Hello my name is Jack Rickard. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Scrivner <j...@mvn.net> Reply-To: j...@mvn.net, WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:27:32 -0500
>I am sure many of you old trimers to the ISP business remember Jack Rickard, >founder of Boardwatch Magazine, BBSCON which became ISPCON? I am honored to >say that Jack and I have become friends. He and I have brainstormed about >all sorts of whackiness over the last few years. He has been feverishly >seeking some new "thing" to put his time, money and energy behind to >rekindle that spark of innovation and creation of new and budding industry. >He has found it in converting cars to electric. So....history is repeating >itself in a way. Jack is now doing a weekly Internet "TV" show he calls the >Friday Show on his website at http://evtv.me . It is free so you might want >to check it out. He is also working on a conference for those who are >converting their own cars to electric. Jack is still full of the same >excitement and energy as he has always had. His new focus is interesting and >I just wanted to share it with the rest of you. I am actually hoping to do >my own conversion one day. I apologize that this is not really on topic for >a wireless Internet list but I know Jack's efforts were a big part of many >of your lives and so I thought it was appropriate to share it here. >John Scrivner > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Jack Rickard <mjrick...@gmail.com> >Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:30 AM >Subject: Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention EVCCON >To: John <j...@mvn.net> > > > Email not displaying correctly? View it in your >browser<http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9473ae97ebbc85243fc06dcc2&id=863c5af754&e=35c37d5d0f> > Chris PAINE TO KEYNOTE >ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONVERSION CONVENTION Se > > > Writer/Director Chris Paine's documentary feature film "*Who Killed the >Electric Ca*r?" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 before its >release by Sony Pictures to critical acclaim in 100 U.S. markets. The film >was the third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006 and screened >with "*An Inconvenient Truth"* in many markets. > > The film was written and directed by Chris Paine, and produced by Jessie >Deeter, and executive produced by Tavin Marin Titus, Richard D. Titus of >Plinyminor and Dean Devlin, Kearie Peak, Mark Roskin, and Rachel Olshan of >Electric Entertainment. The film grossed over $1.75 million - a large >number for independent documentaries of this type. > > Currently in wide DVD release, Paine's film investigates the events leading >to the quiet destruction of thousands of new, radically efficient electric >vehicles. Through interviews and narrative, the film paints a picture of an >industrial culture whose aversion to change and reliance on oil may be >deeper then its ability to embrace ready solutions. > *Who Killed the Electric Car?* and Chris Paine were nominated by the >Writer's Guild for Best Documentary of 2006. The film also received >nominations from The Broadcast Critics Awards and The Environmental Media >Awards for Best Documentary of 2006. The film won the audience award at the >Canberra International Film Festival and won a special jury prize at the >Mountain Film Festival. > > Festivals and Awards > > 1) Nominated: Best Documentary - Environmental Media Awards (2006) > 2) Won - Special Jury Prize Mountain Film (Telluride) (2006) > 3) Nominated Writers Guild: Best Documentary > 4) Nominated Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, 2007 Best Doc. >Feature > 5) Won - Audience Award at the Canberra International Film Festival. > > The film screened at the following Film Festivals: > > San Francisco Film Festival > Sundance Film Festival > Deauville Film Festival > Seattle Film Festival > Los Angeles Film Festival > Canberra Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival > Berlin International Film Festival > Atlanta Film Festival > Newport Film Festival > Mountain Film Festival > > Sony marketed *Who Killed The Electric Car?* in over 100 theatrical markets >to become the third highest grossing documentary in 2007. Netflix now lists >nearly 150,000 ratings of the DVD release from renting customers. Over 400 >reviews have been written on Neflix and it is in their Top Ten List of >"important movies you should see." > Thanks to the massive push behind *An Inconvenient Truth* (they were a >trailer for that film in theaters) and internet word of mouth, this West >LA-produced documentary reached people around the world and helped inspire >change. > > > > > The success of *Who Killed the Electric Car?* rather goes beyond electric >cars. It has been an inspiration to independent producers of documentaries >and with the advent of video on the Internet, has led to an entire movement >of video production marketed around the large distributors, such as Sony, >with numerous other documentaries gaining an audience directly. > > Pain has been working on a sequel *Revenge of the Electric Car*. This is >scheduled for release April 22nd at the Tribeca film festival in New York. > > > I found the original documentary a bit far from unbiased, and strangely >naive. Having worked in large corporations, I almost view conspiracy >theories as almost an anthropomorphism of corporations. After you see a >large corporation go through five CEO's in seven years, and with >"reorganization" become a ritualized annual event, it dawns on you that >there is really no one home in these entities. No one is in charge. Chaos >largely reigns. And assigning any particular point of view or mission would >be viewed almost as a joke within the organization. Cubicle city doesn't >really have a leader, a mission, or a point of view. It just is. And it >lives to continue to live, turning on any perceived threat with the same >reptilian focus and process. It is what it is, but an intelligent >"conspiracy" it is not. And a secret is an absurdity in organizations that >thrive on rumor at the water cooler. > > So I personally found Paine's view in *Who Killed the Electric Car?* almost >painfully naive - a child mind's view of the world. > > That's a little bit in conflict with the fact that the mission and intent >of the film is definitely one I share. I think the adoption of electric >drive in transportation is a heroic imperative with a very deadly clock >running against it, the only hope to avoid a worldwide financial meltdown of >unprecedented proportions - a 20 year depression with the collapse of banks >and financial institutions world wide. This dark picture is so completely >detailed in my mind, that I normally don't even speak of it as it almost >doesn't matter and most of our viewers would dismiss it as total madness and >irrationality on my part. > > But I'm also very intrigued by how techno-social change actually occurs. I >was in a privvy position to watch this first hand over the course of a >couple of decades with the development of the Internet, and I'm profoundly >moved by the difference between how most people THINK change is achieved and >how it is actually achieved. The latter being by large scale rather slowly >developing grass roots movements led by key individuals. > > And I almost view it as all part of God's plan. We really can't have a >society where we completely retool our communications infrastructure, at an >expense of hundreds of billions of dollars, because somebody has a good idea >or because some fad concept becomes the object of desire at the moment. > > Similarly, we cannot spend a trillion dollars on retooling our >transportation infrastructure based on such notions. > > And so we wind up with a governments, existing businesses, automobile >manufacturers and oil companies all fighting with all the tools they >command to MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO. And we have a small, but growing army >of "fringe" people, all working on the concept of electric vehicles. It is >THEIR job to maintain the status quo. It is OUR job to wrest change in >that status quo. And all is right with the world. > > Picture a hive of ants where 95% of the ants work to maintain the anthill >against all comers and against all change. But they always maintain 5% of >their population as scouts and foragers always looking for new ways to find >food or improve the anthill. If they stumble on an idea for change so >persuasive, members of the 95% start to defect. At some critical mass, the >anthill suddenly adopts. Where that tipping point occurs is very >interesting. But we have seen all of this play out in just this way with >the INternet. And I think we will with electric transportation as well. > > But we might have to revise what electric transportation IS and what it >means several thousand times along the way until it becomes irresistable to >the anthill. > > In the meantime, our government, our automotive manufacturers, and the oil >companies are doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. And we're >doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing. There is no evil. THere is >no conspiracy. It just is what it is and it works this way for good and >varied reasons emerging over tens of thousands of years of human >development. > > The way I think of this is that there are 166,000 gasoline stations with a >vested interest in selling gasoline. All 50 states tax gasoline and >cummulatively derive $25 billion in annual revenues from it. The United >States government also taxes gasoline and derives another $25 billion from >it. The five largest and most profitable corporations on the planet are all >oil companies and EACH of them generate more annual revenues than 90% of the >COUNTRIES in the world. The entire middle east is economically ENTIRELY >based on oil production. > > On OUR team we have a few hundred guys with a mad on willing to part with >the ducats to put LiFePo4 cells in a car and thus gain a vehicle for >themselves, some independence from the problem, and the ability to show >others how to do the same. They do all this in sheds and garages with hand >tools. Virtually none of them have sufficient capital to start a hot dog >stand. It's all gesture. And a single car. > > So how come I feel like we have the larger team surrounded? > > Because we do. Everytime they show their car, we add another couple of >hundred. At some point it will be 10,000, then 100,000, then a million. At >that point, it will start to grow. Addictive and contagious. > > But in doing EVTV, I get a chance to talk to a LOT of people who are >intensely passionate about electric cars. They are so passionate, that they >devote multiple tens of thousands of hard earned ducats to build their own, >none really being otherwise available for sale. This is like an ARMY of >those scout ants and they are IMPASSIONED about it. They REALLY want it. I >have seen that fire in the eye before - the early Internauts. And I have >seen it play out. > > If you do not fear it, you are simply unaware - a non sentient. Be afraid. >Be very afraid. When tens of thousands of people worldwide all begin >swirling around one dream, with that LEVEL of intense of passion, you have >already loosed the hounds of hell. It is a force that cannot be resisted >and its growth feeds on itself. The religion spreads. It is both addictive >and contagious. And ultimately large corporations and governments, NEVER a >source of innovation and change, are totally helpless to stop it. AFTER >adoption, they can only scramble around to rewrite history to show that >indeed THEY INVENTED IT. Which is why the misunderstanding of how change >happens. > > In order to transition from defending the status quo, to defending a NEW >status quo, you HAVE to have invented the new status quo. And so our work >is not done, until they wrest history away from us, and indeed present it as >an accomplishment of corporations and governments. Only when we are >conveniently marginalized and forgotten do we win completely. Nature of >the beast. > > Of course, by then, most of us, being natural scout ants, are on to the >next big change thing. > > And that's pretty much where I've lived my life - with nearly unerring >accuracy. You can pretty much bet electric vehicles are the next big thing >because Jack Rickard showed up to pray over it. I didn't event it. And I'm >not going to do it. I'm just here to pray over it and tell everybody about >it. I claim no authorship of any of it nor the Internet. I'm just really >good at showing up at the right time at the next big thing. Once it's not >NEXT, I move on. > > In a strange way, so is Chris Paine. Among ALL The people I talk to about >electric cars, I always ask what interested them first in this. Of course, >the very few old hands all have interesting stories about that. But among >the vast majority, and I would say 80% of everyone I talk to, they ALL >mention the 2006 film <b>Who Killed the Electric Car<i></i></b>. It is >almost bizarre. I would rate this film, as THE most influential documentary >ever made and THE major influence among our viewers to initiate their >interest in electric vehicles. > > Since announcing EVCONN (was it three weeks ago????) we've already received >37 paid registrations and 12 people bringing cars. I know that doesn't seem >like many. But I've done a lot of trade show conventions actually. We ran >BBSCON/ISPCON from 1992 through 1998 twice a year. It went from 100 guys to >6000 all paying $695 and in the end featured 225 educational sessions in >three days. (No, that's not a typo). But I've never really seen a takeoff >on a new show like this. I know it seems like few at the moment, but as I >say, I've done this before. We have more registered NOW than I planned to >have at the event at all. And it is scheduled for SIX full months away. If >I had to guess, at the moment I would say 750 attendees and 40 cars. And I >may have underestimated THAT. It appears the desire for a show of THEIR OWN >about CONVERTING cars was kind of a pregnant idea - thank you Eric Kriss. > I'm embarassed it wasn't my idea. > > So we're not going to have an electric car show or convention. We're going >to have one very specifically about CONVERTING YOUR OWN CAR to electric >drive. That's to be the focus and entire subject. It is not going to be an >OEM show or a feel good show. Hard info on how to and why to - by the >people who do and know how to do. Not the sheeples who want to buy one or >think they are cool. The guys who will go to their own garage and build >their own goddamn car, - lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. > > But it is incumbent on me to make it the best convention I can. ANd in >considering the topic of headline speakers, I keep coming back to Chris >Paine and "*Who Killed the Electric Car*". > > This morning i signed a contract engaging Mr. Paine to come address the >attendees of the first Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention EVCONN. On >Thursday evening, September 22nd, we intend to hold a catered barbecue and >beer event at 7:00 PM in my backyard overlooking the Mississippi river, with >perhaps a tasting for a few from the illicit distillery in the garage >(medicinal purposes) and a bonfire. I will introduce Mr. Paine as the >Keynote speaker for EVCONN and he will stand and deliver an emotionally >charged speech of such inspirational nature you will never have heretofor >witnessed. > > Kewl, eh? > > And besides - I think you'll actually like Stag beer. 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