A Plastic Ocean

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Durability, stability and resistance from disintegration: those are the properties that make plastic one of the products with wider usage and utility for final consumer, the same properties that make plastic a frightful villain. Every year, around 100 million tons of plastic are produced and near 10% of this production ends on our Oceans.

The vortex seeing from above

In the Pacific Ocean there is a huge floating littler of plastic, that is already considered as the world’s larger concentration of garbage, with 1000 kilometers length, that goes from California coast and almost reaches the Japanese coast, and 10 meters depth. Scientists believe that this garbage vortex contains around 100 million tons of plastic from every kind: nets, bottles, balls, dolls, rubber toys, shoes, lighters, bags, kayaks or any kind of object that can be made out of plastic. People who discovered this enormous “plastic soup” is about twice bigger than the USA.

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The absolute truth in fairytales

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“The absolute truth in fairytales”, a two-weeks project for all disciplines in september 2008.

(Open call. Send now your proposals!)

.. some will tell their own fairytale in their own expressive way …. use the many symbolic characters and many symbols for today’s world … we can create a virtual circle of fairytales as a main theme …. every artist may want to choose a fairytale and theme him or herself ….

.. fairytales are for everyone, not only children, for example: Alice in wonderland is for everyone, every age. We read those fairytales for our children and have something for ourselves as well ….

.. a research to the truth in fairytales. everyone knows there is something true in them, but for everyone this truth has a diffferent form. to express this form ….