Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts, article.
when the police asked him his occupation, he replied “thief.”
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts
I love/hate how the Net now allows a word to come into existence and become ubiquitous in a week. Like now a self-portrait photograph is now called a "selfie". Sigh.
Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts, article.
when the police asked him his occupation, he replied “thief.”
Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts, article.
when the police asked him his occupation, he replied “thief.”
Selfie has been around for quite a while, but it was recently recognized a word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary, the venerable institution that pretty much governs everything pertaining to the English language. Hence the buzz. T'will pass.
ReplyDeleteI don't call them selfies, but I've been taking self portraits while holding the camera for years, usually with a 35mm SLR and a 24mm lens. I would hold the camera upside down in my outstretched right hand between thumb and forefinger, and squeeze the release with my thumb.
ReplyDeleteLike now a self-portrait photograph is now called a "selfie". Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised, I'd have thought someone like you would love a term like that. You're always into the newest technology and jargon.
I don't call them selfies, but I've been taking self portraits while holding the camera for years.... I would hold the camera upside down in my outstretched right hand between thumb and forefinger, and squeeze the release with my thumb.
I believe you must have been the one to start the trend. There's no other explanation, as no one else in the history of photography would have thought of doing that.