Category: selfie

No budget? No problem! This music video was shot with a coat hanger, some wire and a GoPro

John Aldred

Adding some motion to the camera is one of the simplest ways to give your footage a bit of interest.  Today, we have more options than ever when it comes to how we can get that motion. For Matt and Kim’s latest music video for their song, Let’s Run Away, they decided to try something a […]

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Sugar Land, Texas erects statues in honour of selfie shooters

John Aldred

People have been creating statues to celebrate the the real and fictional characters they have admired for at least the last 35,000 years.  Washington has Lincoln, Philadelphia has Rocky, and Sugar Land, Texas has… two ladies shooting a selfie. Described by one Facebook commentator as the reason “why people hate the young generation!”, opinions seem pretty […]

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Judgement day is upon us, Selfie Robots are about to be a thing thanks to ASUS

John Aldred

The future is starting to look like a very scary place, and it’s not due to Skynet, but ASUS, with the announcement of Zenbo, a tiny robot assistant. Introduced at the 2016 Computex Taipei consumer electronics show, ASUS presented a working model which rolled around on the stage, responding to commands. If you only want to waste […]

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Man takes selfie with walrus, pays with his life

Udi Tirosh

As the selfie bar keeps getting higher, we report more and more sad selfie stories, and while some may argue that selfie caused deaths is the new natural selection (or Darwin award candidates), no one should pay with their life for a stupid photo decision. According to the shanghaiist, a man visiting the the Yeshanko Wildlife Zoo in […]

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Hugo shot a selfie every day for over eight and a half years

John Aldred

Stop motion and timelapse enthusiast, Hugo Cornellier reposts and updates his selfie timelapse every year or so, each time adding another 12 months’ worth of images onto the stack. This time around, he’s decided to ramp up the production value and stabilise all of the shots giving a much smoother and cleaner video, and he’s going […]

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Person takes a selfie takes with a 126-year-old statue and breaks it to pieaces

Udi Tirosh

Humans 1 : statues 0. Looks like we are winning the battles against still objects. More so, we are killing those statues by taking selfies. Or at least this is the score at the latest battle between man and the 126-year-old statue of Portuguese king Dom Sebastiao. According to the New York post, the 24 year old, […]

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Indian teen passes away after shooting himself while trying to take a selfie with a pistol

Gannon Burgett

We joke about selfies as often as news and other content allows us. Unfortunately, not all selfie news is humorous though. Late last week, an Indian teen passed away after accidentally shooting himself while trying to take a selfie with a handgun. On Friday, April 29th, Fifteen-year-old Ramandeep Singh was taking a selfie his father’s […]

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California wildfire ‘selfie’ arsonist gets 20 years and a $60 million fine

John Aldred

Selfies are just a part of our culture today, whether stills or video, but they have been known to land people in hot water a time or two.  Sometimes the consequences are simply a little embarrassment, sometimes very severe (and rightly so). In what seems more suited to ridicule on America’s Dumbest Criminals, California resident Wayne Allen Huntsman […]

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