A man quit his job so he could take more selfies than Kim Kardashian
We honestly thought that selfie madness may have been beginning to calm down. The obsession with the photographs and their accompanying apparatus has been the topic of a lot of debate. Selfie sticks were even banned from Disneyland!
Kim Kardashian released a book filled entirely with pictures of herself, taken by herself. If you thought Kim K was the peak when it came to the photographs however you are wrong.
A 24-year old research assistant from Hyderabad in India, recently decided to break the record for most selfies taken in an hour. Currently this is held by American football player Patrick Peterson who took 1,449 selfies in one hour.
Bhanu Prakash quit his job working at a university in order to train for the record attempt.
Speaking to Buzzfeed he explained: “I was on my way back home, and a few guys were talking about Dwayne Johnson’s record of 105 selfies in three minutes. When I reached home, I did some research work for the application process and fell in love with selfies.”
At the moment he has a record of 1,700 in an hour, but is final goal is to get up to 1,800 in an hour.
There is a lot of preparation for such high volume photography. He explained that in order to prepare he has been doing selfie specific exercises. He bought a selfie stick and tripod to practice multiple angles. He also practiced holding his phone up for hours like a “statue”.
His parents are not exactly thrilled with his decision, especially that fact that he quit his job. However as time went on they came around and are now pleased he’s trying something new and unique.
“My official attempt date is on September 18,” Bhanu said, and we wish him the very best of luck.
