Now available! It sounds like a great place to learn about design science.
Fuller Collection digitized, available online through library
July 20, 2006
By Hunter Barns
"Over 380 hours of rare lectures and public talks by the late inventor R. Buckminster Fuller can now be downloaded through Stanford University Libraries. The recently debuting, fully digitized multimedia archive features Fuller's work, made popular during the 1960s and 1970s.
Fuller's mathematical concept of "Synergistics' and his geodesic dome "Spaceship Earth' were among his signature contributions, now documented in 1700 hours of audio and video recordings, following acquirement by Stanford University Libraries in 1999.
In addition to Fuller's work are historical records and photographs of Stanford University, geological survey maps, records and university publications.
"It is quite appropriate that Bucky Fuller is leading the way for our digital multimedia offerings,' said University Librarian Michael Keller in a news release. "Digitizing materials invites greater use in teaching, learning and research, and enables new ways of understanding and using library holdings.'"
The R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection is available to all registered users online at http://collections.stanford.edu/bucky.
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/20/fullerCollectionDigitizedAvailableOnlineThroughLibrary
Hi, AWPemberton:
I have mac os 9.1 on a Powermac and I have all three players. Quicktime, Realplayer and Windows media player. I am onlu having trouble with Realplayer. I had some with Windows media player last week, but found out after checking my preferences, that it was how had my internet preferences setup.
I had check proxy, when I did not need to. It would give a message stating that this media is not reconizable. However , it works fine now that I have it setup right. You may need to check your preferences to make sure it is setup correct, if that does'nt work check you PC-Exchange or File-Exchange control panel. Here you can assign pc- extensions to handled by what ever mac. application you believe will open it. i've done this to several Macs that had trouble with files comunicating with the plugins or applications that are suppose to work through your internet browser,also all browsers have helpers which work like PC-Exchange.
Moreover, if your using an Imac, You may need to upgrade to
the latest macintosh operating system for your computer.
It is capable of going up to OX or possibly the latest OX .
I have an Imac too, that I am planning on upgrading to
10.1 as soon as i have some free time.
p.s. just in case you did not know it , but msn is no longer supporting their mac version of windows media player, so they are suggesting that everyone ger flip4mac, but it only works on mac OX or later.
I Hope this helps,
Artsyshirley
Ive tried Real Player, Quicktime and now Windows Media Player, and they all wont work. The error message tells me that "the application program that created it could not be found" and then "could not find a translation extension with appropriate translators."
A new computer is probably required, although it is strange that Dick's computer is able to play the files. Perhaps they'll work better on OS X or something.
Thanks anyway guys.
I have an OS 9.17 imac, from 1995, and the archive downloads work on media viewer or real player. You might try those.
Dick
oops...
A company called Telestream makes a product called Flip4Mac which may be able to play the files. Microsoft also has Windows Media player series 9 for Mac, free. It works with several Internet browsers, but is not supported any more. I would try the Microsoft Media Player first and then email Telestream and ask them if they can view the Bucky videos before you buy. I've got software that records the video stream so I can watch it later when I'm not on-line. There are some free converter programs available. I'll try a few and see if I can convert the files: wma to mp3, and wmv to mov. If the quality is good enough, you can have a friend download and convert them for you. As a last resort you could buy a Windows PC next time. Scarrry! I remember when I bought my first Apple II ser# 000745 in 1978, and one of the first ten-thousand Macs, but that was 26 PC's ago. Let me know what happens.
Sincerely,
Andrew Owens
Mac OS 9.1. I'm guessing it wouldn'd support the software needed to run those files.
What kind of computer do you have? Maybe we can find a solution.
Damn. The files dont seem to be compatible with my computer.
Mr. Fischbeck,
Thanks for the wonderfull topic. It's good to know that something is being done with the archive. This should take some time to go through. I can't wait until the Chronofile is digitized.
Sincerely,
Andrew Owens