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No man is an island: British DIY Robinson Crusoe builds his own floating paradise off the coast of Mexico out of 150,000 recycled bottles – and finds a former model to share it with He spent the past seven years carefully constructing a floating eco-paradise - complete with a hot tub and Internet connection - out of 150,000 recycled bottles. But Richart Sowa, 61, started to feel the only thing missing from his idyllic life on Joyxee Island near Cancun, Mexico, was someone to share it with. The artist, originally from Middleborough, Yorkshire, met former model Jodi Bowlin, 47, from...

A search is under way for a giant inflatable 'floating island' that went missing from a music festival. 'Is Land' was a £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island which floated above the heads of revellers at the Secret Garden Party festival recently.

There's something unusual floating in the waters off Manhattan. Thirty-five years after it was first thought of -- artist Robert Smithson's ``Floating Island'' is a barge covered with soil, trees, shrubs and rocks, led by a tugboat. It will along the Hudson and East rivers beginning today. Smithson was one of the most significant artists of the 1960s, who was very interested in exploring nature and landscapes, and how they were constructed. He came up with ``Floating Island'' in 1970 and unsuccessfully tried to bring it to life. He died in 1973 at age 35 after a plane crash. For...