SmiLee

About

SmiLee is the long‑standing multi‑disciplinary creative persona of Lee Richard Grimwade — an improvisational, proximity‑based, community‑centered identity active since at least 1998. The persona spans documentary practice, live music and performance, photography, mythic storytelling, and symbolic worldbuilding. SmiLee weaves together concert films, artist stories, symbolic frameworks, and community‑rooted creative practice into a living archive of culture and connection.

Within the YOU ARE HERE creative ecosystem, SmiLee functions as the expressive, performative, and mythic layer of the work — a living interface between documentary presence, improvisational performance, and long‑form worldbuilding. The persona appears across field recordings, live‑event documentation, experimental sound work, and collaborative projects that foreground artists, communities, and place‑based culture.

Creative Houses

As a creative identity, SmiLee works across the YOU ARE HERE ecosystem and its creative houses. Blackbird Pie Media focuses on documentary work, post‑production, and archival practice, while Wanderful Wizard Productions develops mythic systems, symbolic frameworks, and worldbuilding structures that support the broader creative universe.

Music Lineage

SmiLee appears throughout the musical lineage of the YOU ARE HERE universe — from collaborative improvisation to solo performance, songwriting, and experimental sound work. YOU ARE HERE (Band) represents the early collaborative era that later formed the entire YOU ARE HERE creative philosophy. The Zephyr Project (TZP) functions as a primarily solo project but is also known for collaborative work in songwriting, recording, and experimental avant‑garde sound.

Areas of Knowledge

Historical Provenance

The persona “SmiLee” has been in continuous use since the late 1990s. One of the earliest public appearances of the name is the independently hosted website smileeonline.com, archived in 2001. This early web presence predates modern social media and establishes the persona’s long‑standing creative lineage.

A later public documentation of the persona appears in the Beards.org Switzerland gallery (January 25, 2006), where “SmiLee Grimwade” is featured as part of an international beard photography collection. This provides a second timestamped, third‑party record of the persona’s existence and activity.

Additional third‑party references include a 2020s Facebook post by Patrick R. Cleary crediting “SmiLee Kalyāṇamitratā von Grimmigwaten” for photography work, further demonstrating the persona’s continued use across decades.

Mentions

Public references to the persona within the creative ecosystem and wider web:

• Archived early website — smileeonline.com (Internet Archive, 2001)
• Beards.org Switzerland gallery — “SmiLee Grimwade” (January 25, 2006)
• Facebook — Photo credit by Patrick R. Cleary (“SmiLee Kalyāṇamitratā von Grimmigwaten”)

Social Presence

The SmiLee persona appears across multiple social platforms, with both current and historical accounts contributing to the long‑running creative identity.

Active Accounts

• Instagram (current): @ncc1620a - SmiLee - Blackbird Pie Media (NCC1620)
• Facebook (current): NCC1620 — SmiLee Kalyanamitrata von Grimmigwaten
• SoundCloud: @smileencc1620 - SmiLee | NCC1620 | Lee R. Grimwade
• YouTube: @ncc1620 - Blackbird Pie Media
• IMDb: Lee Grimwade — IMDb

Historical Accounts

• Instagram (historical): @westsacsmilee
• Facebook (historical): Legacy SmiLee account
• Facebook (historical): Lee R. Grimwade (SmiLee)

Connected Entities

SmiLee is directly connected to the following identity‑graph nodes:

• Lee Richard Grimwade (Root Identity)
• YOU ARE HERE (Parent Organization)
• Blackbird Pie Media
• Wanderful Wizard Productions
• YOU ARE HERE (Band — Historical Lineage)
• YOU ARE HERE (Creative Framework / Philosophy)
• The Zephyr Project (Solo Project)