Northern & Western New Jersey Lift Filming Journal

Lift filming will occur every available Saturday for the rest of the summer reason of 2019. June 29 Menlo Park Mall (Nordstrom and Macy’s) Possibly a couple hotels in Secaucus July 6 Freehold Raceway Mall & / or Freehold Racetrack July 13 Hilton Short Hills July 20 King of Prussia Mall (Can also be July 27 if July 20 ends up not working out for some other arbitrary reason) OR Hilton Hasbrouck Heights July 27 King of Prussia (or Hilton Hasbrouck Heights if can’t make it to King of Prussia), OR car park in Elizabeth August 3 Secaucus (Or Short Hills/Keansburg if going with FRIRND) August 10 Doubletree Fort Lee & possibly Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack OR Garden State Plaza August 17 Atlantic City, Philly, Lawrence Township or Bridgewater August 24 Atlantic City, Philly, Lawrence Township or Bridgewater August 31 Woodbridge and Edison Townships, along with some transit stations near Elizabeth & in Middlesex County near Rutgers...

My Short Hills Experience wasn’t as good as the one before Upon examining the lift at Nordstrom, which was my first lift of the day, I noticed that only one of the two lifts were actually working, and that lift was still having a couple of problems, including leveling earlier than normal. Already, there was a severe problem. Before second-guessing, I decided to actually speed track it and take a couple of rides in it to make sure the lift was behaving correctly. Once I believed the lift was behaving correctly, I returned to the lift a few minutes later to get a solid clip of it before leaving Nordstrom and walking to the carpark across the bridge. In the carpark, I stumbled upon another basic Short Hills style Schindler RT 300A hydro with M-Series logic. When I got in the lift, my first impression was a standard lift in a carpark. I pushed the button for level 3 while hitting the RECORD button on the Lumia Camera. The lift doors shut & it immediately dropped straight to full spe...

Made a trip to Millburn Township, New Jersey In Millburn, I filmed around 9 lifts, all at the mall at Short Hills. Disappointment at Neiman Marcus As I was waking into Neiman Marcus on the morning of May 25, I was expecting an original Montgomery Twinkie-M from the 1990’s, but when I got to the lift lobby, I arrived only to find out that the call buttons have been replaced with brand new Innovation Prestige buttons from the past 6 months!!! This was an utter disappointment as I have been wanting to film the original Montgomery lift for ages upon ages!!! Even though the lift appeared to have been modernised, I decided to take a look inside the lift to see if it actually got modernised. Upon entering the lift, turns out that it DID get modernised with a brand new set of Innovation Prestige buttons (pretty good buttons, some of my favorite from Innovation), so I decided to take a ride in it to find out if the machinery have been replaced with new machinery. Turns out, the machinery w...

We’re a week closer to June 17 than we were last Wednesday. How are my grades in class looking? Class Graduation requirement Grade in class Got all A’s in first 3 marking periods? Math N A Y Health Y A Y Spanish N A Y English Y B+ N Biology Y A Y History Y B+ N Physics Y B Y Python Prog N A Y Excerpt from last Wednesday’s journal post: If all circumstances play in my favor, then my next lift filming days will be May 25 and 26 (but not May 27). This will happen if I either get no homework for the weekend or I finish all my potential weekend homework on May 24, in addition to studying for any pre-planned tests for the week after and finishing all weekend project tasks on May 24. It will be a NO-STUDYING weekend for final exams. In order for it to happen, ALL of the following circumstances must apply: Circumstance A: I must have FEWER THAN 2 pre-planned tests that are NO MORE than 50 POINTS EACH with a difficulty of no ...

Lifts I filmed over my week off from school: Schindler 400A MRL glass lift in a 9-story courthouse carpark in Elizabeth NJ near KEAN University KONE MCE glass lift (Embassy Suites in Secaucus) KONE HORNRTDISC MonoSpace lift (Embassy Suites in Berkeley Heights Township) Schindler M-Series lift (Nordstrom, short hills mall) OTIS Elevonic 411 lift from 1991 (Nordstrom, Menlo Park Mall) All lifts were filmed OUTSIDE of Clinton Township unless otherwise noted! What will I do with all of these lift videos? Since I have FINALLY found a viable movie maker on my android phone complete with an intro maker app, I am now able to create the same types of videos on my Android which meet the same expectations as I have for the kinds of videos that I create on my Windows PC. At the price of less time needed to spruce up the videos and automatic upload to the cloud, all I simply need to do is upload the videos from Google Photos to YouTube, saving many steps along the way. However, they are ...

Throughout the week of April 21 (Spring break), I will PROBABLY be home in Clinton Township, NJ, due to going to KEAN Uni on Tuesday, April 23rd for an important event anyway. Here are the stats based on how the Spring break trip may play out: So far, the highest chances are that we are staying in NJ and not going outside of NJ. However, things may change in the next journal post. Journal posting schedule (as of April 17 at 7:00 PM): Journal posting and YouTube premieres happen once every hour and 45 minutes in the following table below: MORNING PERIOD MORNING TIME EVENING TIME PERIOD 1 3:15 AM 1:45 PM PERIOD 2 5:00 AM 3:30 PM PERIOD 3 6:45 AM 5:15 PM PERIOD 4 8:30 AM 7:00 PM PERIOD 5 10:15 AM 8:45 PM PERIOD 6 12:00 PM 10:30 PM What to expect for lifts The kinds of lifts I film over spring recess will not be known until June 13. New Jersey If I am staying in NJ, I am most likely going to drive to wherever the rest of the fam is going (f...

Lift filming is now possible outside of Clinton Township! While I wasn’t expecting to get my driver’s license yesterday (1/64 chance), I was still able to get my driver’s license anyway because I HAVE PASSED THE ROAD TEST!! Here is what is now possible with my probationary driver’s license: Infinitely extending the radius for within I can film lifts Going to Chicago SOLO Going to Los Angeles solo (I can rent some hotel rooms at 18 which makes overnight solo road trips now possible ) Going to Chattanooga and Charlotte SOLO (My wish) Unlimited lift filming trips to Secaucus, Union Township & even ATLANTIC CITY!!!!!! A slew lot more What is expected from now until Spring Break? March 9 or 10 are my ONLY set lift filming days until Spring Break outside of Clinton Township. However, more weekends will be open depending on how many tests and/or projects I have each of the 6 weeks remaining until Spring Break, along with the level of expected rigor of each test (measured on a...