Console Girl

Finally

2011-03-02T20:46:00.001+01:00

I finally moved! Check out the new Consolegirl att http://consolegirl.se

And the winner is...

2009-12-15T19:00:00.004+01:00

Ja, vad ska man säga, hur kan man motstå en så här underbar logga? Jag fullkomligt älskar tetris så den här passar mig som handen i handsken!

Den lyckliga vinnaren är alltså skaparen av min nya logga, nämligen Marcus! Gratulerar! Du har ett stycke Assassin's Creed 2 att kassera in. Mejla mig din postadress så lägger jag spelet på lådan omgående. Happy gaming!

I got lucky, and so can you!

2009-12-07T21:28:00.004+01:00

Jag och Angelica (Xboxflickan) pysslade så fingrarna glödde och svetten lackade i hela 10 timmar för att kunna ställa upp i webhallens Assassin's Creed-tävling (se resultatet här) med bidraget ni ser på nedanstående bild. Trots våra ansträngningar kammade vi inte hem förstapriset men vi fick dock en hedrande fjärdeplats och blev belönade med varsitt ex av spelet.

Dessutom ställde jag upp i FZ's Assassin's Creed tävling och lyckades även där vinna spelet så nu sitter jag här med två ex av detta eminenta spel. Eftersom jag nu haft en sådan tur tänkte jag ge någon av er kära läsare (eller ska man kanske säga tittare? ;) ) möjligheten att få det ena exemplaret (om det nu fortfarande finns någon som inte har spelet).

Vad behöver man då göra för att vinna? Ja, det lämnar jag faktiskt till er och er egen fantasi och kreativitet att avgöra. Gör det du är bra på och tycker är roligt, rita, skriva, måla, fota, pyssla, bygga legoslott, klippa bonsaiträd, skära vackra figurer ur frukter, sätta upp skitsnajsiga server-lösningar, göra en fin logga till min blogg, blåsa bubblor av tuggummi, göra håruppsättningar, skriva en vacker css, hoppa hage, skriva roliga inlägg till en bloggpost, eller helt enkelt bara skriva ett mejl till mig och säga att du vill vinna!

Skicka ert bidrag till min mejladress sofia@consolegirl.se senast söndag den 13:e december!
För att vara helt på det klara är det alltså ett helt nytt exemplar av Assassin's Creed 2 till Xbox 360 som ligger i prispotten.

Låt kreativiteten flöda och skicka in ditt bidrag!

The reward

2009-11-09T21:18:00.002+01:00

After a hard days work of chopping firewood, this is the reward! Enjoying a good game in front of the fireplace.

As good as done

2009-11-05T17:35:00.000+01:00

Well, this is it, almost done! I think I will be heading up to the house after this one!

Leverage

2009-11-04T17:05:00.000+01:00

Second, leverage!

Focus

2009-11-03T17:28:00.004+01:00

If you want a nice and warm house you have to work for it!

First, aim!

Thanks to Andreas for letting me borrow his camera and thanks to David for using it!

Hard work!

2009-10-29T21:46:00.004+01:00

I spent the past weekend at our summer house and of course had some serious work to do! But before I started, I decided to document it for you all to see.

Thanks to Andreas for letting me borrow his camera!

Tomorrow I'm going away for the weekend and taking a course in how to communicate with animals. Yes, weird and kind of odd, I know, but I'm very excited to see if it really works. This also means no internet and no more pictures for the weekend! But have faith, I'll be back next week! =D

Victory!

2009-10-28T18:14:00.000+01:00

Finally, everyone's dead! Victory!

Now I'm going inside before my fingers fall off!

Thanks a bunch to everyone involved in the making of this series of pictures!
Andreas - Outstanding photographer
Linus & John - Superior victims
Thomas - Excellent blood-manager
Carolina Lindberg - Lancer-lender extraordinaire

Die already!

2009-10-26T22:46:00.000+01:00

How hard can it be to kill someone with a Lancer?! Die already!!

Thanks to John for not letting me kill him =)

Start the sawing

2009-10-25T22:40:00.000+01:00

Moving on to the next kill, but hey, didn't I just kill you, Linus??

Thanks to Linus och John for doing this despite of the cold, cold weather!

Noooo!!

2009-10-24T09:11:00.000+02:00

"Aaargh! Don't kill me!"

Thanks to Linus for letting me kill him! ;)

There you are!

2009-10-23T11:00:00.001+02:00

I'm coming to get you! Kill, kill, kill!

Where did everybody go?

2009-10-21T22:06:00.004+02:00

But hey, where is everybody? I want to kill some more!

Don't mess with me

2009-10-21T21:56:00.006+02:00

Now where getting somewhere! I'm angry and hungry for blood, so don't mess with me!

Trouble

2009-10-20T22:26:00.005+02:00

Well, I ran into some trouble getting closer to the fight. I totally get why Marcus and Dom are so huge, the lancer is heavy!!!

Getting closer

2009-10-19T23:00:00.003+02:00

Ok, the enemies won't come to me so I guess I have to go to them!

Before the fight

2009-10-18T22:26:00.005+02:00

We finally managed to get a lancer photoshoot this weekend, but man was it cold or what. I thought my fingers were going to fall off! Fortunately we found this nice construction site very close to my apartment so we didn't have to go very far.

The first picture from this shoot is this kind of classic GoW pose, where I'm crouching down, hiding from the enemies. No blood and no enemies in sight yet though.

Thanks to Andreas Eklöv for taking all the pictures in this series and exposing his hands to some serious freezing.

Aim... and shoot!

2009-10-15T23:28:00.002+02:00

I'm totally Lancer-fied at the moment, everything involves the Lancer right now, hence this picture! And it's not going to change for a while either, we're planning a big photo shoot this weekend. I'm so excited and really hope we will get some really great pictures! =D

Consoleboy

2009-10-12T21:51:00.005+02:00

Ok, so I got some competition! Sebastian Magnusson is showing his posing skills in these pictures and I admit, the pictures are quite good! But I think he has to work on it some more to get to my level, hrmpf!

Peek-a-boo

2009-10-12T21:34:00.004+02:00

Look what I got!! And yes, I'm so excited to get my hands on a lancer, can you tell? ;)

Many, many thanks to Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft for letting me borrow the lancer!

Close up

2009-10-07T23:36:00.004+02:00

So I got to borrow this really cool thing, gold stars to the one who can guess what it is!

Thanks to Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft for letting me borrow it.

Last piece of summer

2009-10-06T22:50:00.002+02:00

This wonderful summer pictures is now hanging on my wall reminding me of the nice summer that we've now seen the last of, leaving us to look forward to some snowy winter picture maybe? =D

My muse has left me

2009-10-04T22:41:00.004+02:00

The urge to take more picture is still there, but I can't seem to find the right inspiration. We take pictures but the ideas I have don't really work. =/ So, if you think some of the pictures I'm posting are similar to previous ones, well, that's the answer, I'm waiting for my muse to return!

ps. Look at the enlargement of this picture, it's much better, the colors doesn't seem to be right in the smaller picture.

Power to the console!

2009-09-26T01:00:00.000+02:00

The swedish expression "höja till skyarna" comes to mind thinking about this picture! Directly translated it means "raise to the sky" but the meaning is more like "think the world of".

And again, thanks to Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft for the t-shirt!

360 ftw!

2009-09-24T23:37:00.000+02:00

Ok, so I can't really decide which one of the 360 pictures I like best so I'm just gonna put most of them up here and let you decide which one is your favourite. And yes, some of them are quite similar but hopefully you won't get bored, but if you do, just skip a day or two of my updates ;)

Hmm, which one to start with, maybe this kind of commercial looking picture where I have this very superior look! ;)

Thanks again to Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft for t-shirt and the flag!

And speaking about commercial, these two boys came along and asked if we were shooting an xbox-commercial and "Oh, you have an elite, I want one of those!" Yay, my first live audience! ;)

(If you guys see this and want your names up here, leave a note in the comment or mail me, sofia at consolegirl dot se)

Some more blue lips

2009-09-23T23:31:00.004+02:00

I do like this picture, another one on the blue lips theme. Unfortunately you can't really see much of the key chain so there's not really a point with it. As I said before, I like this idea, but it didn't really work out this time! We will give it another go some time in the future!

Lips

2009-09-21T19:17:00.001+02:00

As I said yesterday I got at bunch of nice stuff from Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft (thanks again!) to play around with for my pictures. One of the things I got was this Lips key chain. Since the text is blue I had this idea to get some pictures with blue lips and the key chain next to them.

Unfortunately I am not really happy with the result, partly because I'm not very good at photo editing. But I think we will try this some more because I really like the idea. Any suggestions for making this idea better are much appreciated! Colors? Positions?

360 love!

2009-09-20T22:47:00.005+02:00

Finally, the 360 is getting some love! We took a bunch of pictures with the 360 last weekend so stay tuned for some awesome pictures!

Thanks to Carolina Lindberg at Microsoft for the t-shirt and all the other gears (which you can't see much of in this picture, but you will in the following ones)

Hmm, the picture are kind of greyish and I don't know why, I'll try and figure it out later.

Don't take my SNES

2009-09-17T21:16:00.001+02:00

Well, the subject says it all, don't it? ;)

MBSC

2009-09-16T23:02:00.005+02:00

Well, it has been a while, too long unfortunately. Too much work and not enough spare time is not good for the blogger update frequency. But we have been taking pictures so I have a bunch of unsorted pictures just waiting to be put here on the blog and on my walls! So stay tuned, I will be updating more frequently from now on.

In the mean time, I give you this picture. It wasn't suppose to be for the blog but when I looked at it and saw the text on my wrist band I knew I had to put it here. As the title suggest it's taken on Monday Bar's summer cruise.

Thanks a bunch to Tobias who took the picture!

Old ones

2009-08-16T23:58:00.004+02:00

Unfortunately our photo shoot this weekend got cancelled because of the unpredictable and unreliable weather we have here in Sweden, so I don't have any new pictures yet. So in the mean time I give you this old picture with the now familiar guitar hero theme.

I will probably post some older pictures here this week, but as soon as we get to schedule another session I will bring you new ones! This time it's the xbox 360 that is up for some photographing. Keep your fingers crossed it will be soon. ;)

Crazy controls

2009-08-14T17:09:00.002+02:00

I like this crazy picture of some of my controls. The gamecube control in the front kind of looks like it's lit up from underneath!

Guitar Hero revisited

2009-08-07T11:39:00.004+02:00

Here's a variant of the picture I sent to the competition, this one is a little more crazy! ;)

Collection

2009-08-07T11:33:00.004+02:00

Åsa put this nice collage together, with a collection of picture we've taken so far! I'm looking forward to a fall full of new pictures and great ideas, and I hope you are too! =D

Life saver

2009-08-01T23:44:00.003+02:00

Saturday night

2009-08-01T23:24:00.003+02:00

More on the night club theme! I really want you to feel the action going on around me, and then look at me, completely inside my own world playing on my psp. I'm not really sure that you can feel the action though, I think we have to try some more of this when we get another opportunity.

Åsa and I

2009-07-29T17:35:00.002+02:00

Here's a picture of me and my photographer Åsa!

Leffe's Lounge

2009-07-29T17:28:00.002+02:00

Late saturday night, I got a little bored at the nightclub. But as the gamer girl I am, I quickly found a solution! =D

Vacation

2009-07-28T21:34:00.004+02:00

Even on our vacation we had time to shoot some picture, so here I am, on the beautiful, but not very crowded, beach of Tylösand!

The last one... for now at least

2009-07-12T14:46:00.009+02:00

I will end the Guitar Hero theme week with the promised competition contribution. So, what do you think? Do I have a chance? ;)

We have a lot more really great pictures from this session but they have to wait because right now it's vacation time! So for the next three weeks, I probably won't be posting that much, instead I will enjoy the beatiful country side of Sweden and hope for a lot of sunshine! I wish you all a great summer!

Update: I finally figured out how to show an enlargement of the picture when you click on it, jeez and I'm supposed to be a computer nerd, took me long enough! Anyhow, I will be updating the old ones sometime soon. =)

Something blue

2009-07-09T17:54:00.003+02:00

My excellent photo editor, and photographer for that matter, Åsa (http://desperatephoto.blogspot.com) went a little crazy with this picture, I'm all purple and blue! =D

Destroy

2009-07-08T13:30:00.002+02:00

So I got a little angry...

Guitar Hero theme week!

2009-07-06T18:01:00.005+02:00

Since we got so many great picture from yesterdays session I thought I would try a Guitar Hero theme week, which I kind of already started yesterday. The clothes and the guitar are the same on every picture but the location and position change so the pictures are still very different. You can all tell me which one is your favorite at the end of the week! =)

I said yesterday that I would publish my competition contribution, but I decided I will wait with that one a few days. Instead I give you this crazy picture with a lot of action going on.

Guitar Hero wannabe

2009-07-05T21:42:00.006+02:00

Me and my photographer Åsa had a lot of fun today trying to take a picture to send as a contribution to the Guitar Hero Metallica competition at xboxflickans blogg (http://xboxflickan.se/), yes it's in swedish). It was one of those days when almost everything we tried worked and in less than half an hour we got a bunch of great pictures which I of course will show to you, starting with this one.

Åsa found this great location with a lot of graffiti and with a general rough feeling about it. After a while we also realized there was a door there and since it had the fitting sign "Diamond Records" we thought it would be fun if I tried to look like a struggling artist trying to get a gig with my Guitar Hero guitar on my back. Tomorrow I will show you the picture I chose as contribution for the competition, keep your fingers crossed that I will win! =D

White

2009-07-03T09:49:00.003+02:00

As requested in the comments, something more white with the wii (hey, nice alliteration). This is work in progress, I like the boots and white stockings, but the hand and the background, I don't know, I feel you could do a lot more with this. Any ideas?

Laughing

2009-07-01T17:45:00.005+02:00

This seems to be a consistent theme with the wii console, it's seems you can't be anything but happy when you're around it. =D
Is it the same for you or is it just me?

Bite me!

2009-06-29T20:10:00.002+02:00

I haven't really decided if it looks like I'm biting the 360 or trying to kiss it, but I can tell you I am trying to bite it. I am extremely fond of my consoles but there is a limit ;)

Ideas

2009-06-23T16:54:00.004+02:00

We had an idea of putting the consoles in situations and places where they usually are not, in daily situations common to life such as going to work and whatever we could think of. Since most of our ideas included not so much rain than the day we took the last set of picture could offer we couldn't try all the things we wanted. I'm not particularly fond of this one but I think you get the general idea. As soon as the weather and everything else allows us we will continue working on these ideas and hopefully get some more great pictures!

Happy!

2009-06-22T22:23:00.003+02:00

Except for my obvious interest in console games, I'm also crazy about clothes and shoes (what can you say, I just counted and found that I have more than 50 dresses in my wardrobe *shaking my head*). Anyway, back to the subject, here I am wearing my beatiful white suit and holding my wii, can you be anything but happy in this situation? =)

Golden shoes

2009-06-21T17:24:00.003+02:00

And a pair of legs and a ps3 to go with that!

Diamonds are a girl's best friend

2009-06-21T17:04:00.003+02:00

And this is one of my diamonds ;)

Thanks to Åsa for photographing and also for lending me her jewelry!

Colours!

2009-06-15T23:10:00.004+02:00

As promised, the 360 controllers. You gotta love the colours!

The rain

2009-06-15T17:19:00.006+02:00

After two days of standing outside in the rain listening to music at the "Where the Action is" festival here in Stockholm, me and Åsa decided to stay inside and continue this project. But the rain continued as you can see.

Back to me

2009-06-08T22:23:00.005+02:00

Here is another one where I am holding the psp and you can see a little more of my face. You can also see a little bit of the photographer, whose name you should know by now, reflected on the psp if you look closely.

Tower of games

2009-06-08T22:08:00.003+02:00

It kinda looks like the gameboy games are floating in the air on this picture. A lot of gold stars to those of you who can name all the games ;)

Wii!

2009-06-06T16:29:00.002+02:00

Now I leave the ps3 console for a while and step over to the world of Nintendo! I really like this picture of my wiimotes and nunchukes, and it is of course also hanging on my wall, beside a picture of my two 360 controllers, which I will show to you another day.

As always, Åsa Johansson it the photographer!

The shadow

2009-06-06T16:19:00.004+02:00

Here is a nice close up on my ps3 and this one is hanging as a 50X70 cm enlargement on my living room wall. The person you see reflected on the ps3's beatiful piano black surface is of course me.

Sleeping

2009-06-05T09:36:00.005+02:00

The last one in this serie is this one where I'm sleeping with my ps3, can you imagine a better way to spend the day in bed? ;)

As always, it is the lovely Åsa Johansson who is the photographer!

Black & white

2009-06-04T00:40:00.006+02:00

Here's a black and white version in the same serie as the picture from yesterday. Those of you who knows me recognize this one as my facebook profile picture. =)
You can see the ps3 a little bit better and the Playstation logo is somewhat more visible and bigger.

The next one

2009-06-02T19:55:00.007+02:00

And the first one in a serie.

Since the ps3 is such a sexy and cuddly console, what better way to portray it than with my arms around it in bed =D. And yes, my eyes are that blue it's the rest that is rather colorless!

And again, thanks to Åsa Johansson who is the photographer and of course also picture-editor!

The beginning

2009-06-01T22:28:00.002+02:00

A couple of months ago, when I was eagerly waiting to move in to my new apartment I started thinking of what kind of art work I wanted to put on my walls. I'm not very fond of the generic kind you buy at Ikea or similar places, I wanted something more personal. I wanted people to be able to see who I am and what I like just by walking around in my apartment. That's when I got the brilliant idea to take pictures of the things I care about, my interests and hobbies (ie console games), and put those pictures on the walls.

Conveniently enough, my best friend is an excellent photographer so I of course asked here if she would do me the honors of taking the pictures for me. By now, I have moved in to my apartment, and the first set of pictures are done and are hanging on my walls. Since I've got so many compliments and many more "you should start a blog and put the pictures there too"-comments, I am doing just that! Here is the first picture I want to share with you:

And many more will follow!

Special thanks goes to Åsa Johansson who is the photographer who made all of this possible.