The real Truman Show?
So I was going to write some words about justin.tv: the site that features 24 hour live coverage of the life of Justin Kev. But I’m really uninspired, so this will be short.
24 hour a day coverage of any one persons life is boring. I really don’t need to see Justin trying to install a printer for 10 minutes (something he has been doing while I am writing this).
I sort of get why he gets all the attention that he does. Having him appear on one show or other creates a fun segment for that show. Watching him sit in front of a computer for 10 minutes doing nothing is a totally different thing altogether.
I think I’ll skip this internet hype…
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I dunno man, I was expecting to see some loner sitting all by himself, and with a crappy webcam up on a shelf or something.
But he had a camers ON HIS HEAD! And there were like 1 or 2 other people. They were talking. And, doing stuff. Writing on post-it-notes.
Yeah it might not be big brother. Yeah I probably won't be watching it or anything. But it was not as bad as I thought. But yeah, kindof a tired concept now I guess...
Now excuse me while I grab a bottle of Bawls and register me some hot new domains with GoDaddy (they rock).
Yeah, its new and fancy and mobile and all that. It's a company not just a loner with a webcam, but still.
Big Brother had those compacted 'highlights of the day' shows - and even they got boring.
On a different note: is there anything out there with more than 10 users that GoDaddy does not sponsor?
This so reminded me of "Oryx and Crake"...Can't help but quote:
"Or they would watch At Home With Anna K. Anna K. was a self-styled installation artist with big boobs who'd wired up her apartment so that every moment of her life was sent out live to millions of voyeurs. "This is Anna K., thinking always about my happiness and my unhappiness," was what you'd get as you joined her. Then you might watch her tweezing her eyebrows, waxing her bikini line, washing her underwear. Sometimes she'd read scenes from old plays out loud, taking all the parts, while sitting on the can with her retro-look bell-bottom jeans around her ankles. This was how Jimmy first encountered Shakespeare — through Anna K.'s rendition of Macbeth.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death,
read Anna K.She was a terrible ham, but Snowman has always been grateful to her because she'd been a doorway of sorts. Think what he might not have known if it hadn't been for her."
I think I'd prefer to watch someone quoting Shakespeare rather than installing a printer, no matter how instructive the latter might be. And he'd better be a loner: I'd probably run away at sight of such a creep with a camera approaching..
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