{"id":51222,"date":"2015-05-21T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/happy-40th-birthday-to-industrial-light-magic.html"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:57:08","slug":"happy-40th-birthday-to-industrial-light-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/happy-40th-birthday-to-industrial-light-magic.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy 40th Birthday to Industrial Light &amp; Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movies in this 1 minute summary of ILM&#39;s magic aren&#39;t all great, but they&#39;re all visually spectacular.  Wow.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, ILM is 40? Yeesh, I feel old.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100508289036361103868\" oid=\"100508289036361103868\">J. Steven York<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gSTPHBp9cA' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5DsBPSgNaxQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movies in this 1 minute summary of ILM&#39;s magic aren&#39;t all great, but they&#39;re all visually spectacular. Wow. (Also, ILM is 40? Yeesh, I feel old.) (h\/t +J. Steven York) View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133963,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/inside-the-magic-castle.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":0},"title":"Inside the Magic Castle","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 11:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had the privilege of being a guest at the Castle on a couple of occasions (thanks, Mark!), including a Halloween, and it was a great experience, whatever one thinks of the food or drink. It's all wonderful, but I cannot over-recommend the close-up magic room for a truly amazing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25381,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/making-magic-realish.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":1},"title":"Making Magic Real(ish)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jan-12 1:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Applying some basic thermodynamic rules to writing magic systems increases verisimilitude (not to mention creates hooks for further plot complications). Good ideas here, and something I need to consider in my own work-in-progress. #ddtb Embedded Link Writing from the Peak: Thermodynamics of Magic Systems by Laura E. Reeve There are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132911,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/economics-and-magic-is-fun.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":2},"title":"Economics (and Magic) Is Fun!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Feb-17 10:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Why would powerful wizards get into the sheep business -- and what effects would that have? Read on, and find out! The Wizards and the Sheep This is a long-winded story about how master 20th level wizards often get into the sheep business. View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30246,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/the-magic-kingdom-gets-beer.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":3},"title":"The Magic Kingdom gets beer","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-12 7:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While beer is actually available at a number of the Disney parks, it's never been available at the Magic Kingdom ...... but soon will be.I'd certainly encourage them to keep the beer inside the new restaurant -- easy enough -- but I suspect they'll keep it under control. And, having\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20838,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/book-review-magic-burns-by-kate-daniels-2008.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":4},"title":"Book Review: &#8220;Magic Burns&#8221; by Kate Daniels (2008)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Apr-11 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the second in the Kate Daniels series -- set in an Atlanta grinding down through returning waves of magic. The world-building here remains well done, and Kate remains a merc who sense of responsibility and sass gets\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14873,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/last-stop-at-the-magic-kingdom.html","url_meta":{"origin":51222,"position":5},"title":"Last stop at the Magic Kingdom","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-May-09 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow we go home. Tonight we party!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disney\/Pixar&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}