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A Thousand Words is a place for stories from the people of Kodak. We love what we do, and we want to share our stories about imaging and its power to influence our world. We invite you to join our conversation with stories of your own.

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December 26, 2008

What Do You Do with 10,000 Olympic Pins?!

Thomas Hoehn Director, Brand Communications and New Media

Kodak is bidding farewell to its Olympic association after many great years. This however has surfaced an unintended consequence. Let me explain...

During this most recent games in Beijing I did a rather in-depth (and popular) post called; Twenty Years of Kodak Olympic Pins. Soon after this post went live I got a call from another Kodaker telling me that they had some extra pins in storage and wondered if I would like them. I said sure, I was sure to find a good home for them. Guess what? There were 10,000 pins!! All the same design! And they were from the 2004 Games in Athens!

Here is what they look like:

Here is what 10,000 of them look like!

Our normally very creative band of people here in the office have come up short on ideas for what to do with these. Here are some of their suggestions:

  • Create a unique sculpture?
  • Place them face down at the exit of the parking lot with the warning "Severe tire damage, do not re-enter!"
  • Come up with an over the top photo project for our Tips & Project Center
  • Use them to hang 2,500 pictures on various bulletin boards? (Do the math, it works.)
  • Place them in a time capsule for some future civilization? (I can envision the analysis now, "Obviously this was some sort of precious currency for this civilization.")
  • Give one to each of the developers of the first 10,000 i-Phone apps.

The ideas just weren't coming. If a picture is worth a thousand words 10,000 Olympic pins have to be worth something to someone! That is where you come in - let us know what you think we should do. We welcome all suggestions. As evidenced by the list above we need help.

I am counting on you!

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December 5, 2008

College Humor

Jenny Cisney Chief Blogger, kodak.com


If you are looking for some videos of gorillas and people with their underwear over their clothes running around then we have the site for you.

Kodak held the Campus Chaos Challenge on collegehumor.com, with four challenges calling for video entries.


The challenges ranged from the Underwear Run - (Get as many people as possible to put underwear over their clothes and do a run through campus) to Anti-School Spirit - (Sit in your student cheering section decked out in the opposing school's colors).

So college humor may not be everyone's style of humor... but one thing is for sure... these students will do anything to win!

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September 30, 2008

Zowie! Make Me Super!!

Thomas Hoehn Director, Brand Communications and New Media

Are you feeling super today? No? Well, this will amp you up quicker than a Red Bull...Kodak Gallery just launched a campaign called "Make Me Super." Go to www.makemesuper.com and pick a photo from your Gallery account or computer desktop to be placed into the super hero face template. 

The app creates a video complete with snappy music that is guaranteed to be stuck in your head for days! It can (and should!) be shared with friends and arch-enemies around the globe.


Clark Kent, Diana Prince, Peter Parker, (insert your name here) - Transform yourself now!

Share your super alter ego in the comments below. Okay, back to your regularly scheduled programming ;-)
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