Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant are fierce competitors in their fields, but they found a way to compete with each other. After a very successful ad campaign last year for Turkish Airlines, which reached more than 100 million views, they thought about how to get back into the game of the most wanted on the Internet. And they came up with the idea of including the most searched word of the previous year: "selfie" or "self-portrait with a mobile phone".
A typical sight in shopping malls. The women shop frantically, while the men stand around bored, preferring to escape for a drink after a few hours. But the resourceful Steve Venegas turned his wife's otherwise tedious shopping trips into an imaginatively entertaining game.
Yesterday, Samsung announced the release of a new member of the photo family – the Samsung NX Mini Smart. It is billed as the world's thinnest and lightest interchangeable lens camera. So you will be able to take it with you everywhere and, thanks to NFC and Wi-Fi connectivity, easily and quickly share recordings with your friends, regardless of where you are.
Christoph Rehage spent a whole year of his life walking almost 4,646 kilometers across the whole of China from Beijing to Ürümqi. In this venture, he was looking for the inner motivation to change his life.
The art director of National Geographic, in cooperation with Diomedia, prepared an interesting advertising campaign, the essence of which is a series of fun photos of wild animals posing for a "selfie" photo in the mirror.
We all know that cats rule the internet, so Klooff, the Instagram for animal lovers, has taken care of some lesser-known, but no less interesting statistics that reveal, among other things, which breed of dog people like to post, share and like the most.
Although the public's attention continues to be captured by the WC in Brazil, the Tour de France cycling race also took its share of the cake this week, losing two superstars, Mark Cavendish and last year's winner Christopher Froome, already in the opening. But the caravan goes on and despite the calls of the organizer and the competitors that the fans do not endanger the cyclists with stupid maneuvers, it already offered some hot situations in the first week.
Up until now, the star editions of photobombs have captured the most attention, such as the recent one of Queen Elizabeth II, probably the second most popular out-of-series photography genre - after selfies - but the real stars of the photobombs are in fact the animals. Don't believe it? See for yourself in our photo gallery, where animal-friendly examples await you.
Meet Helene Meldahl, the girl who uses mirrors, markers and an inexhaustible imagination to create the most creative selfies on Instagram right now.
The trend of self-portraiture, which we call the selfie, really took off in 2014. Even so that he got his own song (The Chainsmokers) and string (Selfie). There is practically no smartphone user who does not have at least one on their account, and the obsession of some has exceeded all limits of taste. Well, sometimes it is enough to not check what is happening around us and reveal things that are not for the public.
Fifteen minutes of fame became too short. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and a thousand other ways exist to spread news instantly – and fame is more fleeting than ever. But media moments count. They are a form of culture, signal trends and influence how children see the world. Whether they're wonderful, weird, or terrible, media moments are an opportunity for our kids to connect with them, put things into context, and share our values. Let's take a look back at 2014 and see some of the world's best and worst media moments.
If we use a smartphone, then there's a good chance we fall into one of the categories of annoying habits or user stereotypes in the Smart Phones Dumb Users animated chart compiled by Mobiles.co.uk.