low resolution photography by davin risk

barbed

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

rust walls

Photos taken with a Fuji Disposable 8

i seem to be a verb

Years ago I lent out and never received back my copy of I Seem To Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller. Because this book is out of print I’ve bemoaned its loss and have searched in vain for it in used bookstores. Recently I managed to get another copy through alibris.com and I’m so happy.

For those that don’t know, R. Buckminster Fuller was an inventor, holistic thinker, futurist, architect, urban planner, etc. most widely known for his pioneering work with geodesic dome structures (Toronto’s Ontario Place sports one of them).

The book is a collaboration between Fuller, Jerome Agel, and Quentin Fiore. Fiore is well known for the books he did with Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message and War and Peace in the Global Village. I Seem To Be a Verb is somewhat similar in format to those books in that it presents associative imagery and blockquoted text. They’re all highly entertaining books to jump around in — like channel surfing or magazine flipping.

For more about R. Buckminster Fuller, there’s the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

nest

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1