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Bring Your Kids to Work Day
Bring your Daughters and Sons to Work day is a busy one in Building 205 at Eastman Business Park. Two years ago, Paxton was a big hit with the kids.
In 2008, I was at Guiding Eyes for the Blind, picking up Nessie. I was very disappointed to miss the kids, and from what I heard, they were disappointed that there was no dog in my office.
This year, Nessie enjoyed petting and cooing from the kids and learned very quickly that she had to sit nicely or the kids ignored her. I thought that instead of sharing the standard "dog and kid" pictures (although they were all very cute!) I would take Nessie around to the various stations that were set up to show the kids what their parents do all day at work. Frankly, some of the teams have waaaay too much fun setting up the stations, and then the kids think mom and dad play all day at work. Some parents take their children to 2 hours meetings to disabuse them of that notion!
Here is the card that I made at the "Make Your Own Greeting Card" station. This isn't a product but the advanced development team (See? I told you. Too much fun!) put together a web cam and some morphing software on a Kodak Picture Kiosk and a duplex printer so the kids could make Mother's Day or greeting cards with their picture on it. Since I am always being asked when Nessie is going to grow into her ears, I used the fisheye morph and designed this:
Then it was off to Kodak Entertainment Imaging's "Entertainment Photo Experience" (EPX) station. This product uses photos taken against a chroma key background (green screen) and then the resulting person (or in this case, dog) is "cut out" and placed seamlessly into another layered picture background. A fun benefit to working near this project is that over the years I have been in movie sets, Seuss scenes, and varied action-adventure situations. Nessie had to pose properly so that her position in each picture would fit into the selected backgrounds. The basic down, sit and stay skills that she has learned in preparation for Guiding Eyes was useful in the photo shoot. First she had to wait in line for her turn in front of the camera. Then she had to stay in each position for the photos to be shot. For the first, she needed to lie down with her paws just hanging over the edge of a green box with her face near her paws, so it looks like she is holding the steering wheel.
For the next, she had to sit straight and still at just the right angle. She fit perfectly into her spacesuit!
Many thanks to everyone who made this a great day for the sons and daughters and one guiding eyes puppy.
Comments
Posted By: Robbin (8/24/2009)
Comment: To all whose comments on naming the new Kodak camera ended up here, your names were submitted to Jenny's contest. I hope your name is chosen!!! :-)
Posted By: Robbin (8/24/2009)
Comment: Julie - Thanks :-) Indeed, everywhere we take the puppies is a training lesson of one sort or another. Puppy raising is a lifestyle. Lucky for me, it's fun as well as educational!!
Posted By: Harold Bussey (8/20/2009)
Comment: Kodak Zodiac - Personalize it. Have consumers select their zodiac signs -zodiac stone color. For example Sagittarius would be Turquoise.
Posted By: KurtLarsen (8/19/2009)
Comment: Zyclops: for a monster of a video....
Posted By: Kurt Larsen (8/19/2009)
Comment: The advertising possibiities rival the Geico cavemen.... I can see the nearly claymation monster from Kirk Douglas's great version looming near, the great eye glaring... and he reaches up to lift from his face his own ZcClops, and records the touching reuinion.....
Posted By: Kurt Ulysses Larsen (8/19/2009)
Comment: Wow, I guess I've just inevitably committed my own worst sin, in mangling the language, thus: I guess you'd want. ZcClops...... Ow.
Posted By: Kurt Ulysses Larsen (8/19/2009)
Comment: Call it the Cyclops; I'm going to call mine Polyphemus. Larsen
Posted By: Marshall Keyes Jr. (8/19/2009)
Comment: My suggestion is the Kodak Fren-Z ..or traditional spelling of Frenzy. This is a synonym ofthe word action and while keeping the Z in mind! Good luck to all!
Posted By: Don Ward (8/19/2009)
Comment: KZ8
Posted By: Erin Richard (8/19/2009)
Comment: Correction: Last submission of "Zeigeist" URL is incorrect. Correct address is www.facebook.com/Erin
Posted By: Erin Richard (8/19/2009)
Comment: Zeitgeist or ZYTEgeist ("The meaning of this word never changes, but what it describes is subject to society's whims. Zeitgeist is the popular outlook -intellectually, morally, and culturally - in a particular period or generation.")
Posted By: Kathleen Richard (8/19/2009)
Comment: ZMate EyeLite (suggests "Twilight") EyeSpy VidZ
Posted By: V Nguyen (8/19/2009)
Comment: Browning Z in homage to one of Kodak's originals.
Posted By: NADINE (8/19/2009)
Comment: My suggestion is to name it ZANADU. It incorporates the letter "Z", and the name as read phonetically means (litarally) a "beautiful, idyllic place" (I sent this as a tweet but not sure if it went through!)
Posted By: Klaus Lowenstein (8/19/2009)
Comment: My submission for the name of the next new product is "Zeta 10"
Posted By: eli bortman (8/19/2009)
Comment: Brownie Video -- uses the familiar Kodak brand and adds the new video word
Posted By: Bob Gewecke (8/19/2009)
Comment: Looks pretty simple to me: Zcam
Posted By: michael hanbridge (8/18/2009)
Comment: here's your new product name for the Zi8: CheeZe! What does everyone say when they have their picture taken? "Cheese!" Therefor "CheeZe!" (notice the "Z" in the name) is a winner. Send my royalty check to PO Box 1488 Oneonta NY 13820
Posted By: Julie (8/13/2009)
Comment: Robbin, I always love your stories about Paxton and Nessie and especially how every event turns into an obedience lesson of some kind. Great job, as always!