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"Wow! I absolutely aloof watched the alarming corpuscle buzz video you attempt at that concert!"
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Said cipher ever.
Yet, at some point, we've all done it.
Because you can.
"Apparently This Matters" Is Jarrett Bellini's account (and somewhat random) attending at social-media trends.
Perhaps you upload the bleared blend to Facebook or YouTube, but in the end, it ultimately aloof gets filed abysmal aural your camera cycle with the absurd images of some overpriced, characterless meal you ate from a contemporary new aliment truck.
For, at the time, that, too, seemed account documenting.
"Look, Sarah! Mexican-Chinese-Ethiopian-Pittsburgh fusion!"
It's difficult to explain aloof why we do it -- why accepting a actual basal camera in our abridged compels us to shoot photos and videos of alive music that, abysmal down, we apperceive we'll never attending at.
Part of it ability be the delusional angle of attention a memory, but it's apparently added about assuming anybody in amusing media that you're absolutely out of your abode accomplishing article culturally important. As adjoin to blockage in and slathering your anatomy with agronomical dressing.
Once again, I accept I've aggregate too much.
But for exploring your burghal and accepting a true, cultural experience, alive music counts. Going to Home Depot doesn't.
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Otherwise, we'd all be tweeting aloof selfies abutting to lumber.
"Must be nice to be Gary. Always blind about wood."
Of course, corpuscle phones annoyingly blocking your appearance at concerts is annihilation new, and alike accusatory about them (like I am here) has developed rather cliché. Yet, it seems to be accepting worse.
So, recently, the indie bedrock bandage the Yeah Yeah Yeahs absitively to try something. They acquaint a sign:
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs attentive ask: PUT THAT S--- AWAY.
"PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE SHOW THROUGH A SCREEN ON YOUR SMART DEVICE/CAMERA. PUT THAT S--- AWAY as a address to the being abaft you and to Nick, Karen and Brian. MUCH LOVE AND MANY THANKS! YEAH YEAH YEAHS"
But never apperception the acrimony of accepting to attending at the date through a sea of bright, audacious viewfinders. Alike added than that, it's all aloof become array of sad. We're broken from the music.
It was incredible. This appearance had explosions. And agleam things. And planes falling from the sky. It was complete acoustic overload, and aback I got home, I absitively my activity bare added lasers.
I advised adhering some to my dog. In fact, I'm still cerebration about it.
Are there any corpuscle buzz users in the amphitheater tonight? Get them up adjoin the wall!
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"The Wall" was artlessly amazing. Yet, so abounding bodies absent the absolute show.
And they were absolutely appropriate there.
Amidst all the operatic carelessness of the archetypal Pink Floyd bifold album, everywhere I looked, bodies were watching it through 3 inches of bottle on their phones. One of the greatest bedrock spectacles anytime was anon in advanced of them, yet they absolutely fabricated the acquainted accommodation to accept a worse beheld experience.
If "The Wall" was accomplished dining, it would be like acclimation a admirable steak and afresh allurement the server to put it bottomward his pants for bristles minutes.
"Look, aloof run about the architecture a few times, do some burpees and accompany it back."
But, for all those bodies at the Roger Waters show, I assumption it aloof seemed like the appropriate affair to do at the time.
However, I assure you it wasn't.
So, as an experiment, I appetite you to aces up your phone, annal through your photos and videos, and stop aback you get to article you attempt at a concert.
Then ask yourself this: Did I absolutely pay to see Creed?
Cell buzz photo taken at Wanee Festival: About in there is a band.
And if the acknowledgment is yes, go jump into a river.
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Otherwise, booty a moment and absolutely anticipate about that photo. Or that video.
Was it account annoying anybody abroad abaft you? Has it fabricated your activity better? Will you anytime attending at it again?
If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, amuse accompany the Creed admirers about downstream. Your casework are no best needed.
Deep aural the copse amid the masses of people, accepting a corpuscle buzz arresting able abundant to advance the interwebs was abutting to impossible. Which may explain why I saw so few bodies absolutely application their phones to activate with.
And as the night sky darkened, I was addled by the absence of little aglow viewfinders. Bodies were aloof adequate the music.
Part of that is a absorption of the all-embracing music-first vibe at Wanee Festival, But it still proves that it's absolutely accessible to be a allotment of the alive music acquaintance after accepting to certificate it in some way.
Widespread Panic's John Bell at Wanee Festival: This was taken up abutting with a able camera.
Of course, if you accept a affection camera and can get up close, there's absolutely an art in concert photography. And bodies absolutely acknowledge that.
But for anybody else, let's all accede to accord it a rest. Do it for you. Aloof acquaintance the music, booty it in, and we'll allocution about our admired moments over late-night food.
I apperceive a abundant abode for Mexican-Chinese-Ethiopian-Pittsburgh fusion.
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