Ephemerisle ‘09

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Original: craschworks - comments

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

The maiden voyage of Patri’s pirate pyramid.

Holley playing the cello on top of the houseboat as we approached Ephemerisle

L-R: Danielle, Patri, Debra, James, Reichart, and Dave. This was one of the rare times James and Patri had any downtime.

Patri and James

Chicken John is a force of nature. He was responsible for building the main platforms. “I’m not yelling at you, I’m yelling with you”

Chicken surveying his domain

Eelco

This guy built a two-story motorized couch boat

One of the couchboat riders. I didn’t get their names, but I think they were one of the Raygun Gothic Rocket builders.

One of Chicken’s friends (girlfriend?)

Laura working on the platform

Danger Ranger is a Burning Man legend, founder of the Black Rock Rangers, among many other things.

Genevra aka “Chef” cooked delicious chili for ~120 people.

On Sunday morning, someone started playing the unofficial Ephemerisle theme song, and everyone started dancing and singing on the roofs of the houseboats.

One of the Apocaisle folks. She (they?) created the first radio station at Ephemerisle.

Brian Doherty eats chili while listening to Ephemerisle radio.

These two are Stanford students making a documentary about Patri

Our medics, Duncan and ?. Fortunately, we didn’t need their services. They also worked really hard to build the platform.

Reichart

This guy was carrying around a film Hasselbad. I’m curious to see how his photos turn out.

The milk crate bridge turned into the milk crate ferry. This worked really well, and one of the 9 year olds really took charge of ferrying people back and forth.

The floating flowers were beautiful at night.

The Turtle, one of the art boats at Ephemerisle.

The Zorb was funny as hell to watch. Photo’s below courtesy of Liz Henry

Ada accepts her fate

Eelco attempting to stand upright

Matt Bell brought three different major art projects, all of them cool. His pictures turned out better than mine did, so I recommend checking them out. His epic light sabre battle with Holley across the Achievement Lounge is also worth watching.

Comments

[jhogan.livejournal.com]

I really like your picture because they capture people (great headshots!) so much better than most other event photos.

[jhogan.livejournal.com]

s/picture/pictures

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! People are my favorite subjects! :)

[madbard.livejournal.com]

How do you breathe in that hamster ball? Or, if there are airholes, how does it stay afloat?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

There's enough air inside the ball that you can exercise vigorously for many minutes. Shortly before you run out of oxygen, you get out. Hopefully.

[madbard.livejournal.com]

You're kidding, right?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm exaggerating how long it would take to use up the oxygen. Under normal circumstances, it would many hours before you would begin to run out of oxygen (or suffer CO2 poisoning). There's a discussion of the issue here. A typical ride lasts less than 20 minutes, as it is exhausting to try to move around for any length of time. Someone holds the rope tethered to the ball at all times, and everyone is given a folding knife to cut their way out if need be.

[madbard.livejournal.com]

Ah - that last part is what makes it sensible. (By which I mean, something I might consider doing. :)

[neoteny.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised there aren't vanes, ridges, or fins of some kind on the outside to make movement easier.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

I think part of fun, especially for the crowd, is watching the vain attempts of the rider to right him/herself.