Skate videos popularized the use of the fish eye lens. Music videos had people waving their hands around in the face of the camera because it looks cool through that lens. The idea was applied to still images, and this is the result.
Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?
I was confused about how you would type with only your thumbs on a PC keyboard. Then I remembered that there are phones too and that I type with my thumbs on them…
(I found a surprising number of unfamiliar kinds of input devices when searching for ‘thumb keyboard’ just now — some of which I wouldn’t mind trying like ten years ago.)
It’s more for sporadic use in games, with TVs and such, when having a full-size keyboard is inconvenient. Presumably it could also be used with a tablet, but more typically it’s a small on-desk keyboard, perhaps foldable.
I was thinking of buying something like this a bunch of years ago, when I was looking into sorta-ergonomic devices to diversify my time spent inputting stuff.
Some of these micro-keyboards have a touchpad, and on the ‘gamepad’ keyboard it’s apparently on the back.
Skate videos popularized the use of the fish eye lens. Music videos had people waving their hands around in the face of the camera because it looks cool through that lens. The idea was applied to still images, and this is the result.
Hype Williams directed the music videos in the 90s-2000s with lots of contrast, bright colors, bright lights, and the fisheye lens.
If you look up some Busta Rhymes music videos you will see plenty of examples.
It’s weird but, without the sound track these gifs just look like a bunch of posers trying to look cool.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with the music it also looks that way to someone over twenty years old or so.
It was a remarkably stupid time, however even back then there were better music videos. E.g. stuff by Michel Gondry, Run Wrake, or Spike Jonze.
It’s all in the (fish)eye of the beholder.
Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?
Late 90s in a nutshell, to be honest.
I jumped in slow motion / off the curb.
Without a skateboard / that should look absurd!
But with my fisheye lens / hey, haven’t ya heard?
I got the moves so smooth / to make ya mom say:
…those are some exceptionally smooth moves!
waumph
waumph
Could make home movies with one of those
Underappreciated comment.
Why not take the still with a fisheye?
that avril lavigne is taken with a fisheye lens
I think this is the biggest reason. But who am I? I know nothing.
Is this a copy/paste of when this meme was psoted a few weeks ago? This comment really looks familiar…
No. I typed it with my own thumbs, from my own mind.
I was confused about how you would type with only your thumbs on a PC keyboard. Then I remembered that there are phones too and that I type with my thumbs on them…
There’s also this kind of thing.
(I found a surprising number of unfamiliar kinds of input devices when searching for ‘thumb keyboard’ just now — some of which I wouldn’t mind trying like ten years ago.)
Is that a PC keyboard for people who learned to type on a phone?!
It’s more for sporadic use in games, with TVs and such, when having a full-size keyboard is inconvenient. Presumably it could also be used with a tablet, but more typically it’s a small on-desk keyboard, perhaps foldable.
I was thinking of buying something like this a bunch of years ago, when I was looking into sorta-ergonomic devices to diversify my time spent inputting stuff.
Some of these micro-keyboards have a touchpad, and on the ‘gamepad’ keyboard it’s apparently on the back.
Fair enough, then it’s on me for being too lazy to find what I thought I was referring to.