Cheers Bill -that posting bug !!all on one's own-little snap out circling -P
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Sent: 12 November 2013 20:00
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Subject: Selfies snap
Selfies
A singular pursuit: snapping yourself.
No partner, no friend, no family member
to do the business for you.
What if someone calls, mid-selfie?
What's the protocol? Do protocols
apply to yourself alone?
In common with all photos, the selfie
confirms: you were ideed there,
like that, in that moment.
The difference, not so much contrived
awkwardness, as sudden need for
self-celebration, then approbation.
The urge to post, to feel the Like,
not new of course; Frida Kahlo,
in oils, paved a way for selfers.
Adopting a pose the first duty
according to Wilde, the second
the stumbling block. It took Warhol
to expose step two: filmed celebrities
and Factory nobodies alike, enduring still-
ness long enough for their faces to break
into something real, despite themselves.
What do giddy selfies reveal? Self-Officer,
arrest that still face. Guilty as charged.
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