Buckminster Fuller Stamp

Certainly a post about a postage stamp won’t excite many of you, but come on — it’s Buckminster Fuller. After suffering through so many bad stamps with hearts and eagles the USPS has created a “commemorative postage stamp honoring the legendary American inventor, architect, engineer, designer, geometrician, cartographer and philosopher” [source]. The stamp came out on his 109th birthday and the artwork is from the January 10th, 1964 cover of Time Magazine.

I have to admit I’m a Bucky fan-boy. I have lots of his out of print books, I’ve read his biography, and I was pissed that I missed the one man play about his life when it came nearby. While he might have been a bit idealistic (a virtue I think), he always applied his radical engineering and design ideas to the betterment of society. Plus, he once gave a 42 hour (!) lecture entitled Everything I Know; I love that.

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# September 02, 2004 06:40 PM

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plus it’s a pretty fucking cool looking stamp! i’m going to get some NOW! …there’s nothing like a horn-rimmed space dome. e.

Posted by: e_prime on September 2, 2004 7:29 PM

Have you seen http://photo.stamps.com/ you can use your own photos and make real working approved stamps. Picture it, your face on a stamp. how wonderful.

Posted by: joel on September 3, 2004 9:16 AM

dude. that one man show ROCKED MY WORLD. we had to see it for one of my grad school classes. beautiful stuff.

Posted by: jim on September 4, 2004 10:28 AM

“Bucky fan-boy”!? Insane.

Posted by: Andrea on September 7, 2004 6:48 PM

Is it just me or does Buckminster’s head look like the evil overlord head from Tron? Once every few years the US postal service comes out with an interesting stamp series. For those years inbetween they kinda phone it in with (like you said) ducks, hearts, trains, and so on.

Posted by: Franta on September 15, 2004 12:11 PM

dude, you just got props on the cafe from jane hex. http://www.livejournal.com/users/janehex/126932.html

Posted by: jim on September 18, 2004 4:00 AM

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