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See also Gluse which is a man riding elevators in various buildings.

http://youtube.com/user/gluse

(I am not mocking him. I admire the ability to create so many videos about a focussed topic.)

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Never thought a video about lifts would make me laugh, but this one did. "This a project?" "No, I actually do elevator reviews"

Dover Traction Elevator At 302 N Second Street (W…: http://youtu.be/SUnJt3LaFRo

At a former work place, we were gathering data about where entrances, lifts, passageways were in different transit stations. These videos (or someone on the same kick) helped us get an inside view of many of these stations.

I was going to make a poor taste joke about people with ASD diagnoses being on watchlists.

But then I remembered Gary McKinnon.

The elevator community is actually huge with hundreds if not thousands of channels like that.

I bet his viewers would be willing to pitch together some money and get him some sort of steadycam rig; the random video I clicked on was very hard to watch.

YouTube actually offer to fix videos that the algos find to be shaky; I wonder if they are choosing not to run the fix or if it's failing (the vid I viewed has some really fast transient wobble that doesn't seem like normal camera shake).

The youtube video stabilization makes for wobbly video. I take video inside of race cars, and they're unwatchable if you use the youtube stabilization. They turn out much more watchable without it.

The spatial warping that happens is also very disorienting sometimes.

I've only used it once, for hand wobble correction (it did quite well), perhaps higher frequencies break the algo used.

I bet there are some days where the video is steadier because he is in a better mood. After all, I'm sure he has his ups and downs.

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