Ug napurdoy ang Kodak

As film giant Kodak files for bankruptcy protection, everyone from photographers to economists is looking back at the company that was, for so long, synonymous with American photography. The company has entered the US ‘Chapter 11’ process by which a court oversees its restructuring and protects it from its creditors as it attempts to reorganize into a profitable business. However it emerges from the process, Kodak will never again be the photographic titan it was during the film era.”

— www.dpreview.com

Ug tungod niani, duha ka kanta ang mitukar sa jukebox sa akong bagulbagul. Duha ka kanta nga mi-capture, ingnun tang punga, sa papel sa Kodak ug sa photography sa atong kinabuhi, ma film man o ma digital. Kini mao ang “Mr. Kodaker” ni Max Surban ug ang “Kodachrome” ni Paul Simon.

(“Mr. Kodaker” —Max Surban)

Gibiyaan ko na lang ang akong pagka mananangut

Gibaligya ko ang sugong, kawit ug ang akong sanggut

Nipuyo akos syudad, Kapobre nuon misamot

Busa misulod na lang ako pagka maniniyut

Nangudak akog patay sa silingan nga balay

Ang pamilya nang hilak hasta ang nanag bilar

Nisinggit ako og smile unya gi-flash ko ang kodak

Ni-esmile silang tanan bisan og nagahilak

CHORUS:

Maniniyut, maniniyut, trabaho ko maniniyut

Kodaker, kodaker, ako si Mr. Kodaker

May laing nagpapiktyur, duha ka managtrato

Gipa-posing ko sila nga dikit gyud kaayo

Ug ni-shoot dayon ako unya gipa develop ko

Kannindut sa retrato puros putol ang mga ulo

(Repeat CHORUS)

May bag-o nga gikasal nagpakodak sa may altar

Camera kuno i-shoot atul sa ilang paghaluk

Camera ko mi kagar ang flash igo lang misiyuk

Kaunom gyud mokagar, kaunom sad maghaluk

(Repeat CHORUS)

Gipa-posing ko ang tanan, background sa bag-ong gikasal

Mga pamilya miapil naghuot sa may altar

Mipitik kos makadaghan aron makuha ang tanan

Milutaw sa retrato ang pari lang ug sakristan

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

(“Kodachrome” —Paul Simon)

When I think back

On all the crap I learned in high school

It’s a wonder

I can think at all

And though my lack of edu—cation

Hasn’t hurt me none

I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, Oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew

When I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I know they’d never match

my sweet imagination

everything looks WORSE in black and white

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, Oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Leave your boy so far from home

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome

Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away