The story is told by a rutha zaa, who was later o become a famous artist. And she and fuller had aa, he was a mentor to her her whole life. He built this model, and there are really great photographs of this. So one day he decides they're going to go out and build a bigger one using the venetian blind materials. They were attaching them together. The next summer, when he came back, in 19 forty nine, that's exactly what they did. It's often referred to as the supine dome. Ad, the photos are incredible after this, theyre, they're on line.
In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.
Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules.
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Hilaritas Podcast
Host/Producer Mike Gathers
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller.