02Nov
Chris Briscoe - an long-term old mate - died on 1st November (01/11/26) in Palma Majorca. RIP brother! I met Briscoe in the early Sixties - at first because I was on a quest to find out more about, and meet Maz Knight and the group of beats and ravers in Southsea she hung out with - glimpsed in John Boorman’s TV documentary Citizen 63 in the summer of 1963, before I went to Portsmouth Art College, We ended up sharing the same friends and girlfriends, living in the same flats, having the same close group of friends (the ‘Imperial family’), He learned Fortran in the 1970s, and developed the first Computer Graphics department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London. He left the Slade and set-up Digital Pictures with fellow CGI pioneer Paul Brown in 1981 - the first dedicated CGI company in the UK.
And Digital Pictures was highly successful. Because Briscoe and I shared the same birthday, we met up nearly every 29th November to celebrate - and sometimes this would be at Grouchos, the French, the Chelsea Arts Club, the Arts Theatre Club or at the Pizza Express big bar in central Soho (what was that called?).- it was Kettners on Romilly Street.
Briscoe on board Baroque, the gaff cutter he co-owned with James Sunderland, in Galicia in 1988.
Lots more to come as I collect and format memories of Briscoe....
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