Geodesic

...when the famous ball drops at midnight on New Year's Eve. The ball that descends the flagpole atop One Times Square is a 12-foot geodesic sphere weighing 11,875 pounds, covered in 2,668 crystals and powered by 32,256 LED lights that...

In this article: New Year's Eve, All rights reserved, Post-Gazette, Seventh Avenue, One Times Square, and NEW YORK

Hollywood Domes: L.A. Accessorizes With Geodesic Tree Houses Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes have reached new heights: as tree houses for the rich and famous. Arboreal architect Dustin Feider is installing them all over the Los...

In this article: L.A., Hollywood, E mail, Buckminster Fuller, Mark Levin, and Los Angeles

...gravity well, blowing ephemeral wakes in the dust between stars in search of technological brethren. Now, plucked from the slow geodesic between wells it comes to rest, regarded by vacuum-adapted eyes. Pupils shining with ancient instinct and...

In this article: God, NASA, Photon, Dog, Cancer, and Indiana Jones

...the area over the past decade have been laced with peril. Some of the crew's challenges will be self-imposed. The cramped nature of the geodesic cabin means the sailors will be hard-pressed to find privacy, which may come only from hopping...

In this article: William McDonough, Pacific, Thor Heyerdahl, Sandwich, Waste, Polyethylene terephthalate, USA Today, and San Francisco

...clothing ("This one is breakfast inspired") amidst the disorder of her home, which looks, from the outside, like a cross between a geodesic dome and a doghouse. Then there is Dusty (Mike White), the staring, white-garbed "Guardian Angel"...

In this article: Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Jules Feiffer, and Hector Jimenez

...sense of disgust? Once again a misfit teenager is at the heart of it: Michael Angarano as Benjamin Purvis, a shy kid who lives in Utah in a geodesic dome with his fashion-deluded mother (Jennifer Coolidge) and writes epic science-fiction...

In this article: Jared Hess, Jemaine Clement, Michael Angarano, Zardoz, Coen brothers, and Napoleon Dynamite

...with princesses, mice and whatever Goofy is. Or they know something we don't, which is why as Walt Disney predicted we all live in geodesic domes nowadays. A CNN Money article offers some suggestions for Shanghai Disneyland based on...

In this article: Shanghai, Disney, Disneyland, China, Allan Zeman, Ocean Park, Dubai, Chinese New Year, and It's a Small World

...here. She plays the nurturing, daffy mom to teenage Benjamin (Michael Angarano), a sad-eyed, home-schooled sci-fi fan. Holed up in his geodesic dome of a house, Benjamin has been writing bizarre fantasy yarns for years. As the film begins, he...

In this article: Jemaine Clement, Napoleon Dynamite, Jared Hess, Michael Angarano, USA Today, and Nacho Libre

New Delhi, Oct 30: Scomi Engineering, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based Scomi Group Bhd, has signed a joint bidding agreement with India's Geodesic Techniques for the proposed monorail project in Bangalore. The 59-km project will have a total...

In this article: Malaysia, Bangalore, India, Mumbai, and New Delhi

...oddball (what else) 17-year-old sci-fi writer Benjamin (Michael Angarano), who leaves his oddball mother (Jennifer Coolidge) behind at their geodesic-dome house to attend writers' camp. There, he meets his longtime idol, oddball sci-fi writer...

In this article: Jemaine Clement, Nacho Libre, Jennifer Coolidge, Hector Jimenez, Fox Searchlight, and Jack Black