Day 4171: Legend and Hopeful.

 

 

"War Angel": photo, digital.

  

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Click here:  Jacob Collier, All I Need

 

 

 

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A Movie Magic Legend

Lanny Smoot has built one of the coolest careers ever. The Disney research fellow and imagineer has amassed 106 patents and counting, and has created the magic (ahem, complex engineering) behind the extendable lightsaber used in Disney Live Entertainment, the new HoloTile floor, which Disney calls “the world’s first multi-person, omnidirectional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor,” and the interactive koi ponds at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel. Now, his prolificacy and impact in the theatrical technologies and special effects field have earned him an induction into the 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame. “I love to create. I love to come up with inventions … just wanting to make good things that will amaze and enchant people," Smoot said of the honor. He got especially emotional when he realized the only other Disney employee to make the National Inventors Hall of Fame was ... Walt Disney himself!

More here.

 

Actress Lily Gladstone.

 

She has earned vast critical acclaim for her work in the film "Killers of the Flower Moon." Yes, she has built some beautiful advocacy and pride for the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana where she grew up. Yes, she's a rising indigenous film icon. That's all amazing! But she is also one of the few, the proud, the people who can say they are living up to their high school yearbook superlatives! A photo has been circulating from Gladstone's Class of 2004 high school yearbook, originally posted by the actress herself, in which she was heralded as “most likely to win an Oscar.” Given that she was just nominated for one, it's pretty spot-on. 

Read the whole story here.

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Mountlake Terrace High School

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Well, MTHS class of 2004 - trying my best, got surprisingly close to a nod, 13 years out the gate. You guys called it! Josh, your turn! #lucky13 #mthshawks #dontgiveup

 

 

 

  

 

A 6  minute video, Walter, here.

 

 

  

Just because ...

  

Chestnut Munia

 

Sunday's Smiles ...