Tumblr (3.0; @ricomoran)http://rrrico.com/<p><a href="http://jennilee.tumblr.com/post/17335754273/kodak-phases-out-digital-businesses-keeps-film-alive" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">jennilee</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2145203/kodak-phases-digital-businesses-film-alive" target="_blank">Olivier Laurent , The British Journal of Photography</a></p> <p>Kodak has announced that, as part of its “ongoing strategic review,” it will stop producing digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, but will continue to invest in its film division.</p> <p>Less than a month after announcing that it would seek bankruptcy protection in the US, Kodak has announced that it will stop the production of digital cameras and picture frames, as well as pocket-size video cameras.</p> <div class="article_tag_width"> <p>“For some time, Kodak’s strategy has been to improve margins in the capture device business by narrowing our participation in terms of product portfolio, geographies and retail outlets. Today’s announcement is the logical extension of that process, given our analysis of the industry trends,” says Pradeep Jotwani, Kodak’s chief marketing officer.</p> <p>However, the firm has moved to reassure film photographers. “Kodak’s continuing consumer products and services will include the traditional film capture and photographic paper business, which continues to provide high-quality and innovative products and solutions to consumers, photographers, retailers, photofinishers and professional labs,” it says in a statement.</p> <p>The news comes as Kodak is undergoing a wide-ranging strategic review of its businesses with the “commitment to drive sustainable profitability through its most valuable business lines.” But Kodak is quick to point out that the move won’t mean the end for Kodak-branded digital cameras. Instead, the firm plans to license its brand to third-party manufacturer - a move that mirrors Polaroid’s action in the years leading to and following its own bankruptcy.</p> <p>Kodak says that it has contacted its retail partners, and is working closely with them to ensure an orderly transition. “Kodak will continue to honor all related product warranties, and provide technical support and service for its cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames.”</p> <p>Kodak also plans to focus its resources on retail-based photo kiosks and digital dry lab systems, consumer inkjet printers and the Kodak Gallery.</p> <p>Two weeks ago, <a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2140216/-film-division-profitable-kodak" target="_blank">BJP’s technical writer Jonathan Eastland argued</a> that Kodak needed to refocus its business around its film division. “What make them think that digital printing will push their share price up? For Kodak to make digital printers their core business is laughable,” he said. “Each time Kodak has discontinued a film, they used the excuse that it represented less than a certain percentage of their turnover, but it’s still a percentage of a very large niche market. There are still millions of photographers around the world that are using film, and not hundreds as Kodak seems to suggest. Kodak’s got to go back and crunch their numbers about the film market. All people want are these little yellow boxes of film, and that should be their core business, even it means reducing the company’s size further.”</p> </div></blockquote>http://rrrico.com/post/17359238462http://rrrico.com/post/17359238462Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:55 -0500good newsgreat news<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/9880377" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>“the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming”</p> <p><em>via <a href="http://coudal.com/archives/2012/02/werner_herzog_o.php" target="_blank">coudal</a></em></p>http://rrrico.com/post/17269815865http://rrrico.com/post/17269815865Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:42:41 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz1emgunwI1qz50ibo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://rrrico.com/post/17218624024http://rrrico.com/post/17218624024Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:12:11 -0500sam jamescoffeetorontosunny day<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tTodH9rYSiY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is the kind of supernatural beauty that makes me pause and think about everything lovely.</p> <p>The way the birds form such perfect sculptures and flow into gradients like living film grain… it’s stunning.</p> <p>Seen elsewhere in Tree of Life where the camera pans across a city skyline at sunset and in Richard Barnes’ photos in the series “Murmur”:</p> <p><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/233132/richardbarnes_murmur.jpeg" alt="richard barnes - murmur"/></p> <p><em>video via <a href="http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/16881460473/clark-absence" target="_blank">richard turley</a></em></p> <p><em>photo via <a href="http://seedmagazine.com/portfolio/16_flight-patterns.html" target="_blank">seed magazine</a></em></p>http://rrrico.com/post/17200191478http://rrrico.com/post/17200191478Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:24:00 -0500birdsflockswarmsort solnaturegradient<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqnznUPe61qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>sunday soccer (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at The Hangar @ Downsview Park)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16889290822http://rrrico.com/post/16889290822Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:59:47 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyob6mCFi81qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>animal identity crisis (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16824196059http://rrrico.com/post/16824196059Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:27:57 -0500<a href="http://www.bestviral.com/video/11733/chris_farley_hidden_camera_commercial">chris farley coffee commercial</a>: <p>via <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ericwareheim/status/164091673750683648" target="_blank">eric wareheim</a></p>http://rrrico.com/post/16792586205http://rrrico.com/post/16792586205Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:50 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymztrrZpy1qz50ibo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymztrrZpy1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymztrrZpy1qz50ibo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><h1>“not a real ear tunnel”</h1> <p>I went to Topman at Yorkdale mall this weekend. It ruined my day.</p> <p>Can’t believe people buy this stuff.</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16788497402http://rrrico.com/post/16788497402Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:25:00 -0500epicfaileartunnelsillybandzbeardclubgross““there are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. Individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all loving different things, all looking different. everything that has been on earth has been different from any other thing. that is what I love: the differentness, the uniqueness of all things and the importance of life… I see something that seems wonderful; I see the divineness in ordinary things.””<br/><br/> - <em>diane arbus <a href="http://jesuisperdu.tumblr.com/post/16668081160/diane-arbus" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">(via jesuisperdu)</a> </em>http://rrrico.com/post/16672993931http://rrrico.com/post/16672993931Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:55:06 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygi0jscre1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>kitty. boy. swag. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16574719592http://rrrico.com/post/16574719592Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:14:42 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybuqki6801qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>slow roasted duck, pear and veggies with lemon rosemary quinoa and duck fat fries. tuesday night whaaaat? (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16433022268http://rrrico.com/post/16433022268Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:01:32 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6k8dfgfk1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a></p>http://rrrico.com/post/16267043158http://rrrico.com/post/16267043158Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:26:37 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxyuc8vpl61qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>why bother going to a plastic surgeon? (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Popeye’s Chicken)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/16029155734http://rrrico.com/post/16029155734Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:24:07 -0500<p><a href="http://landonspeers.tumblr.com/post/15864902693/american-hero-james-quall" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">landonspeers</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtlmpJuUm1qahprt.jpg"/></p> <p>An American institution in my opinion; we ran into our only celebrity sighting so far in Hollywood. Over the worst burger of my life at In-And-Out, we caught a glimpse of this icon to which the mere ‘celebrity’ label does not really do justice to- now that I think about it.</p> <p>One of my favorite moments seen <a href="http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/billy-jeans-not-my-girl.html" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a></p></blockquote> <p>The man of my dreams… This is too quall for squall.</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15868010596http://rrrico.com/post/15868010596Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:31:39 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnla71XXx1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>sacred refuse (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15685860346http://rrrico.com/post/15685860346Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:34:54 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rv9aNrrTSHE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Friends over at <a href="http://hotbeansvegan.com/" target="_blank">Hot Beans</a> make some unbelievable vegan tex mex. <a href="http://paulbucci.ca/" target="_blank">Paul Bucci</a> and I wrote and directed a handful of spots so short that if you were wearing them you’d be showing part of your bum.</p> <p>The video above stars magic that turned jackfruit into pulled pork into the word “bloody”. They also have spells that turn sunflower seeds into sour cream and TVP into a meaty gut buster. <a href="http://hotbeansvegan.com/video/" target="_blank">Check them out</a>.</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15641590117http://rrrico.com/post/15641590117Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:52:00 -0500paulandricotacoswagyovegantacoburritotorontohotbeansveganmeatygutbuster<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxligyaj0G1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>bfst! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15626543078http://rrrico.com/post/15626543078Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:38:57 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk4j8ld9e1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>thanks pam (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Pam’s Caribbean Kitchen)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15592298057http://rrrico.com/post/15592298057Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:40:19 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxj203rKxi1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>2early (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15562127842http://rrrico.com/post/15562127842Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:48:02 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lximmuTtTf1qz50ibo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>norah’s adventures in wonderland (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://rrrico.com/post/15554127487http://rrrico.com/post/15554127487Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:16:05 -0500