Twitter Reimagines The Selfie With Drone Self-Portraits At Cannes Festival
(CBS SF) -- Twitter took the selfie to new heights with the premiere of its drone-mounted camera "Dronie" at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Sunday.
The drone recorded several zoom-out self-videos with Twitter staff and celebrities before publishing them on Vine.
.@yusasamoto and @masajis on the ground with @TwitterAds at #CannesLions! https://t.co/Kbq4OUGJRl
— Dronie (@dronie) June 16, 2014
The first one was taken with Sir Patrick Stewart and Joel Lunenfeld, the vice president of global brand strategy at Twitter.
And with our first official #dronie from #CannesLions, a new bromance is born! cc @SirPatStew @joell https://t.co/ZL5PthcRkh — Dronie (@dronie) June 15, 2014
Although the Twitter drone has its own account, the phrase "dronie" -- a self-portrait taken with a drone or a remote-controlled flying vehicle -- has been circulating on the Internet for months.
The Wall Street journal featured some of the best vacation photos using drones in May. Then a couple of weeks ago, a group of New York University students created a "drone photo booth" at their tech spring show to teach people how to take self-portraits with a drone.
Kristina Budelis, a member of the team behind the DroneBooth project, told Fast Company that the dronies grew out of a class called Flying Robotic Journalism that experiments for new ways to report in war zones, protests and other dangerous situations using flying robots.
Last week Vimeo launched a new channel devoted to dronie videos.