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Michael De Angelis
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posted July 09, 2007 05:18 PM

This is very sad.
I don't know what they
are all cheering about.

Here is the link Kodak building #9 Implodes

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Joe Caruso
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posted July 09, 2007 06:51 PM

Gee, I hope there weren't any choice prints lying around

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Michael De Angelis
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posted July 10, 2007 09:32 AM

If there were any prints,
I bet they would have
asked: Hats Off?
Never heard of it?
[Mad]

I just do not understand
why they needed to celebrate
the collapse of one of their
buildings?
[Confused]

Kodak and Xerox they have
been the mainstays to that
economy in that city for years.

It seemed that only one person was
wearing a dust mask.
How strange is that?
[Eek!]

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Joerg Polzfusz
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posted July 10, 2007 10:28 AM

Hi,

that's the difference between a German and an US-American company: A German company would be ashamed of shrinking while an US-American company celebrates it!

Jörg

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Joe Caruso
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posted July 10, 2007 01:32 PM

You sure that photo isn't a gag? - If one person is wearing the mask, it appears unnatural - If true, it furthers the bemoaners, who twang the death knell of celluloid and raise expections on didgitation - Personally, I'm appalled

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Michael De Angelis
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posted July 10, 2007 03:17 PM

Joerg,

As an American with
Italian genealogy
I am equally ashamed.
I too feel akin
to German thinking.
(Let alone that I love
jaegerschnitzel and Sauerbraten.)

Unlike Europe where
edifices stand for centuries,
America is always tearing down
and rebuilding. As the Joni Mitchell
song goes:
Pay Paradise and put
up a parking lot.

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Kevin Faulkner
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posted July 10, 2007 05:35 PM

That was probably one of their coating plants or the K40 processing lab. [Frown]

Do any of you guys know what that building was used for?

Kev.

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Robert Wales
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posted July 10, 2007 06:26 PM

I believe Joni Mitchell's lyric was "PAVE Paradise and put up a parking lot"....

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Michael De Angelis
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posted July 10, 2007 06:50 PM

Kev,

This building housed photographic paper operations
and it stored massive huge rolls of paper.

The astounding details are within the link
in the story.

I still do not understand the
benefit of destroying a building
that was constructed with the strength
and weight of a Fort.
Agreed that it is not
the Tower of London, but let alone that
the dimensions of the banner were made
of a light weight material that
weighed 700 pounds !

Rob, sorry about the title of the song.
I guess we do "Pay" a price when we Pave
Paradise and Put up a Parking lot.

The comments at the end of the story
sum up how the employees that worked
for years at Kodak truly felt about
the implosion.

It was a loss. As if someone had passed away.

Story about Kodak's building 9

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Louis Li
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posted July 10, 2007 11:26 PM

okay this may be a little off.
but the whole video had this 'discovery travel and living carnival hotdog and fries special' feel to it.
really weird.

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Michael De Angelis
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posted July 10, 2007 11:53 PM

Louis,

Whoever organized that
fiasco must truly be a
Nut-job !

The interviewed
jokers, the production crew
and the Public Relations team
and CEO of Kodak combined.

Current workers in Kodak Park
were on the job, as the
building went down, and they
witnessed the billowing dust
from their window.

Also former employees viewed it
as a loss of a loved one.

Back on 9/11 and working in Brooklyn N.Y.,
I walked away from the window and back
to prepare for a class just before
the World Trade Center collapsed.

Have they forgotten that day?
It seems that they lost their timing,
sensibilities,sensitivity and faculties?

We live in a very deranged
and cruel world indeed. [Frown]

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Stuart Fyvie
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posted July 11, 2007 03:46 AM

Having worked at Kodak myself, it always struck me as an odd company.
Try this link on this kodak internal video.

http://marksilva.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/kodak-internal-video-goes-external-goes-big/

Stuart

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted July 11, 2007 01:49 PM

Hello .... [Confused]

Verstehe leider nur Bahnhof. Jörg could you explain me um was es hier geht?

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Joerg Polzfusz
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posted July 12, 2007 07:22 AM

Hallo Andreas,

a) Das Video: Kodak macht einen Riesenspaß für die ganze Familie daraus, ein -nicht gerade kleines- Gebäude für die Fotopapierherstellung abzureißen (durch Implosion). Das Ganze wird dann noch als Werbefläche für die "revolutionären" neuen Kodaktinten für Tintenpinkler... ähhh... Tintenstrahldurcker verkauft, die Fotopapier etc. pp. überflüssig machen sollen. (Viele der Beiträge drehen sich darum, ob es Sinn macht, ein "burgähnliches" Gebäude anzureißen, ob das Arbeitsplätze kosten würde, ... .)
b) Meine Bemerkung, der sich einige angeschlossen haben, war, daß jede deutsche Firma geschamig vertuschen würde, daß sie schrumpft, während US-Firmen das feiern. (Bei den Anmerkungen zu meiner Bemerkung wurde dann noch ein sozialkritisches Lied zitiert, wobei das Zitat ein paar Male korrigiert wurde. Ungefähre Übersetzung der Liedpassage: "Sie haben das Paradies zubetoniert, um einen Parkplatz zu erschaffen.")
c) Dann gab's noch ein paar Anmerkungen dazu, daß nur eine gezeigte Person mit einer Staubschutzmaske herumlief und daß das von Kodak nicht gerade einfühlsam gewesen sei, weil es viele Amerikaner an die Flugzeuganschläge mit anschließenden einstürzenden Doppeltürmen in Neu-York erinnern würde.
d) Bei dem von Stuart Fyvie verlinkten Video geht es darum, daß Kodak Kunden verloren hätte, weil jetzt alle nur noch digital knipsen würden. Und daß Kodak sich aber schon seit 20 Jahren darauf vorbereitet hätte, nun aus den Ruinen aufstehen und es allen zeigen würde... Kurz: Das war die "Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg... ähh... den totalen Wechsel zu Kodakdigitalprodukten"-Rede von Kodaks oberstem Heini in den USA (oder gar weltweit) - mit der Androhung, daß Kodak schnell wieder der Monopolist im Bereich Bilder werden würde.

Alles unklar? [Wink]