Joseph Byron, (born October 10, 2002) also known as Admit One by his YouTube user name, is an Elevator Enthusiast started filming in 2010 in his hometown of Durham, North Carolina born and raised from there as well.
YouTube link (note - terminated): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl47Ii_aOzxnGlxQLwTuMZQ
History[]
Early Life (2003-2007)[]
Joseph's first ever elevator ride was in the Streets at Southpoint shopping mall in Durham, NC when he was 4when he first got in, he wanted to help passengers get in and out by holding the door open button getting them in safely. He founded in fasinating riding elevators is a hobby and a big help to the Durham NC, community. Joseph in his early life in 2003 had surgery in his eyes because they couldn't stop running tears and wasn't him crying a lot, he started to get glasses in 2016 because of the blurry vision he had.
Filming Elevators (2010)[]
Joseph before he discovered the elevator community by DieselDucy filmed elevators when he got his first Nintendo 3DS gaming system which also had a camera feature. He started to film his first elevator video at the Northgate Stadium 10 Parking Garage in Durham, NC. By then at The Streets at Southpoint, and then at Raleigh, NC. Joseph by then never discovered YouTube until 2013, he still made elevator videos and thought to himself that if there was a video sharing website to upload videos to.
Discovering the Elevator community (2012-2013)[]
Joseph's first visit to Walt Disney World was fun. When he first got to his hotel he staying at, he knew about staying in hotels because he had the experience of staying in a hotel before. He and his family stayed at Disney's Contemporary Resort near the Magic Kingdom. His first visit was back in 2012. He stayed at the 9th floor there. He rode the elevators which were Otis series 1 elevonic 401 which got modernized the third time by Series 2. In February 2013, he discovered that YouTube user Fantech0104 took the videos of the elevators at Disney's Contemporary resort. Then he moved on to other elevator videos like patricknedz filmed streets at southpoint elevators. Then moved on to DieselDucy filmed Cary Towne Center shopping mall elevators. Then filming elevators interests him starting filming bad quality cameras like a Vivitar Vivicam x029, and a Jazz DV140 digital camcorder.
Returning to Elevator Photography (2018)[]
Joseph has returned after nearly a year since filming the Disney's Coronado Springs Elevators. He came back to the Streets at Southpoint filming all of the elevators there, but he deleted nearly except the sears ones because sears is closing in march of 2019, but retook all of the elevators except the Barnes and Noble one in 60 FPS in his iPhone.
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Joseph's last Elevator video was from New York City on December 13, 2019 and published to YouTube February 29, 2020. He has taken a break from filming elevators since Dec 2019 when COVID-19 impacted. In May 2020, Joseph went to the Duke Hospital to film the elevators, and by the time, it was required to wear face masks while riding an elevator. On June 2020, Joseph came back to Downtown Durham to film Elevators. He has learned an important regulation of going in to the elevators during the COVID-19 impact, only 3 guests/parties can enter the elevator at a time. In late June 2020, he came to Myrtle Beach, SC to film elevators, possibly at Carolina Dunes, at The Caravelle, or at Sand Dunes. Still the same precaution to allow 3 guests/parties in the elevator at a time. Joseph has published a trailer on YouTube and announced at elevator videos will be published starting August 20, 2020. He has continuously kept publishing elevator videos everyday and even made his own elevator animations throughout.
Camera History:[]
- Vivitar Vivicam x029 2013-2014
- Jazz DV140 digital camcorder 2014-2015
- Flip video camcorder 2015-2017 (still owns)
- iPhone 5c October 2017-January 2018 (phone was cracked)
- Nintendo 3DS camera 2010-2017-2018 (still owns)
- iPhone SE 2018-2021 (scrapped)
- iPhone 12 2022-present
Trivia[]
- Joseph has asked his best friend Malik Gaskins if he wanted to film elevators with him, he said yeah sure thing. Malik said it is fun to film elevators. He asked Malik if he can make a YouTube about elevators, then he said yes, and that's how Joseph started his duo with his best friend.
- Joseph's favorite shopping mall in North Carolina is the Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, NC
- Joseph started YouTube in 2013, and then came back in 2018.
- Joseph's favorite elevator models are the Schindler MT and the Montgomery Vector