Recent Posts Tagged With 'visionaries'

• The Speech

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 18:43 in obama, visionaries, the annals of protest

  Leaders lead from the podium. Those who say otherwise do not understand how leadership works. Regardless of you political stripes, few dispute that somewhere along the path of the last eight years George W. Bush stopped leading the country, primarily...

• Bill Buckley and Gore Vidal

  Posted on Sunday August 31st, 2008 at 22:12 in gore vidal, visionaries, william f buckley

  Bill Peshel's site reminds us of a the 1968 mud wrestling match between Bill Buckley and Gore Vidal. Since along with Jean Shepherd, WFB is one of my earliest media influences, I throw my two cents in the ring: "Regardless of how one feels about his...

• MoMA goes ready to wear with Pre-Fab houses

  Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 16:09 in architecture, disney, Around Town, suv, frank lloyd wright, expo, epcot, new urbanism, moma, buckminster fuller, airstream, visionaries

  Why don’t prefabricated houses seem to work? Architects from Wright to Gropius, and inventors such as Edison and Fuller couldn't make them work. Even with all this visionary genius, prefabricated dwellings have been an oddity in the modern world a...

• A journler of mythic proportions

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 19:13 in structures, visionaries

  Bucky had Journals, so do I......

• In the future there are no right angles!

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 16:00 in visionaries

  Have you ever noticed that all representations of the future have no ninety degree angles? Why is that?...