Tag: selfie

Hello Kitty

 

Photographer Unknown, (Hello Kitty), Unknown Selfie-Portrait

Hello Kitty (Harō Kiti), also known by her full name Kitty White (Kiti Howaito), is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. She was created by Yuko Shimizu and is currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. The Sanrio company depicts Hello Kitty as a young female gijinka, or anthropomorphization, of a Japanes Bobtail cat with a red bow and no mouth.

In 2019, Hello Kitty was the second highest-grossing media frnachise of all time, Pokémon being the first, having generated eighty billion dollars in lifetime retail sales of its product line- clothing apparel, toy-line, manga comics, anime series, popular music, games and other media. There are Sanrio theme parks based entirely on Hello Kitty in Hiji, Oita, Japan and in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan.

Bruce Crown: “He Caught My Gaze Almost Immediately”

Photographer Unknown, (Blue Eyes), Selfie

“I squinted to the side towards him for a second and he caught my gaze almost immediately; his inky irises were comfortable enough to hold my stare indefinitely, his pupils seemed entirely ravenous as opposed to the preferred oceanic turquoise.  He seemed like an uncanny bad guy any which way I looked at him, except of course, by his actions thus far…”― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

The Gallery Visitor

Photographyer Unknown, (Ginger Guy at the Gallery)

“Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who’s famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they’ve never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you’ll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who’s obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The Car Passenger

Photographer Unknown, (The Car Passenger), Selfie

“The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren’t New Yorkers anyway, they’d suffered some basic misunderstanding. The two boys on the walkway, apparently standing still they were moving faster than the cars.
Nineteen seventy-five.”

― Jonathan Lethem, The fortress of Solitude

 

Eudora Welty: “Life Doesn’t Hold Still”

 

Photographer Unknown, (A Snapshot Worth Saving),Selfie

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn’t hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it.”

-Eudora Welty