Wednesday, December 9, 2009

YOUTUBE WORD "Fuller"

For research purposes, I happily made my way Youtube and started searching for "Buckminster Fuller." 554 hits, I've listed a few:
I also found Allegra on Youtube!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Did you know...

I came across on some very interesting facts about Bucky's only daughter, and grandchildren, and their accomplishments. Listen to this:

Fuller's daughter, Allegra, was professor of Dance and Dance Ethnology at UCLA and founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). She was a Core Consultant on the PBS series DANCING for WNET/Channel 13. Married Robert Snyder 'aka' Bob. and have two children, Alexandra and Jaime.

Bob, a filmmaker, received an Academy Award for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo and a nomination for The Hidden World. He also won awards on biographical films on Henry Miller, Pablo Casals, Anaïs Nin, Willem de Kooning, and Fuller.

Jaime Snyder also becomes co-founder of BFI, now Executive Committee Member and former Executive Director. His film projects include: Executive Producer for the PBS American Masters’ Special Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud; and Co-Director of the film Reflections: Buckminster Fuller. He resides with his wife, Cheryl, and daughter, Mira, on the West Coast.

Alexandra May, named after Bucky and Anna's first daughter who tragically died as a child, was the associate Director of the Isamu Noguchi Museum and Gardens--whom Fuller admired and befriended--and is a board member of World Game. She is married to Sam May, a stock analyst. She resides with her husband and two children, Olivia and Rowan, on the West Coast.

Documentation:
(1) http://www.bfi.org/the_buckminster_fuller_institute/bfi_board_of_directors
(2) "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium" by Thomas Zung

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Artist Background

Mulberry Tree, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, 1895-1983
Visionary. Designer. Philosopher. Inventor. Architect. It’s impossible to categorize Bucky Fuller. Born into a well-to-do New England family noted for raising up nonconformists, Fuller was expelled from Harvard on two different occasions, labored as a textile-mill mechanic, worked in the meat-packing industry, created the geodesic dome, and kept a diary from 1915 to his death in which he recorded a new entry every 15 minutes. Following his early adventures, by 1927 he found himself destitute in Chicago. He was tormented with guilt when his young daughter died from pneumonia, turning to alcohol for comfort and even considering suicide. On the very edge of life, he was struck with a sudden idea: he would embark on an “experiment” to discover what difference he, a self-described average individual, could make in the world. While Fuller was a visionary who dreamed of a utopian “Spaceship Earth” (a phrase he invented), he was also a materialist. He understood the world as a finite place with limited resources. It was up to human ingenuity, he believed, to find more sustainable ways of living. His particular genius is the way he was able to blend his visionary ideas with the manipulation of the material world. In his moveable sculpture “Jitterbug,” (above) we see the playful side of Fuller. With its whimsy and sparkling, silver surface, it communicates the optimism-meets-imagination sensibility that is, perhaps, Fuller’s greatest legacy.