Ephemerisle 2015
History: 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - Overview
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
Contents
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
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.
