Who doesn't love taking selfies? It's a favorite past time in the online social media realm. Basically, taking selfies of yourself during various times can be seen purely as self-gratifying or promoting yourself.
A person may want to showcase apparel, makeup appearance or design, costumes, or highlight an important activity occurring during the time of the photo. I know many individuals like to take selfies when they visit a new restaurant and showcase the menu, decor with indoor and outdoor, and them themselves and others eating the various foods.
Not only that, an individual may want to highlight where that person may physically be at a particular location or entertaining another party. What better proof the event actually happened than to prove a point or verify the situation. Having evidence may be the underlying motive.
But what if individuals just desire to have fun and be seen having fun. In that case, they can capture the moment during an activity, then share it. Just showing someone a photo of an event isn't the same as seeing yourself in the mix engaging with others or just by yourself provides the person viewing the photo a sense of what was happening when the photo was taken.
However, according to psychologists, a variety of different and deeper reasons exists for the behavior. One such reason is to create the impression of intimacy.
Another reason is to interject a deeper meaning into the photo and give it a life of its own.
Still another is to record and chronicle life experiences during a given period of time in order to preserve the memories. Your memory will eventually fade as you age. Hopefully, the photos and selfies will remain for a period.
Many of my family and friends ask, "what did you do in the 90s?"
My usual response is, "I can't tell you specificially. A variety of things."
"Do you have pictures?"
"Of course."
They look at the photos and not one of them contains my image. Why? because I'm the one usually taking the photos. Another reason is I don't like selfies. I'm probably in a minority group on that issue.
My family has access to a sporting event. While there, instead of watching the play on the field, you can catch numerous people taking selfies then immediately post them to their social media page.
I do admit that I once attempted to take a selfie. My thumb print loomed large in the image. My face looked like a gigantic blob. I never attempted it again. I understand they do have gadgets that allow you to move the mobile phone a distance away and is held in place with a stick.
Too much work in my opinion.
The last reason I've heard the reason people take selfies is due to self-admiration or attempt to improve their self image. Now, this reason I'll never understand. However, I've seen it play out in real life and online, even on the blockchain.
But no matter what I think, people will continue to take selfies and present them to the world.
My thoughts on this...do your thing, whatever it is!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL ALIENS
And on that note on this New Years Eve as I mentally prepare for 2025, I'm going to share with you a song I've treasured all my life that epitomizes the truth in this from an old-time musician, the legendary Mr. Isaac Hayes.
This time of year, as we look back on 2024 and the past, I'm reminded of the lyrics of his song when dealing with others: "Do Your Thing":
Source: "Do Your Thing" - You Tube
For my current mixed media art project, the theme "selfie" reminded me of the difference in individuals and how they go about viewing the world in their actions, then sharing those activities whether in words or images unselfishly through social media. I chose to depict this a photo of a selfie stick and the head of a female presumably in the midst of holiday cheer.
The procedures and images I chose to accompany this project are listed below.
I utilize Canva to blend the different type images by adding layers of elements in accordance with my upgraded Annual Pro Membership that includes tools to remove backgrounds, resize, filter, duplicate, and reposition items as required.
- To a blank, white canvas I added the scrapbook image. Resized it to fit the entire canvas to be used as the background;
- Added the female image, removed its background, then resized and positioned it in the center of the screen;
- Added red circle and warped it into a square image to have a place for the selfie camera stick to rest;
- Added the fractals and mushroom.
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Scrapbook white crayon background ~ Female ~ Selfie camera ~ Mushroom - Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore ~ Butterfly - Contributed to the #LIL by @edgarafernandezp ~ Red Circle ~ Pure Fractal titled "Legend Of the Fall" ~ Pure Fractal titled "Twirl-A-Thon"
I share with you my completed project:
Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media art project.
Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
1 What is Stable Diffusion? StarryAI.Com. Online at: https://starryai.com/stable-diffusion