They are so dumb. The first time I ever saw them was on my honeymoon in December. It seems like EVERYONE in New Zealand had them. They make people super unaware of their surroundings.
I have heard of a few museums that have banned them, actually.
People have hit exhibits with the stupid things. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go turn off alarms because some idiot wasnt paying attention to what they were doing. I can only imagin that it is worse at art museums. I can easily see someone not paying attention and damaging a priceless work of art.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I totally don't mind selfie sticks with actual cameras (GoPros are fun and especially well suited to being strapped onto all kinds of things). Basically, if you are shooting something that requires apparati (tripod, zoom lens, whatever) I don't mind. You're actually doing something artistic (or at least intentional) and chances are you aren't just duckfacing in front of a toilet while you do so.
Can't agree enough about the pictures of art. I realized long ago that I'm not actually a great photographer, so I spend the time I would have spent "setting up a shot" just...taking in the art. Or the view. Or the monument. I try to memorize the way the light hits something, or focus on the brushstrokes, or pay attention to the bird that's singing while I stare into a particular sunset. That image is much more valuable (and permanent) to me than any shitty photo I could take.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
Ditto!
My UO: GoPros should only be used for stuff like hiking, biking, surfing, sky diving etc. Not for filming yourself walking around on a regular day just because. I mean, maybe as part of some artsy project or whatever, but just to make sure you capture you're every waking moment? I don't get it.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
Ditto!
My UO: GoPros should only be used for stuff like hiking, biking, surfing, sky diving etc. Not for filming yourself walking around on a regular day just because. I mean, maybe as part of some artsy project or whatever, but just to make sure you capture you're every waking moment? I don't get it.
We put one on our dog's collar once, for fun. His perspective was weird, and made us all seasick.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
Ditto!
My UO: GoPros should only be used for stuff like hiking, biking, surfing, sky diving etc. Not for filming yourself walking around on a regular day just because. I mean, maybe as part of some artsy project or whatever, but just to make sure you capture you're every waking moment? I don't get it.
We put one on our dog's collar once, for fun. His perspective was weird, and made us all seasick.
FI got the dog mount for his GoPro. At the last family get together he took turns putting it on all the dogs. It's not much better than sticking it on the collar, honestly.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
I've done this, but now I think it's so weird. I went to a bunch of European countries when I was in college. And I have tons of pictures of art. They're terrible pictures! Awful! I wish I would have just written down "Nike statue - pretty" and looked up nice pictures once I got home.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
I've done this, but now I think it's so weird. I went to a bunch of European countries when I was in college. And I have tons of pictures of art. They're terrible pictures! Awful! I wish I would have just written down "Nike statue - pretty" and looked up nice pictures once I got home.
Anyways, now this is a thing I vow to never do.
I totally take pictures at museums. But more for the purpose of "look at my kid, being all cool, looking at cool arts"
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
I've done this, but now I think it's so weird. I went to a bunch of European countries when I was in college. And I have tons of pictures of art. They're terrible pictures! Awful! I wish I would have just written down "Nike statue - pretty" and looked up nice pictures once I got home.
Anyways, now this is a thing I vow to never do.
I totally take pictures at museums. But more for the purpose of "look at my kid, being all cool, looking at cool arts"
All bets are off when kids are involved. But pray tell--do you just, like, "point the camera at them and take a picture," or are you hip with the times and insert your face into the shot as well????
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
I've done this, but now I think it's so weird. I went to a bunch of European countries when I was in college. And I have tons of pictures of art. They're terrible pictures! Awful! I wish I would have just written down "Nike statue - pretty" and looked up nice pictures once I got home.
Anyways, now this is a thing I vow to never do.
I totally take pictures at museums. But more for the purpose of "look at my kid, being all cool, looking at cool arts"
To me, the ones with people in them are worth it. You want to capture YOUR experience there, not the statues and shit themselves.
Eh. If you're just using them exclusively for selfies, or if you're using your cell phone with it, then yeah, but my brother has one for his GoPro and it has been fantastic. He was able to get pictures above the crowd at the Changing of the Guard and at the Eiffel Tower. Plus he's taped it to the front of his longboard and to the front of a friend's beat up old car and had the friend follow him around a parking lot in the car while he did tricks for another friend's videography project for class. BUT. He's responsible with it, and would never use it in an art museum, and frankly doesn't use it all that much now anyway.
My point is, GoPro + selfie stick is a lot more versatile than expensive, fragile cell phone + selfie stick. Worth it on a GoPro (and with a responsible user). Next to useless on a cell phone.
Also - this may be an UO in and of itself, but there are millions of fantastic, professional photographs of famous works of art, and even of not-so-famous works of art, if they're in famous museums. Why would I want to take a shitty one? It won't make the memory any better - every time I've seen a famous work, it's been surrounded by crowds. I don't want to remember the crowds. They shunted me around and let me admire the work I wanted to see for a grand total of .3 seconds before shoving me out of the way. I want to remember the work. I can't do that any better with with a shitty, blurred cell-phone picture with an arm in the frame.
I'm with you here. I don't take pictures of things in art museums. Pretending someone's head is being bitten by the dinosaur skeleton though, yes I absolutely do that.
I've done this, but now I think it's so weird. I went to a bunch of European countries when I was in college. And I have tons of pictures of art. They're terrible pictures! Awful! I wish I would have just written down "Nike statue - pretty" and looked up nice pictures once I got home.
Anyways, now this is a thing I vow to never do.
I totally take pictures at museums. But more for the purpose of "look at my kid, being all cool, looking at cool arts"
All bets are off when kids are involved. But pray tell--do you just, like, "point the camera at them and take a picture," or are you hip with the times and insert your face into the shot as well????
Oh god, no hahahaha, I aint interested in having that many pictures of my own damn face.
I'm with everyone on the selfie sticks. Although I did see a video the other day of someone with a selfie stick and GoPro going down a massive water slide and then doing a flip when they were flung off on the end. That was kind of cool. But otherwise...no. Especially at museums. Some people are actually there to look at the art, not your stupid face blocking the painting. Shocking, I know.
Some assholes took a group shot with a selfie stick at the site of the building explosion/collapse in NYC last week. Made me loathe that thing even more.
Some assholes took a group shot with a selfie stick at the site of the building explosion/collapse in NYC last week. Made me loathe that thing even more.
It just makes me want to pack everyone up in a van and send them to a really boring summer camp in an area without cell phone or internet service, strip them of their devices, and leave them there. I will return in a year's time. Either they will have learned some fucking social skills, or they will have destroyed each other, Lord of the Flies style. Either way, society wins.
Some assholes took a group shot with a selfie stick at the site of the building explosion/collapse in NYC last week. Made me loathe that thing even more.
It just makes me want to pack everyone up in a van and send them to a really boring summer camp in an area without cell phone or internet service, strip them of their devices, and leave them there. I will return in a year's time. Either they will have learned some fucking social skills, or they will have destroyed each other, Lord of the Flies style. Either way, society wins.
They're huge with the 19-22 year old kids I cheer with. Everyone had one on our last competition trip. I don't have a cell phone, so I don't really get the whole selfie thing. DH and I take them on vacation though. He's terrible at it actually, and is always missing the button to take the picture, or cropping out his head or something. I've been joking all trip that I'm getting him a selfie stick to use on trips
We used it with our GoPro when we were in HI for our HM. Honestly it was the only way we could get the shots we did while on that trip, as many of the places we didn't have someone to take a photo of us, and we got great wide angle shots of the different volcano craters.
But I absolutely loathe them for other "normal day" types of things. I wish they would ban them at theme parks; so many people get slapped in the face or have parade/firework views blocked because of them and its not fair to the other guests.
I don't mind/care about selfie sticks, but in this day, I don't trust giving my phone/camera to strangers to take photos of me/my group. Maybe in Canada where my guard isn't up, but anywhere on vacation it's too sketchy. Too many reports of that happening and then they steal it.
I don't mind/care about selfie sticks, but in this day, I don't trust giving my phone/camera to strangers to take photos of me/my group. Maybe in Canada where my guard isn't up, but anywhere on vacation it's too sketchy. Too many reports of that happening and then they steal it.
I shall pass on to you my foolproof trick: Always ask someone who has a nicer phone or camera than yours.
If you always have top-of-the-line gear, this may be difficult.
But honestly--I'd love to see the stats on "people who got their shit stolen after asking someone to take their picture." I would bet dollars to donuts it's not as high as you think. Even outside of Canada.
I don't like kids. there is a small number of kids I can handle being around, even like being around, for a couple hours, tops. After that they work ny last nerve. Most kids annoy the shit out of me in under 10 minutes. I am not one of those childfree apologists who always "oh but of course I love kids" because I don't.
And for the love of humanity stop putting ypur damn baby on the phone when I call you.
I don't mind/care about selfie sticks, but in this day, I don't trust giving my phone/camera to strangers to take photos of me/my group. Maybe in Canada where my guard isn't up, but anywhere on vacation it's too sketchy. Too many reports of that happening and then they steal it.
Apparently they've been banning selfie sticks in many famous art museums. I was at the MOMA recently and every single person seemed compelled to get a selfie in front of Van Gogh's Starry Night, sort of like this dweeb:
This shit makes me insane. Like, what is so important about YOUR STUPID FACE that you think it needs to be included in a photograph of an artistic masterpiece? Protip: if you post a photo to FB of Starry Night, people will realize that "you were there." You don't have to insert your face into every fucking thing.
If there's one thing I hate more than selfie sticks, it's people taking selfies in front of art. Makes my blood boil!!!
- The stars, like dust, encircle me in living mists of light. And all of space I seem to see in one vast burst of sight.
I don't mind/care about selfie sticks, but in this day, I don't trust giving my phone/camera to strangers to take photos of me/my group. Maybe in Canada where my guard isn't up, but anywhere on vacation it's too sketchy. Too many reports of that happening and then they steal it.
I shall pass on to you my foolproof trick: Always ask someone who has a nicer phone or camera than yours.
If you always have top-of-the-line gear, this may be difficult.
But honestly--I'd love to see the stats on "people who got their shit stolen after asking someone to take their picture." I would bet dollars to donuts it's not as high as you think. Even outside of Canada.
I just ask a mom with a stroller. Can't make a quick getaway with those suckers. Or if someone asks me first "hey will you take a picture of us and then we'll take one of you?" I tend to trust them. It's not like they're standing very far away anyway.
Re: NWR: (Unpopular?) Opinion:
People have hit exhibits with the stupid things. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go turn off alarms because some idiot wasnt paying attention to what they were doing. I can only imagin that it is worse at art museums. I can easily see someone not paying attention and damaging a priceless work of art.
Ditto!
My UO: GoPros should only be used for stuff like hiking, biking, surfing, sky diving etc. Not for filming yourself walking around on a regular day just because. I mean, maybe as part of some artsy project or whatever, but just to make sure you capture you're every waking moment? I don't get it.
New reality show?
And for the love of humanity stop putting ypur damn baby on the phone when I call you.