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Fuller Philosophy

I heart Bucky. I was turned onto him through the phenominal retrospective of his life's work put on by the Whitney last year. Here are some spinet's of info just on his philosophy, edited down from his large wiki page. Keep in mind this man was born in 1895:

Buckminster Fuller was an early environmental activist. He was very aware of the finite resources the planet has to offer, and promoted a principle that he termed "ephemeralization", which Fuller coined to mean "doing more with less". Resources and waste material from cruder products could be recycled into making more valuable products.

Buckminster Fuller was one of the first to explore principles of energy and material efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design, while considering the systemic world-overview.

He cited François de Chardenedes' opinion that petroleum, from the standpoint of its replacement cost out of our current energy "budget" had cost nature "over a million dollars" per U.S. gallon (US$300,000 per litre) to produce. From this point of view, its use as a transportation fuel by people commuting to work represents a huge net loss compared to their earnings.

Fuller was concerned about sustainability and about human survival under the existing socio-economic system, yet remained optimistic about humanity's future.

He defined wealth in terms of knowledge, as the "technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodate all growth needs of life,"

He was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of major recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had attained a critical level, such that competition for necessities was not necessary anymore.

He deduced cooperation had become the optimum survival strategy. "Selfishness," he declared, "is unnecessary and hence-forth unrationalizable.... War is obsolete."

Fuller also claimed that the natural analytic geometry of the universe was based on arrays of tetrahedra. He developed this in several ways, from the close-packing of spheres and the number of compressive or tensile members required to stabilize an object in space.

Fuller also introduced synergetics, a metaphoric language for communicating experiences using geometric concepts, long before the term synergy became popular.

In his 1970 book I Seem To Be a Verb, he wrote: "I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe."

folding

On 24 Sept 2009, a monumental sculpture from 3,615 pounds of second hand clothing was created by artist Derick Melander and many helping hands (including me!). The resulting piece was a 5 x 7 foot cube, carefully folded, stacked and arranged by color.

Why 3,615 pounds? That's the amount of textile waste created by New Yorkers every 5 minutes.

This event was hosted by the Council on Environment of New York City, was a part of the 5th Annual Green Brooklyn...Green City Fair and Symposium.

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understanding a Beatle

Abbey Road is a masterpiece. I find it to be at times layered in metaphor and allusions which I'm still unraveling really to no purpose, just for fun. I find when you've figured something out, or nail down an idea or interpretation, that action tends to kill the art and interest. I like the general idea of what Pollock said, when you look at a bed of flowers you don't go about analyzing what it all means. It just is. And is respected as is. They are flowers. They exist.
Don't nail it down, don't clip the wings, let good art fly about.

Back to the Beatles one recent thing I noticed about the last 3 tracks of Abbey Road: in relationships you wind up taking on another persons being. their dilemas, their habbits, their unawareness, their problems. Perhaps that's what Lennon meant by "boy you're gonna carry that weight, carry that weight a long time."



Other interpretations are also suitable, one being Lennon carrying the weight of the band when he and yoko break it. Another interpretation being as time went on the "weight" of the Beatles past would be carried by each member. Once again I'm not trying to figure it out, just having fun looking into it.

hee Jinroh & leon spilliaert

friends Neil Krug & model Joni Harbeck collaborate on PULP -new coffee table book

PULP - a collaboration between Neil Krug & model Joni Harbeck

Nagin

Why is Nagin my favorite Bollywood movie? The brilliance of this genre melding song explains it, where Indian drum beat- meets mariachi- meets 70's lounge trumpet- meets lazy Parisian accordion..

enter snake woman revenge story...

Tuttle

"If you’re going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That’s why it’s not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not- you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question."
- Richard Tuttle

Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work--one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture and design. From his spare yet enigmatic forms to his recent complex installations, Tuttle's primary impetus throughout has been to craft unique objects, using everyday, often ephemeral materials, that demand to be confronted on their own terms. This has earned him standing as one of the most provocative artists. A prolific artist, among his oeuvre his sensitive handling of diverse materials; his lifelong engagement with drawing and its expansion into three-dimensional space; his complex play with the conventions of language; and his innovative artist's books, many of which are collaborations with poets.

One too many Mornings, and a Thousand miles Behind

Bryan Kenny

Lawrence plays the FULL-COURT-PRESS

Malcolm Gladwell reveals worlds of strategy and approach in his books and lectures.
Below is a lecture that he gave at the New York Public Library. In this talk Gladwell oddly sites Lawrence of Arabia, oddly because I have recently finished reading the Outliers (by Gladwell) and watching Lawrence of Arabia.

watch it here:
http://www.nypl.org/support/multimedia/multimedia.cfm?vidid=9

the sword also means clean-ness + death

I walk away from viewing this masterpiece, knowing the power that the artist can wield. The history he can emboss with his fingertip.
I understand why this is WIDELY considered one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema. But what makes it even more impressionable is that I did not know until now that is was a true story.

My knowledge of WWI is growing with my own research, the catalyst of my interest was being introduced to Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder series. I have had no knowledge or teachings of Arab history and influence in WWI. Nor that Lawrence was a true man and his was a true story. After understanding what a pivitol force he been in shaping the formation of the Middle East and the beginings of Arab Nations, out of squabling tribes, I now endeavor to read T.E. Lawrewnce's auto-biographic account or memoirs otherwise known as "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom".

Lawrence was inspired by a rock formation that he saw during the Arab revolt of 1917–18, in Wadi Rum, Jordan. He named this rock formation "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom". In the end, Lawrence decided to use this evocative title for the memoirs he penned in the aftermath of the war.

In a line from a poem at the start of the book, Lawrence's explains the relevance of "seven pillars" biblical reference to the Arab Revolt:

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands

and wrote my will across the sky in stars

To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,

that your eyes might be shining for me

When I came.

Echeverria,simic,melanierodriguez,elanaherzog

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let it go-the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise-let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go-the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers-you just let them go they
were born
to go

let all go-the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things-let all go
dear
so comes love

now the heart only beats out of habit..... now it only beats because it could.

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