vale ralph mclean

a friend, a mentor, a fellow aesthete

we said goodbye to him today

i couldn't wear black. i put my daughter in her pink frilly fairy costume she got for christmas, and wore my own outrageous hi-top golden dunlop volleys

and said goodbye

at la mama in carlton

so, in tribute to my friend, i am coming out. no longer unknown. i am hermione. i am anaesthete, i am theparisend.

*waves*

bye ralph



and to the online world which he really understood... we lost a user too
http://www.youtube.com/user/artzmedia

through ralph i got several of my talented friends to appear on yartz, but few as successfully as luke whitby.



one of the last things i did for yartz was a not particularly good interview with a young musician named johnny flynn. i felt ill, i wasn't on form (ralph, i'm sorry), but he did perform two songs to camera. as soon as i can, i will see about getting those pieces up on youtube.



i think yartz has to go on, in some form. it must. it will.

i truly thank him, thank you, for the opportunity to do what we did, for community tv.



mischa - he brought out the best work in you.



scott and ralph agreeing about a film! :)



many of you join with me in mourning his passing... the community he was part of.

better for having known him, lucky to have loved him, shocked to have heard him :)

rest in peace

vale

ralph



x

~ hermione