How cool is this? The picture below is from the Twitter Map overlay on Bing Maps. It shows images tweeted from the Rush concert at White Water Amphitheater last night.
Some of the tweets from the concert: "Solo still going", "Yay drum solo", etc.
During the concert, the audience was lit in part by the ethereal glow of mobile devices held aloft to capture the spectacle.
To me, none of these people are living in the moment. It is as if they are instituting a homunculus - a little agent which is accounting what they are doing 'ok, now I am watching a drum solo', 'I'm watching this performance through an 'eye' that is watching this performance.'
Oh, and my neighbor's seat was row 21, seat 12.
Agreed on not being in the moment. I was at two shows at Wolf Trap this summer, and they put a hashtag in the program. I was pleased to note no one was using it.
Next show - Victor Wooten and JD Blair at the Birchmere. We'll see if the trend continues ;-)
Posted by: Ian_soboroff | August 09, 2010 at 10:00 AM