It all happened when someone turned the camera towards themselves instead of pointing it at the subject.
That was the beginning of a revolution.
Unfortunately, this revolution was not as big as the one yet to come.
When that person spun the camera around, little did he know what he was doing.
Of course his action resulted in the 'self portrait' but he didn't anticipate the 'Selfie'.
The beauty of this action was more than in just turning the camera around, it was in the fact that you did not know the result of your capture until you printed it.
The fun in the original Selfie lay also in the fact that it caught the 'you' that was originally beautiful and not the 'you' you considered beautiful.
Today, front cameras on phones (the bigger revolution) have eliminated the spontaneity of a Selfie. It has even allowed for editing a Selfie. The term suddenly doesn't describe the process anymore.
How about an Self-Editee?
The real 'you' has today turned into the 'you' that you want to show the world.
With the click of a few buttons you can change the color of your hair, the color of your skin, erase the blemishes, tint the pic, highlight your assets, hide your insecurities, purse your lips and voila: The Self-Editee!
The edit doesn't always happen via technology. The saddest part of the Selfie generation today is the pains taken to prepare for a Selfie, the make up, the dress up, the fake smiles, the poses!
It's was fun until someone took it too far, maybe to the top of a 12 floor building, maybe atop a railway line, maybe somewhere even more dangerous. The acknowledgement of a Selfie became more important than the purpose of taking the Selfie itself.
In the effort to create a Selfie, what happened to it's spontaneity?
That was the beginning of a revolution.
Unfortunately, this revolution was not as big as the one yet to come.
When that person spun the camera around, little did he know what he was doing.
Of course his action resulted in the 'self portrait' but he didn't anticipate the 'Selfie'.
The beauty of this action was more than in just turning the camera around, it was in the fact that you did not know the result of your capture until you printed it.
The fun in the original Selfie lay also in the fact that it caught the 'you' that was originally beautiful and not the 'you' you considered beautiful.
Today, front cameras on phones (the bigger revolution) have eliminated the spontaneity of a Selfie. It has even allowed for editing a Selfie. The term suddenly doesn't describe the process anymore.
How about an Self-Editee?
The real 'you' has today turned into the 'you' that you want to show the world.
With the click of a few buttons you can change the color of your hair, the color of your skin, erase the blemishes, tint the pic, highlight your assets, hide your insecurities, purse your lips and voila: The Self-Editee!
The edit doesn't always happen via technology. The saddest part of the Selfie generation today is the pains taken to prepare for a Selfie, the make up, the dress up, the fake smiles, the poses!
It's was fun until someone took it too far, maybe to the top of a 12 floor building, maybe atop a railway line, maybe somewhere even more dangerous. The acknowledgement of a Selfie became more important than the purpose of taking the Selfie itself.
In the effort to create a Selfie, what happened to it's spontaneity?
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