Entries Tagged as 'ephemerisle'

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Neo-ephemerisle

via flickr.com Neo-ephemerisle was awesome! I’ve uploaded some of the photos. Will upload more tomorrow. Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The Relentless ~ Artstead Boat Project — Kickstarter

via kickstarter.com “Crew members from the project “Swimming Cities of Serenissima” by the artist Swoon have teamed up with an all star crew of Bay Area artists to rescue a 1945 hand crafted houseboat from the dump. We plan to convert the boat into a mobile artstead in the ad-hoc style of San Francisco’s unique [...]

Monday, October 12th, 2009

“Seasteaders” Take First Step Toward Colonizing The Oceans

Declan MuCullagh wrote a a new article on CBS news regarding the Ephemerisle event, in which I’m quoted.   “The consensus is that next year we’ll do it again in the delta,” says Rasch, who helped to build the floating platform. “Some people, like me, were attracted to the political aspects. Other people were attracted [...]

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity

First mainstream coverage of Ephemerisle, via patrissimo: Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity This is Ephemerisle, the latest defiant undermining of the stereotype that California’s tech grotto has no artistic or real-world skills to call its own. The idea, when hatched, was as wobbly as the ferry: hold a festival on water, built [...]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ephemerisle ’09

I was pretty busy trying to keep the houseboat flotilla from floating away (Friday) and building the platform (Saturday), so I didn’t take many pictures until the Saturday feast. For many more pictures, video, and blog posts, see the Ephemerisle coverage page. Patri’s crew on the pirate pyramid

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Ephemerisle: We’re on a Floaty Thing, M***********s

I make a brief appearance: Ephemerisle: We’re on a Floaty Thing, Motherfuckers from Dav Yaginuma on Vimeo

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Thought dump following Ephemerisle ’09

I’m exhausted, but I wanted to get some thoughts down before I forget. Don’t expect much coherence.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Seasteading ’09 and Ephemerisle coming up

Via Patri: I’d like to remind everyone of our upcoming Second Annual Conference and First-Ever Ephemerisle Festival, where the far-flung seasteading community will gather in person to explore the theory and practice of seasteading. Second Annual Seasteading Conference People from from across the globe have registered to see esteemed speakers like TSI Funder and PayPal [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Ephemerisle scouting trip

The Seasteading Institute (TSI) is organizing Ephemerisle this October (think “Burning Man on the water”). The festival will be held on the Sacramento delta, as it’s protected water and already hosts raucous houseboat parties. In preparation, TSI organized a scouting trip to find a good location, and invited me to come along. Here’s some of [...]