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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

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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Entries in pitchfork (8)

Sunday
Jul252010

Pitchfork Photos

I realize Pitchfork happened last weekend and nobody cares about photos from last weekend, but ya know, I shot the fest on assignment for the Chicago Reader and it's never cool to scoop your own client by posting photos before they do. Since they didn't run til Thursday, it wasn't such a big deal to put it off a few more days. On that note, you can see a few of them in the paper (but ehh, they only ran a couple lesser favorites actually, I don't know where that came from it looks pretty good!) or also on their blog. Oh, but of course, you can find them ALL via the links below!

Click to see photos from Friday at Pitchfork Music Festival...
Click to see photos from Saturday at Pitchfork Music Festival...
Click to see photos from Sunday at Pitchfork Music Festival...

Tuesday
Jul282009

Pitchfork Festival Day 3

7/19/2009 | Chicago: I've never been a fan of telephoto lenses. Aside from the fact that you have to carry them around all day, I think they just sort of kill the feeling of a photo. It takes the immediacy away and leaves you with less emotion. Sure, there are reasons you sometimes need to use a long lens, the main one being the inability to get near the subject you are trying to photograph, and with live concert photography this often the case. Seeing as I don't currently own anything longer than 55mm, this is not an option for me. If someone gave me a long lens to use at a concert, I'd probably shoot as extreme a closeup as I possibly could and that's about it. Anyway, I'm not sure why I felt the need to chat about lenses. I guess since this fest happened over a week ago and I'm just now getting the photos up here, I had nothing else to talk about.

If you haven't yet, check out my Pitchfork photo spread in the current Chicago Reader, which is out thru tomorrow (Wed). And click here to see the entire gallery from day three at Pitchfork.

Click here to see all the photos from day 3 at Pitchfork Music Festival.

Monday
Jul272009

Pitchfork Festival Day 2

07/18/2009 | Chicago: Yeah, I dropped the ball and it took me over a week to get the festival photos online. Nothing new to add, as surely by now you've read every possible fest review, so I will leave you with my photos. Click here to see the entire gallery!

Click here to see all the photos from Day 2 at Pitchfork Music Festival.

Wednesday
Jul222009

Pitchfork Festival Day 1

7/17/2009 | Chicago: Now that nobody cares about Pitchfork photos, I figured it would be a good time to get them up. Ha. Well, to be fair, I was pretty swamped with stuff and the weekend was pretty insane so it's taken me a lot longer than I would've liked to get these shots up, but here they are! Day one was pretty chill. Built to Spill was the highlight for me, even though they failed to play some of the tunes I would've loved to hear. I think The Jesus Lizard was probably the highlight for the highest percentage of people. Check out all my shots from Friday here or peep a few of my favorites below. The rest of the fest will be soon to follow!


The Jesus Lizard




Build to Spill


"As long as it's talking to you, talk of the weather will do."

Click here to see all the photos from Friday at Pitchfork Music Festival 2009.

Saturday
Jul192008

Stop Drinking

Saturday
Jul192008

Pitchfork Saturday

Saturday
Jul192008

201 Sunglasses

Thursday
Jul172008

Let the Drinking Begin