Cloud Dongs

George Grey Barnard's Pennsylvania Capitol sculpture groups

In August 2023, my cousin Tim and his fiancee Bonnie were getting married in Lancaster. As #7 and I made our travel plans, we realized that even though she has spent a large chunk of her adult life in Pennsylvania she had never visited many of its most famous historic sites. We decided to make […]

Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 14

Tags: art Chicago, IL crime France George Gray Barnard Harrisburg, PA Illinois Iowa Joseph Miller Huston Pennsylvania Presented by #13 sculpture

Published: November 11, 2024

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

In which #7 and #13 go up to Michigan to see the Dymaxion House.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Supplement

Tags: architecture Dearborn, MI Dymaxion House field trip Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village R. Buckminster Fuller

Published: April 8, 2024

Fuller Houses

R. Buckminster Fuller and his various Dymaxion Houses

It was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind... so why aren't you living in one right now?

Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 13

Tags: architecture Dearborn, MI Dymaxion House Presented by #13 R. Buckminster Fuller World War I World War II

Published: March 25, 2024

The White City

an interview with Michael Finney of the Chicago 1893 Project

We're talking with Michael Finney about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, what it meant to the city and the nation, and resurrecting it augmented reality.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 10

Tags: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition Chicago, IL

Published: May 2, 2022