More selfie madness

• On August 30th in Orient, Maine, driver Jordan Toner, 29, attempted to lean into a seven-person selfie with his passengers, and crashed into a tree, causing numerous injuries. - WCSH-TV (Portland, Maine)
• On August 24th, Alex Gomez, 36, of Lake Elsinore, Calif.,took a selfie after draping an angry four-foot-long rattlesnake around his neck. The bite was damaging but not fatal. - 8-30-2015 KCBS-TV (Los Angeles)
• On September 1st in Housto,.a 19-year-old man was taking selfies while fondling his handgun. He died. - 9-2-2015 KPRC-TV (Houston).

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Painting: Faces #1108 - Selfie

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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A pretty amazing selfie with Warren Buffet and Sir Paul McCartney

By Jack Brummet, Flyover States Ed.

Tom White, stumbled upon Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett sitting on a bench outside an ice cream shop in Omaha, Nebraska.  Only in Omaha: no one even noticed them. He took a selfie with them in the background and captioned it “Chillin with my homies.”

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Bathroom Mirror Selfie

By Jack Brummet

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The First Selfie?

By Jack Brummet, Photo Ed.


The Oxford Dictionaries recently announced their word of the year for 2013 is “selfie”, which they define as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” 

The picture considered by many to be the first photographic portrait ever taken was a “selfie”. The image was taken in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast named Robert Cornelius. Cornelius set his camera up at the back of the family store in Philadelphia and took the image by removing the lens cap and then running into frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. 

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Anastasia, daughter of Nicholas II, and an early "selfie"

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.


Anastasia, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of Nicholas II, (the last king of Russia). She was assassinated with her family by members of the Cheka, the Bolsheviki secret police, on July 17, 1918. 

In happier times, she shot this selfie, which some people claim is the first selfie ever. She enclosed the photograph in s letter dated October, 28, 1914. 'I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very hard as my hands were trembling.'

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Selfie

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