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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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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum & American Draft at Bottom Lounge

I was assigned to cover this show on Sunday night at Bottom Lounge for the Reader. I was previously unfamiliar with the headliners, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and was pleasantly surprised by them. I was also pleasantly surprised to find out my friend's band American Draft opened the show. Aside from that, the lighting was insanely hard to work with and I was far from my A game, but you do what you can. You can see the results below or in this week's Chicago Reader Photo Pit section.

Click here to see all the photos of American Draft and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum at Bottom Lounge

DateFriday, April 23, 2010 at 11:47AM | Comment1 Comment |
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Empty Bottle Photo Pit Shoot

I'm still way behind on photo editing. A week or so in Austin with no spare time to edit has left me struggling to catch up. But here are some shots from a week or two ago at The Empty Bottle with The Dirty Diamonds and JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound for the Chicago Reader's new Photo Pit section.

Click here to see all the photos from Empty Bottle on March 8th...

DateTuesday, March 23, 2010 at 1:23PM | Comment2 Comments |
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