Aluminum Oxide - formed by John Chryslar (born: February 21, 1989), is a British youtuber specilizing in WTC vaporwave music, space music videos with synthwave, and miscellaneous tech and gaming content. Chryslar is an aerospace engineer, photographer and author who has autism, and has a fascination with space station videos, Kerbal Space Program, space videos with 80s and 90s soundtracks and jazz, and especially the World Trade Center Twin Towers (he even has tattoos of them). He also likes other random stuff like technical problems and manufacturing videos.
He is the first to make a replica of the International Space Station in Kerbal Space Program to relatively accurate details, gaining half a million views since it was released in Febuary 2017.
A year later, he found in archives, processed and uploaded a very rare 360 video of the World Trade Center twin towers plaza and observation deck that was taken in 2000 using composite photography. It has achived over a milliom views, since achieving that milestone on Dec 24, 2023. Chryslar also loves Kennedy Space Center, and his favorite building there is the Space Station Processing Facility.
Chryslar currently makes hobby space videos (with Retrowave/Vaporwave tracks, and his favorite artist is Hotel Pools by Ben Braun) and founded a viral series of mesmerizing "WTC Vaporwave" genre, compiling rare footage inside the World Trade Center Twin Towers with 1980s and '90s vaporwave music.
In the past decade, his channel has suffered a framed 'criminial history' of copyright violations that he deems were a plain abuse of the system by the claimers. He maintains that for videos or documentary about the WTC, space, or a parody of a movie is considered public domain or fair use.
Chryslar lived in the USA, and later moved to the UK where he resides permanantly.
In September 2023, his channel reached 10,000 subscribers, mostly thanks to the WTC vaporwave video series.