• Spezi@feddit.org
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        51 minutes ago

        From now on I will write:

        Recording has become an emotional expression like applause.

        To quote the great LadyButterfly, one of the greatest poetic and philosophical Lemmyings of all time.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    Not sure about that… random recordings is how some documentaries are pieced together.

    I paid for the whole phone, I’m gonna use the every feature of the phone.

    I wish my brain had a record function. Like the black mirror thing minus the dystopia aspect of it.

    I wanna experience some nostalgia.

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    My mom recorded a video of me and my younger brother taking apart a bunch of different fireworks and trying to make a massive firework with it. (Ya know, after typing that out, it sounds kinds bad right? I swear she was a great mom) It ended up being a big dud but it brings me joy every year. So at least one person watches it (its me) most years.

  • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Does literally nobody else here ever video something so that in twenty years’ time they have something to remind them of the day they went for a nice evening out and saw some pretty shapes and colours? Not everything has to be for going viral on YouTube.

    I only wish I’d shot more videos when I was younger, would be nice to retrieve some forgotten memories.

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      8 hours ago

      I look at all my old pics, and I have many thousands, but tbh I never really watch old videos. These days I try to be a lot more careful about what’s actually worth a video and what should just be a picture and a memory

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        9 minutes ago

        That’s fine, as long as you’re not going round bullying others who feel differently about their own personal approach to scrapbooking their lives.

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    19 hours ago

    That video will not capture the total environment that existed, and that you missed because you were trying to video it.

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    18 hours ago

    I met the neighbors who talked about their trip in Europe, and then proceeded to show me a 2 minute video of fireworks in Paris off their phone.

    It wasn’t even like a good shot or framing, nor could I tell it was Paris. It was just a random hotel room, and in the background, fireworks.

    She then put her phone away and said, “Neat, huh?”

    I don’t know if it was just peak comedy or if I was being Punk’d or something.

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        12 hours ago

        It’s a time honoured thing from back in the day when you took your camera with you on holiday, your roll of film had 36 exposures that you had to ration and think carefully about where and when to use them.

        So when you got back and had your photos developed and printed, you had 36 photos to share with people.

        Now you can take thousands of pictures per day with your phone and there’s no life to any of them as you force people to swipe through them.

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          12 hours ago

          You forgot the days of “taking reversal/slide film photos and inviting friends over for the holiday photo slideshow”

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          9 hours ago

          Big tech tries to help, automatically making short videos with meh music and a few questionable photo choices. Perhaps sometimes better than swiping through 200 unsorted photos, made more likely if removing/replacing bad photos accordingly.

          I think Apple can do it on device if I’m not mistaken, which mostly removes the creepy factor.

          I do like how my refusal to ever albumize/tag anything has been given such a soft landing!

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    My wife’s family owns a fireworks store. We demo fireworks every year and record them on my phone. We post them on the store’s YouTube channel. We have people that watch and comment on them all the time as soon as we post them. We also have QR codes on our price tags linking to the videos so people can scan them and watch while shopping and it is an extremely effective tool for sales. But we might be the exception.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I wanted to see some images or videos of fireworks in nearby areas to know what to expect but there weren’t any in the search results.

    Sadge.