Lost Smile
I thought the way the video was animated with the drawing of the girl was cool and I wanted to have some fun with it. So I got a copy of the drawing that was used and printed it to cut out and pose around the office.
Here she is searching for her smile amongst the ketchup and half drank bottles of waters in our office fridge.
She might think her smile is lost in the jungle but she is actually in our office pet plant (which could use some water).
I would love to see where else this girl might be looking for her lost smile. You can download her here, print her out and pose her around town for photos. Then upload your photos here to share!
I also created a Lost Smile poster. If you think there is a lack of smiles around you, you can download the poster here for printing and hanging. Hopefully it will bring a smile to someone's face.
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O Ellen!
Here's a short clip of Ellen showing off her "Road to O" Photo Book, as seen on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Also check out some of the mock cover shots Ellen created in her quest and included in her Photo Book. You can also see the actual cover. I personally liked "The Twins! O, Baby!" shot, but I'm no expert on magazine covers.
Ellen called Kodak Gallery "really easy to use," and said "if this (book) doesn't make it on Oprah's book club, I don't know what will."
Have you created a Kodak Gallery Photo Book? If not, give it a try! They make great gifts for the holidays and Ellen's right - it really is easy!
Also, if you haven't signed up for your free $15 gift as part of our Million Thanks Giveaway, you have one more day*. Visit Kodak Gallery by November 20! And thanks again!
* Restrictions apply. See site for details. This is a limited time offer while quantities last.
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5 international Kodak Social Media teams at the London 140Conf
Kodak co-hosted the event again. Jeff and Jenny both spoke, with Jenny speaking on the panel "twitter and brands".
However, this was the first time international Kodak Social Media teams from US, UK, Germany, France and Italy attended. Weeks in advance, the social media teams worked together to invite the top bloggers from their regions. Each EAMER country brought around 15 local bloggers with them to London, who spread the word about discussions from the 140Conf to their local audience via twitter, YouTube and their own blogs.
The impact of this international gathering was proven by the fact that #140Conf was the first and second top trending topics on twitter on that same day.
The German blogger Alexander Franz Köllner aka @iFranz has already uploaded a video of Johnny Häusler's "YEAH-Flashmop" on his video blog "iFranznation".
The international bloggers not only sought the "takeaways" from the different panels and speeches, but also used the opportunity for interviews about Kodak's Social Media activities with Jeff Hayzlett, who again was invited to help host part of the conference with Jeff Pulver.
The Italian blogger Marco Zamperini interviewing Jeff
In the conference room itself, Kodak presented its latest consumer products to the audience on a big demo table pod. At this pod, visitors learned all about Kodak products and about the company's social media activities.
As in L.A., In London a Smile Cam was set up where attendees could record "what makes them smile" and were being shared on 12 Second Video.
We collected some conference photos our international team members captured throughout the day on the Kodak flickr photostream.
The success of this great EAMER conference is just the beginning of events of this type, involving many international Kodak social media teams. We will keep you posted and hope you will join us at the next one...
To follow the international Kodak tweets and Facebook fan pages visit kodak.com/go/followus!
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The making of THE Kodak Challenge OLED Trophy Stand
The Opportunity - Like all interesting opportunities, it starts from the very beginning...I received a phone call one day from Steve Powell (pictured below) who chatted with me about the Kodak Challenge. He wanted to highlight Kodak's technology and innovative spirit to create something unique and special that would complement the Kodak Challenge Trophy being created by Tiffany. I accepted the "Challenge" and the Telek Skunkworks project was off and running.
The Plan - Now it was time to turn Steve's thoughts and wishes into a magical reality....The plan started with an outstanding team, which included:
- KEK Design - Jim Gresko, Pat Welborn and Paul Klock
- Kodak Tech guys - Neal Eckhaus, Joe Lentz, Greg Kulzer
- Kodak Photographers - Steve Kelly & Brian Wilder
- Octagon - Brianne Ehrenkranz
Concepts - Our design partner (KEK) sketched a range of concepts and ideas for Steve and I to review . We narrowed down the concepts to 3 for further refinement. KEK then created several mock-ups and we made the final design decision...
(Concept rendering and final design - KEK)
Once we settled on a final design, it was clear to me that additional engineering skills were required to achieve our vision and design goal...So Neal Eckhaus helped bring in the big guns...Electrical Engineering and Power/Battery gurus...Greg Kulzer and Joe Lentz, respectively. Their expertise and knowledge helped turn this vision into a reality. Greg and Joe did a phenomenal job making this OLED Trophy stand "work". Who-HA!
From left to right: Pat Welborn (KEK), Jim Gresko (KEK), Joe Lentz, Greg Kulzer and Neal Eckhaus (Kodak)
Content - Now we needed to fill the OLED screens with some great content. Steve and I kicked around various ideas, I storyboarded a couple concepts, we reviewed these with Brianne (from Octagon) and made the final decision. I prototyped the user experience using some existing OLED displays to visualize the slideshow timing...amazingly enough, we used pictures from Kevin Streelman...as seen below:
Ready to Go - One more check before we box it up and "ship it". Yup, it works...
The Event - I was fortunate to have the opportunity to accompany the Kodak OLED Trophy stand to Florida and provide technical support for all video, photo shoots, media events and final presentation. We wanted to do a dry run to verify everything traveled well, so we unboxed the Kodak Trophy and OLED Trophy stand (at an undisclosed location) and snapped some photos (Go Tina).
(The OLED frames reflected in the Tiffany silver)
(Trophy and OLED stand unboxed in Disney parking lot)
The BIG Day - We started early in the morning with a video shoot of the Kodak Challenge trophy and the Kodak OLED trophy stand (they captured some awesome footage). I was VERY glad that we added the feature to customize the individual OLED screens via a custom remote touch panel (Thanks Greg) as we definitely "tweaked" the OLED user experiences. Kevin Streelman's birdie on the 17th clinked his victory of the inaugural Kodak Challenge, but for me...it was go time. Kodak was going to award the Kodak Challenge trophy to Kevin on the 18th hole. We needed to deliver and setup the trophy and the OLED stand from an undisclosed location. That's me under the covers doing one last check before the official unveiling...Yup, we're good to go.
(Photo by Steve Kelly)
Improv - Kevin Streelman would be here in five minutes...I'm good...but wait...Our Kodak photographers (Steve Kelly and Brian Wilder) provided me some "new" photos to load onto the OLED frames...So, I cranked open the laptop and went to work (see picture below); however, Steve Powell leans over to me and says...Kevin is here, he is coming...RIGHT NOW! But I wasn't ready...So...
(Brian Wilder helping Mike Telek find a "hero" picture of Kevin - Photo by Steve Kelly)
I quickly copied a couple winning pictures (from the 17th) onto an SD card, slid up behind the OLED Trophy Stand, swapped the SD cards last second (which was part of our user experience design), slideshow playing...Done!!!
The Kodak Challenge Trophy was unveiled and Kevin received the $1M check.
(Phil Faraci and Kevin Streelman look at slideshow of pictures from Kodak Challenge, Photo by Steve Kelly)
(Phil Faraci and Keving Streelman holding the Kodak Challenge trophy with the OLED trophy stand)
I wonder if Kevin knew that the Kodak Challenge Trophy is NOT attached to the OLED tropy stand... I was ready to leap out at any time to make a Johnny Damon shoestring catch!
Read Tina Clark's post on the recap of the win - and more coverage at PGATOUR.com - Kevin Streelman wins the 2009 Kodak Challenge.
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Kodak Picture of the Day: Blueberry Overdose
Photographer: Wally Orlowsky
Country: United States
"I shot this bowl of blueberries against polka-dotted placemats to emphasize the shapes and colors."
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You can enter your own Kodak Picture of the Day.
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