Facebook flog - Jun 7 2014

[blogfloggery.livejournal.com]

Link: Jun 7 2014, 22:05
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

My sad attempt at a selfie at last night's event in Skokie, IL. Thanks to Fabrice Calmels I now know there's a timer & app for this. I so needs one.

Comments

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

Why does she always go for the super high vantage shot? You want a selfie with your books? Arm's length roughly straight on, so people can actually see the covers, maybe? I feel like this shot is just asking for a close-up of her chin and/or nostrils.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Makes you look slimmer/reduces chins and wrinkles. It is the Old Woman selfie, ask me how I know. Mind you my phone doesn't have a front camera so it's really moot.

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it called an Old Woman selfie, but I have heard it called the "Fat Girl Angle Shot" a lot for the same reasons (note: Not trying to say anything about LKH or her appearance here, just that's honestly what it's called in my experience, no matter who does it)

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

I'm a fat girl, but trust you don't need to have your camera mounted on an in orbit satellite to take a 'slimming' photo if that is the desire. These extreme angle selfies are not so much slimming as strange.

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

I guess I can see that, making one look slimmer and less wrinkled. It still strikes me as a more extreme angle than necessary. (But then, I am not a person who takes selfies.)

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I call it that, because of being old.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

I've heard it called a MySpace selfie due to how often teenagers would do the high-angle shot to look cute, back when MySpace was still relevant. I tend to stick with that because it expresses the same level of snortworthiness (as in "seriously, are we on MySpace now?") without pre-judging anyone's age or weight just with the phrase alone.

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of that one, but you're right, it's better. Thanks, going with that one from now on!

[beroli.livejournal.com]

This selfie shows the books well and occludes her face (while it's still clear that she is actually there). The one at http://lkh-lashouts.livejournal.com/628507.html shows her face well and occludes the book.

I'd say that makes this one a success and that one a failure, but LKH might have different priorities from me.

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

How cute. She's got a pic of her taking a pic of herself.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

I'm getting so bored with this monotonously endless stream of what's basically the same damned photo that I can't even find anything to mock. Except I kind of just did.

[novadivine.livejournal.com]

As long as these fans are giving out selfie tips, can one of them please tell her to lower her arm a little? These extreme overhead shots makes it looks like they were taken by drones.