Justin case you didn't know...
May 29, 2007 10:20 AM Subscribe
Justin.tv, the 24/7 live webcam attached to the head of a San Francisco resident, is growing. Justine will be joining him in what will be one of several planned spinoff shows.
Who in their right mind wants to be the Chachi to Justin's Fonzie?
posted by GuyZero at 10:56 AM on May 29, 2007
posted by GuyZero at 10:56 AM on May 29, 2007
Wait... hasn't EDtv already been done?
So this is the same concept but without a camera crew?
When do we get a show where nano-bots have infiltrated into an unknowing person's retina, and start broadcasting everything they see? That seems like the real end-game, to me.
Short of secretly hijacking their brain, of course.
My life has enough dull moments without watching someone else do nothing in low-rez video. Daily tedium is available to me in super-3D surround video, sound, and touch! for free!
posted by EricGjerde at 11:05 AM on May 29, 2007
So this is the same concept but without a camera crew?
When do we get a show where nano-bots have infiltrated into an unknowing person's retina, and start broadcasting everything they see? That seems like the real end-game, to me.
Short of secretly hijacking their brain, of course.
My life has enough dull moments without watching someone else do nothing in low-rez video. Daily tedium is available to me in super-3D surround video, sound, and touch! for free!
posted by EricGjerde at 11:05 AM on May 29, 2007
I would only be interested in watching someone else their life if I were completely isolated and unable to move, speak, or create ideas of my own.
Even then, I would be blinking out the morse code for "kill me... kill me... kill me... "
posted by chuckdarwin at 11:09 AM on May 29, 2007
Even then, I would be blinking out the morse code for "kill me... kill me... kill me... "
posted by chuckdarwin at 11:09 AM on May 29, 2007
...watching someone else live their life on the web if I were completely ...
posted by chuckdarwin at 11:10 AM on May 29, 2007
posted by chuckdarwin at 11:10 AM on May 29, 2007
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
posted by Dave Faris at 11:44 AM on May 29, 2007
posted by Dave Faris at 11:44 AM on May 29, 2007
Wait... hasn't EDtv already been done?
It was actually done for real too, but I don't remember the name of the show. I do recall that Bret Michaels from Poison was involved.
posted by smackfu at 11:48 AM on May 29, 2007
It was actually done for real too, but I don't remember the name of the show. I do recall that Bret Michaels from Poison was involved.
posted by smackfu at 11:48 AM on May 29, 2007
As if watching the daily crap in my own life wasn't dull enough.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:50 AM on May 29, 2007
posted by miss lynnster at 11:50 AM on May 29, 2007
Googling "edtv brett michaels" got me the name: Todd TV, on FX.
posted by smackfu at 11:51 AM on May 29, 2007
posted by smackfu at 11:51 AM on May 29, 2007
Somebody at SFGate is screwing somebody at Justin.tv, so readers have to endure front-page headlines anytime somebody there pops a load. (Or else SFGate is selling off front-page coverage as advertisement now.) Don't give in to the hype.
posted by troybob at 1:26 PM on May 29, 2007
posted by troybob at 1:26 PM on May 29, 2007
I wish Werner Herzog could direct the movie that is their lives so a bear would maul them and they would die.
posted by basicchannel at 2:09 PM on May 29, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by basicchannel at 2:09 PM on May 29, 2007 [1 favorite]
This was forseen (sort of) by Canadian scifi author Robert J. Sawyer in his "The Neanderthal Parallax" series.
posted by bhouston at 2:33 PM on May 29, 2007
posted by bhouston at 2:33 PM on May 29, 2007
"Or else SFGate is selling off front-page coverage as advertisement now"
Considering some of the other things they cover, that wouldn't surprise me in the least.
posted by drstein at 3:32 PM on May 29, 2007
Considering some of the other things they cover, that wouldn't surprise me in the least.
posted by drstein at 3:32 PM on May 29, 2007
Justin's still around, huh? I figured that livecasting would blow its wad a few months ago...
posted by mrgrimm at 5:51 PM on May 29, 2007
posted by mrgrimm at 5:51 PM on May 29, 2007
Good to know he's keeping the breakfast-eating fetishists happy, because I can't think of any other reason to watch this sort of thing.
and the guy from Poison? holy crap. that's just... I can't think of the words. but they're big icky words, believe me.
posted by EricGjerde at 7:10 PM on May 29, 2007
and the guy from Poison? holy crap. that's just... I can't think of the words. but they're big icky words, believe me.
posted by EricGjerde at 7:10 PM on May 29, 2007
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