I regret to let the PL community know about the passing of Mark Edgar a.k.a. "Imagelight" earlier thus morning. He'd been dealing with various things over the years and was rushed to the hospital yesterday with a heart attack. He'd also been dealing with stomach & liver cancer.
I spent some time thinking last night about just how instrumental Mark was in shaping the events of the last 14 or so years of my life. If not for Mark, I wouldn't have known about Photonlexicon, or ever gone to my first SELEM. Just think about the far reaching implications of THAT. I wouldn't know YOU or... be typing this here.
He became my local laser and musical event partner that lived 15 minutes away and, being in such close proximity, we often bounced a lot of ideas off each other, helped with projects, did shows together, traveled to LEM's together, etc. Anytime a new toy arrived, Mark would rush down to the banquet hall for the unboxing to check out what I had bought... "this time". :-) Mark was truly one of the kindest, selfless, most easily taken for granted, people I've ever known. You'll be sadly missed my friend.