{"id":3961,"date":"2017-04-18T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=3961"},"modified":"2024-05-10T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:04:19","slug":"place-combines-feeling","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/place-combines-feeling","title":{"rendered":"When a Place Combines with a Feeling"},"author":501,"featured_media":6631,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"department":[488812],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-3961","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-emerging-technologies"],"acf":{"short_description":"We often think of cameras in public places as intruders. Then along comes a project that peers into our public lives in a new, welcome way. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In an era when geography seems to be an agent of division\u2014when some global alliances are dissolving instead of strengthening\u2014we at WhereNext<\/em> have a soft spot for the places that unite us.\r\n\r\nWhich is why this WIRED<\/em> collection of Kurt Caviezel\u2019s webcam photos<\/a> caught our attention.\r\n\r\nFor the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Caviezel has monitored 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world, taking screen captures as he goes. Gathering the photos into collections, he exposes patterns of human behavior.\r\n\r\n\u201cI imagine Caviezel\u2019s process must be something akin to panning for gold or searching for buried treasure on a sandy beach,\u201d one reviewer<\/a> wrote. \u201cThe hit rate for something valuable must be extremely low.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":6091,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"But find value he does. The result is a stroll through ordinary lives, sometimes in extraordinary places. In WIRED<\/em>\u2019s collection, visitors to the UK\u2019s Minack Theater stand shoulder to shoulder, the Celtic Sea spread out before them (right). In Poland, ice skaters pause for a photo. Tourists in bright jackets explore a snowy Austrian town.\r\n\r\nYou can snicker at the selfie sticks; go ahead. But deep within each scene is a reminder of a common urge: to capture a moment in life, in a place we hope will persist in memory long after we\u2019ve moved on.\r\n\r\nIn a world that seems bent on building walls and cultivating isolation, Caviezel\u2019s work is a reminder of the memories we form when a place combines with a feeling. 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