When Robert Burley photographed Kodak Canada’s final employee meeting in the parking lot on the last day of manufacturing in 2005, he assumed it was an isolated act of corporate downsizing — the winding down of one facility to safeguard Kodak’s other operations. He now knows he was seeing the first domino fall. Two years later, Burley was in Rochester, NY, the spiritual home and headquarters of the once-giant analog film manufacturer. “Kodak was blowing up one huge building after the other,” says Burley a photographer and associate professor at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada. But the decimation of the film industry didn’t stop with Kodak. Burley stumbled into a multi-year project for which he was to photograph the demise of multiple companies. “A year later I was in Boston photographing Polaroid factories being torn down. To be present at these events made me realize I was witnessing not only a radical change in my medium but also a dizzying moment in history.”

When Robert Burley photographed Kodak Canada’s final employee meeting in the parking lot on the last day of manufacturing in 2005, he assumed it was an isolated act of corporate downsizing — the winding down of one facility to safeguard Kodak’s other operations. He now knows he was seeing the first domino fall. Two years later, Burley was in Rochester, NY, the spiritual home and headquarters of the once-giant analog film manufacturer.

“Kodak was blowing up one huge building after the other,” says Burley a photographer and associate professor at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada.

But the decimation of the film industry didn’t stop with Kodak. Burley stumbled into a multi-year project for which he was to photograph the demise of multiple companies.

“A year later I was in Boston photographing Polaroid factories being torn down. To be present at these events made me realize I was witnessing not only a radical change in my medium but also a dizzying moment in history.”

(Source: Wired)

  • November 8
  • , 2012
fivedaze: John Carter Concept Art Ahhhhh! (In a good way.) What a cutie-pie.

fivedaze:

John Carter Concept Art

Ahhhhh! (In a good way.)

What a cutie-pie.

  • July 20
  • , 2012
Batman has a long history of falling for bad women. Why? [Image from Gotham City Sirens No. 1, courtesy DC Comics]

Batman has a long history of falling for bad women. Why?

[Image from Gotham City Sirens No. 1, courtesy DC Comics]

(Source: Wired)

  • July 15
  • , 2012

Exclusive Video: First Look at New Armor From Iron Man 3

Here’s Wired senior editor Peter Rubin with an exclusive look at the new armor, as well as a chronological spin through the various power suits donned by Robert Downey Jr. in the hit superhero movies.

What do you think of the new suit?

(Source: Wired)

  • July 14
  • , 2012
Steampunk meets fairyland fantasia in the wondrous-looking new footage from Oz the Great and Powerful, which director Sam Raimi unveiled Thursday at Comic-Con International. Lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh YES. Read more about the new interpretation of the story of the ruby slippers on Underwire.

Steampunk meets fairyland fantasia in the wondrous-looking new footage from Oz the Great and Powerful, which director Sam Raimi unveiled Thursday at Comic-Con International.

Lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh YES.

Read more about the new interpretation of the story of the ruby slippers on Underwire.

(Source: Wired)

  • July 14
  • , 2012

guardian:

More great travel time-lapse videos sent in from our readers - there are some beautifully observed shots of people going about their daily lives captured in this piece on Kiev, posted by yeltz83

This video will make you want to get out of your apartment and travel. Or break out some miniatures and have at it. Either way, good stuff.

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  • June 30
  • , 2012

curiositycounts:

Riveting (and revealing) set photos that will change the way you see some of the most epic, classic films of our time.

View collection here.

Unless you want all of your childhood dreams destroyed…We looked. It was worth it.

(Source: Wired)

  • June 15
  • , 2012
“I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week,” [Ridley] Scott told the Daily Beast in an interview posted Thursday. “We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.” Finally!!!!!

“I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week,” [Ridley] Scott told the Daily Beast in an interview posted Thursday. “We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.”

Finally!!!!!

(Source: Wired)

  • May 21
  • , 2012

Hot tracks from Huoratron (read more about him on Underwire here) set to ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ trailer? Yes. This will start this weekend off right. 

Many more Huoratron trailer mash-ups here.

(Source: Wired)

  • April 27
  • , 2012
[via @wired instagram]: A little slice of CA in the crazy that is TX right now. <3

[via @wired instagram]:

A little slice of CA in the crazy that is TX right now.

<3

(Source: Wired)

  • March 12
  • , 2012