After All, You Can't Take It With You
Leaving Before the Encore I am so everything. I am everywhere. I so remember having life experiences where camera phones weren't so prevalent. Now? In our pockets. Every f*cking one of them. But just the other day I had a flashback. Maybe from deep inside my own hermetic bubble, but still, I thought of a concert from the old days. Everyone there was so excited. The band, the intimate crowd or audience. The sound resonating between the participants in that experience. All of it. You had to be there. Maybe you were. But maybe, these days, you don't have to be present. I fear this because we can later open the app and scroll through endless videos that all cut out just when it was getting pretty good. Who knows? Maybe it is the stuff of legend? Passed down via oral history. Or by your favorite music mag. Or by everyone's camera phone? I ask the question: is it the contemporary culture? Everything is everything. Me. Available. I'm a photographer. I write articles. I intervi...
