Bucky in the news
Bucky and his ideas have been receiving a lot of coverage in the press lately. Here are just a few selections, with more to follow:

• Mother Earth News' coverage of the benefits of building a dome home.
• The International Herald Tribune's article on Bucky's inner life and the show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
• New York Times article on the Dymaxion car.
• New York Magazine's breakdown of the design features of the Dymaxion house.

--- posted by the webmistress on 7/11/2008 09:14:00 AM

Museum Quality
For those of you that live in or near New York City, there is an upcoming exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art that may be of interest. From 26 June to 21 September (2008), they'll be hosting an R. Buckminster Fuller exhibit. The exhibit is entitled Starting with the Universe. For a preview of the exhibit, the New Yorker has a slideshow.

At the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank in London is a slightly more...unusual exhibit, showing until 25 August. The exhibit is entitled Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture. One of Bucky's domes is featured in an exhibit by Tomas Saraceno in which a transparent PVC pillow is placed in the center of the dome. When you walk onto the pillow, it will appear to onlookers as though you're walking on air.
--- posted by the webmistress on 6/05/2008 08:10:00 PM

Fuller Dome Home YouTube page
Our intern from SIUC, Christopher McCastle, has created for us a "YouTube" page. Thanks Christopher! On the page youwill find a few options that Christopher has created for RBF Dome for use as Public Service Announcements (PSA) spots. Look for these videos on your television soon!

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/fullerdomehome
--- posted by Corny on 6/03/2008 02:52:00 PM

Temporary Dome Gets New Cover
On Saturday May 24, a group of volunteers including members of the Board of RBF Dome and a few local supporters met to create and install a new cover for the temporary dome that is protecting the Fuller Dome Home (FDH). When we first erected the temporary protective dome (TPD) we covered it with "5-year" greenhouse plastic. And it held up fairly well for 7 years. But recent storms have ripped the plastic covering leaving the FDH exposed to the exceptionally wet spring that is at hand here in Southern Illinois.


Thanks to those that participated: Mary O'Hara, Judy Ashby, Bill Perk, Brian Gorecki, Tom Redmond, Larry Weatherford and Cornelius Crane. Special thanks go out to Evan (who always comes to volunteer when we have large projects) and Christopher who documented the process with camera and video (look for more images in the photo gallery soon).
--- posted by Corny on 5/27/2008 02:00:00 PM