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Concord, Massachusetts in Autumn. Sun was setting and the shadows were amazing. This beautiful home is in the center of town.
What began as a middle-school writing assignment grew into a heartfelt celebration of public service in Hollywood.
Fourteen-year-old Eniola Taiwo was asked in her eighth-grade English class to write an essay about her personal heroes. That simple prompt led her to compose a letter to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, urging them to recognize Los Angeles firefighters for their extraordinary bravery during the January 2025 Palisades and Sunset Fires:
“I know that the first responders aren’t exactly celebrities, contrary to all others on the Walk of Fame,” she wrote, “but I am confident that there won’t be much opposition to recognize our modern day heroes. This star for first responders will reach the hearts of many first responders and let them know that what they do is recognized and appreciated. It will also encourage young people like me to be a change in the world.”
Her words resonated deeply with the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, a local business organization founded in 1921 that promotes the business, cultural, and civic wellbeing of Hollywood. Known for its role in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Sign, the Chamber connects businesses with decision-makers, advocates for its members, and organizes events that enhance the city’s economic and cultural life. Moved by Taiwo’s vision, the Chamber partnered with the Hollywood Community Foundation to bring her tribute to life.
On December 12, 2025, the Chamber and Foundation presented the Los Angeles Fire Department with an Award of Excellence, honoring the department’s courage and public service. The ceremony took place in front of the Ovation Entertainment Complex on Hollywood Boulevard, where the Award of Excellence Star was unveiled in front of LAFD members, community leaders, Taiwo, her family, and her teacher, Jennifer Marganski, who had originally assigned the essay.
“This recognition is not only about honoring the bravery of the Los Angeles Fire Department, but also about celebrating the vision of a young student whose words reminded us all of the importance of gratitude and civic pride,” said Steve Nissen, President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
A generous grant from The Walt Disney Company helped make the ceremony possible, recognizing a department that “bravely responded on the frontlines of the devastating fires earlier this year,” according to Lisa Haines, Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility. Thanks to Delta Air Lines, Taiwo, her family, and her teacher were brought to Los Angeles for the event, with accommodations provided by the W Hollywood Hotel.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has presented fewer than ten Awards of Excellence, which celebrate organizations or corporations whose achievements have positively impacted Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Previous honorees include the Los Angeles Times, Variety, the LA Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Police Department Fallen Officers.
The heart of this particular tribute, however, was the vision of a young student. Eniola Taiwo’s letter not only honored the heroic work of Los Angeles firefighters, but also sparked a community-wide celebration of gratitude, service, and civic pride. The men and women of your Los Angeles Fire Department are grateful to Eniola, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the Hollywood Community Foundation, and all the citizens of Los Angeles who put their trust in our skills and in our commitment to serve this great city.
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RSC free outdoor production of Coriolanus at "The Dell"
The weather turned a bit showery so the audience and the prompt took shelter under their umbrellas. The cast just carried on regardless
(As he's using an Apple, should that be an i-brella?)
Today's 365 prompt is "explore" i.e. "travel", "tour" and "wander" so off I went!! Just a few miles down the coast to the beautiful fishing village of Dunure and what a beautiful afternoon I had for my little travel and explore "day-out!"
Capture Your 365 .....
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A very formal, and prompt, response to a complaint made due to bus failing to stop - the days when Customer Service mattered! A very different response from what First Bristol (or any other division within the group) would provide today.
Hamburg, Germany on 18th April 2014.
IMO number :9647409
Name of ship :PROMPT
Call Sign :DMEM
Gross tonnage :250
DWT :122
Type of ship :Tug
Year of build :2013
Flag :Germany
I cut up an old pair of my jeans and used up some very old blue butterfly fabric as lining and handl for a new bag. Side have pockets to put things in. My machine broke in the middle of putting the lining in so I'm so sad!
Prompt: Monet Oil painting, thanksgiving dinner::2 indians in traditional headdresses::2, pilgrims::2, well defined faces and body features, sitting at all four sides of a long table, huge cooked stuffed turkey::6 in the middle of the table, --ar 3:2 --s 100 --c 0 --v 5.2
I built off this prompt in Midjourney and combined in Photoshop
I highly appreciate your viewing and commenting on my work.
Various sized starter play art cards for collaborating with my BigSis :D. Gave her some blank ones, and Tombow pens too :D
[b]About the (conversion) project:[/b]
After a long hiatus an anime character model again! This Rei Ayanami figure was inspired by a photo-realistic illustration I found while browsing A.I.-generated artwork at playground.com, and the respective artwork was created by a prompt from someone called “YCTt”.
I liked the less anime-esque style of the character, and the red-and-white plugsuit design with many colorful contrasts, and saved the artwork as an inspiration – until I recently felt the urge to build “something different” from my usual what-if military vehicles and went through my stock of resin anime character kits to find a suitable “canvas”.
I eventually settled upon a 1:6 scale model of Rei Ayanami in her authentic white plugsuit, even though it’s a more anime-ish rendition and not so “realistic” as the A.I. illustration. The kit is just a recast and I had preferred a smaller scale, but I found that the figure’s upright standing pose and the plugsuit’s rather simple style would be a good starting basis.
The parts were cast well, without bubbles and with almost no seams, but details and edges not particularly crisp. The white resin material was not very dense either, everything felt light and a bit delicate – but not brittle. However, the kit was quite cheap, and you get what you pay for – and that was/is not bad at all, esp. as a conversion basis.
After cleaning the fit of the major parts (torso and legs were a single piece, and both arms, together with an area of the flanks, cut out along natural seams of the plugsuit) turned out to be very good, so that the arms could be worked on and especially painted separately, to be assembled later without PSR!
For display I built a neutral 4x4” base from a piece of laminated chipboard, pimped with edge band. A 2.5mm iron wire was mounted as a figure holder, and the same material was also used to strengthen the connections of the figure’s major components. Once completed the base was painted with semi-matt acrylic black paint from a rattle can.
The figure was built mostly OOB, I just made some minor tweaks. One fundamental thing I changed was the head position. The original figure looks over the left shoulder, but I wanted to present her later in a frontal view, so that the eyes should rather look forward. That was not so easy to realize, because the neck had to be modified, with a wedge-shaped plug under the chin to lift the face into a proper new position. This was sculpted with 2C putty around the head’s iron wire connector and some fine acrylic putty for a smooth finish.
From that point on head and body developed separately. The boxy things under the breast were removed, and instead I sculpted a W-shaped ledge, again with 2C putty, to come closer to the A.I-generated, somewhat “cleaner” version of the plugsuit.
The head was taken OOB, but the eyes required some attention, because they were sculpted in a rather protruding fashion, and overall it did not have much resemblance to the original character. However, I did not dare to take the risk of physically modifying the eyes and the IMHO too pronounced lips – a decision that later turned out to be better than expected (if you do not cling too much to the real Rei Ayanami character and her traits).
Head, body and arms were worked on and painted separately – the arms made it insofar easy as they were molded with the body’s armpit sections, using natural edges of the plugsuit to hide the kit’s seams.
Painting started with an overall coat of grey acrylic primer on everything, followed by a foundation with RAL 9002 (Grauweiß) on arms and body, plus some Tamiya TS-26 (Pure White) post-shading “from above” to support light effects. This was not really necessary, though, because the figure is at 1:6 scale (1’ tall!) large enough to produce realistic light and shade effects on its own.
In the meantime the face was spray-painted with a foundation in Tamiya TS-77 (Flat Flesh) and some shading with Vallejo “Pale Flesh” from a rattle can. The lip’s line was laid out with thinned Humbrol 70 (Brick Red), and at first I painted the lips themselves in a rather dark and reddish skin tone – but that looked too exaggerated and obtrusive, esp. for Rei’s introvert and reclusive character. This was later changed to a much lighter skin tone, similar to the rest of the face.
The eyes were experimentally created with the help of decals; I had ordered a set of generic anime eye decals of various sizes and colors before the build, and luckily there was a pair of suitably red female eyes in the set that I tried. To make them fit properly onto the face I separated the yes from their brows, though, and the rather tall eyes had to be trimmed to fit on/into the sculpted eyes sockets in the resin face. Weird task, but it wok4ed better than expected, also because of a rather sturdy but flexible clear carrier film, reminiscent of vintage Matchbox kit decals.
However, this was not the end concerning the eyes: I added some eyelashes and eyelids with black paint, some lighter red sections to the pupils and small white light reflexes. In the end the combined method of decals plus painting worked well, with a presentable result.
After the face had been finished it was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and the “hair helmet” had to be mounted and PSRed around it – another delicate task, followed by paint work on the pale blue hair for which I used Humbrol 47 as basis, mixed with Cobalt Blue for some deeper areas and hair strands and with some white for highlight, tips and an artificial light reflex halo around the upper head, frequently seen on the animated character.
In the meantime body and arms received contrast areas in deep red (Revell 34), Garter Blue (Humbrol 221) and Oxford Blue (Humbrol 104). This stunt required a lot of masking, and the demarcation lines between the red and the white sections on torso and legs were later added with generic 2mm black decal stripes. After a light black ink washing to emphasize edges and recesses the suit’s wrinkles were post-shaded with lighter shades of their foundations – only as a subtle effect to add a bit more materiality to the figure. The “00” on the breast was created with 45° USAF letters from an aftermarket decal sheet, while the large “0” on the backpack was laid out manually with black acrylic paint.
A lot of detail paint and corrections followed, everything was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish, and the figure was finally assembled.
A tough project, and at first I was a bit disappointed by the kit’s face which does not resemble the anime Rei Ayanami at all. However, once completed, the face and the figure’s expression matches the A.I.-generated, rather realistic picture of the character more than expected, as if the figure would rather be a physical model of that picture than of the “real” anime Ayanami. Odd, but a pleasant and conciliatory outcome of a quite challenging conversion project. And the colorful plugsuit variant looks pretty good, too.
Day 23 - Electric // Were you expecting something more pink? Yeah, me too. This is my laptop. It was a bargain seeing as it was an old OS and a display model on top of that. It works, but I was really looking forward to getting my dream computer that year. Rather depressed about it actually seeing as I probably will never see another computer as cute as the one I saw last year. Should have spent the extra six-hundred dollars for happiness.
Eliza Moonbeam Vintage will be hitting the road for the winter! In December 2014! We will pack up the shop in our 1982 Toyota Dolphin and head to Kansas for a month, then Texas afterwards! We will still ship out your purchases promptly and with care while we are on the road. We are extremely excited about this, and all the new places we will be treasure hunting! Our RV, will of course be smoke free and pet free. Stay tuned for more updates!
ALSO, Eliza Moonbeam Vintage has started selling DUDE CLOTHES. Yep, that's right. rad vintage clothes for dudes. Go check it out! Tons of new ladies items listed as well and so much more coming in the next few days.
Minimum prompt used with --testp
Face was improved by using Photo restoration with GFP-GAN.
Artwork created by Midjourney from a sequence of text.
The Prompt gallery and nightclub site is at promptgallery.space where there are event listings for shows in AltspaceVR - also see account.altvr.com/channels/abstraction. The world code for the Prompt is YQT013
There are videos of the Prompt Events here www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfzKgAP3NhxBe0FW2bXY5Xvk8h...
Starting with Prompt A Day mid-month. The 12th was a prompt about pen pals.
Part of the workshop is layering colors...and unbelievably (given the amount of art and craft junk I've accumulated over the years), I didn't have the burnt sienna or magenta that Kelly had used for her daily sample. But another part of the plan is to just go with what you have, so I subbed. I think the color combination came out OK. Since I'm attempting to organize my studio space I am fully aware of what a lot of paper I have. These were all scraps and pictures I've in piles, with the exception of that pen nib paper I got for ten cents at Ben Franklin last week. The book is just a big spiral sketch book that I've used on and off. I think it has enough pages to get through the rest of September, and maybe even work on a couple of the earlier in the month prompts.
Maybe this needs a little more grunging up? Maybe not. I had fun working the page. Although it makes me a little sad to think back about being as lonely and disconnected as I felt at times growing up. Does everyone feel that way?
I'm glad to say I'm a pretty happy grown up. But anyone who knows me will attest I am a lousy letter writer. I love to send art through the mail, but hate to write long notes to go with the things I send...
(PS - that little scrap "many different people" is actually a photocopy from one of my old, old journals when I was bout 12! I had just made copies of it for another little project I'm working on, and thought this bit fit the theme.)