Behind The Blue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (October 3, 2025) – When University of Kentucky alum Brian Cury, founder of EarthCam, placed the company’s first webcam above Times Square for the 1996 New Year’s Eve celebration, he thought it was a fad that soon would pass. Today, though, webcams are part of the culture. We watch eagles in their nests, bears in the wilderness, buildings under construction and scenes from cities around the world. This type of innocent voyeurism has “great appeal,” Cury said. Cury’s EarthCam, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, has cameras all over the planet, including looking down from the torch of the Statue of Liberty, outside Chicago’s Wrigley Field and the crosswalk made famous by the Beatles on northwest London’s Abbey Road.  “A lot of people actually have used our cameras as a destination,” Cury said. “They’ve traveled to London and made sure they walked in front of the (Abbey Road) camera and got a video clip of themselves. “Paul McCartney actually did it. He got