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Okej, ni minns kanske fisheye-objektivet för iPhone jag fick hem för ett par månader sedan? Igår fick jag ett ypperligt tillfälle att prova det då jag och mina vänner tog våra cyklar och begav oss en bit ut ur staden och hade picknick på klipporna vid en fors. Först och främst var det otroligt roligt att fota med, och en himla stor omställning för mig som de senaste tre åren nästan uteslutande fotat med fast 5o mm-optik. Det enda problemet var att trots att jag följt bruksanvisningen och rengjort telefonen noga innan jag satte på den lilla metall-ringen som själva objektivet skulle sitta fast i, så lossnade den då och då. Dock gick det att trycka dit den igen, och jag kan tänka mig att det går att fästa med lim också. Med tanke på hur billigt det är att köpa så är det ändå bara en kul grej, och en spännande omväxling. Summa sumarum: Fisheyeobjektivet från MrGizmo får tummarna upp av mig! Har ni provat på något liknande?

You may remember the fisheye lens for iPhone I got a few months ago? Yesterday I got a great opportunity to try it when my friends and I went out of town on our bikes and had a picnic on the rocks at a rapids. First of all, it was incredibly fun to shoot with, and an amazingly big change for me who the last three years almost exclusively have photographed with my 5o mm lens. The only problem was that even though I followed the instructions and cleaned the phone carefully before I put the little metal ring that the lens will attach to on, it fell off after a while. However, I could  press it into place again, and I can imagine that it can be attached with glue too. Considering how cheap it is to buy it is still just for fun, and an nice change of perspective. So finally: The fisheye lens from MrGizmo get thumbs up from me! Have you tried something similar to this?

Denna kepa från monki har definitivt blivit en favorit på hatthyllan! Jag älskar kombon av filt och den blanka skärmen. Denna kommer ni antagligen få se mer av i höst. Vad säger ni, gillar ni den? Hur som helst. Nu beger jag mig ut på stan för att möta upp en vän som är på besök i Umeå. Himla kul. Hörs sen!

This cap from monki has definitely become a favorite on the hat rack! I love the combination of felt and the glossy material. You’ll probably see more of this cap this autumn. What do you say, do you like it? However. Now I’m off to town to meet up a friend who is on a visit here in Umeå, it will be very fun. Talk to you later!

1. 1. Och vinnaren av denna balla ylle-klänningen från Wandering Minds är…. Jessica! Grattis!
2. 2. Kollade runt efter lite höst-inspo på nätet och hittade denna video. Det är alltså en del av VILAS höstkampanj vid namn “confidence is not for sale”. Jag gillar när man passar på att baka in fina budskap i kampanjer/marknadsföring sådär. Bra initiativ!
3. 3. Befinner mig i detta nu pa en picknickfilt i någon park någonstans tillsammans med vännerna och ville mest bara önska er en härlig kväll!

Jag har precis publicerat mitt första inlägg för rädda barnen. Det handlar om min första termin på högstadiet 2008, om utanförskap i en väldigt grupperad klass. Klicka HÄR för att komma till inlägget. (nedan publicerar jag en översättning för mina utländska läsare)

This is my first post for Swedish Save The Children. It’s about my first semester in high school. The original text is in Swedish, but I’ve tried to translate it as good as I can for you, I think it’s a really important subject.

My heart was pounding hard in my chest the whole first day at my new school. I remember that before I left home early in the morning I just stood in front of the mirror, staring at myself. I had borrowed a nice leopard print shirt and a light blue shoulder bag from my big sister?s closet and I thought, that if you just overlook my boyish body shape, and the fact that I?m probably 10 cm taller than most of the other girls, I looked quite pretty.

I remember how small crowds of excited 13-year-olds who were reunited after a long summer holiday was scattered around the entrance 10 minutes before the school start, and how I tried get eye contact when some of my old classmates showed up.

I remember walking around dining room, watchful as a hawk to find a table with someone to place my plate next to it. I remember I couldn?t find anyone, and that I humiliated had to eat with the teachers that first day.

I remember I didn?t regret my choice to start over in a totally new class even on my way home, this would be my new beginning. It is always difficult to make contact with new people at first. The other six girls in the class (who already knew each other) probably were as nervous as I, behind the hard surface of makeup.

We were a rowdy class, full of insecure kids with the goal to get as high as possible in the school?s popularity hierarchy, to any price. I remember how the topic of conversation in a second could go from complaints about the disgusting school lunches to bullshit about the person who just left the room.

Soon we became a very grouped class. I remember the lump in my stomach when the PE-teacher asked us to divide ourselves into pairs or when the chemistry teacher asked us to find a lab partner, and the sighs and discontented glances that were exchanged when one of the girls ended up in the same group as me.

I remember how I got tired of sitting alone in the dining room, how instead of eating the school lunch called my dad and asked him if it was okay if I took a sandwich in his office instead.

“Ebba, I really can?t force the other girls to hang out with you.” I remember that the class teacher wore an ill-fitting white t-shirt when he asked me to stay in the classroom after a lesson, the day after that my parents had called to my school.

And I remember that after four months of a pounding heart, alone breaks and whispers I couldn?t cope with it. Finally I refused to go to school, and the next semester I was introduced in a whole new class, in a whole new scool across town.

It was my mother who litened to me when I came home from school and tearfully told her what I had experienced during the day, and made me understand that it was not my fault. Changing school is one of the best choices I?ve made in my life. It didn?t take long before I had new great friends but it still took a while for me t understand that there actually are people who honestly like to hang out with me.

It’s so incredibly easy to accept the situation and take the blame when your self-confidence is on the bottom and not even the adults at the school admit that it?s wrong that you have to go around with a pounding heart and a lump in your stomach in school for an entire semester. Loneliness is difficult to handle but it is certainly not the ?victim?s? fault and it?s absolutely nothing that should be accepted just because it is not physical bullying.

I know that my story is far from unique, dare I saying that in every high school class, there is someone who feels left out. I write this text for you.

Let the adults know what you?re feeling! For me it was the best option to start over somewhere else, but solving the problem can also involve talking and doing exercises with the class to bring everyone together or to simply get someone to talk to. The important thing is that you never ever blame yourself.

Har suttit och bråkat med bloggen ett bra tag nu. Modette håller på att få en ansiktslyftning (visst blir det fint?) men det innebär också en hel del trubbel. Har hört att vissa personer inte ser mina inlägg, vissa personer ser dubbla inlägg och vissa ser min gamla header, jag håller tummarna för att det ska vara löst tills imorgon så att jag kan köra på som vanligt. Men jag måste bara kolla med er- hur ser bloggen ut på era datorer? Kan ni se alla inlägg, är några dubbelpostade?

I’ve been struggeling with my blog for a while now. Modette are getting a facelift (it already looks really good, don’t you think?), but it also means a lot of trouble. I’ve heard that some people do not see my posts, some people see double posts and some see my old header, I keep my fingers crossed for that it will be solved until tomorrow. I just have to ask you-how does my blog look at your computers? Can you see all the posts?