Keeping a Scene, a Scene

Abstract

In this chapter two suggestions are provided for how to maintain scenes as ‘scenes’. The first is taken from the example of big wave surfing. Here, because of the potential barriers to entry to becoming a big wave surfer, surfing is able to keep new entrants to the scene low and so prevent it from becoming a common or garden activity. A second example uses the idea of fractals to suggest that scenic expansion might be possible if the ‘scene’ in question comprises many individual scenes, rather than simply one scene that grows in size.