Leave your mobile phone on
Jason Kottke blogs today about a panel at Eyebeam, where the announcement were a bit different than other conferences/panels:
“If you have cell phones or pagers, please leave them on because they might result in some interesting visual experiences for some of us here.”
I took the kid to the finals in MGPjr some days ago. MGPjr is the “junior” version of the Eurovision song contest. If you’re not familiar with this, it’s a yearly song contest among all members of Eurovision, an organization for tv broadcasters in Europe (the part of the world, not the union).
MGPjr is for kids between 8 and 15. They have to both write and perform their songs themselves. This is a cool rule, knowing that the adults performing in the adult Eurovision Song contest does NOT have to write the songs themselves.
The show was held at concert venue Oslo Spektrum here in Oslo. A magnificant show, with over 5 000 kids (and some parents of course) screaming like crazy when their favourites performed. Lots of local fan clubs with banners etc.
The voting was done by SMS (text messages), so naturally the hosts told everybody to leave their phones on, to be able to vote during the show.
The fun thing is that almost a third of all Norwegians have cameraphones now. Still the tickets had this printed on them: “No camera or audio recording allowed inside the venue” (or similar in Norwegian).
I never get why? If I went to a concert, and snapped some pics with my camera, then what? Are the record companies loosing money if I mail them to my friends and tell how great the concert was?
And recommend the album? Or if I bring my DV camera and record the whole thing? And even put it on the net? Will people stop buying the albums? Or the official concert DVD when it’s out?
Because my handheld DV recording from row 142 (with people screaming and singing the best they were able to all around me) is so great that no one need the 17-camera, multiple-angles, lots of interviews, music-videos, bonus tracks etc. DVD the record company makes?
Of course not.
When I’m elected ruler of this planet, all concert tickets will have this on them:
“Please bring your camera phone, digital camera, video recorder or audio recording equipment. And please share your media with yor friends after the show!”
The MGPjr show can be seen in NRK web-tv (registration required).
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