rocky1765]

He is hardly ORIGINAL. media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/3a/ee/1b3aee61b822af79bc005a5ecbf03727.jpg america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2013/10/29/a-dream-of-floatingislands/_jcr_content/mainpar/imageslideshow/slideShowImages/slide6/image.adapt.960.high.jpg cdn1.practicalaction.org/2/0/4d7f7a20-d794-4646-a2e4-3d2f1661b3dc.WyI2MDB4NjAwIiwic2NhbGUiXQ.jpg Finally, I can still recall from World History that the Aztecs had their own version of floating farms. So, once again, hardly ORIGINAL. =)

[@krisandracole9246]

I love to see people trying to make a real difference. This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

[@unclephil4112]

Love takes years to build communities, hate can destroy them in hours.

[@BiohazardProductions]

Yes, hate is superior.

[@MastaSmack]

Damn, Bio beat me too it.

[@phantom-xb6wv]

Love destroys empires, hate builds and retains them.

[@goxoom6116]

@@BiohazardProductions it sounds like that ,but the result is the opposite

[@haroldweber49]

its easier to knock down the jenga blocks then to stack it up, something a child can understand i hope?

[@idgaf3231]

Everyone thinks he's crazy about his floating island idea. But 2 years ago if he told you he was going to make an island out of plastic you would think he's crazy.

[@tenkuken7168]

Idgaf i would give him money if he do kickstarter i want one :3

[@dudester1016]

that is the single most impressive man-made structure i have ever seen

[@tamumongillo45]

Crazy genius just solved the problem for pollution,homeless. I'm wondering why are government allows plastic to still be made when we have more than enough to recycle

[@Learning342]

We don't have a better alternative , if they find one ,they won't...

[@roachdoggjr45]

Yo, stuff is controlled by big companies. They have a say you dont. Many solar and nuclear power companies have been slandered by the fossil fuel and coal companies. Because ibviously, they don’t want to lose their job- or power. If that is what you meant then cool. Either way don’t sound so mean, it dosent help.

[@wendygoerl9162]

The problem is it costs so much to recycle. Mainly because there's so much labor involved in sorting out the different types of plastic. For example, you 2-liter soda bottle is #1, its cap is #2, and the cap might have an insert of who-knows-what. Or toothbrushes: the bristles are nylon and the rest of the brush isn't. Then you have filmy stuff like bags (and maybe bottled water, those things keep getting thinner), which can only be processed by specialized machinery, regular equipment gets gummed up trying to handle it. I've always thought a great way to deal with old plastic is to let steamships burn them for fuel. They could take them unsorted--even uncleaned--and they're big enough to spare the space for a bulky fuel. But thanks to all the "carbon footprint" yammering of the climate-change Chicken Littles, most of the remaining steamships are getting converted to diesel.

[@kingjtv292]

Tamu Mongillo i just expired my iinternet. i didn't see it. but when i read the comment, I now understand. what the cause of hes death??

[@Southpaw128]

this guy is the best kind of crazy! haha i love it

[@aziz9488]

He has art in his name, RichART ...

[@SoulDelSol]

mohamed aziz knani he has word ick in his name too, dICK ...

[@goovinmc5966]

Dan Sullivan its ich

[@SoulDelSol]

Dick is abbreviated form of name Richard

[@TheMrMinish]

RICH-ART

[@jetjorge1394]

Minish and

[@mylifeanime1199]

50 years later this island will appear from space :D

[@hakantacrafter813]

if you are wondering whether this guy is intelligent or crazy, he is definitely intelligent all the things he talked about are based on real science and would work. the information is known by many who understand science and physics like weather and how things react to each other, it is not new theories it is just science and ecological ways of living all put together for an whole island rather then just a house. but the fact he knows this science and physics tells me that he must have had some science/physics knowledge before starting and unfortunately most people do not, so i think he is pretty intelligent. the fact he is doing something different is not crazy most people blindly follow the norm because they think they should...maybe letting others ideas of normalisation control your whole life, which you only get one of is crazy. think about it you could have this man who never wears pink his whole life because some nobody years ago who is so unimportant there are even no records of them, decides pink is only for girls and why there is no reason people just let others control their lives, that is the real craziness.

[@HungryArtistTV420]

Actually you're wrong, like other in the comment section, you immediately decide that this man is a genius because he did something that looks aestheticly pleasing, however this is the dumbest thing you can do to our ocean. He is not a genius, he did not solved mankind's problem for a sustainable development, and he's definitely not making huge leaps forward in to our future...... you're completely wrong. What is sustainable about having a house made of "PLASTIC" and "Garbage". Did you guys not go to school? Garbage in our ocean is not sustainable, but in fact destroys our environment, the worst being PLASTIC! It slowly disintegrates in to microscopic pieces of plastic, which fish then eat/breath/absorb and it is one of the worst problems we have with our ocean right now. You do not want plastic in our water guys!!!! How is everyone so blind? Yeah it looked cool..... Don't be fooled by the visual aesthetics, this place is horrible for the environment and everyone who thinks this is a "Genius" idea, is either blind, ignorant, voted for Trump, or perhaps all of the above. Open Your Eyes people!

[@brianpeck4035]

I sailed with two german brothers in the 90s on The Eco Raft: a boat built of garbage The Kon Kreaky made of tires stuffed with 2 liter bottles. In the end (few years later) this 70'x30' raft was abandoned after getting waterlogged and grounding in the shallows and became a big cleanup issue for others. Flying island powered by a tornado is on the crazy side but his other ideas like electricity generation and power from the waves are true. I don't know about steering with the sails, I think a rudder is needed. Very cool, not very clean but I'm not pointing fingers.

[@Erik-lq4eo]

@@HungryArtistTV420 well yeah the only problem would be if the plastic is in direct contact with the water, I didn't hear him say if it was. I think he is definitely smart, but some of his ideas are just crazy, like the flying island part.

[@Erik-lq4eo]

@@meyou-ek9ek eh,80% right.

[@Erik-lq4eo]

@@brianpeck4035 now that's about 100% right.

[@PrinceZiim]

now make me an island out of balloons so I can fly around n sht

[@razerlazer1878]

Freddy Cunningham you would last like a few hours then you would come back down

[@blakecampbell6386]

Freddy Cunningham just like up!

[@MelodyLiuJade]

Freddy Cunningham Just get a blimp.

[@tibion5122]

At least he looks happy, harmless with great attitude. Never mind his crazy. Adore him instead :)

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+Ti Bion if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M

[@saraw5942]

Oh my, I thought he was the greatest inventor ever, then he sang and now I think he is the greatest singer ever. I am in LOVE with this man!!!!!

[@sharonash2441]

I think he's great if everyone thought this way the world a better place

[@COREYEIB1969]

+Wax Mop while you type away on a computer interface. ... "I would like to see the downfall of industrialization" he says on his comment SMFH!

[@8enzloc]

+Sharona Handal to change the world we have to change oneself it wont be easy but one step at a time take controle of yourself and think the way yu want to dont allow emotion/desires to con_trole you

[@tedphillips1977]

dito that

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+Sharona Handal if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M

[@RoseJayLloydRobin]

+8enzloc if you enjoyed that plastic pollution awareness video check out this one in Sri Lanka kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKXMnqCgd7Rgj7M