venerdì, settembre 07, 2007

Autoeco - 7 settembre

Posto come da pagina dedicata: http://www.camp0s.com/Smart/c5/autoeco.php Galleria: http://www.camp0s.com/foto/galleries/gallery.php?thumb=Autoeco_7_sep ------------ I'm bacckkk !!! waaaaa what a dayyy !!! i'm exaust !!! really ! i've talked all day long ! guess the subject !! the C5 ! the people, tha place, the subjects, the interests, industries, reasearchs and more more more !! But let's me start with order ! i'm still really hot and electrified ! true ! it's all the day i'm just sparking electricity to objects, people, ground... !! and hot hot hot, red hot, entusiast of talking to really interested and meaningfull people the project of our team and the C5 ! i was saying order, so let put all toghter in a cronological order: You cal follow the with pictures taken from the 7 Sep Autoeco gallery, just click the link and scroll trought the photos. 9:30 circa - i'm a rural boy, fighting with al madness of the city, a motorbike overcoming my car was nearly hitting a cyclist while i was letting him cross the road... nice beginning ! however it revealed as an isolated fact. I arrived in front of the main Oval Lingotto al 9:40, the teacher was waiting me outside, she said "wow" and quickly encouraged me to drive straight in the fear; there is some sort of "ice" which setups between you and a new place where you right stepped into: the C5 melted that ICE as everybody was looking at me and it's quiet "bzzzzzzz" :D 10:00 - circa, as more student of our group arrives, we promply setted up our place, posters, monitors, videos playing, some ambient lights and... the C5. This was our first group work ! 12:00 - Some quick food and first people where coming by the C5, mostly where other expositor, asking about it and our group. After the 5th time i explained the quick story to someone, i become an expert at relationship: people where attracted to our stand due to the C5 ! incredible ! they where all looking at it with a lot of curiosity about it, so i discovedred that just starting to explain the story helps to become friendly before they might try to ask you, really, be frinedly, give some fact, and people develop a sort of light in their eyes, they want to know more and more until they ask "may i drive a little?" SURE ! let me explain in other word, as i was saing that it's a storic vehicle not being manufactired anymore they where somewhere happier... they where afraid i was actually selling it and taking all their customers !!! :D 14:00 the fear is opening to the general public.. men ! i watched the clock and thought of being a loooong boring day, too high tech meeting nothing ready to sell, a lot of prototypes, people all dressed up nicely and elegant, and we, a group of 3 student showing our theoretical car with nothing of material. But i was clearly wrong. We got the C5, we got a forced stop point for EVERYONE coming in. I watched he clock and was 14:30, when i noticed the time again it was 19:00... let's see ! 14:30 - The first time is alwais difficoult, you don't know where to put hands, you don't know to who you are speaking, you don't know where to start... but it must be done. As i started to talk with the first people coming by i quickly developed the right touch, you see at what they are looking and you start chatting about the Sinclair C5 with a random fact every time a new people comes by. So every new people that is adding to the listening group they hear a different news, after the 6th man which joins the group, the first arrived thanks me for the time, for the restored C5 and for the happiness that i'm showing in the description. The part that people like most is when i talk of the mud and the garbage from where i recovered it ! i add a bit of theatrical effect to the speech, "it was dark, it was raining, and there was a lot of mud... i knew the C5 in 2001, i pointed somewhere in my mind, then in 2006 as i saw a small part of it coming from the gound i grabbed and rescued it and..." :D i can triple assure you, they all listen carefully. Then i hit them with it's 23 years old age... and they wow at me :D From the young that praise me to sell it one day, making a series production, to the elderly which thanks me for having restored it for being interested to the technology and atually practising it (also referring to the University project) untill some REALLY interesting people, industrials men, business men, people working at Pininfarina (a leader in industrial and vehicle and object design/style), to researcher and also some Political men that you see they are followed by at least 2 photographers and 3-4 discreet men while they approach you hear "silence" all around like an "aura" of respect... wow, they say "i'm the representant of ... bla bla bal... tell me what it is, what is your group about" ... gaa, i say my name, shake hand and go full speed with the story. Geezz, i've talked to nearly 100-150 people in 5 hours, my toungue is dry, i standed up all day... why? well, having the C5 there was an idea of the group to attract visitors to our "empty" stand, the thing turned over me because people getting by the stand just ask "who is the owner of this?" and friends take me in front of them to tell the full story and so on! then i learned to divert all the people that i cannot talk simoultaneously to others to not loose "customers..". However i become a sort of punction point, i couldn't seat at all ! 16:00 - Then... i man comes by and he smiled... "after all that time we meet again" he whispered, he asked "who is the owner?" i said "it's me!" and he said "in 1985, genuary, i was there", "where ?" i replyed , "i was near Sir Clive when he uncovered the C5". I stood still. :O gghgghghggh.... Really ! this man, he works for Pininfarina (leading designer firms of vehicles and many other things), he was/is one of the men that designed our world today, the shape of things and so on, he knows its job. I just asked him "tell me something, i love the C5, please, tell me whatever" so he told me the true story about the C5. Back in 1985, Sir CLive put much much much hype in it's creature, it will revolution the world of personal transport. Everybody where expecting a "real car", some of the most promising men and women, designers too, where at the event. But when the envelope was taken away.. i hidden smile was on the mouth of everybody.. difficult to say, difficult for me to accept.. but the C5 wasn't right what everybody where expecting. He said: good the design, good the polipropilene body, good the hard decision, good the projects. Bad... the C5, bad the idea, bad the underlegs drive, bad the marketing, bad... and we all know how it ended, it was a playgroung for critics, it was a nice "sitting duck" to shot at. Gee.. he was there ! i would give my best arm for that, for being there the next time !! 18:00 - as i talk to more and more and more people, they all congrats for the restoring, for the interests, for my verve in showing them the story, for letting them to try, for making them feel the fragility and unicity of the design, for the approach and so on. I found myself really excited about the C5, also the teacher told me that while i talk to people they se my eyes brighten up, waving my hands, not pushing the story, alwais ready to start again and again... it's so easy, i LOVE the C5 !! 19:00 - Event closed for the day, i decided, i'll be back again tomorrow !!! saturday !! i'll hope not to loose voice during night ! :\ i'll take a bigger bottle of water !

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