This news brings to mind the thought that one hopes never to outlive one’s children, such is the pain one feels for a bright good and clever life that’s been simply snatched away without warning. Tim was so good, so capable, so reliable that he seems a fixture in our landscape, and asking the question “So who have we got on that?” and hearing the answer was “Timmy” meant that it was sorted, attention could be given to other things and TK whether that stood for Top Knotch or Timmy Keogh would be totally on it.
As a designer, there’s always that something extra, the thing you really want to change at the last minute because it’s suddenly become obvious there was a better way to do it, or the director just moved his camera and something else has to move as well, and one’s spirits sink because you’re going to have to go back and ask the crew ever so nicely if they’d even entertain the task at the end of a day when there’d not been enough time from the get-go. The numbers of times I’ve gone to Timmy, and he’s just said “Yes” – just like that that with no further discussion, is what placed him on a pinnacle for me. He was the best, always smiling, always ready to make it happen, and always bringing great people who he lead and made sure that they shared that attitude.
I already miss him dreadfully and my heart goes out to his family and all of us who shared love and respect for a great guy
Tom McPhillips and all of us at Atomic
As a designer, there’s always that something extra, the thing you really want to change at the last minute because it’s suddenly become obvious there was a better way to do it, or the director just moved his camera and something else has to move as well, and one’s spirits sink because you’re going to have to go back and ask the crew ever so nicely if they’d even entertain the task at the end of a day when there’d not been enough time from the get-go. The numbers of times I’ve gone to Timmy, and he’s just said “Yes” – just like that that with no further discussion, is what placed him on a pinnacle for me. He was the best, always smiling, always ready to make it happen, and always bringing great people who he lead and made sure that they shared that attitude.
I already miss him dreadfully and my heart goes out to his family and all of us who shared love and respect for a great guy
Tom McPhillips and all of us at Atomic
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