The $548 million, seven-floor, 460,000-square-foot building (that will be the new hospital building at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles) used a giant crane to help build it. Vu and I were asked to photograph and video the disassembly of the crane. (see a write up on the time lapse video on Vu’s blog)
It was an amazing sight from our vantage point. Almost every piece that came off needed it’s own truck to haul it off. It is also a very dangerous job if the proper safety procedures are not used. Fortunately everything went smooth and safe.
This is the removal of the counter weights. If one of these were to drop while being moved it would break through 3 floors of a building.
The counter weights are very heavy.
Here is the last piece that was removed before we left for the day. There was a very nice view of Los Angeles proper from the helicopter pad we were taking photographs and video from.
Here are The Bui Brothers atop the helicopter pad where we had a great view of the Hollywood sign.
Slideshow music by Paul Dateh
Today was a pretty busy day, even though we only intended to go to one place.
We started the day out lazily by sleeping in until 11:00am. Got up and asked our tour sales guy, Victor, if he could get us to Chitzen Itza; unfortunately the tour left at 7:00am. We ended up renting a car [...]
Today Bonny and I had a very awesome time at Xcaret, Mexico. Think Disneyland in Mexico with a Mayan, jungle and Caribbean theme. It was way one of the best experiences we have had.
The best part for me was when we went swimming in underground rivers and swimming in the jungle. This is just a [...]
Not much today, mostly relaxing for tomorrows wedding. I can’t go getting killed or getting stranded somewhere right before the wedding now can I?
Basically we woke up really late, went to eat, went swimming, then had a fancy dinner.
Above is another bit of video from our day 2 in Cancun, Mexico. We got to go kayaking, meet a monkey, and go on a pirate cruise!
I’d also like to write (type) about what made it possible for me to be here. I am here for work…
Without Bonny, I don’t think I’d be able to [...]
Wow! Cancun is so awesome!
Here is a quick video (30 seconds) recap of our day. We got to see the beautiful beach and water, walk around a bit of Mayan ruins, see some wildlife and go swimming.
We still have not gotten in touch with Aaron (I’m shooting the wedding on Sunday with him) so hopefully [...]
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 am
Dude that’s awesome!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
You guys are getting some very unique gigs, I like it. BuiBros4lyfe.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Very, very cool…I like how the clods pass behind so fast…
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Brother looks like the shots came out great!
June 27th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
can’t wait to show my kids tomorrow - they love cranes!
June 30th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Great shots. Sorta begs the question of how to assemble a crane: use a bigger crane!