No photo, video or audio. Why bother?

On Saturday i was attending a concert with Kyuss (Lives) at Rockefeller in Oslo.
Rockefeller is well known for their strictness when it comes to photography, video and audio recording done by the concert audience. Long time ago before mobile phones i remember being thrown out a couple of times for recording live shows with my Mini-Disc player. There was no camera small enough and good enough to even try shoot a photo. Video – forget it.

How times has changed. Oh… Rockefeller still got “No photo, video or audio recording” printed on their tickets, but I think they’ve resigned. On Saturday’s Kyuss Lives concert i think each and every one of the 1800+ audience took at least one photo using their mobile phone and tweeted or shared their experience on facebook.  A lot was also recording video. I taped the opening sequence and the first song with my iPhone 4. I am a bit impressed by both the audio and video quality. On Tuesday I’m going to a Fu Manchu concert and see if i can create an equally good quality video.

Social media and mobile technology has totally changed how I attend concerts and events. Tweeting about it while I’m there, sharing photos through Facebook and video, recorded and uploaded to YouTube directly from the phone while it’s happening.

Why bother to try and stop it? Just a waste of time and energy.

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