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Ning (born February 8, 1994), better known as NingSama1vs100 (lowercase ningsama1vs100) or simply NingSama (Jp: ニンさま Nin-sama), is an elevator filmer from Bangkok, Thailand.

History

Birth (1994-2013)

NingSama was born in February 8, 1994 in West Bangkok. She had an implicitly interest in elevators since her childhood.

Beginning (2013)

One day, when NingSama looked for funny elevator pictures in fail.in.th, she found elevator video in Thailand and she loved it, so she decided to join elevator community.

NingSama opened her YouTube account in June 2012 but she started filming elevators in mid 2013. Her first one way ride elevator video was uploaded but later deleted because of her personal reasons.

Awakening (2014)

She also makes animated elevator videos. Her first animated elevator videos were uploaded in May 31, 2014.[1]

On June 2014, she changed her YouTube username to NingSama Elevator Maniac

On December 2014, the frequency of uploading elevator videos was changed from every week to every day because of her year-end 2014 projects.[2] It's reverted to every week in January 2015.

Growing and first backlog cleanup (2015)

On January 29, 2015, she changed her YouTube username again to Elevanian Queste by NingSama.

On June 27, 2015, she decided to open her off-topic channel named NingSama no Offtopic and animated elevator channel named Elevanian Saga Official. However, she decided not to delete or privatized any old off-topic or animated elevator videos from her old channel. Instead, she created off-topic and animated elevator series made only by herself playlists and uploaded her own (not collaborated) animated elevator series in animated elevator channel[3].

From July 2015 to early December 2015, she decided to upload elevator videos every day because she wants to clean up all of her backlogs. This event made her channel become the largest elevator channel in Thailand.

On July 24, 2015, she made a first elevator tour with a unique name called "Elevator Adventures" and designed to be slightly different style from others but later discontinued due to unpopularity.[4]

Second backlog cleanup and first international trip (First half of 2016)

In January 2016, she slowed down her video uploading, filming and making elevator animations series due to personal reason. However, she produced her non-elevator related when in elevator filming hiatus.

Later in February 2016 to May 2016, she filmed elevator videos more often to "clear" all of elevator filming places in Bangkok and cities nearby, and uploaded her elevator videos to cleanup her video backlogs.

In March 29, 2016 to April 3, 2016, she have filmed many elevators in Japan, including Tokyo Sky Tree Tembo Deck[5] and Tembo Galleria[6] elevators.

In April 3, 2016, she decided to put an indefinite hiatus for making animated elevator videos and series due to lack of interest in making them.

Later in May 14, 2016, she made a renewal of elevator tour in Thailand which are loosely based on games. She is also planned to made more elevator tours renewal.

Being famous (Second half of 2016 to April 2017)

Since June 5, 2016, she had slowed down her elevator filming because of her duty at work.

Later in August 14, 2016, she came back to making animated elevator videos again. Her first animated elevator video after a long hiatus is a Japanese-style Hitachi elevator.[7]

In October 22 to October 24, 2016, she had filmed many elevators in Singapore including Vintage Schindler elevators and several HDB Blocks elevators.

Shortage in Bangkok and new exploration in other cities (April 2017 to February 2018)

Since April 2017, she had filmed fewer elevators than the past due to running out of unexplored places to go. Because of that, she tends to made more retakes in this year and going outside Bangkok more often.

Later, she had an idea to film elevators in other cities outside Bangkok and Greater Bangkok in Thailand to expanding elevator exploration around Thailand and slowing the shortage of unexplored places to film elevators.

In October 14 to October 18, 2017, she had an another international trip in Hokkaido, Japan, which is also the first time for Thai elevator filmer to film elevators there.

In November 28, 2017, she has announced in her Facebook page that she was stopped making animated elevator videos but all of her animated elevator videos are still available on YouTube. One of the reason is she is lack of time to made them due to her work.[8]

Elevator meetup year and the new adventure (March 2018 to December 2018)

Since TRG's elevator filming debut and Oak TheElevator Hunter's new freedom to film, she tends to do more elevator meetup in 2018 because both elevator filmers are also easy to meetup in Thailand.

In May 5 to May 9, 2018, she had an another international trip in Hong Kong and Macau, China, which is also her first time to do elevator meetup outside Thailand, with Vincent Chong and SC Miles.

In July 14, 2018, she was participate in the current largest elevator meetup in Thailand at Silom Area, Bangkok, with TleFlip, Jessy Elevators, TRG and Oak TheElevator Hunter.

Elevator filming continuation after the worst getting busted (December 2018 to May 2019)

After the worst elevator filming incident in December 5, 2018, she decided not to take risks in some buildings anymore, but she can still film some elevators depending on her situation.

In December 26 to December 30, 2018, she had an another international trip in Taiwan, China, which is the first time after two last international trip not to getting questioned by staffs.

After the last Taiwan trip, her fear of getting busted retains, but she has gained more confidence dealing with security when filming.

Elevator filming temporary hiatus (May 2019)

Due to numerous reasons, she announced to reduce her elevator filming in May 2019. She is still filming elevators for the next several years, but with fewer number of elevators than the past.

In May 18, 2019, she announced to stop filming elevators due to numerous reasons including security and privacy. But all of her elevator contents will not be removed.

Channel content changed (June 2019 to March 2020)

In June 2019, she started to uploading other kind of transportation videos which she has filmed them during her elevator filming hiatus, not only to maintain her presence but she also has tried to gain more viewers from other genre.

In late July 2019, she has announced to come back filming elevators, but not too much videos due to security concerns.

In October 2019, she has filmed elevators in several cities in Japan again, including a city most overseas elevator filmers rarely visited. in this trip, she has filmed a lot of trains beside elevators as well. This trip seems to be one of the best international trip she has visited in her life.

During Pandemic (Late March 2020 to 2021)

In April 2020, a COVID-19 pandemic made her unable to go out from her home, so she made gaming content instead, which made her channel back to her roots. (a channel which upload anything her want to), even a COVID-19 situation in her hometown is better before late December 2020, she still made gaming content until today.

In July to August 2020, she had made a collaboration with TRG Lifts named "Survival Course", which is loosely based on a special mode in maimai (Both are maimai player who is also being an elevator enthusiast).

From September 2020 onwards, she seems to be even less active in elevator community for some reasons.

After Pandemic (2022 to present)

In 2022, despite she rarely film elevators, she had a few international meetup in mid 2022 with Liam Walshe and December 2022 with SGET.

In March 4-6, 2023, she had an international elevator trip in Penang, Malaysia, which also had a meetup with Senn Lens and ZJ Elevids. It's one of the best elevator meetup in her elevator filming life.

Device used

Primary Cameras

  • Samsung Galaxy Core (Late 2013 - February 28, 2015[9])
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (January 2014 - November 17, 2014[10])
  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH8 (May 10, 2014, October 18, 2014, November 2014 - February 28, 2015)
  • Samsung Galaxy A5 2015 (March 1, 2015 - September 15, 2017)
  • Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 (September 16, 2017 - October 13, 2018)
  • Huawei P20 (October 13, 2018 to March 30, 2021)
  • Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus (March 31, 2021 to present)

Opening signatures used

  • Enter Books Novel Cards (Late August 2014 - December 2014)
  • Happy Meal Groudon Toy (January 2015 - May 2015)
  • Black Owl Doll (January 2015)
  • White Owl Doll (January 2015)
  • White Angry Birds Doll (January 2015)
  • Oscar the Grouch Figure (January 2015 - February 2015)
  • Kirby Figure (January 2015)
  • Frog Toy (July 2015)[11]
  • Kamen Rider Baron Symbol (August 2015 - September 2015)[12]
  • Happy Meal Treecko Toy (January 2016)
  • Ho-oh card (January 2016 - Late March 2016)
  • Random MLP Figure (August 2016 - December 2016)
  • Banana Lockseed (December 2016)
  • DJ Pon 3 Figure (December 2016)
  • Durian Lockseed (April 2017)
  • Paladin Cecil Plush Doll (January 2018)
  • Don Don Donki Card (Only used in Donki Mall Thonglor filming in February 23, 2019)
  • Chuni Penguin Plush Doll (Mid 2021 onwards)

Trivia

  • She is the first female elevator filmer in Thailand.
    • Her YouTube channel is also the largest elevator channel in the world which owned by female elevator filmer.
  • Her favorite elevator brands are Schindler, Kone, Otis (Except XiZi Otis), Mitsubishi and Toshiba.
  • Her favorite elevator types are elevators which installed before 1990s and not getting modernized, scenic elevators, high rise elevators, high speed elevators (more than 5 m/s) and destination dispatch elevators.
    • Despite she loves scenic elevators, she is actually afraid of heights. This is the reason why she is feeling not well when she films scenic elevators which served more than 15 floors.
  • Like many elevator filmers around the world, she hates elevators that horribly modernized and most generic elevators. (Except posh looking ones)
  • She is currently the first elevator filmer in Thailand who has filmed, edited and uploaded her video in 4K resolution.[13]
  • She is also loves animals, especially cats and small dogs.
  • She mostly uses public transportation to go to film elevators, especially in Bangkok and overseas countries
  • On September 24, 2016, she joined with Oak TheElevator Hunter and Jessy Elevators to film a Schindler 5500 scenic elevator at The Paseo Park, Bangkok, making it the first ever "elevator trio" in Thailand.
  • On April 29, 2017 she joined with Oak TheElevator Hunter, Jessy Elevators and Tamovie1975 to film elevators at CentralPlaza WestGate, Nonthaburi, making it the first ever "elevator quad" in Thailand.
  • Like Tamovie1975 and Khup Elevators and Offtopic, her first destination dispatch elevators filmed were in CentralPlaza Grand Rama 9, which were Schindler 7000 elevators with Miconic 10 system.[14]
  • She talks in video in English, Thai and rarely, Japanese in some videos, which mostly helping other people to go to certain floor or calling people who waited for the elevators to go to elevator she is filming. It hence that she can speak some English and Japanese as well.
  • She is the first elevator filmer in the elevator community to discover and film Hitachi DFRS (Destination Floor Reservation System) elevators in Bhiraj Tower at EmQuartier, Bangkok.[15]
    • However, before she has been successfully filmed Hitachi DFRS, she discovered it in MBK Tower, Bangkok. But she filmed only a quick view because security guard are not let her go.[16]
  • She is also the first elevator filmer in the elevator community to discover and film Kone elevators with KDS 330 fixtures, which located in Bangkok City Library, Bangkok.[17]
  • She and TJElevatorfan (From United States) are shared the same birth date (February 8), but different year.
  • She is one of very few elevator filmers who also an anime and manga Otaku.
    • The other elevator filmers who also an otaku are Reza's Elevatours (Surabaya), Ray Krislianggi (Jakarta), anime2092 (Japan) and some elevator filmers from Japan and around the world.
    • Her channel naming, channel logo, terms and custom thumbnails are also influenced from Japanese pop culture.
  • She is the first South East Asian elevator filmer who uses East Asian-style bracelets instead of normal bracelets in her newer elevator videos since October 2015.
  • She is also an elevator filmer in Thailand who has filmed the most videos in other countries per trip.
  • Although she has yet to debut in local media, she often unexpectedly made a cameo on the television when she was going somewhere.
  • When she film elevators overseas or other cities outside Bangkok and Greater Bangkok, she often films the highest observation deck/building elevators, and/or certain unique elevators.
  • Her currently longest elevator video in her main channel and the longest elevator video in Thailand is an elevator compilation for Oak TheElevator Hunter, with 2 hours, 51 minutes and 25 seconds.
  • Despite she is actually a Thai filmer, she sometimes had mistaken as a Japanese elevator filmer, possibly because of Japanese-style naming in her channel.
  • She is the first elevator filmer in South East Asia to film a manually controlled elevator. It's located in Tohka Saikan, Kyoto, Japan[18]
  • She was also designed elevator channel's logo for Oak TheElevator Hunter and Star Asia Elevator as well.
  • Her top five most favorite cities to film beside Bangkok so far are:
    1. Tokyo, Japan
    2. Osaka, Japan
    3. Hong Kong
    4. Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
    5. Singapore
  • She is currently a fan of Sega's arcade rhythm game Performai (maimai, Chunithm and O.N.G.E.K.I.) series, and also a maimai and Chunithm player.
    • She is also a big fan of sakuzyo (a Japanese composer/doujin artist)
  • She is also plays Genshin Impact as well.

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