http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2620 Comments for "Visiting the Dymaxion Worlds" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2620 <p><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/a_pair_of_flying_slippers_phil_patton_reviews_the_buckminster_fuller_exhibition_at_the_whitney_10338.asp"><img src="http://www.core77.com/blog/images/buckyPAINTING.jpg" class="right"/></a>So many years later, and y'know, the jury is still scratching their heads over the man who called himself <i>Guinea Pig B</i> and guided his transformation through a simple self-query, "<i>If the fate of humanity depended on what I did, what would I do?</i>"</p> <p>Some still call him an expert midway barker and a master of self-promotion, they call him 'amateur', 'naive', 'dreamer', 'hoaxster' and 'charlatan' even, but there's one thing about the man Time called "<i>America's Friendly Genius</i>": For a nearly-blind man, he saw the world with incredible clarity, not only for what it was, but for what it <em>could</em>, for what could be done, starting now, and given only the small efforts of nearly-blind, nearly peniless, nearly alone and unknown personal failures such as himself.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2620#comments bringing back amerika Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:33:07 -0400 mrG 2620 at http://blog.teledyn.com