According to the NYT today (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?hp) the last Kodachrome processing facility in Parsons Kansas will close today.  I bet my kids don’t even know who Paul Simon is, never mind what he probably imagined would be a timeless metaphor for his song.

I can just imagine what it would be costing me for photo processing for the girls given the endless pile they produce daily.

Kodak gave Steve McMurray, the Photographer who took this famous picture for National Geographic, on Kodachromme of course, the last roll of film they produced.  My picture might have been an iconic mashup except for the fact that we’d been up late and Margaret wouldn’t take her sunglasses off, and my digital camera overexposed (-:

So first produced in 1935, who’d have believed even ten years ago that picture images would get even more ubiquitious and Kodak would have very little to do with it.  And looking forward from ten years ago, that there would be mobile phone cameras, Facebook, and Posterous.  Another buggy whip.

I’ve been sitting here in a hotel lobby reading my email, newspapers on my laptop, pulling a picture of Margaret out of my photoshop album, and blogging, watching a french woman across from me skype one person after another………..

Plus ca change………………Bonne annee