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Katie

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About Me

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Sabrina Ward Harrison makes life looks colourful and exciting and nostalgic:
I like that. However, in my experience, life often involves sitting around waiting for your mother to buy carpets in John Lewis, or listening to people with nasal voices, or sitting in an office, not staring out the window thinking of beautiful things but actually doing some boring database work for your dad's school in order to earn £6.50 an hour. Rubbish in the gutter doesn't always look arty or "urban-decay"-esque, sometimes it's just gross, and life does not have a soundtrack sung by KT Tunstall, Regina Spektor or a jazz musician. You have to spend a lot of time getting sweaty on the bus, or shopping for plasters, or removing bits of pasta from the kitchen sink plughole. Those things are not romantic and "intense, poetic and visually powerful" but are just kind of dull.
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Current life plan:
- Art foundation course at Oxford Brookes (TICK - completed)
- Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge
- Become a Blue Peter presenter
- Marry David Tennant
- Discover that the BBC is covering up that David Tennant is the real Dr Who by pretending it's just a TV series
- Become Dr Who/David's assistant & travel through time and space
- Realise it's all actually a bit geeky
- Become an anthropologist and live in the Amazon rainforest
- Wear a hat like this:
- Fight my way through booby-trapped tombs across the world, find Aztec gold, excavate the first Chinese Emperor's tomb (including a scale map of China with mercury rivers) and keep all of my artifacts in my treehouse home.
- Death by anaconda, having documented my life story in 350 beautifully illustrated journals that are displayed in galleries for the next 200 years.

My Interests

Art - (collage, painting, illustration), reading, watching films, watching adverts, eating in nice places, snoozing in ridiculous places, going on holiday, writing letters, getting letters, daydreaming, psychoanalysing myself, Lymington, pigeon-holing people & generally being cynical, drama and theatre design, doodling, watching TV, sleeping in, squash, yoga, swimming, cooking, baths, listening to music and singing along if the music is loud enough so I can't hear myself, pancake tossing, taking photos, looking at photos, seeing friends, chatting about all of the above... I like reading in the bath, doodling, pigeon-holing, eating with my fingers, white gouache, old photos, maps, anthropology, tribes, Aztecs, swimming underwater, snorkelling, daydreaming, inventing complex future plans, sharp shocks, horror films, most films, matching underwear, lacy tops, newspaper, brown paper, heating copper, thai food, most food, my old ipod, scents (suntan cream, pubs, aftershave, rain on dry ground, old books, bacon frying, vanilla, cinnamon, eucalyptus oil, bonfires), playing squash, windy days, the occasional illusion of being tanned, my converse, calling my converse "sneakers" and glasses "spectacles", my old red flip flops, my black lacy gloves, old pottery, old books, clay, miso soup, soil, ants, balsamic vinegar, stripy tops, stamps, fairy cakes with white icing, making fairy cakes with white icing, cooking, salt and pepper, new socks, blue, red, ink, books about people, Indiana Jones, travelling, beaches when it is cold, snow, sad stories, Phantom of the Opera, moo-moos, sneezing, broken jewellery, bare feet, music on the street, pigeons, frogs, cats, dozing, eggs, powercuts, playing murder in the dark, winning, computer games, going on the internet, Lymington, singing in church, yelling stuff in the street, wearing matching clothes, the theatre, being cynical, ears, ribena, clingfilm, beards, cold side of the pillow, unsalted butter on holiday, words, writing, libraries, sticking my tongue out at people outside the car, the 80s...

I'd like to meet:


Joseph Cornell (if he was still alive), because of these:

Music:

I like lots of random songs from different artists including:
Muse, The Beatles, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Supertramp, Morrisey, Oasis, Venus Hum, Orson, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis, The Kooks, Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol, KT Tunstall, Yann Tiersen, Pulp, Postal Service, Electric President, The Killers, SoKo, Clint Mansell, Javier Navarrete, Travis, David Gray, Franz Ferdinand, Hard-Fi, T Rex, U2... 80s music - Eurythmics, The Human League, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Buggles, New Order; old music, movie soundtracks, stuff I can sing along to or relax to...

Movies:

Amelie, Dogville, Pan's Labyrinth, Fight Club, Saw, The Sixth Sense, The Devil's Backbone, The Others, Carrie, The Life Aquatic, The Birds, Psycho, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Billy Elliot, Memoirs of a Geisha, Battle Royale, Donnie Darko, Garden State, Delicatessen, House of Flying Daggers, Belleville Rendezvous, The Fountain, The Matrix, Napoleon Dynamite, Studio Ghibli. I like quirky films about eccentric people or films which are particularly visually exciting.

Television:

Green Wing, Friends, Mock the Week, Desperate Housewives, Dr Who, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep Show, Wire in the Blood, Family Guy, Child of Our Time, Tribe.

Books:

I love reading, in particular - Jostein Gaarder, particularly "The Ringmaster's Daughter", Roald Dahl (his short stories), Philip Pullman, Ian McEwan, Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveller's Wife", Torey Hayden, Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha", Kate Atkinson, Jasper Fforde, Iain Banks' "The Wasp Factory", Patrick Gale, "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Orwell, Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"...

None of that trashy holiday stuff about women in their late twenties who wear thongs and get into embarrassing situations and work in offices opposite stubbly men that they fancy through the whole book until they realise their best friend Jeremy is actually stunningly handsome. Or books that end with: "She looked up, her eyes moist."

Heroes:

The person who works out how they make chocolate-coated raisins. Yes, yes I know they get raisins and coat them with chocolate, but how?? How do they get them perfectly smooth? They can't put them on any kind of surface otherwise they'd get a flat bit on one side. Maybe they let them free fall through a tube then spray them with chocolate on all sides and by the time they get to the bottom they've set...? I just don't know. I have wasted a lot of time thinking about this.
Plus I'm a Christian so I want to put God somewhere in this bit. Plus a lot of my friends from camp who encourage me so much. And obviously my other friends who aren't Christians, they rock my world even when they try and corrupt me... I'm gonna make them all go on camp and sing Kumbaya and stuff.
Some cool links:
Short animations
Sabrina Ward Harrison
John Copeland (look at his journals)
Eduardo Recife
Polaroid photos
Robert J Lang Origami - incredible
CLICKmgz photography magazine
Crafts Council
Celestial Cartography
(nice images among the boring stuff)
Postsecret
Platinum Grit
Postcardx
David Tennant (my favourite actor)
Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
PBF Comics
White Ninja Comics
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