I'd like to take a moment to say goodbye to good friend. When I moved to Northern CA for my junior year of high school I met and instantly became good friends with Kyle Lauck. Kyle and I shared a similar sense of humor, love for computers and video games, and generally finding a way to laugh at and enjoying whatever life threw our way. After high school, as responsibilities mounted for each of us, we gradually found less and less time to hang out together. We were able a couple of times over the years to go camping and hiking at nearby
Mt. Diablo or our favorite:
Armstrong Redwoods and
Austin Creek. Of course our camping trips were too far and few between and we always swore that we would make a point to go camping more often.
Kyle graduated from
The Expression College for Digital Arts and I was always amazed with the video production work he was able to do. The picture above is what Kyle designed for his graduation announcements. As I was also trying to get my photography business going at the time I thought it was one of the wittiest designs I'd ever seen.
Much to Kyle's delight he got a job at
EA Games producing video for the
Godfather game. Later he went on to work in a production house in San Francisco.
In March Kyle was diagnosed with leukemia and just over a month later passed away. It was very quick and because he was so tired and susceptible to sickness while undergoing chemotherapy most of his friends, myself included, didn't even have the chance to talk to him on the phone.
Kyle was the most accepting and giving person I knew, which is probably why he was always surrounded by friends. Kyle definitely had the gift of gab and, if needed, could carry-on both sides of a conversation (perfect for people like me who don't talk much). You could always count on Kyle for a chat... even if you didn't have anything to talk about. Its very strange knowing that I can never call Kyle again to talk about nothing.
Kyle Jonathan Lauck
October 23, 1979 - April 19, 2007
