Celebrity Death Thread 2013--No more predicting, only real deaths

[KoalaTrap]

I come stompin' with somethin' pumpin' to keep you jumpin'
R&B, Rap, and Bullcrap is what I'm dumpin'
And ain't something about Kris Kross we all that'
So when they ask to the rocks
Say believe that


Eulogy done!

[Correction]

Jeff Hanneman

Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.

Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 - 2013)

lots of musicians dying, dang.

[BadKarma]

Jeff Hanneman

lots of musicians dying, dang.

And he was the most important one

[darkepyon]

Just saw that on my FB feed about Jeff. As for Kris Kross, I am now reminded of FFXI jump macros from back in the day. That first album of theirs had some decent songs on it besides "Jump".

[Meph]

Jeff Hanneman

ok, now I know the world is ending

[Moridam]

Came home to see the news about Jeff all over FB. What a downer on an otherwise awesome day, it should've been Kerry

[Tellahh]

it should've been Kerry

>.>

Spoiler: show

gtfo

This fucking sucks though.. all the "shredding with Dime" lines I'm seeing are getting spammed too... ugh


always loved the Chorus lyrics here, but damn now...

[Moridam]

Yeah, the Kerry comment is probably in poor taste, but if you absolutely had to pick one or the other...

I'll spare the lengthy anti-Pantera tirade, since I guess this isn't exactly the thread for it, but I've seen that "shredding with Dime" shit when other great metal musicians have died and it still makes me cringe every time. Ugh.

[Tellahh]

Yeah, the Kerry comment is probably in poor taste, but if you absolutely had to pick one or the other...

I'll spare the lengthy anti-Pantera tirade, since I guess this isn't exactly the thread for it, but I've seen that "shredding with Dime" shit when other great metal musicians have died and it still makes me cringe every time. Ugh.

it's cool~ And yeah what I was getting at with the Dime comments too.. just let him be already lol

[Moridam]

Honestly, I actually think King's lead style on their classic albums provides an awesome contrast to Jeff's more calculated approach, it's a neat order/chaos dynamic. But besides being kind of a douche generally, KK was also largely the driving force behind their more nu-metallish tendencies later on in their career (and while I don't recall the songwriting credits offhand, a song as terrible as Payback could only come from Kerry).

[Jakson]

That sucks. Recovers from Necrotizing Fasciitis only to die of liver failure.

Honestly, I actually think King's lead style on their classic albums provides an awesome contrast to Jeff's more calculated approach, it's a neat order/chaos dynamic. But besides being kind of a douche generally, KK was also largely the driving force behind their more nu-metallish tendencies later on in their career (and while I don't recall the songwriting credits offhand, a song as terrible as Payback could only come from Kerry).

Diabolus in Musica was mostly Jeff, but KK did the super sweet lead on the Sum 41 song from the Spider Man Soundtrack, and they were both pretty evenly responsible for the more down-tuned, nu-metal-esque riffs since then, though that's only 3 albums over 15 years.

[Kyreth]

He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy

Someone doing their announcement writing needs to not make it look like he married his sister. Otherwise, yeah. A lot of punctuation marks being laid down for the music scene so far this year.

[Qalbert]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103886

The family of Ray Harryhausen has just announced that the visual effects and stop-motion legend passed away today. Here is the family's statement:

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen
Born: Los Angeles 29th June 1920
Died: London 7th May 2013.

The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA. Ray’s influence on today’s film makers was enormous, with luminaries; Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the UK’s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as being the man whose work inspired their own creations.

Harryhausen’s fascination with animated models began when he first saw Willis O’Brien’s creations in KING KONG with his boyhood friend, the author Ray Bradbury in 1933, and he made his first foray into filmmaking in 1935 with home-movies that featured his youthful attempts at model animation. Over the period of the next 46 years, he made some of the genres best known movies – MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949), IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955), 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957), MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961), ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966), THER VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969), three films based on the adventures of SINBAD and CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981). He is perhaps best remembered for his extraordinary animation of seven skeletons in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) which took him three months to film.

Harryhausen’s genius was in being able to bring his models alive. Whether they were prehistoric dinosaurs or mythological creatures, in Ray’s hands they were no longer puppets but became instead characters in their own right, just as important as the actors they played against and in most cases even more so.

Today The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, a charitable Trust set up by Ray on the 10th April 1986, is devoted to the protection of Ray’s name and body of work as well as archiving, preserving and restoring Ray’s extensive Collection.

Tributes have been heaped upon Harryhausen for his work by his peers in recent years.

“Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry. The art of his earlier films, which most of us grew up on, inspired us so much.” “Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no STAR WARS”
George Lucas.

“THE LORD OF THE RINGS is my ‘Ray Harryhausen movie’. Without his life-long love of his wondrous images and storytelling it would never have been made – not by me at least”
Peter Jackson

“In my mind he will always be the king of stop-motion animation”
Nick Park

"His legacy of course is in good hands
Because it’s carried in the DNA of so many film fans."
Randy Cook

"You know I’m always saying to the guys that I work with now on computer graphics “do it like Ray Harryhausen”
Phil Tippett

“What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits.”
Terry Gilliam.

"His patience, his endurance have inspired so many of us."
Peter Jackson

"Ray, your inspiration goes with us forever."
Steven Spielberg

"I think all of us who are practioners in the arts of science fiction and fantasy movies now all feel that we’re standing on the shoulders of a giant.
If not for Ray’s contribution to the collective dreamscape, we wouldn’t be who we are."
James Cameron

[zoobernut]

I just saw that and I am so sad. He is one of my all time film hero's. His movies are amazing and the work he did for the film industry as a whole is huge.

[Ragnus]

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/rip-margare...204019153.html

Margaret Groening: Matt's mother and inspiration for Marge Simpson.

[Brill Weave]

I'm watching the original Clash Of the Titans tonight. You mother fuckers better be doing the same!

[Outlaw]

Wow.. he was one of the legends of film making. Clash of the Titans is one of my personal favorite movies.

[Correction]

Malcolm Shabazz murdered in Tijuana.

[Kryssan]

Joe Farman died on Saturday. ( link )

Cambridge scientist Joe Farman who helped find ozone 'hole' dies

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...r-shanklin.jpg
Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin found the ozone hole

The British Antarctic Survey scientist who helped identify the "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica has died.

Joseph Farman, together with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, published the results of their discovery in the journal Nature in 1985.

The research prompted the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement that controls chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) production across the globe.

Dr Farman, who received many awards, died aged 82 on Saturday.


'Damned stupid'

Prof Alan Rodger, interim director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said: "Joe was an excellent physicist and his work changed the way that we view the natural world.

"After making the discovery of the ozone hole he became an energetic ambassador for our planet."

Speaking to BBC News on the 25th anniversary of the reporting of the hole, Dr Farman said the environment was still being damaged in many ways.

He criticised politicians for failing to lead on issues like climate change and said it was "damned stupid" to keep increasing emissions of CO2 when it was known to be a warming gas.

But he also criticised some of the ways in which climate science was being conducted.

After graduating from Cambridge University, Dr Farman was appointed as a scientific officer at the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey, the predecessor of BAS, in 1956.

He became head of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Physics Unit at the University of Edinburgh in 1969 and returned to BAS in Cambridge as head of the physics section in 1976.

It was then that he turned his attention to Antarctic ozone monitoring.

Dr Farman received many awards in recognition of his discovery, including the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Environment Medal, the Chree Medal and Prize, membership of the Global 500 Roll of Honour, an OBE in 1988 and a CBE in the New Year Honours 2000.

His last research trip to Antarctica was in 1990, just before he retired.


Balloon measurements

Farman, Gardiner and Shanklin published their seminal Nature paper on 16 May 1985.

The men described balloon measurements of ozone in the stratosphere, above 22km in altitude, which showed a precipitous decline in the concentration of ozone in the Antarctic spring.

Their journal paper also recorded the ever increasing load of chlorofluorocarbons in the high atmosphere, confirming theoretical concern that the man-made chemicals could be depleting ozone.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...4_67579713.jpg

The deep thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica appears in the springtime
CFCs were routinely used at the time as refrigerants, spray-can propellants and as solvents.

Ozone is a molecule that is composed of three oxygen atoms. It is responsible for filtering out harmful ultra-violet radiation from the Sun.

The gas is constantly being made and destroyed in the stratosphere.

In an unpolluted atmosphere, this cycle of production and decomposition is in equilibrium. But when the chlorine atoms released from CFCs enter this process, they act as catalysts favourable to the destruction of ozone.

The Montreal Protocol phased out the use of CFCs.

The quantity of these and other ozone depleting gases in the Antarctic stratosphere reached a maximum around the year 2000 and has been very slowly decreasing ever since.

Computer modelling studies suggest the hole - or more correctly a deep thinning - will eventually recover. Last year's hole was the smallest seen in a decade.

[Eticket]

Not a death per se... but still something to mourn...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/showbi...omy/index.html