Vacation Canceled" Try Looking Through Strangers? Windows.
The view from a Sea Ranch cottage covered in House Calls. | Drew Kelly
WindowSwap is a satisfyingly voyeuristic release for pent-up wanderlust. No one?s getting passport stamps anytime soon due to coronavirus travel restrictions (and, hopefully, common sense), but WindowSwap, an interactive website that invites you to see the view from a stranger?s window, might be the next best thing to visiting new spaces and places.
With just a few clicks, I was in Shanghai, where an elderly person was hanging laundry on a clothesline in an alley; in London, where someone had placed six cacti and succulents in ceramic vessels on their windowsill; in Pampanga, the Philippines, where cows were grazing in a bucolic field; in Chennai, where a dog wandered onto a veranda furnished with rattan chairs; in Bavaria, where someone had a backyard pond surrounded by stones; and in Helsinki, where the breeze was making all the trees sway hypnotically. I could keep going but wouldn?t want to ruin the thrill of seeing what else is out there.
Current status: Spotting pets on https://t.co/jmYbuL2rpF pic.twitter.com/S9bLTkf1bl? Gisele Navarro (@ichbinGisele) July 8, 2020
WindowSwap ? which offers the random discovery of StumbleUpon and the voyeurism of Chatroulette ? is a satisfying release for pent-up wanderlust and comes at a time when many people could use a change of scenery. It?s also a deeply intimate and personal look at how people live in different corners of the world ? a perspectiv...
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