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• Festival delle Trottole, Cremona, Italy: May 23, 2022 - May 29, 2022

[Iacopo]

There is a new report about the festival on the Italian National Channel Rai2, about 6 minutes long.
You can see it in the link below, 19/05/2022 episode, starting from 18:50.

https://www.rainews.it/rubriche/tg2storieiraccontidellasettimana

I never thought that one day I would have seen myself on TV !
Life is unpredictable.

[Jeremy McCreary]

I never thought that one day I would have seen myself on TV !
Life is unpredictable.

Unpredictable indeed. Wish I could have understood your interview at 22:05, but I did catch you explaining that the tip is important. Did they realize that they were talking to the maestro of precision metal art tops?

[ta0]

That's a very nice segment. I like that they show the international nature of the festival with interviews in Spanish, French and English, besides Italian.
I'm not sure how Casalino got them to include the background material (his giant top, the stone tops, the fountain top and the Tutankhamen top).

Did they realize that they were talking to the maestro of precision metal art tops?

We sure told him. On the video he mentions that the top has a spin record of 55 minutes. And when he asks how much they cost, the answer (about one thousand euros each) makes it clear that they are special. 

[Iacopo]

I never thought that one day I would have seen myself on TV !
Life is unpredictable.

Unpredictable indeed. Wish I could have understood your interview at 22:05, but I did catch you explaining that the tip is important. Did they realize that they were talking to the maestro of precision metal art tops?

I was showing one of my tops.  Jorge said to the interviewer that I hold a duration record with one of my tops, the interviewer asked me what makes my top to spin for so long, I answered very briefly, and far from being accurate, that it was related to the metal flywheel and that the tip too is important, (you catched it well). He didn't know me, but I had the impression that he liked my top.

[ta0]

I hadn't seen before the top fighting scene from the film Baarìa of Giuseppe Tornatore (spinning-related surname!) at the end of the clip. I wonder from what region of Italy are those spherical tops. I need one for my collection.

[ta0]

A good view of the farewell spiderweb, posted on Kostas facebook that I reposted to youtube:



How many people do you count wrapping the top?

And a nice article about Rocco:

[cecil]

Looks like a fun day. Fantastic.