Epehemrisle is truly maturing.  I recently came back from our four-day floating-city-building adventure with a warm glow from new connections, new accomplishments, and the excitement of an ad-hoc community coming together and *working well*

Some thoughts in no particular order:

- I love the people who showed up.  The people really made the event.  We ( Read more... )

I put together a proposal for the NotEphemerisle city plan.  Urban planning is a lot of fun, especially when you can reconfigure your city in a matter of hours.


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The Floating Tilting Game Platform is a lot of fun.  It's also very good exercise.  In the only time we took video, Adam managed to quickly score one against me:

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Kate painted the game balls and made them look awesome:


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I'm not used to the idea of repeatedly harassing people who don't owe me money to pay me money.
Unfortunately, using Kickstarter in a closed group of Ephemerisle attendees means doing exactly that. :-)

In any case, I'm building this awesome giant tilting game platform that you should check out. 
If you're going to Ephemerisle and want to see it out ( Read more... )

We're working on a design for a shared community platform for Ephemerisle 2011.

The platform needs to be:
- Final size around 20x20ft
- Transportable in a compact way, with pieces that can be handled by a pair of people. 
- Assemblable piece by-piece while standing on the assembled portion. 
- Not a lot of work... anything we do at a single module ( Read more... )

Do you want to go to not-Ephemerisle 2011? We're starting to talk about dates and want to gauge interest. TSI will not be involved so it will be totally community-organized. If you'd like to go please comment on this post with preferred dates -- we've been considering May - July. May is off-peak so there's less competition for boats and people' ( Read more... )

Since my camera died mid-Ephemerisle I didn't get around taking nearly as many pictures as I liked.  I did go through other people's pictures and selected my favorites for placement online.  Then I left the folder on my desktop for a couple of months while I was distracted by other things.  They're now attached to the Not-Ephemerisle photoset on ( Read more... )

WIRED has a short writeup and slideshow about our adventures at not-Ephemerisle.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/libertarian-burning-man/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Fculture+%28Wired%3A+Culture%29

Also, I forget if I posted this earlier, but we're written up in Reason as well.

http://reason.com/archives/ ( Read more... )

The Koosh is now installed semi-permanently in the 140B conference room at HackerDojo, a software focused hackerspace in Mountain View. This is way better than having it hide in the darkness in some storage locker.

See how full it hangs in the air, unfettered by the pressures of hard objects and large bodies of water!


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Unfortunately, the camera that I took around the world for 5 months, my pocket-sized companion and documenter of adventures, died a couple of minutes before the launching of the giant koosh. It had taken close to 16,000 pictures.

So the only photos and videos I got of not-Ephemerisle were from the first day.  As other people upload more, I'll ( Read more... )