The Death Of The Drexel Shaft

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The 11/15/09 early morning implosion of the Amtrak Steam Plant near 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, more colloquially known as "The Drexel Shaft." A symbolic victory for the students of Drexel University and their fight against bureaucracy.
Music: Hide And Seek by Imogen Heap
To the people who asked/care: the footage was shot on a Sony PMW-EX1 at 720p and 60 frames per second overcranked. I did a few in-camera filters, but I also took a lot of artistic liberty with the color correction. Thanks for the curiosity :)

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@StanMangamer 2 года назад

The Drexel shaft may be dead, but the suffering it brings to us students still lives on

@WhenYouveGoneGuru 12 лет назад

New rule any time this footage plays in the Ucross lobby all students must stand at attention, and salute as the shaft starts to fall. Students may then return to what they were doing when the shaft has hit the ground.

@Mattersmatter 14 лет назад

Even watching it from Ucross not more the 100yards away it still seemed so surreal. But this takes something interesting and otherwise mundane and makes a spectacular sight out of it. This is masterful excellence. I LOVE HD. keep up the good work.

@BrianFitzy 14 лет назад

Seriously excellent capture.. and the color correction is very cinematic. Nice! That's an angle I'm not used to seeing of the Amtrak building, too..

@EatSleepBreathMovies 14 лет назад

As for the significance of the shaft and it's destruction: The smokestack is called the Drexel Shaft and had basically become a symbol of the school's bureaucracy and it's common tendency to "shaft" students (the legend is that whenever one of us gets F*#&ed over by the bureaucracy the shaft grew 1") . So the destruction of the the chimney was symbolic to as as is represented our hopes of one day overcoming/bringing down the unbelievably difficult administration at the school

@silverdonut 14 лет назад

love the shockwave across the amtrak building and the windows shattering in the shaft building

@mrshotglass 14 лет назад

Man I love this video. It makes something as mundane as a concrete chimney falling to be completely awe inspiring, and stir emotions. It seems as if the the entire city has halted to see the stack fall to the earth. Very surreal, thanks for the video!

@JRPG_gymrat 14 лет назад

This video is so ridiculously perfect. I've watched it about 10 times.

@EatSleepBreathMovies 14 лет назад

The music was a perfect choice, LOVE IT! (for anyone that is against it, the music is to spoof a one tree hill season finally a while back and also a subsequent SNL skit. So put in that cultural context of what happened in those it fits the video brilliantly.)

@themanthemanman 14 лет назад

Wonderful footage, and hilarious music. Better shot than mine by far! Great job!!

@ssdphoto 14 лет назад

Awesome video.... well done. The slow motion HD looks incredible!!!!

@samgeez 14 лет назад

awesome. thanks for posting!

@dctcool 14 лет назад

Man looks so sweet in HD, I spotted a plane in the sky, I don't know anything about the building but I gotta say that was sweet, I especially thought it was cool when the shockwave hit and rattled the windows of the blue glass building

@monkeylking 14 лет назад

really great quality

@TiMMaH090 14 лет назад

Very beautiful... It evokes a certain unexplainable emotion everytime I watch.

@AFoxStory 14 лет назад

@b1lskirnir It is a sad day and a great day for those who have passed through and have yet to pass through Drexel Univerity.

@sifka4 14 лет назад

-Your powers are weak, old Shaft. --You can't win, Drexel. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. Now look what you've done!

@indaglow 14 лет назад

@b1lskirnir you are a god amoung men!!! Thanks for doing this in such amazing quality! ...also, what's the thud noise at 1:05?

@Scorpias444 14 лет назад

If you look closely at the tall glass building when the shaft hits the ground, you can see the hole thing shake

@wrenlyn 14 лет назад

Not gonna lie, this actually made me tear up. So beautiful.

@abuzaidkhan99 Год назад

13 years later and it still made me tear up.

@mrdeadhead 14 лет назад

wish i was there to see it, thanks for the good video.

@rogerush 14 лет назад

I was in the parking lot directly opposite this video! I thought it was going to be 9/11 and drop straight down, but then it went sideways! When it hit the ground you could feel the concussion. I was right next to the Cira Center (glass building) and could see the glass shaking like jello!

@pramodvk84ify 14 лет назад

Excellent Video!

@IIIburritoIII 14 лет назад

at 0:39 you can see the glass in the building in the background create a ripple effect. pretty cool

@froofiedadawg 14 лет назад

wow. that is a gorgeous video.

@ChipMurphy 14 лет назад

damn. that sky and the music. sweet.

@yaggy9 14 лет назад

very nice! sad moment for philly, but your capture makes it bittersweet.

@ThunderDonkey 14 лет назад

Wow great quality, you see the glass shaking!

@b1lskirnir 14 лет назад

Sony PMW-EX1 overcranked to 60fps and a little artistic liberty with color correction.

@danjreed 14 лет назад

Strange to drive past it into the city today.. and its not there anymore.

@b1lskirnir 14 лет назад

My personal favorite part is at :40 seconds in where you see the actual building the camera is on shake from the shockwave just shortly after the Amtrak building. Good thing it's a good tripod because it certainly felt a lot more intense than that.

@MollyPrice 14 лет назад

I love the bird flying across the left corner at the very end. :)

@JasonOGrady 14 лет назад

As an alumni of Drexel (which is in Philadelphia btw) I, for one, won't miss the shaft. Nice video. Kudos.

@Solertia 7 лет назад

Seven years ago today.

@judsoncollier 14 лет назад

It's "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. (also, it's a play on the ending of The OC). Nice work.

@akuhnx 14 лет назад

Great quality! I was there and it didn't even look this good. I guess my eyes aren't HD

@lll4815162342lll 14 лет назад

excellent video

@tpatel30 14 лет назад

Dude...thats amazing...what kinda camera did you use?

@PatGavinProductions 14 лет назад

Your video is much nicer than mine. I was right at the angle about 2 minutes before it went down the sun came out and made the shot very harsh. You also have a nicer angle.

@Tgjan 14 лет назад

now starts the reign of the drexel crater, soon to swallow us all whole.

@EvilchurchdOc 14 лет назад

great video

@smetzger151 14 лет назад

Very nicely composed - what kind of camera is that?

@Dazzle-Delight 14 лет назад

best angle of the shaft on youtube

@victordelvecchio 14 лет назад

Niiiice, nice shot! Were they expecting the tower to break in the middle? Very good video, you can see the sysmic impact at building glasses behind

@Mrchrispy420 14 лет назад

This is the best video of the drexel shaft.. The others are quite shaky.

@timothydietz 14 лет назад

Seriously awesome video. Perfect framing and music choice, you really couldn't have picked a better song. And I agree with @DeviouslySweet, the bird at the end is a nice touch, almost like it was planned. Don't post another version either, it wouldn't be as good.

@n00bie51 14 лет назад

Hahhahahaha, I laughed when I heard Imogen Heap. Quite an appropriate choice of music. Really impressed by the image quality.

@pokets20 14 лет назад

for a moment i thought it was gona hit the glass building

@joshplaysdrums2143 5 лет назад

Holy shit, thanks Drexel.

@relaxing 14 лет назад

I want a version dubbed with "Where Is My Mind" by the Pixies, a la Fight Club.

@NICKRITZER 14 лет назад

thumbs up sir ,thumbs up!

@DeviouslySweet 14 лет назад

Hahaha, love the song choice and the random bird at the end

@erdene902 14 лет назад

i love it!

@mikey69up 14 лет назад

wow. that glass building near by really shook. suprised no windows broke

@MrEast1984 14 лет назад

Very nice camera

@davenelso 14 лет назад

i notice some barrel distortion, was this shot at shortest focal length of the camera's lens?

@Quazi-moto 14 лет назад

Sounds like a good guess to me. And considering where it landed I believe it went just where they wanted it to.... right into a clear spot. As good as any lumberjack I've ever seen.

@Mrchrispy420 14 лет назад

Real video...just enhanced and slowed down and with music to match the mood.

@csd33 14 лет назад

What kind of camera do you have, that was awesome footage!

@AnimegamerMaximum 14 лет назад

The symbolization is powerful but the thing falling down is cool!!

@Quazi-moto 14 лет назад

I wonder why they brought it down to the side like that instead of straight down. I bet the blast crew were nervous as hell until it hit the ground.

@ttfan 14 лет назад

Imogen Heap! yes!

@XholdstillX 14 лет назад

Look at the building that's all mirrors shake when it hits the ground.

@chanev7 14 лет назад

Farewell. I've missed you.

@Coribec 14 лет назад

They should replace it with a giant dragon. Like, Lady Liberty big.

@FayezButts 14 лет назад

good lord I want that camera

@EatSleepBreathMovies 14 лет назад

very satisfying

@ErichoTTA 14 лет назад

@EatSleepBreathMovies I agree, it works well for being used in something funny but can be serious as well.

@Psgpimp16 14 лет назад

wow you can see the windows vibrate from the building in thta back. that was a hard hit!

@ttsky126 14 лет назад

DOWN LIKE THE TITANIC btw, got a normal speed version of this?

@b1lskirnir 14 лет назад

Yeah, this was full wide and I was as close as possible as I could be to the implosion.

@DylanTheCasualGamer 12 лет назад

Thumbs up if you remember when Tom Fulp posted this to his newgrounds profile, 3 years ago!

@ThunderDonkey 14 лет назад

its in the ad... hide and seek - imogen heap

@L8nitedave 14 лет назад

nice video

@cookerlb 14 лет назад

Imogen Heap - hide and seek

@StephyLu21 14 лет назад

My Favorite!!!!!

@Ztr9 14 лет назад

nice. i saw this vid on Tom Fulp's page on Newgrounds. i love philly

@paulymac 14 лет назад

Every time I see a controlled demolition it reminds me of the 3 world trade center buildings on 9/11.

@StephyLu21 14 лет назад

agree good video :P

@Prestonboy13 14 лет назад

what remix is this?

@c0den1nja42 7 лет назад

Suggest the Drexel Shaft as an item in the 125th anniversary Drexel time capsule, and then vote for it if they put it on the list. The official page is here: drexel.edu/125years/time-capsule/suggest-an-item/