We Call This Home
August 31, 2015 3:04 AM   Subscribe

 
He took some really good photographs and I liked the way he put this together, much better than the usual travel slide show.
posted by Dip Flash at 4:20 AM on August 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


A very slick advertisement for this person's business.
posted by Mapes at 5:34 AM on August 31, 2015 [5 favorites]


Mapes, what business is that?

I googled and it seems the dude, Walter, traveled for a few years and then kickstarter-funded a coffee-table book of his photography. It's already funded and finished, this is part of the result.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 5:59 AM on August 31, 2015


the dude and walter are two different people
posted by Reasonably Everything Happens at 6:22 AM on August 31, 2015 [10 favorites]


Oh wow, this gave me a lot of feelings, as someone who spent a year in my early twenties backpacking in many (but nowhere near all!) of the places Walter went. Somehow he really manages to capture what it's like to do that kind of travel in a really beautiful way - at least the high points! (Maybe needs more waiting for a bus that has no schedule or waiting for a visa or waiting to get over Delhi Belly ... there's a lot of waiting)

I do wish there were an annotated version telling you where everything was.
posted by lunasol at 7:01 AM on August 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


Mapes, what business is that?

Um, professional travel photography?

The post caught my eye in particular because my spouse and I have been on the road since last December (15 countries so far!). The "Travel is incredible, I'm a backpacker (or use credit card points) and you can do it too; buy my book" business model is not uncommon.
posted by Mapes at 8:13 AM on August 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


I guess I'm 'that guy', but I think I may have reached maximum - "Look how much I've traveled!"

Good for him, but get off my lawn.
posted by Phreesh at 8:25 AM on August 31, 2015


This is cool, but most people are unable to peace out for three years on two and a half years of savings.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 8:27 AM on August 31, 2015 [2 favorites]


Ah, I thought you meant he ran some kind of adventure travel company or tried to convince travelers to hire him to film them or something. I guess by virtue of the profession any time a photographer posts photos it's advertising their business, but I wouldn't typically call photos by photographers "advertisements", personally, any more than I'd call any other artistic product done by professionals (a novel/film/art work) an advertisement. Especially since it seems the photobook he produced isn't actually for sale anywhere, unless you already ordered it before this video was produced.

And sure, most people are unable to peace out for three years to travel. I don't think he ever said everyone can. Most people are also unable to go to space, but I still like seeing photos from the space station. Shrug.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:35 AM on August 31, 2015


"We call this home"... oh the irony.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:28 AM on August 31, 2015


This is cool, but most people are unable to peace out for three years on two and a half years of savings.

Eh, people document all kinds of singular experiences. I don't think he's saying other people should do what he did.
posted by lunasol at 9:41 AM on August 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


There's so much out there about "the healing power of world travel that you'll never in a million years be able to afford, but look at how great it is." It's a great experience if you can do it, but I don't think you can blame people for not wanting to look at photos from someone's relatively extravagant, years-long vacation.
posted by teponaztli at 10:04 AM on August 31, 2015 [6 favorites]


Well, I enjoyed it! I thought it was very well done--even though I agree with lunasol, I would have liked to see a list or label of those places. It's just a nice reminder of what a great big beautiful world we have out there. Sure, not everyone will have the opportunity to go out and see it, but I'm not gonna begrudge anyone their world travel experience (unless they're being really obnoxious or preachy about it!).

Thanks for sharing!
posted by sprezzy at 11:54 AM on August 31, 2015 [2 favorites]


That's kind of how memory works, though,moments here and there - with so many countries, years, people and landscapes may start weaving together similarly. Like the foot shot, considering what shoes (or none) you walked in will help bring it back for you, but probably no one else. They'll see their own feet there, and maybe labels don't matter then? I don't think it was meant to sink in so we could identify it all, just enough to see if we can identify 'with' it at all. I'd always defaulted to 'selfie stick is annoying', but the way it's used here, it felt like he was genuinely pulling the observer into the shot and the very edges of the lights and sounds. It looks like he originally planned on only a year of travel?
posted by lawliet at 12:17 PM on August 31, 2015


What's with the comments? Everyone makes choices. Travel isn't a priority for you. It was for this guy. Get off my lawn in response to someone making different choices than you have doesn't look like much else except jealousy or regret. Not every post has to be about you or your reaction to it.

Even if you don't have a ton of cash, or a ton of vacation time, it's still possible for you to go out and see the world - as evidenced by the tons of blogs out there detailing how to do exactly that, cheaply. Kudos to this guy for getting out there.
posted by NoRelationToLea at 1:25 PM on August 31, 2015 [4 favorites]


Related: The South African couple who quit their ad agency jobs to travel the world are now cleaning toilets to make ends meet.
You see, to come from the luxuries we left behind in Johannesburg, to the brutal truth of volunteer work, we are now on the opposite end of the scale. We’re toilet cleaners, dog poop scoopers, grocery store merchandisers, and rock shovelers.

It’s painstakingly hard and dirty work.

And although the last few months have been the most rewarding, they’ve also been some of the dirtiest and smelliest, and we’ve had to adapt with the least amount of necessities and food (and not because we’re on some crazy crash diet). Whilst visits to town with our new friends in Norway meant buying beer and bags of candy for them, we’ve been forced to purchase floss (because you only get one set of pearlers, right?) and nothing else. The budget is really tight, and we are definitely forced to use creativity (and small pep talks) to solve most of our problems (and the mild crying fits).
posted by Joseph Gurl at 4:05 PM on August 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


If you go to the YouTube page and read it, he links to a listing of the places visited, and says that except for a snorkel edit, everything is in chronological order of where he visited after the :55 mark.
posted by clone boulevard at 7:52 AM on September 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


Thanks, clone boulevard!
posted by lunasol at 4:58 PM on September 1, 2015


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