If you’ve ever seen the History channel’s “Life After People,” you’ve seen how the Earth will recover itself from human existence, what will happen to the infrastructure we established and more. Going down a similar vein, filmmaker Ross Ching is creating his own “Empty America” series.
According to Ching’s website, it will show “the most iconic cities in America without people.” Taking inspiration from a similar series and combining it with what he says he does best — time-lapsed photography — Ching has completed his first one of San Francisco and also reveals how he emptied the city of people.
Watch Ching’s representation of San Francisco “wiped empty of tourists and traffic”:
What did you think? Was it eerie or peaceful — maybe like the city just hadn’t woken up for the day yet?
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Ching said that this production doesn’t take a crew. Ching himself did the whole thing, posting it on Thrash Lab’s YouTube channel, with two cameras filming for three days.
“Believe it or not,” Ching says, “I didn’t close off every street in San Francisco. I did it with some post magic here.” Check out the behind-the-scenes making of the video:
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karen162
Oct. 19, 2012 at 3:23pmNo more Progressives….Ahhhh…they and their lack of sanity have finally destroyed themselves. VERY peaceful! America on the mend!
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melving
Oct. 19, 2012 at 9:46amWhere are all the ******?
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grimmjsb
Oct. 19, 2012 at 4:19amPeaceful, if it were eerie it would be because there were signs that everyone left instead of the well kept clean streets, you’d have open cars piled trash and overgrown vegetation.
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Git-R-Done
Oct. 19, 2012 at 2:25amThe city would look a lot nicer without all of those freaks.
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Jenasus
Oct. 18, 2012 at 11:33pmThe Blaze will go down in flames if it keeps reporting on stupid videos like this one is.
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Owt_Raged
Oct. 18, 2012 at 7:06pmI lived and grew up just south of SF (about 10 minutes before today’s nightmare traffic). It reminded me of days gone by, where you could walk across a street and not get killed or mugged. When you could lay on the grass in Golden Gate Park and not be trampled or accosted by drunks or drug addicts.
When SF was a magical place, not a busy dirty cesspool.
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dcwike
Oct. 18, 2012 at 10:33pmSame here, even though I’ve lived all my life on the east coast. I got a sense of peace more than an eerie feeling. I, too, remember those days with NO fears of being robbed or raped in a city park. I visited my home town and, I tell you, no one goes there anymore just to enjoy it during the day, and, at night it becomes a haven for junk addicts and what not.
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LDSmommy
Oct. 19, 2012 at 3:27amYep. Owl. I grew up in San Jose and loved taking rare trips to SF. Going to The Exploratorium, having picnics in the park and watching the trippy people…trippy, not dangerous. Days gone by.
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calmandcents
Oct. 18, 2012 at 6:31pmHey, we’re not all screwed up wachos. I live about an hour from San Francisco and haven’t visited in years. There are a lot of good people still here. Like everywhere, most of the idiots are just following the crowd. They are clueless. California needs to be turned upside down and shaken until all the crap falls out. Then the streets will be pretty friggin empty.
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mlimberg
Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:15pmCan this happen to the rest of California? Please……
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darkknight91
Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:47pmNooooooo!!! Keep them there. If the place empties that means they’ve infiltrated the rest of the country.
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stage9
Oct. 18, 2012 at 5:55pm“What did you think? Was it eerie or peaceful…”
Um, it’s San Fransicko! I’m indifferent.
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blanco5
Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:01pmDO NOT come to TX!!!!!
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stage9
Oct. 18, 2012 at 5:56pmOR ANYWHERE in THE SOUTH….PLLLLLEASE!
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ozchambers
Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:01pmLooks like CA could once again elect a Republican President!
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Gonzo
Oct. 18, 2012 at 3:49pmIt’s a good start anyway.
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What the Heck
Oct. 18, 2012 at 3:39pmWow, that would make my day if the whole city….state fell off in the ocean.
They have gone to far to come back now.
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Black Manta
Oct. 18, 2012 at 3:21pmThey showing y’all what it’s gonna look like after they put y’all in their fema camps….go back to sleep know…
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3-Blue
Oct. 18, 2012 at 3:20pmThat was absolutely WONDERFUL! I lived in the Bay Area for 30 years and all of the damned people are why I moved away to the wilds of Northern California! If ‘they’ would just do that for real, I would move back in a heartbeat… :) After all, there has to be ‘someone’ there to experience the bliss. I volunteer!
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HUGHS500
Oct. 18, 2012 at 5:24pmNo doubt. I visited once in the early nineties , and the people ruined the whole experience. This is a beautiful area. One observation I made: I’ve lived in Montana and Wyoming my whole life and I would see news casts where people in that area and on the coast would wear heavy coats when it was 50* and I though what a bunch of wimps. I don’t see it that way now. When it’s 50* there it feels like 20* in Montana. Holy cold.
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3-Blue
Oct. 18, 2012 at 8:20pmYou got that right Hugh. I lived in Montana for a while and I was warmer there at +15* (bathing suit weather… :) than I was at +45* in the Bay Area winter. It’s the moisture in the air there. It conducts the cold right to the bone… or the heat away or however it works… As an added bonus, fleas can’t survive in the cold, dry either so my German Shepherd never had better skin and fur than in Montana. Wasn’t that Mark Twain who said; “I never spent a colder winter than a summer in San Francisco”?! I think I have been taken over by the spirit of trivia… :)
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HYPNOTOAD
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:52pmThe only thing missing were zombies….wait for it…you thought I mean the un-dead zombies. I meant the obama zombies of SF.
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Arshloch
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:35pmIf Ching could do this for the entire state, Claifornia could, once again, be the best state in the union. If the original settlers were returned, it would have the same result. Out with the whiney bums and be the GREAT state of Claifornia, as it was before the ‘flower children’, and the ‘ho-lee-wood’ wienies, arrived.
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SycamoreFan
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:04pmThat’s so gay!
I like the way queers didn’t like the word queer so they stole gay from the rest of us and changed the meaning. Now teenagers are stealing gay from the queers and making it their own word meaning STUPID and the queers are crying “you can’t just change the meaning of a word!”
Priceless, they are even spending money on radio and TV adds to convince teenagers it’s mean to use the word gay that way! Duh… teenagers ARE mean, and you queers are gay! That’s why they do it, to piss you off!
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AKeptWoman
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:16pmhahahahahahaha!!!!
you are so very correct
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riverwomansdaughter
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:46pmWhat does the author mean “… you’ve seen how the Earth will recover itself from human existence …” ?! Is mankind a disease on the face of this planet?
If we look at this from an evolutionary perspective, then it’s survival of the fittest – king of the mountain – last one standing wins.
If we look at this from a religious perspective, then when the Creator had made man and woman, He pronounced His creation complete and rested, committing its care into the hands of man.
Either way, the idea that humans are the interlopers is illogical.
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jp2feminist
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:29pmSeems like a cheerful guy.
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4xeverything
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:26pmPeaceful.
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Big Media Bias
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:21pmIf homosexuals were not allowed to adopt, this is what San Fran would look like.
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RJJinGadsden
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:37pmUh, what the ef?
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Stoic one
Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:33pmIf all of the homosexuals in the USA were to be dropped off there in san fran; They would still be in the minority. Just because they shout the loudest does NOT make them the majority of people. they are 1-2 % of the population at large.
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MN NICE
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:19pmI’m suprised there’s even a “straight” street in that city…
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RJJinGadsden
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:39pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSAN7ZX02eA
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momrules
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:19pmBeautiful or eerie? I would go with eerie. Out where I live one gets used to seeing few or no people for days on end but a city should be bustling and people filled.
This film makes me think of what could be if a *really bad* thing happened.
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JohnnyBrillcream
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:12pmSan Fran looks better like this, to bad we can’t keep it this way
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Stoneez
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:18pmNo, leave ‘em there.
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banjarmon
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:10pmAAaaaaah NO democrats!!!!!
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RJJinGadsden
Oct. 18, 2012 at 1:43pmLOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pEtnT40RnY
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MeteoricLimbo
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:09pmRjj did you ever see judge Roy Bean?
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MeteoricLimbo
Oct. 18, 2012 at 2:11pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjIc3qLPds
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