- Oh, we gonna push him, let's go.
(exhales)
Yeah, goodbye!
That was the best picture. We posting this.
(laughs) Oh man, yeah, we win.
And I don't care if the game says we win or not,
we won just now.
(upbeat jazz music)
Hey, what's up, y'all?
My name is Byron and I spent a year
as a celebrity paparazzi.
It's about being incognito, not being seen
by who you're after.
The best way I could describe it is imagine trying
to catch a Pokemon.
In order to catch a Pokemon,
you have to learn how the Pokemon moves,
where it likes to hang out, what it likes to eat,
and what it likes to do.
Once you figure that out, you know where to go.
So today we're gonna be playing a game called Pupperazzi.
I would assume that it deals with puppies and paparazzi.
I have a big feeling that this game is gonna be super silly,
but I'm thinking that if I dig deep down
into my hat of paparazzi, I can pull some skill outta there
and implement that into this game.
All right, I'm ready to get started.
Let's see what's up.
Okay, so it looks like there's a lot of locations here.
There's home. I think I wanna get outside.
Buppy Boardwalk. I like that.
It's popping over here.
We got dogs on bikes.
Hey, stop. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop that, stop.
Hey, there we go. There we go, there we go!
All right, so, actually, I am being a little bit
more aggressive right now.
When I'm chasing real celebrities, I'm already scouting them
from a couple probably hundred yards away
and I'm already thinking of what question I wanna ask them.
I always have my camera in my bag
to where they can't see it,
'cause the second they see a camera, it's like,
"Nah, let me go the other way."
Let's take a picture of you and your friend.
Yup, yup, yup. There we go. (camera shutter clicks)
Yeah! I wonder if I can jump over this.
I can.
I have a bone.
So you want to go where the action is
and you never know how the action can manifest.
So you really just wanna go where you see energy
or where you feel energy getting ready to bubble up.
So if there's somebody already moving around,
so, for example, this puppy's doing its thing
in its own world.
This is something worth noting and walking up to.
So what we're gonna do is try to get a action shot
of the puppy in the air.
Gonna plot the position.
(camera shutter clicks)
We're gonna try that again 'cause I want some face.
No face, no case, as they say.
(camera shutter clicks)
All right, so I took some great photos.
Now it's time to check 'em out.
I have a few photos of Air Bud.
So we have number one, number two, and number three.
Number one, he's showing a lot of booty.
I don't know if I'm a fan of that,
so I'm gonna go ahead and recycle this
'cause, you know, children are watching.
I like this photo, but like I said, no face, no case.
So I'm sorry, ya gotta go.
This is to infinity and beyond. I'm a fan.
We're gonna go ahead and post this one to dogNET.
So what happened was we just gained a few followers.
We went up to 82.
As you see, the line goes up,
which means we're doing numbers.
All right, so when I go back to the camera tab,
you see there's definitely a bunch of lenses
I can choose from.
Reminiscent of paparazzi days.
You never know what equipment you may need,
so you bring a lot of it.
Okay, so, I think it's time for me
to do a couple objectives.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna find a setup that I like
and then we're gonna go out and see
if we can make some magic.
Get 85 followers to unlock. I think I can do that.
So luckily, I set us up in a good spot
where there's a couple dogs just chilling
with the helmets on.
Well, one of 'em left. Okay.
We're gonna take a picture of you, cutie.
Let's add some depth to it.
So I'm gonna pet him, right?
So one of thing I'm realizing about this game.
It's a little unrealistic just in the fact
that these dogs love me. (laughs)
Celebrities did not love me at all.
As soon as they saw the camera, they ran.
I run up on these dogs with the camera and they come to me.
That's a pleasant surprise and I love it.
So, all right, we got little buddy over here.
Let's call him Spike.
We got Spike over here with the helmet on.
We're gonna pet one more time, get him all softened up
a little bit, then pull out the camera.
Boom, got it.
I'm actually very proud of this picture.
Let me tell you why.
This is all about timing, y'all.
As a paparazzi, timing is everything.
You can get a picture, but it may not be the picture.
Let me show you why this is the picture.
As you see, the other dog is nowhere in sight
and I have full attention from this dog
with the whole background behind him.
That was timing because, you know,
the other dog was right behind his head.
So it's about understanding what you want in your frame
or what you don't want in your frame.
Because, as a paparazzi, you could get the celebrity
in the frame, but if you get some random man on the side
eatin' a hot dog, then the picture's
not gonna be worth as much and it just won't work out.
So I really do like this picture.
I'm gonna go ahead and post this one to dogNET
and see if my follower account goes up.
And look at that, we have 86. We hit that goal.
Objective complete! Oh, I'm feeling myself now.
You shoulda never let me play this game.
There's a dog arcade? What?
This dog is happy.
I don't even wanna pet him
'cause I don't wanna ruin his fun.
So what I'm gonna do is I have to get a picture of him.
(camera shutter clicks)
There's a lot happening in that picture.
Let's look at it real quick.
I like it. It looks like a dog in an arcade.
Let's post it.
Boom, we got 90 followers.
All right, so I think I've gotten everything
that I wanted from this area,
so let's head over to the next location.
Big city! All right, now I see.
This is dog Manhattan.
All right, so let's see what objectives we have.
Let's get right into it.
Photo of a biking dog with the pixel lens.
I can do that. Photo of a duck.
There's ducks here? (duck quacks)
Let's start with a dog first. (laughs)
As a paparazzi, there's definitely objectives.
The objective is always get what you can,
but when you're in the field, the objective can change.
Pow! Yeah, what you thought?
We got two pictures.
I'm gonna switch over to post this picture
on dogNET and I better get eight followers.
Darn it, I got three.
And they had the nerve to ask me which dog is the subject.
That's another thing I wanna tell y'all.
There's haters in the industry.
They don't care how good your pictures are,
they always gonna have something to say.
I'm gonna find the coolest dog at this park.
That's my goal.
Aw, he's cute!
(camera shutter clicks)
The Sleeping Canine, that's the name of this picture.
I'll post this one 'cause he was chilling.
If I can push this dog on the swing,
that's ultimate excitement.
Yep. Oh, he's scared.
He wasn't ready for this. Oh we gonna push him, let's go.
(exhales)
Yeah, goodbye. (laughs)
Got him. Look at his face.
(laughs)
That was the best picture. We posting this.
(laughs)
Oh man, yeah, we win. We win.
I don't care if the game says we win or not,
we won just now.
So next objective says a photo of a duck.
Yeah, stay there.
(camera shutter clicks) Boom, got that.
Have you ever seen a duck on dogNET?
Now you have. (duck quacks)
So as you see, I'm the GOAT already.
So we're going after the final objective,
which is hit 150 followers.
If anybody can do it, we can do it.
So we're gonna find the coolest dogs
doing the coolest things and take the coolest pictures.
They're not that cool.
I like the colors in this.
If this dog, oh, here we go.
All right, yep, yep, yep. Now we're getting somewhere.
If everybody looks at me and not runs away,
then we gonna get this 150 followers.
Come over here, both of 'em look at me,
one, two, okay, he doesn't wanna look.
Well, you know what? I'm gonna take a picture of them
'cause they know what they doing.
They cooperatin' and not making my job harder.
I'm gettin' you and your background dancers.
(camera shutter clicks)
That's something! We're gonna see how many followers we get.
This last one, I like it.
We're gonna post it. Got three more followers.
I like this one.
So this puppy right here is blinking,
I may get an extra point for that, let's see.
Aw, no I didn't, but I got three followers.
Aw, these dogs have fleas.
I wonder if I can get points for a flea dog.
Y'all are happy with y'all's fleas. Boom.
These would literally be the equivalent
of when you go to Beverly Hills in the morning
and you see the celebrities walking out
of the plastic surgery offices with their bandages.
And we got some followers from it, too.
Now this is Stoop Dog. Get it, Stoop Dog?
No, it's funny.
Just a dog chilling with his hat on.
This would be like if you catch Justin Bieber
just chilling out on the street corner by his self,
which you would never see.
But if you did, this is what it would look like.
So we're gonna come around, get all three dogs swinging,
(camera shutter clicks)
looking like they're living their best lives.
Boom.
We gonna post this and get no points, what the hell?
So I'm gonna try to climb these roofs
and see if there's any roof dogs.
Here's my little trampoline.
Boing!
Oh, there are some roof dogs. Perfect.
All right, so I'm gonna switch my setup real quick.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna solarize it,
go for a film noir type of look,
pretend we in New York City.
With this picture, since I'm so close,
there's not much room to move around.
I have to use the vertical space.
So I'm gonna jump and try to get a good picture
of these dogs from this angle.
Maybe a little higher.
And three, two.
(camera shutter clicks)
And the cool thing is one of the dogs
were actually looking up at us.
So this may have turned out being the best shot.
We've only been taking good pictures this time.
We're gonna go ahead and post this.
Boom, four points.
Five points. And that's how you do it.
Four more points.
The sleeping dog, let's see.
Four more points. Let's post it.
Wow! (laughs)
Well, we made it.
That was the best picture. Okay!
Well we gonna go over to our last photo that I love so much
and see how many points they wanna give us for this.
Not too bad, not too bad.
I'll take it.
All right, so that's been fun.
As you see, I hit all of my objectives,
I did everything I was supposed do,
and I'm a damn good paparazzi.
I think it was rough at first,
but then I got the hang of it.
Once I started to figure out what they were really looking
for in the photos, I was able to kind of implement that
and take good photos.
My favorite photo that I took, there's two of them.
So the first one that I'll say is the last photo I took
when I jumped up and it was black and white film noir,
got that nice bird's eye view.
But my favorite favorite was the dog
that was scared on the swing.
That was classic.
(playful music)
A final thought I would wanna leave everybody with is,
if you wanna get a dog, get a digital dog,
don't get a real dog.
Because even though these dogs didn't listen,
at least I ain't had to clean up no dog poop.