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Re:Natalie Portman a la justin.tv? by marketer on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:31PM (#20595)
Not to be insensitive to Justin, but his life isn't exciting in a way that attracts the masses to his video feed. Most of the time he's walking around his apartment, or sitting on his couch playing with his laptop. he just doesn't have the charisma that somebody like Natalie Portman likely has.
Re:Natalie Portman a la justin.tv? by far33d on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:43PM (#20598)
Certainly, part of the charm of jtv is that he's just a normal guy doing normal things. It's fascinating to see how the simple act of wearing the camera changes his life - people talk to him differently, he gets invited to things, he's suddenly something of a celebrity just because of the presence of the camera.

But imagine that camera on Natalie Portman or Paris Hilton, or someone whose life is already incredibly out of the ordinary - while some of the charm is lost, it certainly would add a lot of intrigue.

There's also a lot of opportunity for using this kind of platform to do loosely narrative driven content: someone wears it for a single date, a job interview, to document a startup, to document making a film, etc.

Re:Natalie Portman a la justin.tv? by davidw on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:35PM (#20596)
ch...what? I think you mispelled "breasts"
Re:Natalie Portman a la justin.tv? by omouse on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @10:18PM (#20641)
If she's walking around with a camera on her head like Justin then you won't be seeing much of her boobs unless she has some kind of weird obsession with them. But we can always dream!