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[Akima]

like, twice a year I straighten my hairs. So different!

So gorgeous! OK, so I'm biased in favour of straight hair... And it makes the pink richer.

[Lines]

Guys I wore a dress

A very pretty dress! That hem detail is awesome.

[Papersatan]

That dress is wonderful, and it looks great on you.

[nekowafer]

Thanks everyone! I feel fancy in dresses and I like feeling fancy so I think I need to wear dresses more often.

[ev4n]

Part of me is incurious about ever seeing Europe, because I love so much where I live.

Part of me is very, very jeaolous of so many people living so close to the sea.

[Method of Madness]

Part of me is incurious about ever seeing Europe, because I love so much where I live.

I don't understand this. It's great to love where you live, but that hardly should mean you never want to leave, even on vacation.

Also, I don't think anyone should ever be incurious.

[GarandMarine]

I want to go see Europe... but I want to go back to Japan. A lot. XD

[Barmymoo]

I have never heard the word incurious before. Does it actually exist?

I always love coming back home again and would never want to live anywhere else except England (having lived in three other countries already). I do like travelling, but if I could never travel again for some weird reason, the only thing that would make me sad about that would be that I couldn't go visit friends in other countries.

[pwhodges]

I have never heard the word incurious before. Does it actually exist?

OED cites it from the sixteenth century (though then meaning careless or indifferent, which is closer to the Latin).

[Patrick]

Came back to a very pretty newbie and lots of photos of our very pretty regulars. I am so very happy.

[Method of Madness]

I think my main issue with selfies is it takes away the whole "hey, can you take a picture of me" way of making friends...or if not making friends, at least interacting with other people in general.

[nekowafer]

But it's still possible to make friends and interact with people in a million other ways. That seems like an odd reason to dislike something that other people do.

[Aimless]

I think my main issue with selfies is it takes away the whole "hey, can you take a picture of me" way of making friends...or if not making friends, at least interacting with other people in general.

But what if the other person is in the selfie with you...!!

I hate selfies but only because my camera is shit and I always look extra weird because my eyes are like looking in some dumb direction or looking extra-sleazy when they look right into the camera

But I took a selfie just for you

[Pilchard123]

I hate selfies but only because my camera is shit and I always look extra weird because my eyes are like looking in some dumb direction

Is the brim of your cap really so fascinating?

[Aimless]

It's where I keep mah words and instructions: "Okay, breathe in. Okay, now breathe out."

[Papersatan]

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Also, I read this thing on selfies today that I totally agree with:

I’m definitely pro-selfie. I think that anybody who’s anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn’t people take pictures of themselves? When I’m on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I’m like, ‘Thank you.’ I don’t need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There’s only one you. I could Google image search ‘the sky’ and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can’t Google, you know, ‘What does my friend look like today?’ For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world – I think that’s a great thing.
-Ezra Koenig

And that's the thing, people who are against them frequently point to them as a sign on vanity or how technology makes us self-centered and unsocial, but in reality most people are sending selfies to their friends, some of whom never get to see them in person.  All of us here are used to interacting with people virtually, and selfies are a way to put an ever changing human face on the real person we are interacting with.  I don't see how posting a ton of selfies is anti-social, infact, I think it's the opposite. Most of my selfies I send to friends as a part of an exchange a conversation if you will.  I use snapchat all the time to send and receive selfies from people who I want socialize with in a carefree, spontaneous way, if you're anti-selfie, you're missing out on a great way to love yourself and share that love with the people you love. 

(ps. that last one is totally the titty dress mentioned in the drunk thread)

[nekowafer]

I love selfies

[Method of Madness]

Argh damn it what have I done.

[Papersatan]

Gotten to look at more pretty faces.

 

[ChaoSera]

I'm not against selfies but there are basically none of me because I feel weird taking them. Dunno why.

[pwhodges]

Selfie; in Japan; 1980; reflected in the glass of a painting on a shrine:

[hedgie]

I'm not against selfies but there are basically none of me because I feel weird taking them. Dunno why.

Absolutely none of me.  There aren't even any pics of me online taken by others (AFAIK), since I'm rather camera-shy.  I have a rather firm belief that I belong on the other side of the lens, especially now that I'm not young, thin, or pretty.

[Grognard]

yesterday evening, I took a few hours to de-compress.  no fish were successfully harmed in this filming.

[Grognard]

and yet... this is how I feel this AM.



oh, and this is the first face picture of mine to hit the 'Net since 2010.

[lepetitfromage]

Re: selfies-
I love taking photographs. I'll snap any subject matter, really. Digital or film too. Sometimes, I enjoy taking photographs of myself. I don't do it as often now as I used to but I didn't make a conscious decision to take them less. In the 15+ years that I've spent exploring photography, I've taken a number of self portraits. There's nothing wrong with them! They can be an amazing way to explore self expression, experiment with the portrayal of emotions, etc, etc, etc. I don't have a problem with selfies, per se....but I have some gripes about certain aspects of them. (Food for thought- if 1 million people take a selfie, how many of them know that it was derived from "self portrait"?)


1. I don't need to see 5 albums with 40 of the same exact photo in each one. Yes, it's obviously going to be your face in every selfie because that is the nature of selfies. No, we don't need to see a new shot just because your hair shifted slightly. It's not as though it's a huge problem to me, just feels pointless. I just scroll past in those instances but there's usually a slight eye roll that follows. If someone does it enough, I make a point of unfollowing them.


2. It feels like a bastardization of real photography to me. I know this is a serious art snob thing to say and I am partly ashamed but it just drives me crazy to see people posting selfies that have been stuffed through a filter to "antique" them and then all of a sudden everyone thinks they're the next Annie Leibovitz. There's nothing wrong with finding joy in taking pictures- in fact, it's great! It's the lack of knowledge that gets to me. If you want to call yourself a photographer, take the time and effort to delve into this beautiful medium. The possibilities are endless!! Be a part of the movement to keep the arts alive, don't just borrow from them at your convenience to make yourself sound better. Clicking the shutter button on your iPhone makes you a photographer the same way that making boxed mac and cheese makes me a chef. People have taken photographs of themselves and of other people for quite some time now. Before everyone had a camera in their phone, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who claimed to be a photographer when their biggest gig was their cousin's 18th birthday.

[nekowafer]

I am going to make a Selfie thread, methinks. Not to annoy or upset anyone that doesn't like them, but so that people can post as many as they want, as often as they want, and if you don't like them, you don't have to look at them. I think it will also feel less "serious" than this thread.

[BeoPuppy]

... this thread is serious?

I never knew.

Old picture, best selfie ever:

[nekowafer]

I put it in quotes because it was not meant to be serious, but I think most people don't want to post just random selfies/etc in here.

[BeoPuppy]

Meh, it's a photo thread. Selfies are photos. I think you're good.

[GarandMarine]

I'm not against selfies but there are basically none of me because I feel weird taking them. Dunno why.

Absolutely none of me.  There aren't even any pics of me online taken by others (AFAIK), since I'm rather camera-shy.  I have a rather firm belief that I belong on the other side of the lens, especially now that I'm not young, thin, or pretty.

Aren't you like 22 dude?

[lepetitfromage]

I don't have a problem with them, I have a problem when people try to pawn them off as something they are not. (or when they beat me over the head with the same image 40 times...) I just felt like throwing in my two cents because this topic has come up a lot in a number of places in my life recently and I've really been thinking about it a lot. I apologize if it came across as harsh. 




Putting selfies in this thread is perfect, imo (and the ones in here are adorable). Beo's right- they are photos, this is photo thread. 

[Barmymoo]

hedgie, you don't have to be young or thin to be pretty or to take photos of yourself.

[hedgie]

I'm not against selfies but there are basically none of me because I feel weird taking them. Dunno why.

Absolutely none of me.  There aren't even any pics of me online taken by others (AFAIK), since I'm rather camera-shy.  I have a rather firm belief that I belong on the other side of the lens, especially now that I'm not young, thin, or pretty.

Aren't you like 22 dude?

Try adding a decade and a bit.  The only reasons I haven't finished University yet are that I've changed majors a few times, and that with the crap going on in my head, I've had to take time off.

hedgie, you don't have to be young or thin to be pretty or to take photos of yourself.

I know that, but I still quite dislike people taking photos where there's any chance that I'll be in them.  Always have been.

[GarandMarine]

Hahah. I always thought you were younger then me for some reason.

[BeoPuppy]

It's the avatar.

[GarandMarine]

Fair. I can't tell you how many people assume I'm a pony with this avatar.

[BeoPuppy]

... you're not?!?!?

... just thought that your avatar was a selfie as warhorse ...

[Grognard]

hedgie, you don't have to be young or thin to be pretty or to take photos of yourself.

I'm a perfect example.
NOT
young.
thin
or pretty.

that look of "where did that fukin bus come from? & why am I being drug along?" is nigh permanent.

[nekowafer]

I may be on the young side (29) but I am by no means thin or pretty, and I still take plenty of pics of myself.

[BeoPuppy]

What the fuck does "pretty" mean, anyway? And why would you not be that?

[Grognard]

I think you're pretty, Neko.

[Noxx]

Despite years of searching, historians are still yet to find a single photo of Noxx without sunglasses...

Nonsense! I found this one with my fresh baby blue whip circa 1974!

[Method of Madness]

Not to annoy or upset anyone that doesn't like them

On the contrary, I think a selfie thread is a wonderful idea.

[LeeC]

its about a month old and I've shaved my beard in favor of a mustache along with a hair cut but here is me enjoying some sweetfrog at VA Beach


was mighty windy at the beach!

[Patrick]

I played a show about a week ago. Someone had a film camera and caught me smoking a cigarette during our set. I'm very pleased with the resulting picture.

[Grognard]

that there is solo album cover for sure!

[bainidhe_dub]

This looks like a photo I would find in a stack of pictures from my parents' cross country dog-and-van tour in approximately 1983.

[Patrick]

it makes me realize just how much I dwarf that bass. I'm a tall feller. and I wasn't even the tallest one there, there was definitely a guy who was like 7'4.

[Method of Madness]

How tall are you?

[bainidhe_dub]

how freakin' cute is this? my cousin (my dad's goddaughter) made it.