Psychoanalysis - Inside Chris Bangle's head

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I found an extensive interview with Bangle. Consider the following quotes:
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Bangle says that the use of clay, the traditional medium for sculptors, added a sculptural reference to car design. “Sculpture allowed for a new level of fantasy to develop,” he notes.

Just as our concept of what constitutes the perfect nude was born out of what the Greeks showed us in 5th century BC. “With the car we desire the perfection in lines and symmetry that go back to those times,” he says.

“Car design,” says Bangle, “is an emotional experience, it's borderline erotic,” a word he is fond of. The designer is creating something that wasn't there before.

Interestingly Bangle brings up the example of Pygmalion, who made a beautiful female sculpture, fell in love with it, kissed it and poof it came alive. He too wants to be Pygmalion. "Take 'form follows function' and give it the twist that soul is the form that makes the body,” he adds.

Expectations have changed and the customer wants the car to be ‘oriented’ towards them. This he stresses is very different from ‘individual’.

For Bangle form follows function, but with a new twist that is soul. “Soul is the form that makes the body,” he reminds us. “Design has reached the end of being able to be happy with the limitations carried forward by production.”

Bangle says the 7 Series is designed for a whole world of luxury-oriented customer that happens to be stronger in Asia and the US. These are a complex customer group, he tells us. “We designed it for people who said they want more presence on the road, something a bit more in your face.”
 
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I was trying to find that video someone posted of the SNL clip of the car that you can have sex with, but I couldn't.

Anyway, it reminded me of it, if anyone knows where it is.
 
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Pygmalion (Mr. Bangle), lots of people including me, fell in love with your close girlfriends - Bavarian & want to make out with them. But I am ... straight ... straightly restricted to BMW. [:D]
 
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Fwu said:
Stitch, why are your posts always so cryptic?
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Why try to be normal? [:)]

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith
 
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Dude dont bring that up...you dont want to know what happened to the last person who did [paranoid] [paranoid] [paranoid] [paranoid] [paranoid] [paranoid]

We just dont speak of it [rofl]
What happened??? [unsure] [unsure] [unsure]
 
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Stitch said:
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Why try to be normal? [:)]

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith
Stitch, I like your posts - they make me think!

By the way, the hummingbird sig is great!! [rofl]
 
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I admire Mr. Bangle's courage to create a new look. He must have the kind of confidence that only artist's are gifted with. He is still in the process of refining his art. I'm glad I will be able to see it evolve. Lets be patient.
 
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Stitch, I like your posts - they make me think!

By the way, the hummingbird sig is great!! [rofl]
Thanks a lot!

The reason why I am cryptic is the Past defines who I am today! Of course, I did and continue to make choices, but growing up in a fast-pace and cruel city like Manhattan, where people's value money & success on top of everything, was not fun at all. That was just one of the survival skill of life, if I look at it from a sad angle. From any other angle, it was just some preparation for roads ahead! [:p]
 


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