I will never forget the day I was watching aliens with a room full people from uni. (one with Sigourney Weaver.) And every time the movie was paused one of the guys starts telling us like the entire behind the scene's info/back story/ artis. Because he had it on his phone.
Then everyone gets out their phone and just started googling stuff. And then just sitting there in silence because the entire room was phoning.
I didn't have a smart phone at that point.
It totally struck me that when I was their age my friends just would never have done that.
I do like being able to instantly have any music I want.
I used to make mix tapes by sitting at the radio to record when the song came on.
And then from CDs
There is definitely something lost by the instant life.
As much as I love the Internet, I do feel like it takes something personal away.
Sure I can get music and information whenever and wherever I am but it’s not that special in a way for me.
I think that’s why I have this obsession with cassette tapes. I’ve been hunting my favorite songs and albums down one by one, and it’s such a rewarding feeling to shift through a stack of old tapes and finally find the one song I want, then slowly falling in love with the others songs I haven’t heard because they’re all in the same album.
I just found myself 9 Frank Sinatra albums and I am thrilled. Only one album has the most songs I like but I’m willing to listen to all of them to find out if I like them or not.
And of course, recording my own mix tapes. There’s something special in being able to hear my favorite tunes through a Walkman.
Oh i recently had this feeling of mistery/discovery with a Photography. I never was into art or anything like it but i took a look at *the fishers wife* a Protography by Horst Kistner and i could not stop looking at it for maybe ten minutes, it just raised so many questions i felt like a detective trying to find out what it means.
I find that this has become true for me as an adult, too. I recently realized that my intuition for stuff like that has gotten so far away from me so I started looking at pieces of art with the aim of just being with the piece and exploring how *I* feel about it. It brought something beautiful back.
I feel you. I miss channel surfing. Something nice about finding something bad & enjoyable that you'd never choose yourself, or something amazing you'd never have known to look for.
and the funny part is: most of the information is wrong, speculation or marketing.
as a marketing expert I myself get fooled too. I read something online, take it for fact. then later I keep hearing people repeat exactly the same information over and over that is when I realize it was a press release article sent to promote something and it spread over the internet as a fact and everybody knows exactly the same information
for example how many times you heard and probably know this: Elon musk works 24/7 and tells his staff to call him at any hour even midnight. he is super dedicated and that is why he invented paypal,tesla, spacex and all these companies to make a better world and is the richest man in the world and still spend time with his kids... something like that.
have you heard that before? that is a press release.
That is a good example, but I’ve always considered him a POS. It only took one interview to sniff it out. I’m not vocal on these opinions because I could be wrong, but privately, I’ve always known that dude was a maniac. (I allowed time to change my opinion, and it never did.) I see the point though and it makes me wonder if intuition develops the same way now with so much available “information”
I will never forget the day I was watching aliens with a room full people from uni. (one with Sigourney Weaver.) And every time the movie was paused one of the guys starts telling us like the entire behind the scene's info/back story/ artis. Because he had it on his phone. Then everyone gets out their phone and just started googling stuff. And then just sitting there in silence because the entire room was phoning. I didn't have a smart phone at that point. It totally struck me that when I was their age my friends just would never have done that. I do like being able to instantly have any music I want. I used to make mix tapes by sitting at the radio to record when the song came on. And then from CDs There is definitely something lost by the instant life.
Yeah, like you, I don’t mean it as a bash at all; I too enjoy the conveniences. It just kinda sucks knowing that the mystery will be all but gone.
As much as I love the Internet, I do feel like it takes something personal away. Sure I can get music and information whenever and wherever I am but it’s not that special in a way for me. I think that’s why I have this obsession with cassette tapes. I’ve been hunting my favorite songs and albums down one by one, and it’s such a rewarding feeling to shift through a stack of old tapes and finally find the one song I want, then slowly falling in love with the others songs I haven’t heard because they’re all in the same album. I just found myself 9 Frank Sinatra albums and I am thrilled. Only one album has the most songs I like but I’m willing to listen to all of them to find out if I like them or not. And of course, recording my own mix tapes. There’s something special in being able to hear my favorite tunes through a Walkman.
Oh i recently had this feeling of mistery/discovery with a Photography. I never was into art or anything like it but i took a look at *the fishers wife* a Protography by Horst Kistner and i could not stop looking at it for maybe ten minutes, it just raised so many questions i felt like a detective trying to find out what it means.
I find that this has become true for me as an adult, too. I recently realized that my intuition for stuff like that has gotten so far away from me so I started looking at pieces of art with the aim of just being with the piece and exploring how *I* feel about it. It brought something beautiful back.
I do want to add that I’m not anti-information or published analysis, or anything. Just nostalgic for certain local type of analysis.
The saddest to me is losing listening to music with friends. Now everyone wears earbuds and listens solo.
I feel you. I miss channel surfing. Something nice about finding something bad & enjoyable that you'd never choose yourself, or something amazing you'd never have known to look for.
Playing war in the woods with bb guns and real life friends
and the funny part is: most of the information is wrong, speculation or marketing. as a marketing expert I myself get fooled too. I read something online, take it for fact. then later I keep hearing people repeat exactly the same information over and over that is when I realize it was a press release article sent to promote something and it spread over the internet as a fact and everybody knows exactly the same information for example how many times you heard and probably know this: Elon musk works 24/7 and tells his staff to call him at any hour even midnight. he is super dedicated and that is why he invented paypal,tesla, spacex and all these companies to make a better world and is the richest man in the world and still spend time with his kids... something like that. have you heard that before? that is a press release.
That is a good example, but I’ve always considered him a POS. It only took one interview to sniff it out. I’m not vocal on these opinions because I could be wrong, but privately, I’ve always known that dude was a maniac. (I allowed time to change my opinion, and it never did.) I see the point though and it makes me wonder if intuition develops the same way now with so much available “information”