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When I went to the “Based on a True Story” show on Nov. 19th, Thursday night, I “synergise”with one of the artist, Dan Bina. When I was telling him about my synergy project, he mentioned Buckminster Fuller–he invented the word SYNERGY. Dan also recommended me to read Fuller’s book–Critical Path, which I will definitely get my hands on as soon as possible. Then I went home and researched about Fuller, he blowed my mind completely, he IS the father of synergy. and here are some of his work. I especially love the next two images, because it’s so graphic design(duh). And I think he is a smart and pretty interesting person, look at his portrait at the end.

當我在11/19號去了一個在布魯克林區威廉斯堡的新一代artist的聯合展、一位也有出展的藝術家Dan Bina跟我產生共和作用了！！！當我在跟他解釋這個部落格時、他跟我提起ＳＹＮＥＲＧＹ—共合作用這個字的祖師爺發明家—Buckminster Fuller（就叫他福樂吧）。Dan還介紹我去讀福樂當年寫的一本書、我當然馬上就去尋找他。回家後搜尋有關他的資料、真是快震驚死我了、他果然是共合作用的老爸祖師爺。這篇放了一些他當年的作品。我特別喜歡下兩張、因為超graphic的嘛！（廢話）看到他的寫真、我覺得他應該是一個相當聰明的幽默大叔呢！

Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Buckminster Fuller had one of the most fascinating and original minds of his century. Born in 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts, he was the latest–if not the last–of the New England Transcendentalists. Like the transcendentalists, Fuller rejected the established religious and political notions of the past and adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on the essential unity of the natural world and the use of experiment and intuition as a means of understanding it. But, departing from the pattern of his New England predecessors, he proposed that only an understanding of technology in the deepest sense would afford humans a proper guide to individual conduct and the eventual salvation of society.

I know soon I will produce an complicated system like his (though I don’t have his math skill, but any who).

福樂爸爸可不簡單啊！他生於美國麻州同時是位建築師、作家、設計師、發明家、未來的夢想家（噗、超酷）。他發展過許多新發明、大多數是建築方面的設計。最有名的是「大地測量球」。他拒絕使用宗教跟政治的觀點來同化世界、最根本的做法應該是了解大自然。而不同於其他同時期的學者、他認為深入的了解科技的功能才能指引人的品行和社會的救贖。

他的作品是經過精細的數學公式而算出一些有關物理的神奇複雜的東東（太複雜了啦！）。

images sources: http://cmuarch2013.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/mos-lecture-notes/, google images, http://www.artnet.com/artwork, vxm.com