I remember the night when I knew clubbing (perhaps not raves per se) died.
Blackbird Ordinary, Miami. July 4th weekend.
Normal clubby kind of night. Then in comes a dude in bright ridiculous Uncle Sam gear, sparklers and all, making a spectacle of himself. All the phones come out.
Sigh. This is not the point of clubs/bars. You're mostly not supposed to be "seen" and certainly not like that.
Putting stickers onto phones, kicking out violators and fostering a culture around that does miracles to that kind of behavior. Once a majority enjoyes the moment and is very openly pissed off by any kind of filming we go back to being ourselves.
Sometimes, yes. Depends on the venue. Taking a sticker off is a zero discussion throwing out reason in some places (filming or not), and an overhead phone filming is hard to hide. The sticker is a clear sign that it's not just words on some code of conduct poster.
Blackbird Ordinary, Miami. July 4th weekend.
Normal clubby kind of night. Then in comes a dude in bright ridiculous Uncle Sam gear, sparklers and all, making a spectacle of himself. All the phones come out.
Sigh. This is not the point of clubs/bars. You're mostly not supposed to be "seen" and certainly not like that.