Ephemerisle 2015

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2015 from above, Photo credit: Jamie Eddy

All houseboats available for rent in the delta (that we know of) were rented within hours of the dates being announced for this year.

Dates: July 20 - July 26.

Location: Mandeville Point

Islands

Bump Bed

A massive sound system and amazing lightshow (based around an entire floating art bus from Burning Man) plus a bunch of smaller boats rafted up with them.

Elysium Archipelago

Four "islands" connected by walkways.

Titan

5 houseboats and home of the dance and Memocracy platform. Where the party was at. Music going on until 5am.

Part of the Elysium Archipelago. Cost was $450/person for the week.

Captains: Simone Syed and Scott Norman.

Calypso

3 houseboats(?) and a BYOL platform.

Planning on joining the Archipelago. May have Island fees of about $75/person.

Talk to Scott Norman if you're interested in joining.

Explorers

Kid-friendly. 4-5 houseboats.

Planning on joining the Archipelago. May have Island fees of about $75/person.

Talk to Paul Grasshoff if you're interested in joining.

Whore Island

A bunch of sailboats. Name subject to possible change.

Planning on joining the Archipelago. May have Island fees of about $75/person.

Talk to Sean Faul if you're interested in joining.

Ithaka Island

A group of friends and friends of friends.

Oceanus

Oceanus bunked on the Robert Grey, a 1936 12-passenger + crew charter vessel 120ft long and 26ft across. Needless to say, there were about three times as many people on the ship at any given time.

There were also a couple of sailboats and other boats attached to the massive Robert Gray.

The Aurora was anchored at the now closed Herman & Helen's Marina, straight East of Mandeville tip.

Themasaurus

Dinosaurs

3 houseboats with a bit of a remote jungle atmosphere plus a floating tropical island and the Floating Delorean.

Theme Island

3 houseboats and 3 sailboats.

Art Projects

• Artemiid
• Chandy, Helen Laurie's Chandelier Boat
• The FairWeather art gallery
• Bump bed
• The Sanctuary
• Meditation platform
• Laura Salcido's cuddle place
• The DeLorean by Matthew Riese
• The walkways: Piano to the Sanctuary

Events

Captain Cookoff

The 2nd year of Adam's cooking competition.

Secret ingredient: ? Winner: ?

Blog posts and press

• What is a typical day like at Ephemerisle on Quora by Dan Dascalescu
• Priceonomics article on Ephemerisle 2009 and 2015

Videos

• Ephemerisle 2015 moments by Alton Sun
• Aerial footage from Elysium to Spinnaker by Justin Jernigan
• Ephemerislers howling at the sunset by Dan Dascalescu
• Night drone fly-by by Justin Jernigan
• Building with innertubes by Dan Dascalescu
• Weekend fly-by by Justin Jernigan
• Tour from the waterline by Matt Bell's RC boat

Pictures

• Brian Woody Woodard's pictures of the Robert Grey, the Aurora, Spinnaker, Ithaca and Elysium
• Casey Handmer's Picasa gallery - flying from SoCal to Ephemerisle and back. Has aerial pictures and photos of the build. No party pics.
• Ephemerisle from above - aerial pictures from multiple photographers
• Matt Bell's album on Flickr
• Dan Dascalescu's photos - build, night time (low quality phone camera), parties

Debrief

Future of Ephemerisle meeting happened at the Red Vic.