A good friend of mine, Dan, whose informative and interesting music journalism blog can be found at: http://postpostrock.wordpress.com/ , was very kind to provide me with information about those cool things that I took a photo of in Rotterdam that looked like bubbles sitting on the water in the harbor. His addition is as follows: ...those odd "floating," semi-transparent structures are geodesic domes, which were patented by the visionary American architect and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller. Interestingly enough, one of SU's architecture profs gave the arts journalism folks a seminar all about B. Fuller and and his designs--really futuristic stuff worth checking out. Even more intriguing is the indirect music connection. Fuller once taught at the short-lived Black Mountain College, an arts-centric liberal arts school considered very progressive for its time. Other guest teachers included John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Merce Cunnin...