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Are you down for some 20/20 LF-Ch Chit-Chat?

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24668If you're in the Orange County, California area on Tuesday 20 October 2009, Lexus invites you to an unusual event: a Pecha Kucha Night featuring <A HREF="http://www.toyota.com/about/our_business/design/">Calty Design Research</A>'s Tom Matsumoto and Edward Lee, the designers of the Lexus LF-Ch concept car. This will be held at the CODE Restaurant & Lounge, located at 4221 Dolphin Striker Way in Newport Beach. Nominally, doors open at 7 PM, and the event ends at 10 PM, with a modest $5 suggested donation. The actual Pecha Kucha presentations, though, start at 20:20, or 8:20 PM, civilian time.

So, what the heck is a Pecha Kucha (pronounced Pi-Chach-ka) Night, anyway? As the <A HREF="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/">pecha-kucha.org</A> website informs us, it is an event where young artists, architects and designers present and discuss their work. The presentations are as far from verbose as you could possibly imagine, though, for each presenter is allowed to talk only during the projection of 20 images, each shown for all of 20 seconds (do you detect a theme here?) – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to showcase their work. And, indeed, Tom Matsumoto and Edward Lee will be joined by <A HREF="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/orange-county/1">six other designers</A> of various disciplines.

No, the Lexus LF-Ch won't be there in the metal (it'll be an ocean away, making its Asian debut at the Tokyo Motor Show), but Matsumoto and Lee will be giving 6 minutes and 40 seconds' worth of their insights and commentary on the exterior and interior design of that concept car. And, for those of you as terminally curious as this author, Pecha Kucha is Japanese for chit-chat (or, more formally, the sound of conversation), and this movement has spread virally to 247 cities throughout the world.
 

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