How an Agoraphobic Traveler Wanders the Earth

June 22, 2020 4:44 PM

You can just parachute anywhere. You can be on one side of the world and then two seconds later be on the other side, and never have to worry about flying, borders, any of that. – Jacque Kelly has been traveling the world for the past 4 years using Google Street View. [previously]
posted by simmering octagon (9 comments total)

There's a microphone in that picture! He's singing! (is there audio?) ...That part of that town looks nice. The rest looks like where Chappie grew up.
I just checked to see if this is available in VR. Yes, but not PlaystationVR...yet(?) ah well...
posted by sexyrobot at 5:51 PM on June 22, 2020

ayup, me too, traveling in areas of Japan I didn't get to in 7+ years (~90% of the country, sigh).

I do wish their StreetView cars had recorded the soundscape, too, that would have been cool.
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 6:51 PM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]

A soundscape map? Here you go. Or maybe this one.
posted by q*ben at 10:29 PM on June 22, 2020

Norilsk appears to have a lot of lemon and strawberry cakes that Wes Anderson ordered.
posted by the cydonian at 3:39 AM on June 23, 2020

I can parachute me there!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:01 AM on June 23, 2020

You know what would be the killer audio feature...local radio stations.
posted by sexyrobot at 3:38 PM on June 23, 2020

If anything's appropriate for this time, it's this. Thank you.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:42 PM on June 23, 2020

Local radio stations? Step right this way.
posted by ReginaHart at 7:47 PM on June 23, 2020

Just tried Radio Garden, as per ReginaHart. Interesting and depressing. The same crap pop music every fucking place you try. Arrr.
posted by charlesminus at 11:41 AM on June 24, 2020