This was originally a Warhol idea, wasn’t it?
A six hour film of the Empire State building, as the day goes and the lighting changes, I think it was meant as like a window from an apartment or office right in the thick of Manhattan.Truth be told, I don’t hate the idea. Currently, it could be a framed digital screen on a loop, or showing a webcam feed. Why not a live view of Istanbul, or of the Moroccan desert?
It is 8 hours. I got that movie on DVD from Germany. I have never watched the whole thing and I would be disappointed in myself if I ever do.
The meme is referencing Plato, so I’d say it was originally his idea.
Honestly if you don’t have a ton of other options, I don’t hate this. I always wanted to get several super thin flatscreens and set them up playing 24/7 nature livestreams from different sources. It would be like gazing out portals to different parts of nature.
Sure, being out in nature would be better, but it’s better than blank walls and parking lots.
There are a lot of long nature videos on youtube meant for this purpose - some with relaxing music, some without. I’ll occasionally play one on a TV when I know I’m going to be bouncing around the house all day, and it’s nice.
I don’t know of any actual livestreams like that, but some zoos have livestreams of their aquariums or exhibits that are cool too.
10 hours of rain in the forest is my jam.
Another option i was thinking about just earlier today is the “nature” wallpaper that used to be a thing back in the 70s or so. Whole walls covered in giant photos of rainforests etc. I still see them in customers houses on occasion, usually sun-faded which kinda adds its own ambiance
Reminds me of Total Recall
Even when the windows are fake, you put in the panels! Give me an unobscured view!
the ilusion of the window is more important than the view
Plenty of windows are just one big pane.
yhea, but if you just use a big pane, it would look like you’re projecting a view, of you use a multi pane window, it looks more like a window.
it’s the imperfections that make illusions work
Then put some fingerprints or a butt print on it. If you’ve never left a butt print on a window you probably aren’t doing the right drugs.
not sure if you are sarcastically disageeing or genuinely supporting me, because yes.
Adding fingerprint or smudges will help sell the effect.
Just have the frame of a window around it.
Then cut away the wall inside the frame and put a pane of glass in it.
Then cover up the glass with white paper so you can see the projection better.
This is the funniest thread I’ve read all day.
I’m pretty sure its illegal to advertise a windowless room as a bedroom in Canada.
It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one’s spirits if you didn’t think about it too much.
or if you’re neuro spicy you probably have blackout curtains so daylight doesn’t matter anyway.
i love my blackout curtains.
Basement windows have to be larger than a specific standard. In your basement window is a foot high, that no longer counts as a bedroom iirc
Which gives you really fucky barred windows that face a cement wall the same size as the window, that lets in less light than an angled window 1/4 of the size.
PS: fuck illegal basement suites in new builds in Vancouver.
You could do the same thing with a painting and a dim light. Just wouldn’t move. Assuming there are ”fake window” screen saver things for projectors.
Every 467 hours a shadowy figure peeks it’s head into the corner
Tap tap tap
“I warned you, bro! Didn’t I warn you? Your soul is bound within the confines of perceived reality, dude. The mind is a cage, my guy! You have to free yourselves from the cave and search for meaning beyond the simulacrum of the senses, man!”
The library in the church my parents made me go to growing up had a full on fake window with a painting recessed maybe 4 feet behind it.
It’s amazing how many TikTok users don’t realise they’re just scrolling through ads.
