Kathryn Morris UK

Birthday Fan Art – January 2012 – Update x2

Happy Kathryn Birthday Eve

As I’m sure you all know tomorrow is Kathryn’s birthday, but today we get to declare the Fan Art Video section of the KM UK Gallery open. Sound of ribbon being cut. Polite applause. Cheese and wine consumed.

New girl Katie‘s promo video, which we posted about earlier this week, is our first exhibit. Thanks to Katie for getting us off to a great start.

Lolly and Katie have provided wallpapers, some with a birthday theme to help mark Kathryn’s big day. Birthday fan art from previous years is still in the Gallery, of course.

If you create Kathryn-related fan art (wallpapers, banners, avatars, buttons, drawings or videos) and would like to showcase it here on KM UK please contact me.

Update: Thank you to amei for sending a lovely additional image (left thumbnail below).

Update 2: And another thank you to Kareen T for creating a great collection of 7 new wallpapers (see the middle thumbnail below for one of them).

KM UK Promo Video FTW

A bit of blatant self-publicity disguised as bigging-up a fellow fan

Prolific YouTube user Katie (previously mentioned here) has managed to tear herself away from making videos counting down to Kathryn’s birthday to put together a video specially for KM UK. The 90 second piece outlines the many great aspects of KM UK that you’ve come to know and love.

Called Kathryn Website! you can find Katie’s video on her Kathryn Morris FTW YouTube channel. A copy will be added to the as-yet unopened Fan Art Videos section of the KM UK Gallery in an upcoming Fan Art update.

Thanks to Katie for creating the video for us.

Kathryn @ NASCAR NAPA 200 – August 2007

Two things dominated Kathryn’s 2007 public appearances: promoting the movie Resurrecting The Champ and motor sport. And the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Three things dominated Kathryn’s 2007 public appearances: promoting the movie Resurrecting The Champ, motor sport and the Monte Carlo Television Festival. And the Sundance Film Festival. Four things…

The 4th of August 2007 saw Kathryn combine the first two in an interesting bit of PR north of the border when she attended a NASCAR race to promote the movie Resurrecting The Champ. Built on a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, the Canadian Circuit Giles Villeneuve hosts the Nationwide Series NASCAR NAPA Auto Parts 200. Since it was first run in 2007, the event is the only NASCAR race to be held outside of the USA and one of the few road courses used. I don’t know how it is received by the stock car drivers and fans but the Montreal track is definitely a favourite of Formula 1 fans, having been the site of many classic races. Last year’s event that was effected by severe rain was particularly memorable.

The movie promoting activities involved a participating race car adorned with stickers announcing Resurrecting The Champ’s release date of August 24th, 2007. It can’t have been the most difficult deal to strike because the car was driven by Stanton Barrett, brother of Kathryn’s then boyfriend David.

To business. For this update we could just have posted the 3 small photos from this event that have been seen quite widely for years. Here at KM UK we like to go the extra mile (or 2.71 miles in the case of the Circuit Giles Villeneuve). Not only do we have one of those 3 in a much larger size (the last thumbnail below) than previously seen, we also have the great image that you’ve already noticed above left. We have to thank Eric Gilbert of Motorsport.com for allowing KM UK to showcase his rather enigmatic photo of Kathryn.

All 4 images (2 big, 2 small) are now available in the Gallery.

We will be returning to many of the above topics in future updates.

Only A Week To Go

There is only one week to go until a special day for a certain special someone. I think you know what I’m talking about

I’m hoping to celebrate the occasion with some appropriately themed fan art.

Fellow obsessive and YouTube user Katie (kayandvivi) has been getting into the spirit already with a countdown of videos on her new Kathryn Morris FTW YouTube channel. We have not yet opened the fan art video wing of the KM UK Gallery. Perhaps we will be cutting the ribbon in a few days time.

If you would like to contribute any fan art please use the contact form to let me know, or email me directly if you have the details.

Silk Stalkings

I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get around to this one. Before we go any further: spoilers abound, you have been warned.

American TV show Silk Stalkings had a bumpy ride over its 8 year run. After initially being broadcast in a prime slot on CBS it got moved to the USA network. The original male lead (Rob Estes as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo) wanted out before his 5 year contract was done but stuck it out. His character was killed off during season 5 and his female co-star (Mitzi Kapture as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance) didn’t want to extend her contract beyond the end of that year.

Season 6 saw wholesale changes to cast and crew with two new leads. I’m sure many fans were not happy about this but the show continued for three more seasons so it must have kept a fair few of them.

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