One of the brothers that I sit with is a poet. He and I have a great time talking about many of the topics that he comes up with and how these topics many times just come out of nowhere. From time to time, we’ll start on a meme and prose starts to flow as the language of our conversations. And it never fails that neither of us records or writes it down. It lasts for a moment, and the memory of the experience is great, but we both know that it would be great to capture that moment, and look at it later for wisdom and recollection.

In the same vein, I always wonder about those moments with the other arts, where we are there to observe, but many times don’t think to take the opportunity to record a snippet (video, audio, or still image) of the opportunity. Yes, there are some moments where social rules or even a stated request might prohibit such recording, but when it permissible, how often do we take in some of those moments for recollection?

If you do collect those moments, how do you share it either with yourself in the future, or with others? Does it even matter that it is even something you can view/hear later, or does just the moment to archive that event pass as just what was needed? I know that I find myself looking back on images, poetry, and even music from years ago every so often to train my memory not to forget, but I’ve also noticed that there are some stores of media that I rarely go back to – its like I captured them for the moment, but it’s becoming a bit of an unused/unreferenced digital pile.

Going a bit back to the title: is mobile a valuable tool to use to capture the art of the moment? Do you find it enriching for you or others to use mobile in those moments.