This are my billboards for this brief (”Rage against the machine”). Basically it is about making people use less technology. Which I don’t really understand, surely what needs to be discussed is how we use the technology. Anyhoo. My idea was to knit organic things with steel wire and have the images speak for themselves but as it turns out knitting with steel wire isn’t as easy as it sounds. + There was difficulties photographing the steel wire things without access to a studio. But this is what it’s turned into and I actually really like it. The first one is my favourite. The other three are not as good but I intend to re shoot it and improve them.

This was the first year I actually dressed up or even celebrated Halloween. Well, except for my 18th birthday party when I dressed up as Shrek and then the police came. That was an awesome party. Anyhoo Halloween in England is a much bigger deal than Sweden. I had fun at the party but I had the most fun spending ages doing this make up.

In other news. I was in Newcastle last week and saw Passion Pit. It was my first concert in England, and it was nice with a break from Carlisle. I also got a pair of amazing boots from H&M that I totally love now. The things I have bought this fall are so amazing, like my new make up brushes from Sigma. They have changed my life!

I am listening a lot to the Avett Brothers and the Local Natives right now. I can’t believe I had never heard of Avett Brothers until now. It feels like they were made just for me.

And also it was my birthday on tuesday. Well, I did kinda celebrate three nights in a row. On monday night Robbie came over and I made dinner and muffins and we + Craig & Laney had birthday tequila and it was really fun. On tuesday we went to Office to hear Damian sing & play but we missed it with like 5 minutes which sucked but it was a nice night anyway and we ended up at Concrete. Then Wednesday I was not feeling good at all but made it to dinner at the indian restaurant across the streets with the girls I live with and it was aaa-mazing. And yes I did get gifts. From the girls I got MAC make up (four eyeshadows and two lipsticks) and I have tried it on and I love it. From Craig I got the Cute Overload calender and the Kanye West Glowing in the Dark book, but my favourite gift of all the gifts was the coasters with a picture of a pug wearing a nurses outfit that he gave me. It makes me so happy.

So yeah. There’s an update. Let’s try to make this blogging thing happen. Again.

So this is what I ended up with. Tomorrow I am getting help from L-Bird to take some better photos of them and then I’m gonna start working on the mailer. I have an idea for it so I am not too worried about this project right now. And oh yeah there should probably be an x in there somewhere also. CLASSIC alphabet joke.

Grace Coddington / Nour El-Refai

These two women are my favourite women right now. I watched The September Issue the other night and it was awesome. Anna Wintour was very interesting but Grace Coddington was AM-AZING. Obviously I’ve seen her styling and her photos are beautiful, and her personality made me fall in love with her. I wish I was like that. And then there is Nour. Always love Nour. Me and Deniz were listening to her radio show today and after hearing it again all I feel is - I ALSO WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS. It is always the most important thing. The women. Important.

1. I got here last monday after having to spend the night at the airport. The first days here Alex stayed in our house and it was fun having him here. We played (the card game) Casino and for some fucking reason he won (WITH ONE POINT!) and it was the most horrible experience I’ve had since coming back (including finding a wood lice in my pasta). It is nice being back in the house with the girls again because they are awesome. Craig came back last Saturday and he is also very awesome. I just wish he would make better jokes.

2. The new brief is ‘Experimental typography’. I was not expecting to feel very inspired after the first briefing since a lot of stuff is so shit with our university this year, but Simon made a good job with presenting it. I feel like I want to make the most out of this year and mainly focus on doing stuff that I know that I can do and that I am good at doing. What I feel went wrong last year was that I tried things that I wasn’t comfortable with and I didn’t feel I got the right support from the tutors. Hopefully this will be better this year. I will post photos of how this brief is evolving.

3. So yes. Today me and Deniz went into town. I went mainly because I had to get wire, wool etc but thats not all I got. Of course that’s not all I got. I found an awesome dress that had the name MARIA written all over it. I had to get it. And then we went into Lush where they had an awesome ‘Freshers Box’ offer so I got that also. I am trying the ‘Catastrophe Cosmetic‘ after I’ve finished this blog post. I am very excited.

So yeah. I guess that is it for now. I will update more regularly from now on.

Bon has been my favoruite magazine for many years. And I think this fall’s issue is one of my favourite ones ever. Look how beautiful this cover is, it’s almast making me religious:

Expensive and hurt like hell. Totally worth it.

I feel like a stronger person everytime I listen to Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis

This is beautiful.

I love this man! But even more so, I love this photo. It’s the perfect way to capture the result of a day in Stockholm with huge amounts of alcohol and then only having to pay 60kr for the bus home at 3am and having the best busdriver ever that put on Benjamin’s favourite movie (he was so excited, I fell asleep).

That being said. Waking up 1,5h later cold and on the verge to hungover realising that you have to walk the 5 minutes from the bus station to get to home and to be able to go to sleep again was so fucking horrible and it makes you question if it was even worth an awesome night out. (It was… almost).

Well I can stand and wait, start a fight, climb the Empire State
I’m ready, steady, go even though you’re still miles away
I wanna, I need to, I’m gonna run to you

I’m such a sinner, you’re such a star
I’m no beginner, so set the heaven on fire
When there’s no turning back from who we are
No matter what we’re through
I’m gonna run to you

*I have now bought and listened through the album and it is aaaaaa-mazing.

This is my friend Annika and she deserves her own ‘like’-post. I love her very much. She lives in Gothenburg and I live in Uppsala so we don’t get to see each-other that much. But everytime we do it is awesome. I got on the x2000 on my way to her on friday and spent the weekend @ her new place in Kortedala. We ate, we had beer and we watched movies. As I said - it was awesome.