---
title: "Travel as a kind of attention"
date: 2026-05-03
tags: [daily-finds, travel, photography]
description: "Five things at the seam between travel and noticing — a webcam grid of NYC food lines, an Amsterdam library of occult manuscripts, a camera that erases the crowd, a postcard with a hidden video, and a camera that hides your photos for a year."
blurb: "Five things at the seam between travel and noticing."
items:
  - damnlines
  - embassy-of-the-free-mind
  - stillgram
  - magic-postcards
  - roll-disposable-camera
---

> Travel is mostly a structured excuse to pay attention. These five lean into that. A live grid of webcams pointed at New York's worst lines. An Amsterdam canal house holding five-hundred-year-old occult manuscripts. An iPhone camera that quietly removes other tourists from the Trevi Fountain shot. A paper postcard with a hidden video of where you sent it from. And a disposable-camera app that makes you wait three days, three weeks, or a year to see the photo you just took.
