Paparazzi at The Ivy in Los Angeles
I used my digital camera to video these Paparazzi standing across the street from The Ivy on Robertson in Beverly Hills waiting for celebrities to emerge. Paparazzi at The Ivy in Los Angeles
I used my digital camera to video these Paparazzi standing across the street from The Ivy on Robertson in Beverly Hills waiting for celebrities to emerge. Paparazzi at The Ivy in Los Angeles
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See? This just encourages them. If I were any sort of celeb at all in LA, I'd be there.
I'd imagine the colon, after drinking the water in Mexico, looks quite similar. I think there's an Ezra Pound poem in there somewhere.
Very exciting. I must go take my nap now.
someone MUST have paparazzied the paparazzi by now. Is there a book or photo-essay out there?
Random Chick @ 4:
I'm blessed/cursed with a strong sense of curiosity for anything that's out of the ordinary. It's not often I come across a bunch of paparazzi standing on the street waiting for a star to appear.
So, what kinds of things pique your more discriminating sense of interest?
irony.
someone MUST have paparazzied the paparazzi by now.
Joseph Gordon Levitt politely stalked and filmed two paparazzi who were chasing him. They got pretty upset. He finally got one of them to admit that he had a crush on him and was just trying to figure out if he's gay. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I saw the footage.
This is nothing! I work on Robertson..you should see it when someone big shows up like Lindsey Lohan or Paris...the paps practically block off the street it's really annoying!
Ha! That totally made me snicker. How come they weren't snapping away at you, Mark? Were you wearing your fake nose with your glasses again? I guess writers are not on their big payoff list. Bummer…
so, theoretically, we could create a culture of stalking paparazzi...
Dan Radcliffe had a great scheme for defeating the paparazzi. When he was in Equus, he left the theater every night wearing the exact same clothing. After the first night, every picture taken was completely valueless for sale.
Antinous @12: What a terrific hack!
Takuan,
META-PAP!
ah! there you are dear Antinous! I've been thinking: do we dwell here in a: garden? terrarium? aquarium? life boat? insane asylum? village? sophisticated,electronic global community? slum? bad movie? action adventure? romance? flying saucer? steam powered dirigible? center of the earth boring machine? generational star ship? college dorm? hospital? inbred country town? metropolis? Where are we? What's our best operational metaphor? I'm leaning to Garden of Eden.
Antinous @ 8: Here's Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. the paparazzi:
http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/04/gordonlevitt_vs.html
Thanks for finding that. It's interesting to note that after the one paparazzo is politely, but firmly, confronted, he starts acting like a fairly decent human being. Hmmm. What does that make me think of?
"pictures of assholes" heh! Love the "Fellini - who?" line. Nope, can't have any sympathy for them, they're ticks.
The paparazzi is really a consumer-side problem. There wouldn't be anybody taking pictures of celebrities "in the wild" if those pictures didn't sell. They sell because the public wants to see those pictures, and are willing to buy newspapers / magazines with the pictures and/or watch ad-supported TV shows. The big question is why?
One theory I've heard is that humans haven't yet evolved to understand that they don't actually know the people they see on TV. As a result they see "celebrities" as friends, and want to know more about what's going on in their lives.
Until the market for paparazzi pictures goes away, the paparazzi won't go away either.
#6,
Chick's asleep. Can I answer for her?
Ant hills.
A still photo would have sufficed. Why waste space and bandwidth on that video?
because we're fabulously wealthy!!
The paparazzi is really a consumer-side problem.
That's not necessarily true. A recent study concluded that people preferred informative television newscasts to the newsiness which has taken over the format. To some extent, people buy what they're offered. If the supermarket check-out rack had science and technology tabloids at the same price as the gossip ones, they might do quite well.
Worst of all, the ignorants totally ignored you, Mark...
@ #21 TRR:
I disagree sir, this is not the same as a still photo. This is more like watching a group of birds congregating by the watering hole. The way the stand there on watch, then raising the viewfinder to their eye, then putting it down, raising it again.
Or maybe they are like a group of barnacles on a rock that open up whenever a nutrient rich current pushes past them, then close after it passes.
Whatever they have become it is a moving phenomenon.
I know, they remind me of prairie dogs.
Buddy66 @20:
Here's a video I shot that's not about anthills, but ants play a starring role:
http://www.vimeo.com/1189730
suppose we can use the hardwired bug logic that coordinates the random push-pull of a hundred ants into a trip to the larder to develop software for bugbots that will swarm and evict trespassers.
why do they all look alike?
mushrooms
I wonder if it is possible to make an IR light that celebs could wear that would blind the cameras, rendering the photos useless. I know someone tried it with security cameras... does IR get picked up by regular DSLRs?
wait. they all look alike because I'm on mushrooms?
ooooooohhhhhhh, WOW!
no, I could be one on mushrooms. It's all a matter of perspective. Help me with my hookah. And mind the Cat, the smile is not genuine.
@30
Most DSLRs have IR bypass filters, so no, or hardly any IR gets to the sensor. That would be neat though!
I've grown up in L.A. since I was 2, i'm 34 now. It wasn't until this year I saw ACTUAL paparazzi. I was by the American Rag store on La Brea?(same street as Pinks), and saw a group of guys backing out of the store snapping pics. One walked backward without looking behind him. He walked backward 40 feet where I was ready to elbow him in the ribs. I did, and it felt great! Didn't phase him at all either, he grimaced and kept snapping pics. These guys has no regard for the people around them. The celebrities they were filming?: Eva Longoria and Tony Parker. She's cute but definitely on the average to lower end scale of cuteness, especially compared to the women around the corner shopping on Melrose.
Viva the post-ironic revolution! Lets all chase after paparazzi and hound them for exposing/glamorous snaps.
@Antinous: can you cite the study you mentioned about news vs. newsiness? Sounded interesting.
@30,33
When photo radar first started cropping up, you used to see license plate frames with a flash and a light sensor. When the sensor picked up a sudden bright light it would trip the flash and overexpose the photo radar shot. Maybe something like that could be repurposed.
Whoa, Mark went all Cory in #6!
Call the Blogarazzi!
I mean, um, take a screenshot.
I waited expectantly for a rogue truck to lurch out of control into the flock ...
Like a pack of wild animals waiting patiently for their prey to poke its head from the burrow so they can all pounce and tear at its flesh.
When I finally get to LA, I'm bringing a camera, and I'm going to stand amongst them and make them flinch, repeatedly, acting like I have some great shot. I will use and autowinder SLR with no film.
The one in the yellow outfit is the brains of the bunch.
Hmm... #34... I too am 34 and have lived in L.A. since toddlerhood. Still never seen a papparazzo, though I have had several celebrity encounters.
Just a thought- obviously BB inspired- How has the UK's no-photo craziness effected the paparazzi there? Have celebrities enjoyed a decrease in these unwanted photographers as officals have become so strict on taking pictures in public spaces?
DUDE! - What are you driving? The cars exhaust sounds like a Porsche or something.
When you work in the Flatiron Building in NYC, tourist season is an unending parade of double-decker buses full of people taking snapshots. Some years back I took to pointing at them and yelling "Oooh, look! Tourists!" If I had a camera on me, I'd take their picture.
I'm still waiting for the day one of them laughs.
Voodoo (24), what are you and Jflex (38) on about?
Hypnotic. Make it longer and steadier and you have an art piece.