Museums Banning Selfie Sticks
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I was just reading an article in the Winnipeg Free Press that the Canadian Museum of Human Rights has banned selfie-sticks. And it goes on to say that many museums around the world (mostly prominent ones) are doing/have done the same. Some complain that it's too harsh. The museums say it could damage technology in use at the museum or art installations. I tend to agree. Thoughts?
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/no-selfie-sticks-museum-says-294785531.html
Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights is joining a growing number of institutions worldwide by cracking down on selfie sticks, the camera extenders used by people for more flattering photos of themselves.
"We've decided that if it comes up, we would ask people not to use them because of safety concerns for our visitors and for our exhibits," said museum spokeswoman Maureen Fitzhenry.
"Some of the selfie sticks have very long extensions that could collide with some of our sensitive technology here if people were distracted."
Selfie sticks, which hold cameras or smartphones at one end and can be used to take selfies beyond arm's length, are growing more popular with people trying to take photos from up high, or get more people in their photos. They also mean tourists don't have to ask passersby to take their picture.
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa also bans the selfie stick, grouping it with other banned camera equipment such as monopods and tripods. The museum says paintings could be damaged by patrons waving around their selfie sticks.
The MTS Centre says it doesn't allow any kind of sticks, including selfie sticks (walking sticks are fine).
In the U.S., selfie sticks have been banned at various prominent institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as the National Gallery of Art.
Jacqueline Verdier, CEO of Selfie on a Stick, a New York company that sells selfie sticks, said the sticks have several advantages.
"You can use the selfie on a stick when you're on vacation and if you are somewhere where you might not be 100 per cent confident handing over your phone, which contains all your personal information these days," Verdier said. "You can just take the picture yourself."
Selfies might sound like a millennial thing to do, but as Verdier said, "Everybody loves the selfie sticks."
She said selfie sticks are popular at weddings and parties.
"I think the demographic of people that are actually using the stick is probably going to be the millennial generation, but the people who are actually purchasing the stick is really quite broad," Verdier said.
Fitzhenry said it was important for the museum that people continue to take pictures and selfies and share them, but wanted visitors to avoid using selfie sticks or equipment such as tripods and monopods that could damage exhibits.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/no-selfie-sticks-museum-says-294785531.html
Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights is joining a growing number of institutions worldwide by cracking down on selfie sticks, the camera extenders used by people for more flattering photos of themselves.
"We've decided that if it comes up, we would ask people not to use them because of safety concerns for our visitors and for our exhibits," said museum spokeswoman Maureen Fitzhenry.
"Some of the selfie sticks have very long extensions that could collide with some of our sensitive technology here if people were distracted."
Selfie sticks, which hold cameras or smartphones at one end and can be used to take selfies beyond arm's length, are growing more popular with people trying to take photos from up high, or get more people in their photos. They also mean tourists don't have to ask passersby to take their picture.
The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa also bans the selfie stick, grouping it with other banned camera equipment such as monopods and tripods. The museum says paintings could be damaged by patrons waving around their selfie sticks.
The MTS Centre says it doesn't allow any kind of sticks, including selfie sticks (walking sticks are fine).
In the U.S., selfie sticks have been banned at various prominent institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as the National Gallery of Art.
Jacqueline Verdier, CEO of Selfie on a Stick, a New York company that sells selfie sticks, said the sticks have several advantages.
"You can use the selfie on a stick when you're on vacation and if you are somewhere where you might not be 100 per cent confident handing over your phone, which contains all your personal information these days," Verdier said. "You can just take the picture yourself."
Selfies might sound like a millennial thing to do, but as Verdier said, "Everybody loves the selfie sticks."
She said selfie sticks are popular at weddings and parties.
"I think the demographic of people that are actually using the stick is probably going to be the millennial generation, but the people who are actually purchasing the stick is really quite broad," Verdier said.
Fitzhenry said it was important for the museum that people continue to take pictures and selfies and share them, but wanted visitors to avoid using selfie sticks or equipment such as tripods and monopods that could damage exhibits.
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If you see, you don't need a lens. Your eyes ARE the lens and your brain is the darkroom and subsequent vision.
Kind of like Nimoy's (somewhat) last words, about the garden, how it's fleeting even in bloom.
Enjoy it, inhale it, preserve the memory and let it embed itself into your brain.
All five horizons.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31736314
For instance, Brian the picture you liked the other day on my Facebook.... My wife caught the happiest moment of my life on camera and now I have the opportunity to see my face in that moment. It floods me with the memory of how I felt.
The way memory works is brilliant but tricky. Each time you recall an event or image, your brain remakes it like a copier and stores the new version. Memories change over time and pictures halt the process. Everyone has looked at a pic from the past and thought..geee he was skinny, or I look so young! That's because the memory process buries that information and replaces it with an updated version.
So don't hate on photography too bad folks, even if the selfie crowd is INCREDIBLY ANNOYINGL!
If my wife and I want a picture of the two of us together we'll ask complete strangers if they will take the picture for us. And we do the same for others or even have offered to do so.
No "hate" here, Gambs. That's twice this morning I've seen that word used to describe me (although I doubt you really mean that about me) so maybe I need to take a better look at how I word things. So just for the record:
I don't hate people who take selfies.
I don't hate Canadians.
2. It is a big deal to some but not others.
3. I think selfies ruin the moment for others around.
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Good, quality, thought out pictures are for the mind that slowly loses memory!
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
I wonder if, before cameras, people preserved their memories of events in other or stronger ways.
...oh, and