While researching my previous blog post about webcam artists, I found several painters who use the insecam.org list of public, unsecured webcams, as inspiration for their paintings. I have spent some time on this website, searching for the most atmospheric and mysterious images. Here are some results.
The most mysterious pictures are those of the dark internal spaces, where you don't know what you're looking at. Where you have to guess the function of the room. Is it a bar, is it a workshop, is it a stable or a prison or a doctor's office. Looking inside these unknown places is maybe more interesting than looking at the anonymous random landscapes.
Even though I like these images, I still think that the Norwegian traffic cams are more personal. It is easier to find meaningful landscapes on the Norwegian traffic cams, than on the webcams of insecam.org.
A mysterious construction in Austria.
What is it? A hotel swimming pool? A zoo cage?
Snow falls. Darkness falls. Nothing changes.
Even in sunny weather the picture is a night view.
And then suddenly there's a glow. Something is still alive here.
In a dark room in the Netherlands a webcam follows a water level gauge.
I have never seen it change.
Some emissions are being monitored here.
The numbers change regularly. But does anyone watch this?
Someone other than us? Us freaks?
And then it's daytime. And we monitor formaldehyde emissions from a factory in Romania.
By day there is darkness with some meagre light.
By night it is totally dark with one pinprick of light.
Where is this? What is this? It remains a mystery for a long time.
And then suddenly, the light is on! But we still don't know what we're looking at.
By day it's a dark room.
By night it's blackness with two points of light.
What is this? Where is it?
The light has never been on here.
A beach like a painting by Dali.
A beach like a painting by Dali.
At night there are mysterious lights.
And a lighthouse shining its beam through the dark.
A beach like a painting by Dali.
And then there is snow.
A closed down marina. The site is closed now.
A beautiful seaside place with a huge mansion.
Who lives there?
In Estonia there's an entrance. Is it a supermarket?
There is some snow. At night there is more snow. Now 100% parking lot.
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