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Retro? Modern? Jacks-thingies..What IS IT???
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RenTiki
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07/09/2004
Aloha my friends! Pride and patience makes work an ART. [ Edited by: RenTiki on 2004-07-08 18:56 ] |
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FLOUNDERart
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07/09/2004
Could they be the bottom half (legs) of tables. Are thet level enough to set a round piece of glass on? |
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freddiefreelance
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07/09/2004
Perfect timing, just in time for the release of Bucky's stamp! These are Geodesic demonstrators to show how tension is more important than compression in Geodesic design. You can see that the whole design distorts when you press down on the bars, the tension increasing on the cables between the bars, then they spring back up when released. I believe that you can put a tempered glass table top on these, but they'll perform their demonstrator function if you put too much weight on'em. |
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docwoods
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07/09/2004
They look like those bar puzzles that make you crazy trying to figure out,and then someone smugly shows you how easy it is to solve and then you kick them in the shins. |
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RenTiki
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07/09/2004
:lol: |
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purple jade
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07/09/2004
Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodisic dome. |
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Johnny Dollar
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07/09/2004
without bucky fuller, what would the original hippies have lived in? put a few tikis in this baby! |
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FLOUNDERart
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07/09/2004
Has anyone else noticed that Johnny Dollar has a pic for everything! |
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Feelin Zombified
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07/09/2004
Interesting theory. There is only one way to test it. J$, any nude pics of Ernest Borgnine? -Z |
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Johnny Dollar
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07/09/2004
sorry, best i could do hope my pix don't bother you, i'm just a visual person :) |
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Feelin Zombified
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07/09/2004
We have a Weiner! I for one, being from the MTV generation, dig the visuals. Keep on keepin' on, J$. As for the original topic, you could always tell your friends that they are models of Mai Tai molecules. -Z [ Edited by: Feelin' Zombified on 2004-07-09 09:20 ] |
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freddiefreelance
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07/09/2004
Bucky! J$, is that picture from Bellavista in Equador? I'm gonna hafta do some searching for more pictures of that! |
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Johnny Dollar
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07/09/2004
apparently so... http://users.etown.edu/s/selchewa/home/bellavista.html |
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freddiefreelance
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07/09/2004
Here's some interior views. Thatch, Bamboo, woven grass matting... And a Geodesic Dome! :lol: Now I've got another idea for what to put on that little piece of dirt near the beach in San Felipe! |
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07/09/2004
Those are Polish num-chucks. |
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RenTiki
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07/09/2004
:lol: Back to topic here, I need to have a proper description for these Jacks. Well, let's see, not jacks, um what was it that Feelin' Zombified said? Oh yeah, Mai Tai Molecules!! I don't know if the public could relate to that immediately.. I myself, think that one is a riot!! Pride and patience makes work an ART. [ Edited by: RenTiki on 2004-07-09 14:18 ] |
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Johnny Dollar
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07/09/2004
for an ebay listing i would call them SHAG TIKI L@@K!!!... i mean, probably "geodesic spatial sculpture coffee table legs, quasi buckminster fuller" or something like that... p.s. mahalo 4 da |
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docwoods
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07/10/2004
Rentiki-it's good stuff to have fun with this kind of thing-I don't even want to tell you how many times I've retyped this because I've been enjoying a few glasses of chardonnay and a cheap toffee ice cream bar. |
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RenTiki
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07/10/2004
Check out the big brain on Brad! :wink: docwoods, chardonnay and a cheap toffee ice cream bar, huh? [ Edited by: RenTiki on 2004-07-09 23:46 ] |
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07/10/2004
Bucky died in 1983 -- you have to be dead for at least 10 years before the US will put you on a postage stamp (unless you're a dead President). He's buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA.
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07/10/2004
They actually look like puzzels. They look like you could collaps the poles into an all paralell configuration then try to figure out how to put it back to the original geodesic form. I do know this : They Scream out to me to take them apart and try to put them back together. |
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docwoods
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07/10/2004
Right you are,Ben,then after they scream at you to take them apart,you'll be screaming at them to put themselves back together.People who invent stuff like that are sadists. |
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RenTiki
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07/11/2004
Thank you, Cyn for the info. Yes, nice tombstone. Hope mine is that nice. Hold on, I wanna be cremated! :music:(sounds like the Ramones song, huh?) :lol: [ Edited by: RenTiki on 2004-07-10 21:29 ] |
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docwoods
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07/11/2004
Rentiki-you're a stitch-good thinking on that disclaimer-can you see some goof being arrested for doing something dumb with one of those and then blaming you?I can,and it ISN'T pretty-gee officer,the seller TOLD me I could throw it out the window... |
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freddiefreelance
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07/12/2004
Cyn, Check on the dates of death for him & his wife. She was very sick & slipped into a coma & he died while at her bedside. She followed 2 days later without ever regaining conciousness. They were married 66 years. |
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07/12/2004
WOW. I heard on NPR this morning that they're officially unveiling the Fuller stamp today. The artwork used for the stamp was on the cover of Time in the early 60s. I loathe the post office, but I might have to go for this one. |
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RenTiki
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07/12/2004
66 years?! |
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mattfink
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07/12/2004
I believe that is a marital aid for robots.... |
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RenTiki
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07/14/2004
I posted these odd thingies on another forum that I'm quite active on. |
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