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chagalov: George Eastman makes pictures with his Kodak camera, ca 1926 -Getty Images burnedshoes: © Getty Images, ca. 1926, George Eastman makes pictures with his Kodak camera For the word Kodak, which has become one of the most recognizable brand names ever, there is no special meaning attached to it. George Eastman explained its origin: “I devised the name myself. The letter ‘K’ had been a favorite with me - it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. It became a question of trying out a great number of combinations of letters that made words starting and ending with ‘K.’ The word ‘Kodak’ is the result.”

chagalov:

George Eastman makes pictures with his Kodak camera, ca 1926 -Getty Images

burnedshoes:

© Getty Images, ca. 1926, George Eastman makes pictures with his Kodak camera

For the word Kodak, which has become one of the most recognizable brand names ever, there is no special meaning attached to it. George Eastman explained its origin: “I devised the name myself. The letter ‘K’ had been a favorite with me - it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. It became a question of trying out a great number of combinations of letters that made words starting and ending with ‘K.’ The word ‘Kodak’ is the result.”

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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. —Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. —Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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chagalov: ‘Strict continuity’ - On the set of Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964), a game engaged with George C. Scott (see here) When you’re making a film you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and  there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip. It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set, But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance. With respect to films, chess is more useful preventing you from making mistakes than giving you ideas. Ideas come spontaneously and the discipline required to evaluate and put them to use tends to be the real work.— Stanley Kubrick, interviewed by Michel Ciment, in ‘Kubrick: The Definitive Edition’ (Macmillan, 2003) photo from: blog.chess

chagalov:

‘Strict continuity’ - On the set of Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964), a game engaged with George C. Scott (see here)

When you’re making a film you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and  there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip. It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set, But a few seconds’ thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance. With respect to films, chess is more useful preventing you from making mistakes than giving you ideas. Ideas come spontaneously and the discipline required to evaluate and put them to use tends to be the real work.
— Stanley Kubrick, interviewed by Michel Ciment, in ‘Kubrick: The Definitive Edition’ (Macmillan, 2003)

photo from: blog.chess