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Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

To learn more about their work, visit:

beachplastic.com/
plasticforever.blogspot.com/

and to learn more about the Gyre:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Camera / Edit - Eric Slatkin ericslatkin.com
Producer - Tess Thackara

Gyre Footage Courtesy of Macdonald Productions

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  • Fantastic d' plastique ono band! Thanks All 4 of you. Genius. HERE is our vimeo if you have a trailer ~vimeo.com/gohff/videos
    Great job! Jane
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  • Short of the Week plus 6 months ago
    Really enjoyable! A great portrait of great artists. I really liked this one.
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    shortoftheweek.com/2011/08/18/one-plastic-beach/
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  • Tom-Daniel Laugerud plus 6 months ago
    Very good documentary ;) Important topic and some good shots. What did you use for the audio? Type of mic I mean.
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  • High Beam Media plus 6 months ago
    Hey Tom-

    Thanks for kind words!
    We used a pair of Senn's Evo g3's going into a Tascam. Pretty simple setup, but worked well (except for a few moments of wifi interference).
  • The Aggregate 1 month ago
    Unbelievable work on this video! We've got it live on our channel and site.

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  • High Beam Media plus 1 month ago
    thanks very much!
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  • Walter Fischer plus 1 month ago
    Yes, after few of seconds I registred the famouse sound of voices- Sennheiser-what else ;-)
    Nice story and good transformed.
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  • RealMarker plus 1 month ago
    Very sweet and inspiring people. Great film, done in a soft and natural way with nice musical touches. This is what Life is all about.
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  • Rebecca Brook 1 month ago
    Inspiring.
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  • VICTOR90001 1 month ago
    Like it!!!
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  • jesse hegney 1 month ago
    awesome..
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  • Telli Narcizo 1 month ago
    01:40 Info about sizes:
    Texas: 696,241 km2
    Brazil: 8,514,877 km2
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 1 month ago
    Not cleaning, but curating the beach. Interesting.
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  • Wood Sugars plus 1 month ago
    New appreciation for juice caps! Thanks for bringing us this story High Beam
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  • High Beam Media plus 1 month ago
    Thanks guys for all the nice words, and please check out Richard and Judith's work over at :

    beachplastic.com/

    Eric
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  • anthony evans 1 month ago
    I love this and think you guys are doing incredible work.
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  • Kyle Milligan 1 month ago
    A fresh way of bringing light to an important problem that (currently) only gets worse daily. Thank you!
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  • Yann LECOEUR plus 1 month ago
    The subject is very interesting but sorry to say that the sound is really terrible (left/right channels swapped, phase issues, ...). The interview should be in mono or else, this is really disturbing for the viewers and it really doesn't help to stay focus on the video itself.

    I hope I'm not too rough with this comment...
  • High Beam Media plus 1 month ago
    Hey Yann-

    Thanks for bringing this up, we're looking into the issue.

    Eric
  • RobertV 1 month ago
    I agree with Yann.
    Stereo splitting the voices causes confusion and it is something that annoys me on a personal level. Whenever out and about I use headphones, but often with only one ear for safety reasons. It's really annoying to only get one half of the conversation! If the vocals needed to be spilt, I'd do no more than 6dB split to ensure decent rendering in the other channel.

    The channel reversal is just bad and so obvious it should not have escaped mastering.

    Overall a really nice video, a well shot and edited story.
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  • Chuck Spidell 1 month ago
    Best way to upcycle found objects.
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  • Tomás Galindo 1 month ago
    I really loved it, "the opposite of beauty is not ugliness but indifference"... so wise.
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  • Luke Madden 1 month ago
    A very compelling and comprehensive piece. Great audio mixing (minus mono/stereo issues), great camera work, great subjects, great underlying message. With so many documentary pieces these days it's getting harder to make work stand out, which is what you have done here. Well done.
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  • Chaitanya Bist 1 month ago
    incredible stuff guys....keepUP.!!!!
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  • Wonderful
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  • Aaron Hazlewood 1 month ago
    Awesome! I've been doing the EXACT same thing in Ocean Beach SF since about 2004! I HATE CHEESE STICKS!!!! I heard about you guys recently from my g-friends mom...
    Concerning doll-babies and action figures: I have all the Right hands mostly, and I bet you got mostly lefts being on the other side of the bay! I would like to meet up with you guys sometime....!
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  • ANTIART 1 month ago
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  • This is so sweet and inspiring!
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