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Home to so many happy presents from delightful friends :) 

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Orchid and comic from Jim, card and bunny from Wisdom, card from cartoonist Colin Wheeler. And there's more on the other side of the screen, such as cartoons from Cian.  :)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:12:42 -0700 Transport For London does its bit for the environment http://katausten.posterous.com/transport-for-london-does-its-bit-for-the-env http://katausten.posterous.com/transport-for-london-does-its-bit-for-the-env Spotted on clerkenwell rd/ rosebury ave junction

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Sun, 08 May 2011 14:07:06 -0700 Nitin Sawhney pictures! http://katausten.posterous.com/nitin-sawhney-pictures http://katausten.posterous.com/nitin-sawhney-pictures At the Royal Albert Hall! They played a piece specially commissioned for the hall's pipe organ - it was beautiful. Absolutely transported me to somewhere fantastical and warm. So grateful I got the opportunity to go. The funny ovals are on the ceiling. The colours were stunning!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:41:57 -0700 Thank you John for the lovely flowers http://katausten.posterous.com/thank-you-john-for-the-lovely-flowers http://katausten.posterous.com/thank-you-john-for-the-lovely-flowers I got home to find these waiting for me, from my wonderful housemate who, I'm sad to say, moved out today. Miss you already John xxx

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:37:55 -0800 adventures of evilbunny http://katausten.posterous.com/adventures-of-evilbunny http://katausten.posterous.com/adventures-of-evilbunny
thanks very much to wonderful Wisdom Beyhum for sending over evilbunny and evilbunny's friend cheerymonster from Bangkok. <3 <3

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:13:01 -0800 for marc, who couldn't sleep and wanted me to paint him a picture. http://katausten.posterous.com/for-marc-who-couldnt-sleep-and-wanted-me-to-p http://katausten.posterous.com/for-marc-who-couldnt-sleep-and-wanted-me-to-p so, it's summer. your skin feels warm in the still evening air. you're on a rooftop, sitting and looking west out over the city. across roofs, between aerials, your gaze moves upwards, outwards, to the horizon. you can feel a great freedom inside you from the sheer amount of sky above you. and in front of you, in a sky crossed with contrails, past which tiny white clouds are floating, the sun is setting. the sky's blue deepens the higher you lift your eyes, reminding you that out there, beyond the protection of the atmosphere, there is a universe full of potential - so vast it is almost beyond comprehension. and ahead, as the sun dips down, down behind the buildings, aglow with its fierce burning, the horizon blazes with molten gold.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:44:23 -0800 There's no place like home http://katausten.posterous.com/theres-no-place-like-home http://katausten.posterous.com/theres-no-place-like-home Where there's a transformer on the letter box... I love my house!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:47:10 -0800 And here I am dancing my socks off at Battersea Power Station http://katausten.posterous.com/and-here-i-am-dancing-my-socks-off-at-batters http://katausten.posterous.com/and-here-i-am-dancing-my-socks-off-at-batters
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:43:37 -0800 Last night I was at the Lost Lover's Ball http://katausten.posterous.com/last-night-i-was-at-the-lost-lovers-ball http://katausten.posterous.com/last-night-i-was-at-the-lost-lovers-ball In Battersea Power Station!!!!!!!!!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:08:16 -0800 I found a massive spring on my run home! http://katausten.posterous.com/i-found-a-massive-spring-on-my-run-home http://katausten.posterous.com/i-found-a-massive-spring-on-my-run-home
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:48:30 -0800 Review of NHM's new gallery: Images of Nature http://katausten.posterous.com/review-of-nhms-new-gallery-images-of-nature http://katausten.posterous.com/review-of-nhms-new-gallery-images-of-nature Posting this on my blog a bit late but here it is!  http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/01/imagine-that-how-images-shape-science.html

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:23:56 -0800 What makes cars so beautiful?! http://katausten.posterous.com/what-makes-cars-so-beautiful http://katausten.posterous.com/what-makes-cars-so-beautiful
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:34:43 -0800 The Twiggers on holiday at Stave Hill Ecology Park Hotel http://katausten.posterous.com/the-twiggers-on-holiday-at-stave-hill-ecology http://katausten.posterous.com/the-twiggers-on-holiday-at-stave-hill-ecology
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chillin' at the rooftop pool...


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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:30 -0800 Wot I did only holidays - day #2 http://katausten.posterous.com/wot-i-did-only-holidays-day-2 http://katausten.posterous.com/wot-i-did-only-holidays-day-2 Here is the best picture my iPhone would take of my installation... Better ones coming soon I hope.

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I finished "the Twiggers on holiday" as the sun set today, leaving them to bask in the moonlight next to their pool. Little Twigette was having a great time on her sunlounger, while Twigon was about to dive into the shimmering blue water. The holiday makers won't need that parasol overnight but maybe tomorrow will be unseasonably warm and they'll rush to the shade afforded by it and the luscious vegetation at the water's edge. I can't resist this pun... If you run into the Twiggers one dark night in Stave Hill Ecology Park then don't be afraid... Their bark is much worse than their bite... Boom boom.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/307652/IMG_4439.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37loTtPjQewV kat austen kat kat austen Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:26:42 -0800 Wot I did on my holiday - day #1 http://katausten.posterous.com/wot-i-did-on-my-holiday-day-1 http://katausten.posterous.com/wot-i-did-on-my-holiday-day-1 Volunteering at Stave Hill Ecology Park has to be the best gig ever. Check out these little dudes - the realisation of one of my ideas for Stave Hill's arts projects. They are going to be part of the first of a running series of installations on a stone bench in the park.

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This first one is going to be a satirical and paradoxical sunny scene of a swimming pool atop an hotel roof. Perfect for these snowy December days!

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