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Perun said:
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Do you really appreciate all of it? All the 50 second cellphone videos? The shaky glimpses at the stage with bass distortion for sound? Is it really worth it?

I appreciate a recording done with professional equipment somewhere in a decent spot. I appreciate the effort from the people who do it and share it with others. I do not appreciate, however, people who have their cellphones out for the entire gig, just taking photos and videos all the time. It's fine to take a few snapshots as a souvenir, but there is no need to take hundreds of photos if everyone else around you is doing it too. I really lost all the tolerance left in me for this at the 2013 Maiden gig in Berlin... a gig I literally saw through the smartphone screens of the people in front of me. I was pissed. Really pissed. These people don't understand that they are ruining the experience for others in the audience. I paid 60 Euros for that gig, that's a lot of money, and there were times when I felt that money was wasted.
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I do not get it ... I usually snap a picture or quick video of Eddie when they play Iron Maiden and that is about it. The video always comes out like shit and I'd rather just watch the show. The screens are annoying.
 
I think it's a case of wanting to show other people that "you were there" and just how awesome time you had.

.. Which makes you have a much less awesome time. I remember one show I went to, not Iron Maiden, and this guy was facebook chatting throughout the fucking show. What the hell.
 
bearfan said:
That's what ticket stubs and t-shirts are for :)
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Yup. But what do you do with the videos you shoot? You pull out your phone when having a few beers and go "YEAH MAN, CHECK THIS OUUUUUT, I WAS LIKE, CLOSE TO BROUSE DICKINSONNENN". This is the social media days, of endless self validation. Video trumps shirts.

And if I'm wrong about this replacing shirts and ticket stubs, then I would argue still that it is because of the mass addiction to smart phones, social media and internet. We live more and more of our lives, putting more of what happens to us, on display and through the internet. This is just an extention of that.
 
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These days, I only take a picture of the stage before the show and I keep all tickets. Stopped recording videos a while ago. There's always someone recording the whole show if I want to watch it on YouTube anyway.
 
Seems like this stuff is not exclusive to concerts, wherever you go people are snapping at something. Being from a tourist-oriented area, I see a lots of people just following their guide and taking pictures like maniacs. Jesus people, don't you just want to stop, breathe, look around, get a feel of it? Besides, your pictures of whatever object in question suck compared to what you can download on the internet, made by professionals in professional equipment.

I just loathe this category of "amateur documentary pictures". A personal picture would be - this is me and my dog running around. Fine, I might have interest in that. But - these are 5879 pictures of architectural objects and just random stuff we saw on our last trip, fuck you. Unless you were in VIP area of Taj Mahal or in a middle of Atacama desert storm, there's Google Earth and Panoramio and professional photography.

This stuff adds no value to anybody, just to serve as a reminder or a bragging point for person who took the picture.
 
I tried playing bass today. Was quite cool. But more physically demanding than guitar. Especially when jumping up and down while playing Fear of the Dark :D
 
I never did that voluntarily, we had mandatory full exam twice throughout elementary, once in high school, once for army conscription drafting and once in college.

Our state medical service has a bit obsolete methodology and equipment, and private practice are just being assholes, because you need to know exactly what analysis do you want, unless you want them to send you to every unnecessary diagnostic just to grab money. Usually I go to my state provided physician and medical lab to do groundwork, then I go to private practice to perform diagnostics, and then I get back to my physician with results.

IMHO, a lot of people, at least around me, ignore signs their bodies are emitting. They delay going to physician as long as possible, even when clearly feeling symptoms of something.

So I think that routine checks might be nice, but living a healthy life that makes you just feel great, will force you to notice pretty quickly if something is going wrong.
 
Me and the fiancee are finishing packing. She told me that "you'd better not sit by the computer again!"

"Okay".
And then I stood by the computer, browsing.

Yes. I can be, slightly, childish. :D
She can too though.
 
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