Hello and welcome! You may be asking... what the heck is this channel, anyway!
Well, I started this channel back in 2014 to cover the construction of a new hospital in San Francisco
12 stories high and an entire city block
And for almost 5 years, I posted weekly time-lapses of that construction
Mostly weekly, sometimes multi-weekly
Ended up being about 280 videos over 244 weeks
Both regular weekly time-lapses as well as various other time-lapses
miscellaneous construction videos I made along the way, things like that
When I first started, I was just going to do simple, straight-forward time-lapses
But I began throwing in closeups, "sub time-lapses" as I call them
and things eventually kind of snowballed from there
and eventually over time the videos got more complex
If you go back and watch all the videos in chronological order, which I highly recommend by the way
just not all at once, it is not healthy to sit for that long, so you know take some breaks
If you go back and watch all the videos in chronological order
you can kind of see how they get more complex over time
and also my technical capabilities — editing, camera equipment and so on
gradually improved over time as well. At least I hope it did
If I go back and look at some of the early videos now
I think of how much better of a job I could probably do now
The construction of the hospital finally completed in early 2019
and then this channel went dormant for a while
Well, now, about a block away from the hospital, a new 13-story senior living building is going up
And I'm going to reactivate this channel and cover that construction
Even though it is not a hospital, I'm leaving the channel name unchanged — kinda late to be changing that
So it is still the Hospital Construction Channel, even though we're not actually watching a hospital right this moment
This new project won't be quite as complex as the hospital
It is going to take about a year to construct, so they say
and I may not have as much time to spend on this one as I did with the hospital
so the videos may not be quite as comprehensive
There could even be some weeks where I'm not around and maybe they'll just be plain time-lapses with no closeups
I don't know. We'll see.
The construction is already well under way, and I've already accumulated almost 9 TB of video already to go through
So I'll be starting on some time-lapse episodes very soon
Another interesting thing about this project is that the cameras
due to the logistics of where things are — are facing almost due west
Unfortunately this means they get the full brunt of the sun shining directly on them, and into them, in the afternoons
This is not only bad for photography, exposure and things like that, but
I've actually been having trouble with the base time-lapse camera overheating
and automatically shutting down in the afternoons
I went out and got a little fan, and I've got this little fan blowing on it now, and that actually seems to help
It seems to be surviving so far
But, right now we're in the winter, and I'm not sure that fan will be sufficient when summer arrives
with warmer temperatures and longer days. We'll see.
Even the closeup cameras, which are operated manually, they're not sitting there all day, necessarily
sometimes they are, they have this problem too
Partly because they're all black — a lot of cameras, they make 'em all black for whatever reason
so they just bake in that afternoon sun
I've tried putting shades over them, things like that, but it only helps a little
and makes them hard to operate, shades get in the way
So, anyway, if you notice that there's not as much coverage of the afternoon's activities, you'll know why now!
Fortunately, though, construction work traditionally starts way early in the morning
for some reason they're up at the crack of dawn
so that helps, since they're almost always working way early in the morning as opposed to the afternoon
In case you're wondering, there used to be an old TV studio building at this site
and I've already made some videos of the demolition of that building over on my "Hotel Demolition" channel
So while you're waiting for the new construction series to start over here
you could always go over there if you like and watch the demolition. Up to you.
To distinguish this new set of videos from the original hospital set of videos
I'm going to be calling this new series the "S series" (S for senior)
and the prior hospital series the "H" series (H for hospital). Pretty clever, eh?
I'll be gradually going back and changing some of the labelling on the channel to reflect that
S series vs. H series
I know the "S series" kinda sounds like the name of a model of a car — "the new S series"
but no, it is actually what I'm going to call this new series of videos — the S series
Oh, and I must add, I'm not associated with the building or the construction companies in any way
I'm just doing this as a hobby, for entertainment, because it is interesting to watch the building going up
I'm also not a construction expert by any means, so forgive me if I get things wrong at times
Call something the wrong name, whatever
Any experts watching out there, feel free to chime in on the comments and educate us
correct me, you know, whatever's appropriate. Just no cursing. No cursing please.
Well, I better go and start working on the editing of the new series
because I'm already a few weeks behind
So, I hope you enjoy the new "S series" of construction videos on the Hospital Construction Channel!