Throwback Thursday #21
Morning, Prosers,
We hope you are all well!
This week marks week twenty-one of our throwback Thursday feature and we honestly do not know how we haven’t run out of things to say. But forever the word-nerds, we haven’t and this week we have some exclusive information for you.
As you are all probably aware, and are most likely getting sick of hearing us talk about it, we (Paul and Sammie) go into prison each week to carry out our Letters from Prison initiative. Last week we took a very special guest in with us.
Those of you out there that are film buffs will most likely know this lovely ladies’ dad. He was a film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. His most famous films included, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, and Full Metal Jacket to name a few. Yes! That’s right, we only took Stanley Kubrick’s daughter to prison with us!
Katharina is extremely successful in her own right, she stepped into the film industry full-time in 1976 to work in Ken Adam's art department as an assistant on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me during which time she was asked to design the teeth for the character Jaws! After this she worked with some of the best production designers on a series of movies and TV commercials in a variety of different roles. She worked on many high-profile films, including Midnight Express, Moonraker, The Muppet Movie, Saturn 3, The Shining, Sphinx, The Dark Crystal, and Supergirl.
Since then, Katharina has spent her time painting and creating bespoke jewelry. Which is beyond beautiful. We’ll leave the link to her website here. So, I hear you ask, why on earth is Katharina visiting prison with Prose? Well, given her love of art, and our love of philanthropy, (which we love almost as much as words themselves), we asked Katharina if she’d like to come in with us and spend some time in the art department teaching the residents her methods. She was anxious at first, just like we were, we all have so many preconceptions about prison from TV and film, which on the whole are mainly wrong. So Katharina agreed to visit and see for herself what we were raving about.
It was clear to see beforehand how nervous she was, but when the afternoon was over, she was as pumped and excited about it as we have been and still are. She had the gentlemen eating out of the palm of her hand!
This week, Katharina will be coming again and @Squeakypeewee01 will be interviewing her. Which she is super excited about. To be given that opportunity as an inmate is incredible! Keep an eye out for that interview in the coming weeks.
Every two-weeks, Katharina will be joining us in prison. An initiative that joins art and words for the rehabilitation of offenders.
One final thing before we sign off for this week, we are experiencing an increasing amount of user communications via email, direct message, and on our social media. For those of you that have just joined us, we are a modestly small team and work hard on all aspects of Prose. We always treat user communications as first priority, and endeavor to get back to all enquiries within 24-48 hours. If you are contacting us about a suspected bug, if you could send us a detailed account of what is happening (or not, as the case may be), along with your username, the platform you are using (Web, iOS, Android), and finally, your browser should you be on the web. This helps us save precious time and means we can get to work on the issue quicker too!
With that being said, we’re off to prison (yes, we wrote this on Wednesday!).
Until next time, Prosers,
Prose.