--- title: 'Selfie Arm' Debuts for Lonely Shutterbugs description: A humorous new prototype of a 'selfie arm' has emerged to replace the selfie-stick by artists Justin Crowe and Aric Snee. canonical: https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/ author: Sabrina Toppa article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-29T05:51:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:41.274Z og:title: This Is the Selfie Stick We All Deserve og:description: Introducing the "selfie arm" og:url: https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Selfie Stick We All Deserve twitter:description: Introducing the "selfie arm" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is the Selfie Stick We All Deserve by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Apr 29, 2015 5:51 AM UTC by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Apr 29, 2015 5:51 AM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/tim%5Fevans/status/593126228200153089) The selfie stick has bestowed the world with an invaluable tool for documenting every self-centered whim. However, to reduce some of the stigma around snapping a selfie alone, artists Justin Crowe and Aric Snee are exhorting the world’s loneliest shutterbugs to trade in their telescopic poles for “[selfie arms](http://www.justincrowestudio.com/selfie-arm.html).” The new design prototype, constructed out of lightweight fiberglass material, gives selfie fanatics the illusion of having friends, as the arm pretends to belong to a close buddy, family member or significant other. “Nobody wants to look alone while they mindlessly snap pictures of themselves,” Crowe’s website [says](http://www.justincrowestudio.com/selfie-arm.html), a tad judgmentally. This does beg the question, though: With whom are these selfie-arm photo-takers actually sharing their photos? ### Lights, Camera, Infraction: 12 Memorable Celebrity Mugshots  Justin Bieber Miami Dade County Jail/AP  Bruno Mars WireImage/Getty Images  Paris Hilton Los Angeles Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  Robert Downey Jr. Culver City Police Department/Getty Images  Frank Sinatra Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Amanda Bynes Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office/WireImage/Getty Images  Kid Rock DeKalb County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Kiefer Sutherland Glendale City Police Department/Getty Images  Nicole Richie Glendale Police Department/Getty Images  Mel Gibson Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  James Brown Aiken County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Lindsay Lohan Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/"},"headline":"This Is the Selfie Stick We All Deserve","datePublished":"2015-04-29T05:51:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:41.274Z","description":"Introducing the \"selfie arm\"","url":"https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sabrina Toppa","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839609/selfie-arm-selfie-stick-photography/","name":"This Is the Selfie Stick We All Deserve"}}]}] ```