*Sonic-Orgasm

... Hey Hey - what's happening people!!!???

Have I got a busy weekend ahead! JEEEEeez!

Friday night - I have a late afternoon/early evening shoot for two friends who are musicians with a very distinctive look... and I am really, really excited about it... I dig their music ([link]) and they're fun and funky people to hang out with...

So watch this space....

Saturday night - got a gig with MY band (yeah, gratuitous plug! Shameless of me!!!) Little Buddha at a venue in Kirkcaldy, Fife called THE CANDLE ROOMS... supporting Mark Ronson's band, THE HAGGIS HORNS... who ARE by FAR the best fuckin' funk band right now. Check out their music [link]

Fuckin' amazing band - and (as they say in Scotland) "tighter than a gnat's chuff" - I love them. They're also Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen's backing band and were recently revered by Mr Scruff. Pure phat and funky afrobeat. And they're good mates of ours too so I am looking forward to that... I guess that will be a late sesh... no sleep that night ! LOL

Sunday - chill out zone...

** So my message to you is, if you're in the area - and fancy a bit of a party Saturday night - then head to 'the Lang Toun' or Kirkcaldy as it's officially known as to see/hear us and the fabulous HAGGIS HORNS... Doors open at 7pm, first band on at around 7.30pm
There's also an official aftershow party - with celebrity DJ - I know who, but not a liberty to say...!

So come join in the fun - mine's is a JD & Diet Coke please...

Thank you... for all your support and hugs and comments on my recent work... Not had much time for photography at the mo' - been busy with band.

US tour dates will be announced beginning of November (fingers crossed). If you're in the area - please stop by and say hello...!

Love

Kat xxx

[Head Tape for my current Head Fuck... I can't get this song, or shit outta my head]

Lay where you're laying
Don't make a sound
I know they're watching
Watching

All the commotion
The killing of pain
Has people talking
Talking

Your..................
Your sex is on fire............

Dark of the alley
The breaking of day
Ahead while I'm driving
I'm driving

Soft lips are open
Them knuckles are pale
Feels like you're dying
You're dying

Your..............
Your sex is on fire.........
Consumed
With whats to transpire

Hot as a fever
Rattling bones
I could just taste it
Taste it...

But it's not forever
But it's just tonight
Oh you're still the greatest
The greatest
The greatest

Your..................
Your sex is on fire............
Your.................
Your sex is on fire...........

Consumed
With whats to transpire

Your................
Your sex is on fire..........
Consumed..................
With whats to transpire.....................



By Kings of Leon

Not been around here in ages... I am sorry to have broken communication with some of you - I didn't mean to... Life got in the way...

Nothing is ever plain sailing in this life is it? Or is it just me and my fuckedupedness..?

Just when you seem to feel like you're recovering your balance from the last time you've had the rug pulled out from beneath your feet, when it fucking happens again, and again, and again, with varying ferocity and each time you say to yourself... 'One day you will look back on this and laugh...' or 'time heals, Kat - just get on with things....' or 'oh fuck it... mea culpa' - I give in.

I sometimes feel 'oh fuck it' - accept my fate and just battle on... other times, I fight back - kicking and screaming and boldly refuting anything Fate dare chuck in my face...

This time round though I am not so sure...

It's like my life is taking on a new direction and as much as I want it, it's lacking something... I should be excited - I should be elated and on top of the world at being granted this opportunity to travel and do what I love most - sing. With my band. But I feel that I shouldn't care too much, and I feel hesitant to pour my everything into the moment because as sure as eggs are eggs - the bubble bursts... or something/someone pricks it up for you... and my eggs invariably always end up scrambled!

Have you ever loved someone so much it hurts? It physically holds you hostage to a dull ache and yearning feeling in your heart and stomach? When every thought you have they're just a whisper away... never far from your thoughts? Mmm. I do. Maybe I love too much. But I get scared. Everyone you care for dies - and that hurts more than anything in the world - and rather than allowing myself to fall into that person or place, I distance myself. Take preventative measures so I can never be hurt.

Am I rambling?

Feels good to off load. I need a holiday. I need a cuddle.

Going to Manchester tomorrow for a few days. Music industry convention and meeting up with some old friends of mine. I am looking forward to getting away for a bit. Out of these 4 walls... a fresh city. Maybe I will return with a fresh perspective.

Seems all I do is hurt people I love. Or that love me. It's always too much or too little. I have been neglecting my friends... I am a rubbish friend! LOL

I am probably boring you all now with my self-centred, tired ramblings... I could offload more - it's been crazy of late...

I will be glad when this year ends... so I can start anew and hopefully resolve old issues... maintain better friendships - i.e. reciprocate more... and maybe, just maybe, tell them that I love them...

Anyway - I am shattered. Been up since 4 am (long story!!!!!!!!!!!) and it's now 3.30am (GMT) and I am completely exhausted.

And now I must turn in... catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzz's.... that IS a must!

Like I said before, I have many images - just waiting to edit (even some pretty erotic ones) but it's just finding the time...

But I promise you - I will make more time for my Deviants... (and myself!)

Big love
Kat xxx

Hey... Sorry not been in touch lately, but I've been busy, busy, busy....

.... been burning the candle at both ends...

Still... no rest for the wicked.

Dividing my time between decorating (snagging list); rehearsing with band; writing new songs; making travel arrangements and organising visas; doing family portraits (and not just for MY family) and trekking up n down the UK on a whim to get some respite in all this madness... has been fun!

Now, I am absolutely cream crackered!!

Gonna chill out tonight, me and my JACO, and a bottle of gorgeous red wine... and watch a couple of DVDs... JUMPERS and THE BANK JOB

Not up to much otherwise....

Will be back taking photos soon....

... got some new models to work with too!


So stay tuned!

I promise to deliver soon...


Big love
Kat xxx

Been absent of late... one of my feline companions passed away recently...

PLEASE don't say he was just a cat, he was more than that... He was a brave little soldier who battled on for so long having been born deaf (he was a British Odd Eye and deafness is often synonymous with blue eyed white haired animals) and lost one of his front legs as a youngster when he got caught in the heavy matting of a rapeseed field nearby by a combine harvester... He couldn't hear it, but by the time he sensed it was near, he couldn't get out the matting... He dragged himself home and his loving family had him operated on to save his life...

He battled on for another 20 years until this morning... When old age finally caught up with him... It broke my heart to find his cold lifeless little body this morning...

The whole family miss him terribly... I miss seeing him hopping along like a little bunny; wailing to get fed (being deaf he could REALLY wail too!); climbing in the bass drum of our drummer's kit when we rehearse in the garage; his gorgeous odd eyes - hence the name Davey - after David Bowie...

It's been a sad day today... and we're going to bury him in the garden beneath his late owner's favourite tree... She would have liked that...




Sometimes I prefer the company of animals to humans... they're loyal. They never judge or criticise, and they always listen and respond... such honest non-judgemental creatures... and no maliciousness... only innocence and unconditional love...

Yes, he was more than a 'cat' - he was like a little person... one of my dearest little friends... and I will miss him.

JACO - the little white cat featured in my gallery senses he is gone... and has been crying alot - and unsettled... like he's looking for his wee pal. It's been sad for him too... he's been exceptionally clingy and cuddly.

Davey - wherever you are now... I hope you're running free, climbing trees and chasing birdies again...

R.I.P. Davey

Hey everyone -

Since the advent of this new 'improved' version of DeviantART I have been pulling my hair out!!!

THANK YOU to all you beautiful souls out there who FAVE ME, COMMENT ME and send me little NOTES.... THANK YOU - big group hug -

AND a SPECIAL thank you to all of you who have started to WATCH me... That's cool - I hope you read this...

As I was saying, before the advent of this new and improved version of DA, I used to ENJOY zipping through my messages and take pride in the fact that I ALWAYS replied to each one... and I ALWAYS thanked those of you who faved my work... but NOW!!! AAAargh! The new version makes what was once a pleasure a real stresser!!!!

The new MESSAGE CENTRE is slow, clunky and full of 'bugs'. I can no longer REPLY to NOTES... my REPLY button doesn't work anymore... it's perhaps just for show. And the REPLIES section is painfully slow - like watching paint dry - and you always have to click back on the MESSAGES hyperlink along the top... You can't just flick onto the next reply like before. That sucks. Big style. Same with DEVIATIONS. It takes eons to flick through them. Same sketch as REPLIES... you have to (after each one) revert back to the main link. It's shite. As they say in Glasgow, it's 'a big bag o' baws' this new version.

Me no like.

Even MYSPACE allows the user to revert to the old version... It appears to me that the new V6.0 was thrust upon us - without FULLY testing and de-bugging. I hate it. It's taken the fun out of message management... SO please, DA Programmers and Analysts, PLEASE fix this up BEFORE you throw more complications into the mix... Like IM for instance...

One step at a time... Let's get to grips with toddling before we attempt the steeplechase, yeah? Thanx!

So I apologise, but I will no longer be replying to each and every FAVE or REPLY.... I will reply to COMMENTS as this seems like the only aspect of the (new and improved?) Message Centre that actually responds in the time one would expect today's intelligent systems to respond...

So a big SORRY (and it saddens me to have to come to this, but I have no other option...) in advance of me appearing to be incommunicado. It took a long time for me to arrive at this decision (well, it was either this or shut down my profile and leave DA altogether...)

Tell me this... Please - if ANYONE else out there finds V6.0 equally as frustrating, tell us about it.

Thanks to you all - old friends and new buddies - for the love you've been givin' me... I feel all warm 'n' fuzzy inside!


Gonna be doing quite a bit of travelling soon - so watch this space!!


Love you all -


Kat

xxx

Well Hello there, Beautiful People...!!!

I like to (and I try to on a daily basis...) trawl through DA's back catalogue and seek out artists and photographers that inspire me and make me strive to be a better photographer... and as I do this, I discover a whole range of trends and strange fascinations... and some stranger than others I have to add...

Link to my News Article on my findings: >> [link]


If you read the article you'll see my display of one such fascination... [and I can't get my head around it... poor pun, I know... I know.... ]... it's the fascination for lampshades on peoples' heads! Don't get me wrong, I love eccentricity and originality and always seek out the unusual or the controversial - I love artists who dare to push the envelope and challenge norms...

But lampshades? What the fuck!? I think they're FABULOUS...!!!


Please check out my article... and let me know of other strange fascinations and trends you have spotted during your voyage through DA galleries....

Others that caught my eye are :

- girls with balloons
- people airbourne with umbrellas
- solitary and 'abandoned' chairs... in often very surreal and unexpected places
- girls with 'laser' eyes ( I am not a fan - too much )
- rainbow tinted lips, eyes and other bits 'n' bobs
- dewdrop beaded flowers, feathers and other macro-friendly subjects
- shrink wrapped human faces gasping from behind cling film
- bleeding lips and eyes ( totally emo - and too pink to be convincing )


Some of these are INCREDIBLE - and I may feature them at some point... I can't get enough of the League of the Empty Chair....

Thanks to you all - old friends and new buddies - for the love you've been givin' me... I feel all warm 'n' fuzzy inside!


Gonna be doing quite a bit of travelling soon - so watch this space!!


Love you all -


Kat

xxx

I've been decidedly naughty recently - and guilty (as charged) of all 7....

Well... Hey - life's too short - and this is NOT a dress rehearsal... or polaroid test shot...

This is REAL LIFE....

So... don't be a voyeur of someone else's sad existence... GO LIVE YOUR OWN life... make your own memories... take loads of pictures... drink in all that you see, feel, hear, taste and smell...

Just BE....






















SINFUL ARTICLES:

PRIDE: [link]

ENVY: [link]

WRATH: [link]

GLUTTONY: [link]

LUST: [link]

AVARICE: [link]

SLOTH: [link]

Got things and images I want to share with you guys... I am about to burst with excitement - but I must learn some (ironically!) self-control...

Patience IS a virtue...

Kat
xxx

For this journal, I need only post - I need only post the following 5 words... (and a link or two)

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.....?!!!!!?



FAN-FUCKIN-TASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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STILL SOARING....

Kat
xxx

This may be the title of a track by some aged middle of the road US rockstar with a distinctive nasal twang, but it's also fact.

I haven't been around here much lately... and I certainly haven't been submitting anything of late either...

Been turning inside
out and
upside
down

lately...

Cancer, sadly, took a member of my extended family less than two weeks ago... and there's been so much work to do... it's been a tough time... but a relief that she's no longer suffering the physical and emotional pain that such a crippling terminal illness brings...

I have some new images that I'd been working on prior to her death, and I will upload them as soon as I find time to do the needful processing first... Soon, I promise...

Thanks to those of you who knew of my emotional rollercoaster of late and stuck by me - sending me your albeit long-distance support and love - that was comforting and sometimes when things were a little too oppressive, I'd come here - to DA - to escape and breath a different air for a while... a little refuge in tumultuous times. Thanks for that Bob, Joy and John... much love

Funny how times like these make you question your own mortality (not that I've ever thought I was immortal, you understand! ) and some new images will probably reflect this, and my unorthodox spiritual leanings...

I hope to have the best of these uploaded this week...

... AND as I am the world's BEST procrastinator, you can take that statement with the proverbial pinch of sodium chloride...

... I have also to find time to GUT out this gallery of mine... Some of my older images require reconsideration... Some I will be DESTROYING, some I will be re-loading with a newer and more technically honed versions, some I will just... consider...

If there's ANY images you think are particularly AWFUL - please let me know - NOTE me the THUMBCODE and a bit about why you think it should be a) destroyed or b) replaced by a new, improved version...

I am keen to have some feedback...

FINALLY... thank you all the NEWBIES who have decided they want to watch me... hope I don't disappoint! And THANK YOU to all of you who left tasty wee comments when you fave... That means a lot to me - more than I can convey...

Signing out now...

[Hope this mood machine works....]

Post Script... No - the mood machine isn't working and I am stuck with HYSTERICAL... which I find, in actual fact, pretty hysterical!!


Kat
xxx