has reported things don't appear to be going as they should be: The garbage collected by the device is drifting into sea instead of staying trapped. "Although we are not harvesting plastic yet, based on the current results, we are positive we are close to making it work," wrote Slat in anupdate “I don’t even care what the details of this thing is. That fund has to be fully compensated, fully reimbursed. I mean, this is absurd,” Representative King told theDaily News Ever wonder what it's like to party with celebrities? Look no further than their Instagrams and Snapchats, where celebs are already showing off theirholiday But it's actually a former classmate we should be thanking. "I was at USC in music school and this guy was sitting in on my songwriting class for a semester. It turned out he was from the band Phantom Planet," says the 23-year-old. "We started writing together with his ex-bandmate Sam Farrar—also from Phantom Planet—who was managed by Jordan Feldstein, Maroon 5's manager. We met, and then Jordan sent Adam one of my videos."