The word "selfie" may be a 21st-century invention, but self-portraits go back to the beginning of photography. Metal plater and amateur chemist Robert Cornelius was mentioned in The Wonderful World of Early Photography as the one who took the first human photographic portrait in 1839 using the new daguerreotype method -and it was a portrait of himself.
Cornelius had set his camera up at the back of the family store in Philadelphia. He took the image by removing the lens cap and then running in to frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. On the back he wrote “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”
Advances in photography that led to shorter exposure times made this simple method of taking a selfie pretty much impossible until the development of the timer. -via Open Culture
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras
The first known photograph of a person is from 1838, by Joseph-Louis Daguerre. It is of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, and shows a street scene devoid of people except for an unknown gentleman standing and having his shoes shined. He was the only one in the scene standing still long enough to be captured by the nearly 10-minute exposure.
http://petapixel.com/2010/10/27/first-ever-photograph-of-a-human-being/
And anybody who introduces themselves by relating what books and comics they've read recently seems pretty danged good to me (actually I'm currently trying to get into Chia Mellville's Perdito Street Station myself, I get the feeling I -will- enjoy it if I manage to get through the first chapter ...) anyway, hello! =)
I unlocked a short video. The bionic woman turns around while in a dark alley to see a thug come out. She begins to assess him with her bionic eye with a split screen effect (left side is regular/right side is bionic assessment). Her assessment show a knife in his right hand. He walks toward her and asks if she is looking for something. He slashes at her and she grabs his hand, knocks the knife up into the air, knocks thug onto his back, catches knife out of air, and puts it to thug's neck. This is done quickly in a fluid motion but not so fast as to not catch it.
I tried to get a better score to see if it would unlock more or better stuff, but I couldn't.
I went back and did it again. After getting 82%, I unlocked another short video. One guy turns to another and asks how long til she's combat ready. The other replies that she's a civilian. That was it two whole lines.
Don't spoil it for the next no-prize winner.
Do I get a cookie?
I messed up the hearing thing, but I got 75% straight for the first 3 tests...