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We are all bystanders.
You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.
Hey, would you look at that shit?"
I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle.
"Clear out!" I barked.
They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
Seeing in the air things that the others did not see.
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.
When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.
Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians ... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
Today in Germany, everyone is being watched
even the watchers.
There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people's faces. And for a long time I didn't get it. I'd just get mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away. "What the heck are you looking at?" I'd say to people - even grown-ups.
The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.
A pro looks at the people, because they know business is about people.
Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.
When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.
Most people do not notice other people.
So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.
And if someone should see, what matter they?
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'
People who stare deserve the looks they get.
1. People who are
family, and by the time they took their seats
I inspected the crowd. Honey was snapchatting, the two cops were texting, and the Banger sisters had planted themselves at a table with a good view of the entire area, just in case someone else died. They didn't want to miss a thing.
the spectator is the true vanishing point
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
People either see me or they don't.
VISITORS FROM THE HALL.
[we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Each audience is different.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
Lifers who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.
One who can see without seeming to see
That's an observer as good as three.
Regardless of how bitter or uncomfortable or ill-fitting an answer may be, irrespective of its hazard or grotesqueness, the Impartial Observer's only duty is to open the shutter and let the photons pour in: uncensored.
the silence people, hear everything.
Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.
Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.
When people listen they make a listening noise.
When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.
As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves
sees more.
accomplices. This helped assure that the crowd would now move on to the next stage of the sound-and-light show - which
What do others think they see?
I saw a cluster of people
Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but ...
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.
The crowd is blind. And to have eyes in this crowd is to be condemned, is to be crucified.
What would they see, anyone who had chosen to watch?
The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
To be honest, when I can feel that a lot of people are watching me, I get a little scared, but at the same time, it inspires me.
Who watches the watchmen?
You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
If life came with an audience, mine would be laughing hysterically right now.
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.
People see what they want to see when they need to.People-- Libba Bray
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living
and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.
I love observing people.
The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.
caused everyone to lookCaused-- Adam Rigby
watching her. No one was.
If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?
The crowd has a way of being right.
Only, so far, it was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren't sure what they were looking at.
Kids are the audience I know best.
Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.
People come and go.
No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
eyeing one another's new haircuts
People in a hurry get noticed.
the crowds just background tapestries for you to play your life against, lurid backdrops providing a fake sense of drama to help you imagine you're doing more than you would be if you were in some sleepy village or Denver or really anywhere else. New
A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.
Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives?
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
what they had seen,-- Jodi Picoult
Two men, three, a woman - four people total.
They pay no mind to the spectacle behind them. They pay no mind because to them, all things are great, all things are grand. What a life if we found the focal point everywhere, in everything, the miracle in the most mundane and the stunning in the simple.
For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they're around mirrors.
The thing about being a watcher is this: You are never really a part of things, especially if the person you must watch is yourself, always, just to make sure no one ever really sees you. .
Everybody is somewhere.-- Steve Allen
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
Those who can truly see, know.-- Orhan Pamuk
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
Gazing out over the city, I imagine all the people each twinkling light represents; our audience, a sea of eyes staring at us, examining our every move.