It is strange that anyone would be live at a show and watch it through a tiny screen. They are showing the No Hitter that the Phillies pitcher just threw and his mom is in the stands filming it on her phone instead of actually watching her son do it. Same with another player who hit a HR in his first MLB at bat, his family was in the outfield bleachers filming it on their phone instead if actually experiencing the moment with their own eyes. Don't these people.know the games are filmed. How does a phone video from the stands come out better than the broadcast footage? How can it be worth it not to actually watch your kid accomplish something like that because you were watching it through your phone screen?
It is strange that anyone would be live at a show and watch it through a tiny screen. They are showing the No Hitter that the Phillies pitcher just threw and his mom is in the stands filming it on her phone instead of actually watching her son do it. Same with another player who hit a HR in his first MLB at bat, his family was in the outfield bleachers filming it on their phone instead if actually experiencing the moment with their own eyes. Don't these people.know the games are filmed. How does a phone video from the stands come out better than the broadcast footage? How can it be worth it not to actually watch your kid accomplish something like that because you were watching it through your phone screen?
I've always wondered this. So when I record anything, I still watch it with my own eyes, and hold my phone steady at my upper chest level. doesn't bother anyone, not blocking anyone, and I'm still watching in "real life".
if I can't record something at that level, I just don't.
It is strange that anyone would be live at a show and watch it through a tiny screen. They are showing the No Hitter that the Phillies pitcher just threw and his mom is in the stands filming it on her phone instead of actually watching her son do it. Same with another player who hit a HR in his first MLB at bat, his family was in the outfield bleachers filming it on their phone instead if actually experiencing the moment with their own eyes. Don't these people.know the games are filmed. How does a phone video from the stands come out better than the broadcast footage? How can it be worth it not to actually watch your kid accomplish something like that because you were watching it through your phone screen?
I hear you. I once read a book. Susan Sontag 'on photography' which sheds an interesting perspective. This was written previous to the iPhone invasion. To sum it up. The camera is a layer between you and reality. Easier to watch a stressful/intense situation through a camera. Takes you one step away. Idk Some dumb sh.t like that.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but too much of a big deal gets made about cell phones at shows.
I feel the opposite. It ruins the moment instead of enhancing anything. People film endless shit and watch a show through a photo screen. I never understood it
And then half of them are nothing but someone pogo jumping because they forget they have a camera. Meanwhile, all you hear is "WHOOOOOOOOO!!!! I LOVE YOU EDDIEEEEEEEEE!!!! WHOOOOOO!!"
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I think what people are missing is that a lot of the people who take video at rock shows or baseball games or what have you aren't doing it so they can relive the experience later. They're doing it so they can post those videos in real time to their social media feeds and say, "Look at where I am! Aren't I so cool?" The experience itself is less important for some people than being able to show their friends that they had the experience.
I think what people are missing is that a lot of the people who take video at rock shows or baseball games or what have you aren't doing it so they can relive the experience later. They're doing it so they can post those videos in real time to their social media feeds and say, "Look at where I am! Aren't I so cool?" The experience itself is less important for some people than being able to show their friends that they had the experience.
I thought that was a younger person kind of thing or has it trickled in to the 40+ year old crowd as well?
I think what people are missing is that a lot of the people who take video at rock shows or baseball games or what have you aren't doing it so they can relive the experience later. They're doing it so they can post those videos in real time to their social media feeds and say, "Look at where I am! Aren't I so cool?" The experience itself is less important for some people than being able to show their friends that they had the experience.
I thought that was a younger person kind of thing or has it trickled in to the 40+ year old crowd as well?
I think what people are missing is that a lot of the people who take video at rock shows or baseball games or what have you aren't doing it so they can relive the experience later. They're doing it so they can post those videos in real time to their social media feeds and say, "Look at where I am! Aren't I so cool?" The experience itself is less important for some people than being able to show their friends that they had the experience.
I thought that was a younger person kind of thing or has it trickled in to the 40+ year old crowd as well?
There's two types, IMO: The extremely hot social media influencer who does it for the clicks and (sometimes) expects free shit because "I have five million followers!" The random dudes doing it to show their friends.
PJ fans did it right: Get on Periscope and focus on the band for the virtual viewing parties. They weren't showing the view around the venues. They weren't focused on their brands.
Those guys (the one from Oklahoma? especially) were cool. The people who figured out how to ride Instagram's algorithms to show five million people how they drink White Claw or the Nirvana shirt they're wearing? Annoying.
Sidenote: What the hell was that guy's name? I think it was the 2016 tour... Jorge? Jose? He routinely had 800+ people watching online and we were all disappointed when he took his last show off, but he deserved it.
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I also think phones are worse when you're on the floor. If your in wings your higher than the person in front of you, and generally people don't need to hold their phones as high and/or you can see over them.
When you're on the floor people hold them up as high as they can and block the view of the people behind them. It's super annoying. I take a few pictures, and at worst a short video during a show, which I can back relive in the future, but holding it up for a whole concert and prolonged period of time is super annoying.
I will say the whole phone lights replacing lighters actually works not too badly. For a while so many people stopped smoking that the lighter brigade was wearing thin.. but everyone has a phone, so it looks pretty epic
I was in pit for Camden, about 7 rows deep and can say had no issues with phones being in my face…
I was the guy behind you, and I had a huge issue with it.
haha well if so sorry about that, I get enough flack when I am in the pit because I am 6'3 so I make sure not to move much and when I do use my phone it's a quick picture or video to pull a still from. I am very conscious that I am tall and do everything I can to make sure anyone behind me can finagle to one side of the other and I will generally stay put where I am.
When I was in the pit for San Diego the lady behind me just goes "Really?" Like I have any fucking choice on how tall I am haha...
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What I don't understand is why people who check their phones in movie theaters insist on holding the phones in front of their faces, so as to disturb everyone in the theater, as opposed to holding the phone in their laps, so as to only disturb the people in their row? Are people genuinely not aware that holding a lit-up screen in front of your face is like shining a flashlight in the direction of the people behind them?
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if I can't record something at that level, I just don't.
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I once read a book. Susan Sontag 'on photography' which sheds an interesting perspective. This was written previous to the iPhone invasion.
To sum it up. The camera is a layer between you and reality. Easier to watch a stressful/intense situation through a camera. Takes you one step away. Idk
Some dumb sh.t like that.
And then half of them are nothing but someone pogo jumping because they forget they have a camera. Meanwhile, all you hear is "WHOOOOOOOOO!!!! I LOVE YOU EDDIEEEEEEEEE!!!! WHOOOOOO!!"
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There's two types, IMO:
The extremely hot social media influencer who does it for the clicks and (sometimes) expects free shit because "I have five million followers!"
The random dudes doing it to show their friends.
PJ fans did it right: Get on Periscope and focus on the band for the virtual viewing parties. They weren't showing the view around the venues. They weren't focused on their brands.
Those guys (the one from Oklahoma? especially) were cool. The people who figured out how to ride Instagram's algorithms to show five million people how they drink White Claw or the Nirvana shirt they're wearing? Annoying.
Sidenote: What the hell was that guy's name? I think it was the 2016 tour... Jorge? Jose? He routinely had 800+ people watching online and we were all disappointed when he took his last show off, but he deserved it.
Exactly. Something tells me Kurt Cobain would find them incredibly obnoxious and annoying.
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When I was in the pit for San Diego the lady behind me just goes "Really?" Like I have any fucking choice on how tall I am haha...
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