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Movie Reviews

The English Surgeon

A good documentary does more to stimulate my mind than the best fictional films. The English Surgeon is above and beyond a spectacular documentary. Most scriptwriters couldn't dare compete with the sheer drama and uncomfortable tension filmmaker Geoffrey Smith captures in his real-life story of English neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who became fed up with the inability of Ukrainian doctors to treat patients in need of brain operations and decided to do something about it. When a young Ukrainian man needs an operation to remove a tumor in his brain, Doctor Smith is his only hope for long-term survival. Unfortunately for this patient, modern luxuries are nowhere to be found in modern-day Ukraine and the only the way the operation can move forward is by using nothing but local anesthetics to reduce the pain of drilling thru the scull and scraping away the cancerous cells growing on his brain--In other words, doing the entire operation while completely awake and conscious. Beyond the unbelievable situations throughout the film, the simple message of humanitarianism shines.  In today's consumerist smorgasbord of a world we live in, it can be easy to forget the simple things that make being a fellow human being a rewarding experience. This film helps remind us. -Clayton Hauck

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Podcasting

Brain Stuff.
(itunes link, web link)

HowStuffWorks.com offers a nice variety of interesting podcasts but the first one I stumbled upon was Brain Stuff. It's a short but sweet look into, well, how stuff works. Each podcast gives a straight and to-the-point explaination on a wide variety of topics of which you are sure to find a few that interest you.

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Go Bang #4 Portraits

This was the fourth monthly Go Bang party at Sonotheque. Knowing that Crystal Castles were going to be DJing and the place was going to be a mad house, I avoided my usual setup with backdrop and all and kept things as simple as I could inside that little room near the entrance. The downside was that I had no room to set up lights, making for some rough shadows. The upside was that the wall in there looks great and I wouldn't need a backdrop. I decided to just keep it simple and then spice things up a bit in photoshop after the fact. I tried to get a bit of a retro look going and in the end I enjoy the results but really spent way too much time on each shot for what it is. Rambling aside, here are the rest of the shots! Come back next month for an all new theme!

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