好莱坞演艺圈为医护人员制造防护设备
詹姆斯·贝德纳克还记得与一部电视剧的工作人员在纽约市会面的场景，这部剧由崔茜·奥利弗编剧，亚马逊出品。会面时，他们收到通知说百老汇剧院因新冠病毒要关闭。
“我们坐在一起开会，大家面面相觑——‘戏还拍不拍？以后会发生什么？’”贝德纳克回忆道。他是Showtime电视网拍摄的电影《歌舞青春》（Ray Donovan）的艺术总监。“那天晚上，我们接到项目制片经理和监制的电话，说停工了，明天的通告取消……他们通知我们要停工两周，之后两周又改为无限期停工。”
贝德纳克的正职虽然停了，但他没有闲着。相反他忙得很，一直在为ArtCube Army寻找原料。ArtCube Army的成员大多是纽约的电影、电视、戏剧等演艺圈的自由职业者，以及生产个人防护设备的相关企业。他们走到一起为面临物资短缺的医护人员制造个人防护设备。
贝德纳克一直与伊娃·拉德克紧密合作，她曾经是艺术部门的协调员，现在的身份为ArtCube Nation的首席执行官和联合创始人。ArtCube Nation是面向演艺圈的全国性网络组织，ArtCube Army是其分支机构，在疫情时期应运而生，它的大本营在纽约，专注于应对新冠疫情。电影产业里失去工作的人士转而为该组织服务，拉德克和贝德纳克说，这个组织和电影圈的人可谓天作之合。
上月听闻防护物品的供应紧张时，拉德克立马就采取了行动，她说：“医护人员已经够难了，一天天得追寻那些稀奇古怪的东西（病毒）的来源，一个个在压力下工作，因为没有犯错的余地。”
该组织还于4月3日发起了筹款，迄今为止，2万美元的目标已经实现了超过1.3万美元，这些钱用来购买原料和支付送货费用。
拉德克说，截至周二（4月21日），志愿者们已经生产了至少1万个防护面罩；超过6000个防护面罩用于纽约市的地区医院、老年人护理机构和急救中心的司机，近700个捐给新奥尔良、俄勒冈等州市。筹集到的款项还足够他们另外购买手术服和手术帽等物资。
纽约有120左右的人参与了这项工作，制造车间出了力，甚至远在新泽西州的3D打印机也表示要帮忙，拉德克说。
“现时我们局限于非常小的区域，因为能掌控的只有这些资源，知道的供应商也只有那几家。”拉德克说。她还补充道，供应商“很乐意满足我们从全国各地接到的一切订单需要的原料”。
他们制造的专供本地的许多物资，都通过送货上门的方式交到医护手中。纽约大学朗格健康中心的医师索菲·巴尔索拉对他们的善行很赞赏，在新冠病毒行将爆发之前，她担心自己和丈夫（也是一名医师）没有足够的个人防护设备，于是联系了ArtCube。
“防患于未然，我联系了他们，想要3个防护面罩。”她通过电子邮件告诉《财富》杂志，“他们超好超热情，和气又善于沟通。他们向我提供了5个面罩……我太惊喜了，真是感激不尽。”
贝德纳克利用自己的供应商人脉，获得了泡沫条、松紧带、海洋级乙烯等一切原料，这样其他志原者就可以把所需的面罩组装出来。但也有原料短缺之时，这时候ArtCube的成员就需要发挥创造力，另寻合适的替代品了。这并不难，正如他和拉德克都指出的那样，他们只是很小的团队。
“我们不必装备整个工厂。”贝德纳克说，“我们可以根据已有原料很轻松地随机应变。”
目前筹到的款项不少，众多企业伸出援手，医护们的反馈不错——拉德克对此非常欣喜。
“医护感谢我们？这我可无法承受。”她说，“不不，其实这些物品是我们在对他们表达感激。”（财富中文网）
译者：李耀和
詹姆斯·贝德纳克还记得与一部电视剧的工作人员在纽约市会面的场景，这部剧由崔茜·奥利弗编剧，亚马逊出品。会面时，他们收到通知说百老汇剧院因新冠病毒要关闭。
“我们坐在一起开会，大家面面相觑——‘戏还拍不拍？以后会发生什么？’”贝德纳克回忆道。他是Showtime电视网拍摄的电影《歌舞青春》（Ray Donovan）的艺术总监。“那天晚上，我们接到项目制片经理和监制的电话，说停工了，明天的通告取消……他们通知我们要停工两周，之后两周又改为无限期停工。”
贝德纳克的正职虽然停了，但他没有闲着。相反他忙得很，一直在为ArtCube Army寻找原料。ArtCube Army的成员大多是纽约的电影、电视、戏剧等演艺圈的自由职业者，以及生产个人防护设备的相关企业。他们走到一起为面临物资短缺的医护人员制造个人防护设备。
贝德纳克一直与伊娃·拉德克紧密合作，她曾经是艺术部门的协调员，现在的身份为ArtCube Nation的首席执行官和联合创始人。ArtCube Nation是面向演艺圈的全国性网络组织，ArtCube Army是其分支机构，在疫情时期应运而生，它的大本营在纽约，专注于应对新冠疫情。电影产业里失去工作的人士转而为该组织服务，拉德克和贝德纳克说，这个组织和电影圈的人可谓天作之合。
上月听闻防护物品的供应紧张时，拉德克立马就采取了行动，她说：“医护人员已经够难了，一天天得追寻那些稀奇古怪的东西（病毒）的来源，一个个在压力下工作，因为没有犯错的余地。”
该组织还于4月3日发起了筹款，迄今为止，2万美元的目标已经实现了超过1.3万美元，这些钱用来购买原料和支付送货费用。
拉德克说，截至周二（4月21日），志愿者们已经生产了至少1万个防护面罩；超过6000个防护面罩用于纽约市的地区医院、老年人护理机构和急救中心的司机，近700个捐给新奥尔良、俄勒冈等州市。筹集到的款项还足够他们另外购买手术服和手术帽等物资。
纽约有120左右的人参与了这项工作，制造车间出了力，甚至远在新泽西州的3D打印机也表示要帮忙，拉德克说。
“现时我们局限于非常小的区域，因为能掌控的只有这些资源，知道的供应商也只有那几家。”拉德克说。她还补充道，供应商“很乐意满足我们从全国各地接到的一切订单需要的原料”。
他们制造的专供本地的许多物资，都通过送货上门的方式交到医护手中。纽约大学朗格健康中心的医师索菲·巴尔索拉对他们的善行很赞赏，在新冠病毒行将爆发之前，她担心自己和丈夫（也是一名医师）没有足够的个人防护设备，于是联系了ArtCube。
“防患于未然，我联系了他们，想要3个防护面罩。”她通过电子邮件告诉《财富》杂志，“他们超好超热情，和气又善于沟通。他们向我提供了5个面罩……我太惊喜了，真是感激不尽。”
贝德纳克利用自己的供应商人脉，获得了泡沫条、松紧带、海洋级乙烯等一切原料，这样其他志原者就可以把所需的面罩组装出来。但也有原料短缺之时，这时候ArtCube的成员就需要发挥创造力，另寻合适的替代品了。这并不难，正如他和拉德克都指出的那样，他们只是很小的团队。
“我们不必装备整个工厂。”贝德纳克说，“我们可以根据已有原料很轻松地随机应变。”
目前筹到的款项不少，众多企业伸出援手，医护们的反馈不错——拉德克对此非常欣喜。
“医护感谢我们？这我可无法承受。”她说，“不不，其实这些物品是我们在对他们表达感激。”（财富中文网）
译者：李耀和
James Bednark remembers meeting with the director, producers, and others involved with Amazon’s untitled Tracy Oliver project in New York City when it was announced that Broadway theaters were shutting down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We were all sitting in the meeting, kind of looking at each other, and asking, ‘Are we going to be filming this episode? What’s going to happen?’” recalls Bednark, who was previously art director for Showtime’s Ray Donovan between 2018 and early 2020. “That night, we got a phone call from the unit production manager and the producer saying that we’re shut down and the call for tomorrow was canceled…We were told we were going to be down for two weeks, and two weeks turned into indefinite.”
Bednark’s day job may have stalled, but he hasn’t been idle. Instead, he’s been busy sourcing materials for ArtCube Army, a group of largely New York–based film, television, and theater art department freelancers and related businesses making personal protective equipment (or PPE) for medical workers facing a shortage.
Bednark has been working closely with Eva Radke, a former art department coordinator, who is the CEO and cofounder of ArtCube Nation, a national networking organization for showbiz art professionals. The ArtCube Army emerged as a New York–based, pandemic-focused offshoot while unemployed film industry workers pivot in a time of crisis—a natural fit for people in their line of work, Radke and Bednark say.
“It’s a community of people who already have to source weird things, already work under pressure when there’s zero room for error,” says Radke, who was inspired to hop into action last month as news of a slow supply chain began to spread.
The group also launched a fundraiser April 3, which has so far made more than $13,000 of its $20,000 goal, to help with buying materials and delivery costs.
As of Tuesday, Radke says, volunteers have been able to produce at least 10,000 face masks; more than 6,000 face shields for New York City–area hospitals, eldercare facilities, and EMS drivers; and nearly 700 shields for other cities and states, New Orleans and Oregon, among them. The fundraiser also enabled the purchase of extra supplies such as surgical gowns and scrub caps.
About 120 people in New York City are involved in the effort, alongside fabrication shops, and even some 3D printers in New Jersey who’ve “put the word out,” Radke says.
“We’re really hyperlocal right now because that’s what we can control and those are the vendors we know,” says Radke of the group’s volunteer workforce, while adding that they’re “happy to fulfill any orders that we get in from anywhere around the country.”
Many of the local supplies they’ve made have been sent to health care workers via home delivery, a fact that Sophie Balzora, a physician at NYU Langone Health, appreciates. She reached out to ArtCube before the expected surge in coronavirus cases, worried that she and her husband—also a physician—would not have a sufficient amount of PPE.
“In preparation and as a precaution, I reached out to them to request three face shields,” she tells Fortune via email. “They were beyond fantastic and responsive—so kind and communicative. And they provided me with five face shields…I was so astounded and so incredibly grateful.”
Bednark has tapped his network of vendors to acquire everything from foam and elastic to marine vinyl, so that other volunteers can assemble needed face shields. But there have been times when shortages of materials have required the ArtCube crew to get creative and find alternatives that will do the job, which is something they can do because they’re a small group, as both he and Radke point out.
“We’re not worried about retooling an entire factory,” Bednark says. “We can easily change up to respond to what’s available.”
Radke is thrilled with the results of the fundraiser so far, the businesses helping her group, and the feedback from the medical community.
“Health care workers are thanking us? I can’t even accept it,” she says. “No no, this is our gratitude towards you.”
