RIP thread

[Tmee2020]

Originally Posted by themidlander

Mick Aston

Just had a text from a fellow academic to say that academic, archaeologist and broadcaster Professor Mick Aston has died.

Mick made a huge contribution to the popularity of archaeology to the point where Time Team became a major funder of research in the UK. His work on medieval settlements and monastic sites produced so many important books, and he was an inspiration for so many of the next generation of historians with his enthusiasm for value of looking into the past for keys to the present.

he will be sadly missed at a all too young age.

I'm watching Time Team right now.

R.I.P. Mick, good on you Mate.

[Oswald]

The marine biologist, oceanographer and zoologist, who has died aged 94, was a pioneer — with his wife Lotte — of spectacular films of the sea depths, and in the mid-1950s shot the first underwater footage for the BBC.

Obit here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...Hans-Hass.html

[blueballsdc]

Alan Myers, drummer for Devo, has passed away at the age of 58 from brain cancer.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/m...-dies/2459495/

Devo weren't everybody's cup of tea but they put on some outrageous shows and they certainly left an impression upon on people.

[IAPD3000]

If you are a fan of Classic Kung Fu Movies like My Young Auntie & One Armed Swordsman, Actor/Director Lau Kar-leung pass away two days ago. He was 78.



http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-l...reograp,99429/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Kar-leung

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by blueballsdc

Richard Matheson, author of I am Legend, has passed away at the age of 87.

I never understood why the film adaptations didn't go with his ending. It was perfect.

[blueballsdc]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

I never understood why the film adaptations didn't go with his ending. It was perfect.

Because everybody wants to put there own spin or mark on what they make so they can say it is different or unique or new. I always felt that the original ending was the best.

I have heard it said that many people found the ending difficult to grasp until they had it explained to them. I certainly didn't have any problem understanding the ending when I read the book when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Of course, I am smarter than the average bear.

[Meini Hirion]

Originally Posted by themidlander

Mick Aston

Just had a text from a fellow academic to say that academic, archaeologist and broadcaster Professor Mick Aston has died.

Mick made a huge contribution to the popularity of archaeology to the point where Time Team became a major funder of research in the UK. His work on medieval settlements and monastic sites produced so many important books, and he was an inspiration for so many of the next generation of historians with his enthusiasm for value of looking into the past for keys to the present.

he will be sadly missed at a all too young age.

Mick is one of the really true people that it hurts me to lose.

His family will not appreciate a tribute on a 'Porn Forum'...so be it.

I met Mick (or Mike as he then was)at Brum Uni - we bumped into each other over the years, mainly on the Defence side - against 'Academic Cuts' (1980s)

We breathed the same air, we had the same belief that because we were blessed with Full Grants for Uni, so should our kids.

US readers may not realise this, but at one point in History, getting people educated was funded by the State...100%.....in the UK....
- without putting the child or family in debt.

In those days, kids didn't start ex-Uni life with a 10/20 year debt to a Bank.

Anyway, I met Mike again on a few marches against Thatcher cuts.
I also met Robinson on one of them

Both of them met each other years later, before Time Team, I wish I could say that I introduced them


Mike & Tone on a Time Team PR...




Mike (Mick) was an absolute 100% guy.

Read This:
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/article...al-journey.htm


He'd go out at 3.00 AM to help students in the field, he'd be at his desk at 8:30 same day.

He lived to support his students, his Time Team stuff brought in more than enough followers to make many Uni's re-open dead departments.

I've always respected Mike, and I always will.

I could say so much more, but this kind of forum is not the right place...Mike had many detractors and abusers in the "Academic World"
- simply because he made his science accessible
- and made it understandable to everyone

The 'Dons' of dead departments regarded Mike as "dumb-downer", when in actual fact he was an Academic, Respected ...bloody Evangalist.

A dead science got busted open and re-invigorated by Mike's (Mick) Aston's scholarship and precision.

God Bless You My Fiend.



Meet you Again



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[Oswald]

David Lyon - Actor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/201...vid-lyon-actor

[TommySwiftJr.]

Bert Stern - Photographer.



"Bert Stern, an elite commercial photographer who helped redefine advertising and fashion art in the 1950s and ’60s but is perhaps best known for his painfully raw and poignant photos of Marilyn Monroe, taken for Vogue six weeks before her death, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/ar...t-83.html?_r=0

http://life.time.com/culture/bert-st...m-the-1960s/#1

R.I.P. great man, say hi to Norma Jeana Baker

[Mr Bond]

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Or just one : RIP, Richard.
Now, you are in another zone. The cool one.