[Zina Nicole Lahr] was an extremely skilled artist, designer, puppeteer as well as maker, with a self-diagnosed condition that she liked to phone call innovative Compulsive Disorder which she explains as follows:

I suppose you might state I have a self-diagnosed condition called CCD, it’s innovative Compulsive condition where I have to make stuff all the time, as well as with whatever I have around me, so if it’s trash, or junk, or things that people would normally throw away, I try to discover new methods to re-fabricate them into something useful as well as beautiful.

A true hacker at heart. She’s worked on tons of different jobs in many different fields, even doing special impacts as well as prop work for a TV show.

Unfortunately it is with fantastic unhappiness that we share her story, as she just recently passed away in a hiking accident.

What we are particularly sharing is a short 5 minute documentary about [Zina] which was made by her close buddy [Stormy Pyeatte] a few months earlier for a institution project. In this past week [Pyeatte] has re-cut the footage in an attempt to catch her personality, imagination as well as to celebrate her memory. She succeeded tremendously, our heartstrings cannot lie.

It’s a gorgeous video about a gorgeous soul. We desire we might have satisfied you [Zina].

There is more info on the reddit thread, as well as [Pyeatte] was likewise interviewed on the radio, in situation you’re not unfortunate sufficient already.

[via thisiscolossal]