Apocaisle
APOCAISLE
Our crew has a grand, healthy fascination with post-apocalyptic scenarios.
On the Radio
We're building Ephemerisle's first Really Pirate Radio station (we think).
Listen to our canonical music and philosophy manifesto radio show, broadcast on Pirate Cat Radio on Friday Sept 16, 2009. Here's the podcast: Psionic-20090919.mp3 (90MB / 2 hours)
Also, the popular Common Thread Radio show interviewed us: DiamondDave-20090911.mp3 (find Enki at the 1 hour mark)
On the Water
The Apocaisle will be composed of several modular floating platforms (see The Tatami Project below), the number of platforms depending on how many people we need to accommodate.
Apocaisle 2009: The Ongoing Photodocumentary
In the plans for 2009: a tiki bar that is mobile enough to sneak out to a lagoon in the afternoon with a few extra guests for a picnic, but stable enough for singing hopeful sea shanties of rebuilding civilization whilst consuming right piratey quantities of Ephemere Ale.
We're not sure what tiki bars have to do with post-apocalyptic scenarios per se, but our estimations indicate that elaborate cocktails would be nice to have after the apocalypse.
The Tatami Project
Our goal is to produce one or more Instructables for platforms that are highly reproducible and modular, such that highly stable floating islands could be constructed at any arbitrary size desired as a multiple of the smallest modular unit ...kinda like the way Japanese people use tatami mats to meter out their living space.
Design goals for these platforms revolve around maximizing reproducibility and minimizing costs.
- robust stability (moving a bit with the water) + a modicum of mobility (easily towable)
- "modular" building materials - stuff you can find in standard sizes at any hardware store
- least amount of cutting necessary
- least cost without sacrificing seaworthiness or ease of assembly
- most affordable / least obnoxious transportation requirements
In other words, by using our instructions, you should be able to build a robust wooden floating platform, accommodating 3-4 people each willing to spend maybe $30, which you could theoretically strap on the top of a standard small vehicle.
Construction of the first platform began under Chicken John's masterful tutelage on Sept 12, 2009, and took shape in the form of a bunch of scavenged stages lying unused at NIMBY.
Currently, we believe the cheapest 8x8 platform using all new materials can be built for about $100 (depending on local taxes, material availabilities, yadda yadda).
However, it's not necessarily easy to find barrels appropriate for these things. Other cheap, modular options are being explored (e.g. float-batteries made of strapped-together plastic bottles).
Apocaisle 2009: The Ongoing Photodocumentary
The Apocalypticos
- @nthmost (Naomi Most) --Nthmost
- @enkido (Paul Boehm)
- @david415 (David Staiton)
- @MrDomino (Steve Dee)
- Christie Dudley - here's her 5-minute talk on "Mutopic Sound or Hacking Distributed Noise"
- Agil Manizade
- Alvin
Please edit your info, put your favorite link up, and finish with a pointer to your wiki user page. Danke... --Nthmost 13:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
