How to travel the world without leaving your place

Here's an idea for a website: How about a site that allows you to see the world in simulcast?


How did the idea occur again? Ah, okay, it had to do with uploading pix on a website. See, when uploading pictures, we usually take it from somewhere else, a stock footage. For example, the background picture in this blog wasn't a picture taken by me. But what if I wanted to take a picture of a place I can never go to, yet would want artistic claim to the photograph?

So the idea is, what if some people set up special cameras all over the world? Like a camera pointed at the Eiffel Tower or one at the Egyptian pyramids and other wonderful places? Maybe for a fee, people can click pictures of the scene, at anytime of the day. It could also be a movable camera that can slide up or down and it could also have a 180-degree swivel, so we can take pictures at any angle.

Or better yet, people can collaborate so that their special web cameras can serve the purpose of being one camera in a fly's eye-like world camera. One can just click the link on a specific part of the world, then look at it from the vantage point of the set-up camera. Then anyone can indeed see the world at anytime of the day without leaving their place, and take pictures as well. It brings new meaning to interconnection and shrinking the globe into a village (or into a room).

Oh, wait a minute, I'll just take a peek at Paris.