No matter how much your home workspace creates, comfortable or super organized, and no matter how many small children of plants you’ve gathered at the edge of your window, one thing you can’t do much about: the window view.
And if you’re not lucky enough to have a window, even with a horrible view, it can save your life.
Window Swap is an undeniable and charming site that gives you a random view, thanks to a video recorded in the world.
Rami’s window in Stockholm is a still balcony in a riot of green against a blue sky, with a few bright flowers; Beate’s window in Luneberg, Germany, is similarly green with idyllic suburban atmosphere, including a lawnmower and kids chattering in the background; Sana’s window, in Kazakhstan’s biggest city of Almaty, comes with a view of sunset-pink clouds over distant mountains and glowing light in a neighbour’s window, with optional background dubstep; Sandy’s slice of the Philippines is hazy, bucolic, barely a building in sight; Kurt’s Austrian window is filled by almost unacceptably beautiful, possibly alive-with-certain-sounds hills. At one point I hit the button and was casually presented with the actual pyramids of Giza.
Some are a natural, or slightly summary but immersive view with a cropped window frame; others lean towards the window area, providing balcony corners, floating curtains and windowsills covered with plants in a much larger shape than mine. Most come with background noise, coming from remote traffic or local youth playing, low music and domestic chat in other languages.
The couple Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, founded in Singapore, created the closing site as a network assignment for other people to explore the world, while most of us are trapped at home. It’s based on presentations, starting with perspectives from just 15 cities a month ago when Ranjit published it on BoredPanda: he told Reuters that he had now won more than 2000 performances. (Healing also means that you’re unlikely to face someone’s exhibitionist neighbor in the other aspect of the channel.) Some Twitter enthusiasts are already creating art based on their new perspectives.
– M N F (@MayaNFord) 29 July 2020
It’s a bit like ChatRoulette, but a little less Russian roulette in the wild when it comes to unsightly results. Each window is just a 10-minute cycle of undeniable and fun life, a reminder of everything that’s still happening in the world, even if you can get the impression that almost everything has stopped.
PSA: Some of the perspectives will motivate overwhelming jealousy of assets: who wouldn’t prefer to be on a comfortable glass porch on a rainy day, in its blooming yellow rose bushes and in their ‘strabism’ outdoor pizza oven? Or hide among the trees in front of Adam’s pristine solarium in Chicago, furnished in the middle of the century? Others have less Instagram atmosphere, more sensible and can make you feel a little less tired in your crowded neighborhood, fuller than ever with young kids screaming and noise of structure. (Confirmed: In fact, you don’t want a postcard-worthy view to send an attractive window).
Some bidders have taken it a step further to offer a relaxing experience, especially those who capture sunsets, such as Anu in San Francisco and its bubbling water, birdsong and surprising hill prospects, or Ankur in Kashipur’s solar clouds and chilling heartbeat.
Open the Swap window on your wise TV, pill or moment monitor, and it’s easy to pretend you’re taking shelter in the place literally anywhere else. And if you have a big and 10 minutes to save it (horizontally, please), put it in percentage with the world. We may all use something new to take a look now.