Meet Nicholas White. White had the unfortunate experience of being trapped in an elevator in New York City's McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. The New Yorker is currently running a condensed look at his ordeal as captured by security cameras. This riveting video -- which is admittedly hard to watch at times -- accompanies an equally fascinating piece on the lives of elevators.
From the article:
White has the security-camera videotape of his time in the McGraw-Hill elevator. He has watched it twice-it was recorded at forty times regular speed, which makes him look like a bug in a box. The most striking thing to him about the tape is that it includes split-screen footage from three other elevators, on which you can see men intermittently performing maintenance work. Apparently, they never wondered about the one he was in. (Eight McGraw-Hill security guards came and went while he was stranded there; nobody seems to have noticed him on the monitor.)
[
New Yorker through
Kottke]
