Phooning | Have you ever Phooned?

Stand sideways to the camera. (A Phoon is always viewed from the side.)
Bend your arms at the elbows. (Look like an athletic runner, not a ballerina.)
Lift your rear elbow (not your hand)
so that it is easy to see behind your back.
Lean forward at the waist.
This will help you look more energetic and will help you lift your rear ankle.
When possible, do not look at the camera and do not smile.
Either arm can be the rear arm. Either leg can be the rear leg.
Try to have an exotic or ridiculous background.

In many phoon photos the phooner appears in the background of a normal family or tourist photo and may not be immediately noticed.

John Darrow of phoons.com invented phooning.

He invented phooning in his youth, but the first official Phoon occurred at Bloomingdale's May 06, 1999.

In 1980, he sneaked a particular pose into a family photo and his loving mother tolerated my doing the same pose in many more of that summer's family vacation photos. He nicknamed it the Phoon (pronounced "foon").

You can easily obtain a World Record e.g. first person to phoon in your back yard and so on. People like to phoon in front of famous monuments e.g. the Leaning Tower of Piza