Celebs Should Just Out-Pap the Paps

There is an article in today’s NYT about the pictures and video posted via Twitter by Ashton Kutcher and Demi more during and after the Academy Awards last night:

While watching the Academy Awards on TV Sunday night, Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore sent text updates to fans via Twitter. At a post-Oscars party afterward, they also uploaded several grainy photographs using TwitPic, an application that allows users to post pictures taken with their mobile phones to their Twitter accounts. Mr. Kutcher posted two low-resolution photos: a blurred image of producer Sean Combs along with the note “Diddy throws up oscars” and one of Mr. Kutcher himself clutching an Oscar, accompanied by the text “Me and penelopes oscar.” Ms. Moore turned her cameraphone on herself and Mr. Kutcher decked out in their postceremony party gear, garnering thousands of hits in less than a minute.

I’m actually surprised more fans don’t take more control of their public exposure.  All they would really have to do to get rid of the Paparazzi is to release floods of pictures they (or their friends) have taken – give them away to the media orgs for free and just put the paps right out of business.

Considering the level of access the actual stars have it is impossible to imagine a professional paparazzi being able to compete.

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XBOX Goes for Shows

Tech-news leader, the NYT is reporting that XBOX is partnering with Hollywood producer/manager Peter Safran (reps P Diddy among others) to create a series of short-form scripted entertainment exclusively for the XBOX:

“In an interview at his office in Los Angeles last week, Mr. Safran said his first round of programs would all be scripted, as opposed to reality shows, and would probably run under 10 minutes. He said he planned initially to focus on genres, like comedy and horror, that appeal to the Xbox 360 audience, which is heavily concentrated from the ages of 14 to 34, and tends to be more male than female. The first shows are expected to be available to viewers by the fall.”

Considering how much time that key demo seems to be on their game systems, and with XBOX already wired for delivery of content, this doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.  I am not sure I’m going to be excited about what they eventually make but I like that it opens the door to even more potential content windows.

(via NewTeeVee)