My sincerest condolences to Mr John Smouts' friends and family. Ira.
On 8/8/2022 5:26 AM, 'Bogdan Paduraru' via neonixie-l wrote:
I am really sorry about such sad news / personal lost and, on the same
time, thank you that you shared his website in the community, he
really had some very interesting/spectacular ideas on watch design
On Monday, August 8, 2022 at 10:47:33 AM UTC+3 Nick wrote:
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On Monday, 8 August 2022 at 08:46:18 UTC+1 neonixie-l wrote:
It's with a heavy heart that I have to report the passing of
my friend and one of our most creative and generous members,
John Smout. John had been seriously unwell for some time and
already outlived his doctors' predictions.
John, apart from being a long-time moderator on this group (as
"Nixcited delighted") was a polymath with interests and
contributions in many fields, from ancient Greek underground
temples to pinball machines, music and of course, nixies.
He was a graphics designer by profession, but was also a model
maker and creator, working for films such as Alien (the space
suits) and major organisations including the Science Museum in
London.
He was generous with his time, wit & expertise and possessed a
fearsome intellect - a quick look round our house revealed 5
of his clocks, not one of which was "a block with 4 nixies
sticking out of it" (he wasn't impressed with the "ordinary").
His web site, https://www.clock-it.net/, shows the level of
his originality - nothing repeated, all original. He was also
one of the very earliest, if not the first, to come up with
the idea of an "approximate clock" using alphanumeric VFDs and
was always interested in the visually unexpected.
All those that had the pleasure of knowing John will miss him
greatly.
Nick de Smith
(please excuse the rather poor quality of the photos below -
they were taken quickly...)
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