If you want to take selfies at Lollapalooza 2015, you are going to have to do it the old-school way.
On this year’s list of banned items are selfie sticks and monopods (unless you have a photo wristband). The self-curated, self-chronicled life just got a lot more complex.
For years, Lolla selfies have come at the end of a human arm. The surge in popularity of selfie sticks and monopods brings with it an attendant potential for someone getting whacked.
Museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago have been banning them, citing concens about priceless works of art suffering damage as a selfie stick-wielding patron searches for that exact right angle.
In other Lollapalooza news, it didn’t take long for single-day passes to sell out. Single-day passes went on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. and were all gone by noon. The festival, from July 31-Aug. 2 in Grant Park, will host 100,000 festgoers on each of its three days.
That would have been a lot of selfie sticks.
