Has anyone been to the Cannstatter Volksfest?
I have a long weekend (and perhaps some brain cells) to kill in Germany this October between a trade show in Cologne that wraps up on a Thursday and a meeting the following Monday. An acquaintance with Trimble's photogrammetry subsidiary, inpho, suggested Stuggart for the last weekend of the festival and a visit to the Porsche museum if, as he put it in his email, “the blood alcohol level allows it”.
After looking at the promotional video I assume the Germans consume large amounts of beer to be able to endure what passes for music in their culture (I think this explains Hasselhoff) 😉
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I need a good Volksfest like that....
Dear God, that looks as if the Stuttgartners have cornered the world kitsch market.
> Dear God, that looks as if the Stuttgartners have cornered the world kitsch market.
The video answers the age old question: What if Fellini was Teutonic?
A little ironic that the song they chose to honor a German folk fest is about Switzerland (Basel).
But hey, they have an excuse for the kitsch and bad music.
The art department wuz DRUNK.
> The video answers the age old question: What if Fellini were Teutonic?
I'm thinking that the more fundamental question is "How do they manage to manufacture anything in Stuttgart that actually works? Is it all Turkish gastarbeiteren?
