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:
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.
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
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.
With the permission of Master Black of
Black's Martial Arts, we utilized the gymnasium at the old Carbondale high school to tape together 12' wide strips of industrial plastic to create a 84' X 75' plastic sheet. We then hauled the plastic (weighing approximately 300 lbs.) to the FDH with the help of a trailer supplied by
Weatherford Design Group. We took a short lunch break and then proceeded to haul the plastic over the top of the dome and down the other side.
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).