Congratulations to Dan and Margot! I love that photo with Claire looking unamused by the whole experience.
So I'm still in NYC, really enjoying Brooklyn. Somehow I found myself at a
club in Times Square last Saturday night, and I was nearly blinded by
the bright lights when I emerged from the subway station! The party was
worth it though...
Lomo photos from the month are on their way.
Reading about Kevin’s brief summer vacation after taking Step I, I remembered my own post boards trip to NYC last year. Mixing business and pleasure, I worked as a production assistant on the shoot of the film Love Ludlow, which later premiered at Sundance 2005.
PA’s are the by far the lowest members of the production team. The position was therefore the perfect experience to prepare for hospital rotations during my third year of medical school. My comrades on set included film students, aspiring filmmakers, and siblings of senior staff.
The first shoot required us to begin setting up at 4 AM, a time of day I would grow to be eerily familiar with over the coming year. While the cinematography crew was busy setting up for the dawn shot at the beach, my fellow PA’s and I attempted to assemble an oversize tent to cover the snack table. After several unsuccessful hours, we gave up and quietly disposed of the evidence. “What tent?”On the second day I was promoted for my excellent work on the tent. Now, brandishing a walkie-talkie and headset, I was posted outside the door to a bar to implore passersby to keep their voices down while filming was in progress.
I had great time with the actors and other crewmembers eating dry bagels and bad coffee between takes. My medical training came in handy when I was sent to the drugstore to buy a band-aid for one the actors who cut his forehead ducking under the bar. All in all, I gained a lot of respect for the production of filmmaking. After all, it took 35 crewmembers, a broken tent, four parking tickets, and six hours to wrap one three-minute scene at the beach.
Here’s a sneak peak of the trailer and some reviews: www.loveludlow.com
It’s amazing how much time I can spend procrastinating three days before my last exam! I’m trying to memorize my notes, but I’m finding them much more interesting to read with my eyes closed. After an hour passed out in front of my books, I feel like I deserve a break. Perfect time to look up the origin of the staff and snake symbol commonly associated with the medical profession. It seems like there are two different symbols, one with two snakes and wings on top, and one with just one snake.
The winged staff is a Caduceus, the symbol of Hermes, the Greek messenger god. He is known as a great mediator, a diplomat, and best of all, the patron god of thieves! Insert managed care joke here.
The staff with one snake is the staff of Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine. Aesculapius was trained by Chirion, a centaur skilled in the healing arts. Aesculapius’ disciples were among the first professional healers in western civilization. In fact, Hippocrates, aka Notorious HIP, was a member of the Aesculapius cult.
The confusion between the two began with a set of German medical texts that were printed with the Caduceus symbol on the cover instead of the staff of Aesculapius. The mistake was magnified in 1902 when the US Army Medical Corps selected it as their official symbol because they preferred its more streamlined shape.
Incidentally, Zeus killed Aesculapius in a drive-by lightning bolt attack after Hades, god of the underworld, complained that he was healing too many people. So I guess there is such a thing as being too good at your job.
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