But a half hour after the band came onstage, I would have happily barred every camera from the place. And mobile phones too. An endless array of shiny silver doodads held up, videoing, photographing, relaying. There’s something distracted about the way we’re enjoying ourselves now. It’s not just that new technologies are affecting our attention span, it’s like people are trying section away a portion of their enjoyment. Saving it for another day. Unable to simply experience the moment, as cliched as that sounds. Just fucking stand there and listen, or dance, or whatever. Just let the thing that’s supposed to happen happen.
Is that blogging?
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love most about this justification...print he’s talking...I...
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This is why I didn’t bring my digital camera to the Tour Eiffel on New Years. I just wanted to experience it. And I’ve...
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number of column inches my irritable kneejerk has kicked off. Probably this is...grab...
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our shiny trash: the collection...signs that we reference, in order for them to reference...
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haven’t experienced this,...I don’t enjoy crowds or loud noises, but The Cataloging Of...
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think it’s related...problem I’m having with LJ these days.
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It was not so long ago that...paranoidishly burying my crappy 35mm camera
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Or, as I like to say: if you didn’t shoot photos or video of it, if you didn’t “tweet” it (ugh), if you didn’t rush home...
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