Brett Land

This video follows Michele Klimczak, one of the 250 year-round residents of Fishers Island on the easternmost tip of New York State. The beaches of the tiny island are regularly inundated with plastic trash, much of which comes from New York City. Klimczak cleans the beaches--her full time job and passion--removing as much as 25,000 pounds of plastic each year.

In Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing, Riley gleans discarded single use and household plastic items from two New York City beaches (Gerritsen and Plumb Beach) and fashions the trash into DIY fishing lures he then uses to catch fish. Riley presents his experimentation and field research in the genre of popular YouTube fishing tutorial. Within these actualizations of hyper masculine tropes and bucolic imaginings amateur videographers often interweave subtle product endorsements and have gained mass appeal for their calming slow pace.

In Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing, Riley gleans discarded single use and household plastic items from two New York City beaches (Gerritsen and Plumb Beach) and fashions the trash into DIY fishing lures he then uses to catch fish. Riley presents his experimentation and field research in the genre of popular YouTube fishing tutorial. Within these actualizations of hyper masculine tropes and bucolic imaginings amateur videographers often interweave subtle product endorsements and have gained mass appeal for their calming slow pace.