GAINESVILLE — Brandi Lombardi, second-year public relations major, thought she made history Monday afternoon when she was struck by an idea to take a photo of UF’s iconic Century Tower.
Lombardi was strolling along with her fellow Beta Zeta Pi sisters when she realized all of the selfies she had been posting, in fact, had no real meaning.
“Like, I love looking at myself and all, and so do all 1.4k of my followers,” Lombardi, 19, said. “But there are only so many places where I can throw up my BZP sign and sorority squat while holding a bottle of tequila.”
“I want to take a photo where I am not in it. Maybe I’ll see then who really wants to double-tap my photos.”
Lombardi quickly snapped a picture of Century Tower and her friends all gushed at her artistic endeavors.
“Wow, Brandi, that’s soooooooo cool!” said Claire Morrison, UF event management sophomore and BZP sister.
What filter are you going to use?
“Back off C, this is my photo,” Lombardi said. “Go take a photo of the potato or something.”
Lombardi quickly used four different photo-editing apps until she created just the right effect of “I’m acting like didn’t really try, but I actually tried really hard to make this photo look artsy.”
She impatiently awaited the “likes” to come funneling in.
If I don’t get 11 likes within 20 minutes, I need to take it down,
Lombardi said.
When Crocodile reporters informed Lombardi that she was, indeed, not the first person to ever take an Instagram photo of Century Tower Lombardi shook her head and disbelief and frantically searched “#centurytower.”
“No, no, no,” she muttered. “This is all wrong. I mean, who even uses Toaster as a filter! None of these count, they don’t get it like I do.”
Lombardi struggled to define what “it” was.
“You know, like art,” she said. “I’m an artist, like Leonardo DiCaprio, and the Century Tower is my Mona Lisa.”