Elevator

And it's just amazing, walk in the elevator and there's lights on in the elevator.

The elevator's out again.

Everybody who wants to go to the 10th floor goes into car two, and everybody who wants to go to the third floor goes into car five.

The elevator seems to be out of order.

I took the elevator to the third floor.

It's the lift, it's a series of buttons in the lift.

And another man looked in my direction and said, Yes, there he is. He's on this elevator with us.

I smell smoke in the elevator.

Like the things that people use.

You feel it most when you're in a sealed metal box, a new style elevator they're called destination control elevators.

Then you come up in this glass elevator right near the curtain wall.

You have a series of buttons. You actually choose your lift music.

And the elevator door opened, and they all walked out.

They are accessed through this diagonal elevator.

The elevators in a skyscraper are vital systems.

I happened to be in the elevator collecting data for this book.

And they're going up these giant escalators on their way to their jobs.

This elevator's about the size of a New York City studio apartment.

It's because the elevator is missing some important instrumentation, like the buttons.

But, in this case, three doctors walk into an elevator.

I had to make a transfer at the 53rd St. stop where there are these two giant escalators.

The next day I left for Rwanda, and it was like taking the express elevator to hell.

But some years ago I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

So none of this mishegas of letting everybody go into whatever car they want.

One of them also being, although logically it's quite a good idea to have a lift with no up and down button in it, if it only serves two floors, it's actually bloody terrifying, okay?

Similarly, this is from a hotel in Stockholm, the Lydmar.

And on that elevator a man said, I hear Billy Graham is staying in this hotel.

These are the ones where you have to press what floor you're going to go to before you get in the elevator.

I was walking from the elevator over here, and even just looking at the stage right now so there's probably 20 500 watt lights right now.

For example, the elevators in this building most likely are controlled by one of these.

The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

Because we're using escalators to move people, all of these trusses are picking up diagonal loads.

I don't have a pointer here, but you see the green, sort of rectangle or trapezoid?

My guess is that the cost of installing this in the lift in the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm is probably 500 to 1,000 pounds max.

It's actually a stand up product from Switzerland, because in Switzerland they have a natural need for diagonal elevators.

But these are early incorporations of illusions brought to sort of high point with Hans Holbein's Ambassadors. And Hans Holbein worked for Henry VIII. This was hung on a wall where you could walk down from the stair and you can see this hidden skull.

It's got a built in flashlight.

That's an elevator that's constantly moving up and down, but it can be controlled by the folks on land who are responsible for it.

So we arrived with just our ladders and we realized that they were not high enough.

This is a headline from the Daily Telegraph in the U.K.

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.