You still mad I won't let you sit on my shoulders at concerts anymore?
I have sat on many a shoulder being a small dude, but I sure as hell make sure as hell try to adjust slowly to reverse sit on shoulders cotch/face style only to be chucked off. It's the only way.
People filming videos of concerts. do you ever go back at watch them? Why are you filming?
And it's not like the sound quality on those videos are any good, it's usually distorted and ear-shatteringly loud. Blocking people's view and distracting from your own experience for no good reason.
Yeah don't know the point of filming the same thing 10,000+ other people are. No one wants to be subjected to shaky, poorly lit, zoomed in videos that are picking up more crowd noise than performance.
I guess it's a form of trinket for an experience you paid a lot for, but aside from the hours following the concert I doubt many actually look back in their videos at all.
A couple nice photos probably make the best concert memorabilia, as well as merch. But unless you're the graphic T's wearing sort that tour shirt is likely to just collect dust in your closet too.
Frankly most photo-taking is pointless and inane too. It really, really irked me when "selfie sticks" proliferated 10+ years ago. I know lots of people who take lots of photos with their phones on a daily basis, and they don't understand how I could go on vacation for three weeks and average less than one photo per day. The idea of not constantly "documenting their lives" is completely alien to them.
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I put taking videos of concerts you're attending up there with taking cellphone videos of fireworks: a complete waste of space on your device, and time for everyone you subject to watching it. Just enjoy being there; that's what you paid for, isn't it? I guess I just don't get what it's for. Is it for that moment when someone says "Pfft, I don't believe for one f-ckin' second that you went to that concert" and you're all like "Oh yeah, check out this video I took; checkmate, bitch."
I get taking photos here and there, although I think there's a quality to it that's lost now that everything is entirely digital. There's something special about looking through the old photo albums mom kept back when you actually had to take your rolls of film to get developed at K-mart.
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Having video of an event is nice if you get blackout. At least then you’ve preserved something that may trigger a memory of it, or at least something to convince yourself you were actually there..
Anything less than that level and I wouldn’t bother. Much more fun to just be completely in the moment.
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You can be 100% present while holding a phone up up at your chest, though. It's not like I bring a jib and have to look through a viewfinder. The shows I like are typically not mainstream bands and I put them on YouTube just so they aren't taking up space on my phone. I have about 6000 views and most of those are of a band that has since broken up and was never big enough to have any of their shows filmed with any sort of quality, anyway. It's possible my recordings are some of the best of them that will ever exist. I'm happy I can share them with other fans, I get absolutely nothing from it and I still watch and enjoy them.
It's not like I'm filming a basic band like Pearl Jam or something lol. I get being uninterested in them as a viewer, but it shouldn't be confusing as to what makes them special to people who like them and it's really no effort to make them.
You guys are also totally downplaying the quality. It can be very good. I'd post them here but I don't really want to out my YouTube channel.
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You can be 100% present while holding a phone up up at your chest, though. It's not like I bring a jib and have to look through a viewfinder. The shows I like are typically not mainstream bands and I put them on YouTube just so they aren't taking up space on my phone. I have about 6000 views and most of those are of a band that has since broken up and was never big enough to have any of their shows filmed with any sort of quality, anyway. It's possible my recordings are some of the best of them that will ever exist. I'm happy I can share them with other fans, I get absolutely nothing from it and I still watch and enjoy them.
It's not like I'm filming a basic band like Pearl Jam or something lol. I get being uninterested in them as a viewer, but it shouldn't be confusing as to what makes them special to people who like them and it's really no effort to make them.
You guys are also totally downplaying the quality. It can be very good. I'd post them here but I don't really want to out my YouTube channel.
This is subtly some of your best work.
Bravo Sir!
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Frankly most photo-taking is pointless and inane too. It really, really irked me when "selfie sticks" proliferated 10+ years ago. I know lots of people who take lots of photos with their phones on a daily basis, and they don't understand how I could go on vacation for three weeks and average less than one photo per day. The idea of not constantly "documenting their lives" is completely alien to them.
We just did a vacation to Vancouver Island.
Did a bunch of stuff, I took 3 photos.
There only one time I took a bunch of photos, that was when I was overseas.
I used those 7 months as a nonstop photoshoot.
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I understand filming a rare event, like a dive bar acoustic set, or reunion event, or a lesser known band who you want to help get out there on the youtubes and who could actually use the exposure from a limited fanbase. The right kind of show in the right venue can work on average recording devices. Outdoor shows are less bass-y on the audio so it can work if the crowd is tame (which is why it can work with indie/folk artists).
But I think if you're going paying big dollars to go to Rogers place to record the entirety of a Beyonce or Taylor Swift concert (know people who have) then it is both cringey and wasteful for sure.
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