There I was rabbiting on about Dadaism and Nikola Tesla even got a tick in my opening blog. But I should have also recalled that Buckminster Fuller is another worthy name that should be added to the Scrubba Dub Dub big time influence list.
And with good reason too! Check out the wikipedia entry on the guy here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
How many other good folk have - Occupation: Visionary in their wiki entry.
I wonder how well that would go down in your CV? I'd certainly take that Arts course at uni...
But he was pretty amazing, an early environmentalist, a little loopy sure, but what great minds, sorry - how many "visionaries" don't have a little touch of the "eccentricities" as my mother would euphemistically put it.
SO what did ol' Bucky do, i hear you ask..well what didn't he do - and don't just get caught up on your humble old geodesic domes - although they do look pretty good sitting on your suburban roof, and guaranteed to have your local CIA informant knocking on your door trying desperately to get themselves invited to your children's birthday party.
For one thing, he was a major designer, of all kinds of things - I always liked his idea to make tough plastic moulded rooms that connected together as housing, were super cheap and completely fireproof. Then there was the entire communities based on recycling, and a whole world of new language.
Impossible to have the time to do this mans life any justice in a few hundred words, but I know i'm not the only one who has been completely inspired by his rather unusual approach to the universe...
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