It was a self-shot photo, or "selfie," and there is no more ubiquitous photographic image in the current media age.
The entry was illustrated with Clementi's Facebook photograph: self-shot, in his sunny Ridgewood bedroom, it shows him with cropped hair, glasses, and a hesitant smile.
There have been plenty of examples of too much sharing (Liverpool's Jonjo Shelvey is one of several players to have erroneously posted a self-shot penis-picture).
It's the latest in a series of self-shot YouTube videos, released in the past year, that reveal the pint-sized Solihull, England, native to be a nimble lyricist.
Directed by Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch, this is less a conventional documentary than a pastiche, relying heavily on Mr. Crocker's archive of self-shot footage, spliced in with new material.
Once they had that endorsement they went shopping for a samurai sword to use as a prop in a self-shot music video they made on De Martino's iPhone in a dusty skateboarding bowl in Alicante, Spain.
A rushed, universally loathed sequel was thrown into cinemas the year after and forgotten about just as quickly; but the self-shot style of the original endured and its influence was felt for the following 17 years.
His self-shot film, made over four years in 32 countries – including Armenia, the Middle East, east Africa and Iran –covers the meteorologial and emotional hurdles he encounters along the way.
The pair initially filmed 150 hours of footage, most of it self-shot by Sodderland on her iPhone, which was edited to create this documentary piecing together Sodderland's recovery.
