The Lives of Others

I have always had a habit of looking into other people’s houses. And worry not; I don’t possess a naughty habit of deriving pleasure from observing people in various positions of entanglement, all from a very strategic vantage point (behind tall foliage). Rather, it’s the kind of habit sparked by the human being’s natural inclination for curiosity, usually uttered in common parlance as nosiness.

Ah nosiness. It keeps the world going round. After all, to be human is to be nosy and vice versa. This insatiable interest in the affairs of others is the reason why we pore hours upon hours reading celebrity blogs, a habit that I’m sure you want to keep hidden along with the skeletons in your closet. Just the mere act of you reading this entry portrays a certain curiosity in the lives and thoughts of others, maybe spilling over even to their kinds of living spaces.

A person's living space reveals a whole ocean regarding that same individual. Someone whose got a walkway lined with wooden prosthetic legs and whose wall is graced by the mounted head of a Whitetail deer is surely very different from someone whose 1920s boudoir houses a vase of fresh daffodils and a bowler hat made of white wool. Such a habit of noticing the differences is the root of the nosiness I was talking about earlier, of peering through the windows of strangers' houses and noticing the details that remain motionless but speak in such high decibels.

Just imagine how much my curiosity was piqued when I came across TheSelby, a site that grants my PG-rated voyeuristic dreams. The man behind the site, Todd Selby, roams inside people's homes (invited, of course) and takes photographs of their spaces. Here are some that have caught my eye:

The space of Kenyan (prop master) and Grace (model, photographer, illustrator):


The living quarters of Erin Wasson (model, stylist, designer, cool female):


Last but not the least, the work space of Alexander Wang (fashion designer):

(All photos taken from TheSelby.com)

Now this is voyeurism that won't leave a nasty sty in your eye.