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Bucky at the Whitney
Frank Castiglione -
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 6:24pm
Buckminster Fuller | dymaxion | sculpture stand At the Whitney is an exhibition called "Buckminster Fuller:Starting With The Universe". I can't attend but in honor of Bucky I made a stand to exhibit one of my sculptures based on a Dymaxion(cubo-octahedron), an octahedron, and of course a tetrahedron. The base is a portion of the dymaxion, next are two octahedron, and finally a tetrahedron.It is constructed using 3/8" and 1/2" re-rod and a pipe on top to accept the sculpture.  Bucky
Frank Castiglione -
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 5:23pm
I had the honor to see Bucky at Wayne State University almost forty years ago and listened to him when he spoke at Northern Michigan University. His books are difficult to read as he invents words often, but worth the exploration;quite the visionary. » reply  bucky
R L Sidebottom -
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 9:02am
Very cool idea. Original and commemorative and the same time. Rick Sidebottom » reply Synergistic Man
Frank Castiglione -
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 5:25pm
Hi Rick, » reply  My exposure to Buckminster
Fred Zweig -
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 8:37pm
My exposure to Buckminster Fuller came from many sources including a lecture of his I attended in the '70s at the University of Arizona. I first heard of him from the college courses in Architecture and later from classes I took with Hazel Larsen Archer who attended Black Mountain College with Bucky. Hazel was an incredible photographer and visionary. A great many influential artists and teachers attended Black Mountain College. Fuller was one of many who have influenced my generation. Fred Fred Zweig » reply |
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R. Buckminster Fuller was Artist in Residence at the Science Center of the University of Pennsylvania back in the 1970's. We worked on his last exhibit at the Cooper Hewett Museum at 91st and Fifth Avenues in NYC. For a guy who was expelled twice from Harvard, he sure went a long way into our future.
He was a friend of Eugene O'Neill, Isamu Noguchi, Constantin Brancusi, Pietro Pezzati and Janek Bochenek. He also designed the Buckminster Ball, which is the geodesic soccar ball we have all come to love, in 1970.
When he died, he left 80 meters (270 feet) of journals.
http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/about.jsp
Nic East, Jim Thorpe, PA USA
Creativity begins with a novel thought.