Shawn and Andrew, two of the CTV staff I worked with, laughed with, got cross with (as you do), now gone with the television’s building they were in at 12:51 on February the 22nd.
Shawn entrusted me, a recent migrant, with directing/live mixing of sport events and he was the first one to introduce me to the game of cricket I later grew to love. Every day at lunch time Shawn would produce a big carrot from his back-pack – “it helps with your eyes, we spend too much time looking at these bloody monitors, aye?”, he used to say.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/quake-victims/4700562/Shawn-Lucas
Andrew was a naughty cameraman and an inventive editor. When times were tough for me in 2000, he invited me over to the Lyttelton house he was renting with his then girl friend Petrina and asked me to stay there for as long as I wanted. He was, as Kiwis say, ‘messy as’. A nice chap.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/quake-victims/4699713
Please stop for a moment, whatever you are doing. These men will never come back.
