He was a natural sailor and sailed a lot, but also would row every day to go get the mail. His aunt bought three islands off the coast of maine in 19, i want to say, 19 o eight. And he would spend his summers there it's called bear island. The fuller family still have that island. He wore very thick glasses and couldn't see very well at all. All he saw without glasses, which he didn't get glasses until he was five, were large patterns. But when he was in kindergarten and building this of his teacher showed it around to a lot of people because it was very strong. That had a big impact on him, he always claimed,
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.