Regrets

It's a common say that you should never regret anything. I don't work that way. If I would control myself strictly to do only things I would never regret I would never learn anything new. I'm most imperfect. I regret millions of things I've done and the next time I will do them differently.

My dream of a Very Merry Christmas!

In my dreams I'm just about to sit down in that comfy chair. I'll soon have a great dinner and the kids will not brake anything in this overfilled room. It's frosty outside, but really worm inside why I can wear that dress with no cardigan or stockings. You also see that my hair is not at all dry and frizzy. I have a pair of cozy boots with me for later when my feet don't accept those high heels anymore. The present is maybe not for me... Or yes, it is, and even though it doesn't look like it, but there is a new lap top inside loaded with the Adobe suite - and an extremely fortunate future!!!

And most of all I will wish you a very merry christmas full of dreams and future!

Pure White

It's easy to see if something white is soiled. When it's white it is clean. It doesn't say much but that it is free from bacteria, dirt and contagion.

White is also asleep. A still soft and embedded sleep for frozen buds. A long wait for spirit and energy to raise again. White is hiding things for later... when it's getting warmer. A white lie.

White clothes and furniture are for the luxury ones - those who have hired people taking care of the household and the kids. Else they are doctors with demands to display their cleanness. The futuristic bacteria free style was seen on the catwalks this spring, but right now the white trend is reflecting the hard upcoming winter. Snow and Ice are the inspirations. No idea to complain. We can't change the weather - or yes we have - but we can't change it right now. Let's just embrace it. The winter is here to stay.

(Chanel fall 2010)






White is untouched. Nobody's been there. (the street outside my door in nearest stockholm suburb)


gray
orange
green/yellow
blue
pink
purple

Dare to be in focus

I finally got it. The reason why all women adore Marilyn Monroe and why everyone dream of being one of Vargas beautyful pinups. It's been quite contradictive to me as those women actually are kind of abused and most of all artificial characters. No one is longing for being abused and artificial unless they believe it's the only way to get attention - and that was long ago, where it begun.

Today I'd say the reason is beyond that. It's the gut to put yourself in focus that is so appealing. To say that I'm worth looking at, I am your dream. Through being a man's dream you have the power. You can trade. It's kind of sad that it's an amount of make up, lots of bare skin and visible curves, fake haircolors and skyhigh heels that is the best way of becoming a man's dream.

I guess the look derives the history from the old days. Days when the only way for a girl to get any kind of power at all was through converting to a nightlife showgirl. When that kind of girl was the one doing sacrifices to get a little chance to a better life. When the idea was to seduce a prince who would adopt you. Sex traded for a bearable life.

Today I'd say we're not expecting the prince to pick us up. No trading is included in the plan. Today I believe many women have had a tough time fitting in to the perfect templates of women in media. They are too fat, too thin, too short, too something or not something. In the burlesque style it's not the size that matters and the rest you can fix with lots of make up and styling. Everyone can look gorgeous! It's your work on yourself that is daring, challenging, self-confident.

It's kind of liberating and we find self confidence in daring to say 'look at me, I'm your dream' instead of 'I look at you, you're my dream' or 'don't look at me, I'm nobody'. With the make up on you show everyone that you know that you are someone.

Previous attempt on this in Women we love could have been me

The wishlist of a 9 year old girl

A mobile phone as she's always using her friends' to call mom with and as it's good to be able to pay for the subway if needed sometime.

Actually any LEGO products, but especially the Harry Potter and City range. Starwars is not on the wishlist but when she got it for her birthday yesterday she immediately spent an hour putting it together.





She's got lots of Top Model products from before, but this was hightly wanted.

Still crush on cuties.

A real dog! Although she is afraid of them...


I guess I have to note that my kids always have access to any games they want, though last year there were premium memberships on Stardoll and Panfu, but not this year.

Girls amaze with the right incitaments

When working with Stardoll I got amazed by the users almost every day. They did the most surprising things, maybe not what you expect 11-year old girls to do. When getting the right incitaments million of young girls get extremely high tech and business minded.

In the beginning there were no ways to get Stardollars but through paying real money. Only a few percentages can convince their parents that it is worth it and millions of girls stood stone-broke. This made them very creative. There was a flood of valuable and great suggestions on how they could earn Stardollars. Mini games was a model they knew from other communities, but they also suggested starting own stores, sell their old stuff, get ads on the site, write styling and gossip blogs, become an in game profession or just to get some money every day for logging in. (This was long before any Facebook games). Very few girls asked to get presents as it is part of the game to choose your purchases to create your own identity.

As soon as they got the feature to sell their old stuff and more, they became the world's best promotors and marketers. They used all forums available to announce their sales, to present themselves, to get friends, to make themselves interesting. They try out different messages and learn the effects. They soon learned how to use gift cards to offer eachother real money in purchases instead of Stardollars only as intended.

When starting local campaigns offering special items to different markets, the girls showed advanced tech skills. They easily found out how to track and use a proxy servers and vpn's to take advantage of all offers. Bloggers scan all local version and report where to find what. Through this work they get lots of readers on their own blogs, lots of pageviews and money through ads.

When offering Stardollars in reward for playing mini games, there were soon girls connecting systems/bots for cheating. Overall we learned that if there was a chance that anyone would be able to do something unintended, they would. Sometime they found out an extremely tricky pattern of logging in and out and clicking different buttons to get blue hair and so on.

This is only positive! They are devoted and engaged and it's extremely important to see how the right incitament can get any girl interested in technique and business. It only tells me that education in schools have not yet understood this.

Eco product development from WWF

Fantastic product development! “Save as WWF, save a tree” is a plug-in enables documents to be disseminated as pdf files that cannot be printed.

No more needed to be said but read about the entire concept on WWF.