A friend of mine who’s just a little too into Adam Lambert sent me this video. Glambert covering Metallica? Umm, ok.

What stands out to me is that there has to be fifty people taping this. Err, recording it on their phones. Most of the people at the concert wouldn’t know what magnetic tape looks like, let alone spooled a casette back together with a pencil … get off my lawn … I remember when taping was illegal and now, well, everyone has a phone and every phone shoots HD. 

The problem for me isn’t one of access, but of quality. This video, like every YouTube video like it is one guy with shaky hands, trying to record the experience rather than HAVING the experience. But that generational equivalent aside, where’s all the other videos? On YouTube as well? Is there a way to collect these, or as Scoble would call it, curate them? Could some Gibsonian mind go all Scorsese on us and edit the best shots together? “Cut to Video 41! 22 is shaky. Now to 26 - 22 has too many hands in front. Guitar solo! 35 has been watching the guitarist all night!”

The technology has to be there, but no one has done it. Some is because there’s no way to monetize this … yet. I saw a demo about six months ago that collected snapshots from different places at a ballpark. Maybe I didn’t get a good shot of that home run from my seat in the Uecker section, but click-click that guy just behind the dugout did. That’s a nice start. The best shots could be “curated” and sold, sharing the profits between the photographer and the league. MLB has “check ins” on it’s MLB At Bat iPhone app - it wouldn’t be hard to add in a “take photos and upload to MLB PhotoPark” or something similar, would it?

Twitter is helping people share experiences. Why is no one helping us collectivize the visual images we have? It’s not going to be long before the Hive Mind opens it’s Hive Eye.