Comment by bayindirh
1 year ago
I have a personal rule of not taking videos or photos at any concerts or similar events for 4-5 years now.
I remember all the events more vividly, have a couple of interesting mental notes from all of them, and all of them are great material for conversations.
Also, it has the benefit of not watching the whole thing from a small screen which is fed from a tiny sensor, trying to keep image stabilized and convert the whole event to a challenge to capture low quality video (or set of photos) which I don't revisit.
That's because you don't give your brain a excuse to be lazy. If the brain knows that it can offload the information somewhere else, it will do so. Instead of you recalling from memory the image, you recall from memory where the image is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22113...
This is certainly one of the reasons which I figured out (esp. during my personal productivity experiments), but on the other hand, not concentrating on "recording device" allows concentrating to the event more, leading to listening and seeing more what's happening on the stage.
Thanks for the paper, BTW.
I like to have a photo, so my personal rule is sometime early on, if the light is good, snap four or five PHOTOS in quick succession, then phone goes away.
Then I've got a good photo or two, but I'm actually watching the show.
I generally take a photo of the event's poster, after the event. That photo reminds me to look if there are any official (video) recordings of the event that I just attended. A good (audio) recording is equally nice, if it was a concert.
I understand that there’s issues of piracy (from the producer’s perspective), but I really wish every concert just had a concert DVD or something I could buy. That solves the FOMO of recording some unique performance.
While I don't have the FOMO, I concur. The last two concerts I went to were very unique. One had a great conductor, and the other one was a unique take on MJ's music overall.
I'll be very happy if there were high quality recordings to purchase, because I'd love to listen them over and over.
I take some photos if it's truly something memorable and doing so won't disturb people around me.
I never record video, though. Files several GBs big are simply too cumbersome to manage (and fill up my phone), and there's something profoundly stupid about watching something through a lense and screen when I'm physically right there in the moment.
I have occasionally recorded something by holding the phone under my chin, or just in front of my chin.
I've only done this three times this year, it has to be something unusual. Videos of bands are generally poor (especially the audio) so there's better material on YouTube.
It kinda of reads like you don't understand what a photo like that is, it's a memento, not an imax experience, it's kind of insulting you would think people think that
Sorry that my comment read that way. That was not my intention at all.
On the other hand, I understand what a photo like that means for the person who’s taking the photo. I’m both an amateur photographer and used to play in a symphony orchestra.
In my case, I both don’t want to potentially distract a performer, and don’t want to break my immersion and give my brain an excuse to be lazy. At the end, I leave every event happier and more satisfied.
Everybody is different and this is my perspective.