Building on last year’s GIF builder, Motion Stills, Google Research has just released two more ‘appsperiments‘ in time for your holiday merriment: Scrubbies and Selfissimo!

Scrubbies lets you “shoot a video in the app and then remix it by scratching it like a DJ. Scrubbing with one finger plays the video. Scrubbing with two fingers captures the playback so you can save or share it.”

Selfissimo! lets you “tap the screen to start a photoshoot. The app encourages you to pose and captures a photo whenever you stop moving. Tap the screen to end the session and review the resulting contact sheet.”

Are you worried that taking so many selfies might give you “selfitis” and turn you into a narcissist? Well, don’t. Snopes disproved that potential mental disorder.

What I love about Selfissimo! is that by taking the photos for you, it gives you more of a true photo session experience, heightened by the fact it only shoots in black and white. Think of the photo shoot scene in Austin Powers ‘The Spy Who Shagged Me’, which itself is homage to the photo shoot scene in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s 1966 masterful film ‘Blow-Up’.

My take: I highly recommend Selfissimo! because it’s so much fun! Here’s to a great 2018, everyone!