Tag: selfie
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Woman Takes Anti-Selfies Stance By ‘Dying’ At Famous Landmarks And They’re Strangely Hilarious
You go to a famous landmark, you take a selfie in front of it and upload it to Instagram. Soon, your mom and everyone else starts complimenting your looks and the world wonder in the background becomes just that. A background. But artist Stephanie Leigh Rose has found a way to document her travels while…
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Weekend Photo Funnies: Times When The Background Was Better Than The Foreground
With the advent of the smartphone containing far more powerful cameras, the art of the selfie has flourished to almost annoying levels. People simply can't get enough of them, particularly among the younger generation who are heavier digital users compared to us old folk. Bringing us much needed relief to the selfie culture is the…
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Instagram Account Exposes the Boyfriends Forced to Take the ‘Perfect’ Girlfriend Photo
We’ve all seen the photos before. The ‘perfect’ Instagram photograph taken at luxurious location A, followed by another pose at spectacular location B. But who takes those photos? The boyfriends of course! Boyfriends of Instagram seeks to expose these boyfriends, in a series of hilarious photos showing them going to ridiculous lengths to capture the perfect…
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Woman Hilariously Recreates Celebrity Instagram Photos
Celeste Barber isn’t your ordinary comedian. Her ongoing series #CelesteChallengeAccepted parodies the weird and outlandish ‘selfies’ of celebrities, in Barber’s own style. According to Barber: “People are really supporting it – I didn’t really care for how it would be perceived, I just started it for my friends who I knew would love it. I continued it…
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This Cat Takes Way Better Selfies Than You
As our mascot is Fido the dog, it’s not too difficult to work out that we have a fondness for everything puppy. Despite this, every once in a while a feisty feline comes along that completely stops us in our tracks. Manny the selfie obsessed pussy is one such example. Manny can out-selfie the best of…
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Images Of How Smartphones Have Taken Over Our Lives
It’s not uncommon to see a person walking down the street while they are completely distracted by their phone, causing them to accidentally bump into someone or something. It’s called the Mobile Phone Zombie Apocalypse and it is well and truly upon us. No one is immune, everyone is consumed. Here’s a collection of our favorite Mobile Phone Zombie…
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Ads Feature Classic Artists Taking “Selfies”
Advertising agency Leo Burnett Switzerland created a tongue-in-cheek campaign that’ll appeal to both selfie and fine art lovers. Three posters feature the iconic artists Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and Albrecht Dürer snapping their picture using the Samsung NX Mini camera – the tagline for the campaign is For Self-Portraits. Not Selfies. In each image, the…
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Have We All Gone Mad? Museum Paintings Taking Selfies
Museum of Selfies is a fun art project started by Olivia Muus that shows people in portrait paintings about to take a selfie. Muus explains: “This is a project that started when my friend aka. right hand and I went to the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. I took a picture for fun and liked…
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Redditor Makes Statues Take Selfies By Cleverly Positioning His Camera
On a recent visit to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, one Reddit user had the clever idea of photographing the museum’s collection of plaster Greco-Roman statues to make it look as though they’ve taken a series of statue selfies. The “models” in these selfies are plaster copies of original statues in the Vatican museum.…
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Artist Draws Ellen’s Academy Awards Selfie That Broke Twitter!
It takes a lot to stop Twitter in its tracks. But a single “selfie” — a self portrait taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the Academy Awards and featuring an all-star lineup including Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper — did just that. The image, taken live on television and posted online by…