Switched has a new home! Huffpost Tech.

Click here to visit the new home of Switched!

Hot on HuffPost Tech:

See More Stories
AOL Tech

For a Fee, Shatner and Other Celebs Record Video Autographs

by Terrence O'Brien on August 18, 2008 at 05:48 PM

Celebrities Sign Autographs and Record Personalized Greetings
Autographs are so 20th century. Who would want just a piece of paper signed by their favorite star when they could have a personalized video message to accompany it? That's the idea behind Live Autographs, a new company that pairs traditional pen and paper signatures of stars with videotaped greeting from them while they sign your memorabilia.

Stars include members of the cast of 'Lost,' Buzz Aldrin, Raven Symone, and of course (our favorite) William Shatner. For a fee, they'll sign various memorabilia while recording greetings both benign, "Happy Birthday John!", and bizarre, "When I'm smoking and sipping whiskey with Allen I'm secretly thinking of you and your dog," (seriously, a customer wanted Shatner to record that). The videos add a personal touch and a little more sentimental value to what is already a $2 billion dollar industry. An autographed copy of 'Has Been' is nice, but a video of Shatner yelling at a camera "I can't do this, this is crazy," (his reaction to the aforementioned "smoking and sipping whiskey" request) is priceless.

You can get your own recorded greeting and autograph by visiting LiveAutographs.com. And if you're lucky, Shatner might even do a little irritated improvisation for you. [From: Reuters]

Tags: autograph, live autograph, LiveAutograph, memorabilia

Comments

3

HuffPost AOL Social News Most Popular