As Far As I Can Tell

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.