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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 28, 2023 13:23:45 GMT -5
UPDATE: I did a quick search of obits for Mike/Michael Voiles, but came up empty. Maybe no obit has been published. I've been trying to piece it together myself as I've always really valued Mike, both as the creator of such a critical project for comic book historians and as a person/member of this community. What I think I know is that he was either in his late forties or early fifties (his origin page references getting GI Joes for Christmas in 1984 and starting to get into comics), and that he made reference five or six years back to handing off the site to someone else soon and then stopped visiting the CCF shortly thereafter. My guess is he had some sort of life-threatening illness and spent the past few years fighting it courageously. But this is all conjecture based on very little info. Yes, good job looking into that; it also makes me all the sadder knowing that he was so (relatively) young and possibly dealing with a terminal illness. I'd always though he was much older. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 30, 2023 7:55:59 GMT -5
Just saw the news that singer/songwriter Shane MacGowan, best known as the frontman of the Pogues, has died at the age of 65.  He was generally in ill health and had been diagnosed with encephalitis. Sad news in any case. Otherwise, he also produced a few 'solo' albums as Shane McGowan and the Popes, so instead of posting the ever-popular "Fairytale of New York" (which everyone's going to be doing now even more than usual given the season), here's one of my favorite tracks from their album Crock of Gold: |
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 30, 2023 9:25:47 GMT -5
I find it somewhat remarkable that McGowan actually made it to 65, based on his lifestyle choices in his earlier years. He cleaned up quite a bit in later years, including new dental work, but in recent years the issues with breaking his hip and dealing with encephalitis plagued him constantly. RIP Shane, a major musical influence of mine. One of my bands, The Secret Commonwealth, has closed every gig for the last 30 years with this song:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2023 10:17:53 GMT -5
Henry Kissinger, made it to 100. Historically quite a significant individual regardless of where you land on his career and character.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 30, 2023 10:28:19 GMT -5
I just saw that McGowan passed as well. I'm not a huge fan of his genre of music, but he was a damn fine writer for a punk guy.
I'll just avoid getting in to the other prominent death of the last couple of days.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2023 11:04:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I knew those posts would come, but it’s still historically significant. I’ve got no opinions to share beyond that, sometimes it’s just a reflection point of an era gone by.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 30, 2023 15:09:45 GMT -5
A few posts above have just been deleted. I refer you gentlefolks to this general announcement from 2021 : "(...) As a general guideline, discuss others like their impressionable young son, daughter, niece, or nephew is reading, and definitely do not celebrate a person's tragedy or death, no matter who they were, what they did, or whether they'd gleefully say the same about you. "Thank you. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 30, 2023 19:31:16 GMT -5
A few posts above have just been deleted. I refer you gentlefolks to this general announcement from 2021 : "(...) As a general guideline, discuss others like their impressionable young son, daughter, niece, or nephew is reading, and definitely do not celebrate a person's tragedy or death, no matter who they were, what they did, or whether they'd gleefully say the same about you. "Thank you. This is why we can't have nice things. |
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Post by Calidore on Dec 1, 2023 14:43:49 GMT -5
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female justice on the Supreme Court, has died at 93.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 3, 2023 0:22:31 GMT -5
RIP to noted stage, film and tv actress Frances Sternhagen, who played everything from Cliff's mother, on Cheers, to Dr Lazarus, in Outland....  She was a two-time Tony Award winner (seven nominations) and was in the original production of On Golden Pond. I recall watching her in the tv movie, Prototype, about an artificial human, who shows great sensitivity (played by David Morse), who is sought by the military. Christopher Plummer starred as his creator. Good stuff. Sternhagen was always great. My late wife enjoyed watching Julie and Julia, with Sternhagen as Irma Rombauer, the author of the cookbook, The Joy of Cooking, one of the seminal cookbooks, who helped inspire Julia Child. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 5, 2023 11:29:21 GMT -5
Daniel Langlois, philanthropist entrepreneur and founder of Softimage, was killed on his adopted island home of Dominica. Adding to the cruelty of the loss is that he was brutally murdered, along with his wife. There is small solace in the fact that their killer managed to badly burn himself in an attempt to get rid of the bodies, and upon interrogation he led the police to the people who hired him.
Langlois was a visionary. Not only did he basically pioneer the technology used today in countless CGI-based movies, but he also kept coming up with new projects. His Excentris performing arts center was for a good while THE place for cinephiles in Montreal, and over the past several years he had built a self-sustaining luxury hotel in Dominica -hiring local workers, and forming them if need be. He had received several accolades from the Canadian and Dominican governments.
It's doubly tragic when an innovator, someone who actually creates new things and changes people's lives for the better, is cut down for what will doubtless prove to be a trivial motif. Jealousy, anger, greed? I suspect it will be one of those. One of the suspects is Langlois's neighbour, and I shudder to think that this might be an absurd case of neighbours arguing about a fence.
Remember when Tony de Peltrie paved the way for Jurassic Park?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2023 12:28:55 GMT -5
Daniel Langlois, philanthropist entrepreneur and founder of Softimage, was killed on his adopted island home of Dominica. Adding to the cruelty of the loss is that he was brutally murdered, along with his wife. There is small solace in the fact that their killer managed to badly burn himself in an attempt to get rid of the bodies, and upon interrogation he led the police to the people who hired him. Langlois was a visionary. Not only did he basically pioneer the technology used today in countless CGI-based movies, but he also kept coming up with new projects. His Excentris performing arts center was for a good while THE place for cinephiles in Montreal, and over the past several years he had built a self-sustaining luxury hotel in Dominica -hiring local workers, and forming them if need be. He had received several accolades from the Canadian and Dominican governments. It's doubly tragic when an innovator, someone who actually creates new things and changes people's lives for the better, is cut down for what will doubtless prove to be a trivial motif. Jealousy, anger, greed? I suspect it will be one of those. One of the suspects is Langlois's neighbour, and I shudder to think that this might be an absurd case of neighbours arguing about a fence. Remember when Tony de Peltrie paved the way for Jurassic Park? This is so horrible. I'm very familiar with the impact of Softimage as I worked in the graphics software industry for a period as a software engineer. Our tech involved 3D content, and I still remember the "big three" of 3D modeling and animation tools at that time: Maya, 3ds Max, and Softimage. As you said, his pioneering technology alone is so well-represented in so much media content, and inspiring how he kept developing his later projects. A tragic event indeed, I'm very sad to learn of this  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 5, 2023 19:44:32 GMT -5
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Post by Calidore on Dec 5, 2023 20:37:28 GMT -5
Denny Laine, founding member of the Moody Blues and longtime member of Wings, has died at 79.
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Post by berkley on Dec 5, 2023 21:21:33 GMT -5
Daniel Langlois, philanthropist entrepreneur and founder of Softimage, was killed on his adopted island home of Dominica. Adding to the cruelty of the loss is that he was brutally murdered, along with his wife. There is small solace in the fact that their killer managed to badly burn himself in an attempt to get rid of the bodies, and upon interrogation he led the police to the people who hired him. Langlois was a visionary. Not only did he basically pioneer the technology used today in countless CGI-based movies, but he also kept coming up with new projects. His Excentris performing arts center was for a good while THE place for cinephiles in Montreal, and over the past several years he had built a self-sustaining luxury hotel in Dominica -hiring local workers, and forming them if need be. He had received several accolades from the Canadian and Dominican governments. It's doubly tragic when an innovator, someone who actually creates new things and changes people's lives for the better, is cut down for what will doubtless prove to be a trivial motif. Jealousy, anger, greed? I suspect it will be one of those. One of the suspects is Langlois's neighbour, and I shudder to think that this might be an absurd case of neighbours arguing about a fence. Remember when Tony de Peltrie paved the way for Jurassic Park? This is so horrible. I'm very familiar with the impact of Softimage as I worked in the graphics software industry for a period as a software engineer. Our tech involved 3D content, and I still remember the "big three" of 3D modeling and animation tools at that time: Maya, 3ds Max, and Softimage. As you said, his pioneering technology alone is so well-represented in so much media content, and inspiring how he kept developing his later projects. A tragic event indeed, I'm very sad to learn of this It really does sound horrifying. Have there been any more details? I didn't see anything further last time I looked. Perhaps it's totally irrelevant but this kind of story always makes me wonder about the advisability of moving to some tropical paradise, unless you want to completely shut yourself off in some insulated fortress, which would defeat the purpose, in part, at least. But maybe this had nothing to do with what happened here. |
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