OK, this selfie is downright bananas and I don’t mean that simply because of the two casual cool kids nomming on ‘naners at the beginning of the video. It’s because the whole thing takes place atop a Hong Kong skyscraper more than a thousand feet off the ground as if such a selfie experience were totally casual, NBD.
Except it’s so terrifying my stomach hurts just writing this.
According to YouTube uploader Frank Wu, photographer Daniel Lau utilized a “selfie stick” in order to procure the “dizzying footage of a rooftopping adventure 346m (1,135 feet) above the streets of Hong Kong.”
“Lau, fellow photographer Andrew Tso and A.S. are seen in the video snacking while perched dangerously on the spire of The Centre skyscraper, Hong Kong’s fifth-tallest skyscraper,” the video’s description reads.
If you felt particularly queasy while Lau’s selfie stick swirled about, it’s likely thanks to the wide-angle lens he used, ensuring many a lunch lost all across the Internet.
Personally, if we want our next selfie to look that extreme, we’ll use the background effects on Photobooth. But to each their own!
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