Hi!

It's been more than a week of internet madness and I longed for some regular blogging again. I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately, my camera has been collecting dust and my phone is filled with screen dumps of hilarious/sweet/amazing/stupid/weird/awesome comments from all over the internet regarding Lights Out. I might return with another post like the one I did last tuesday.
Lights Out has now gone so viral that we no longer have any clue of it's life in cyberspace. It's making friends with (and scaring the hell out of) people all over the world. I've mentioned the Reaction Videos before but OMG it's such a wonderful thing! Even though some are made in languages that we don't understand a word of the beauty with this kind of film (horror) is that the facial expressions are universal. A scared jump and a loud scream is like the biggest present to us. Yes, creepy, I know but it really is the perfect way of seeing that our work is affecting people.
Everything is still happening so fast that we have no clue of what, and if, this will lead to anything in the future, but THANK YOU internet for doing this crazy thing and changing our lives in so many ways.

Back on track now! I know there's a lot of new people here and Two Two Two is one of the recurring kind of posts I make on this blog.
Let's start then, shall we?

Two views of Gothenburg.
One that I took today while in town, and one from an evening run over the cemetery close to where David and I live.

Two of me when I was just a cute little child.
One of me on my fathers shoulders, and one of me posing for the camera like I was born to do it. (And look at that hat!) These were sent to me by our family friend Lisa who just found these slides when she was looking through old boxes. I think they are so sweet!

Two self portraits.
One looking at people on the street below.
And one in our old and noisy elevator when my hair was having an especially good day. Not like when I was the monster in Lights Out...

And for the people checking out my site for the first time: Hi! I'm Lotta, natural born red head living in Gothenburg, making jewelry, taking photos, making movies and writing scripts with my husband, acting in a theatre group, being an expert on popping popcorn in a pan and making the perfect pot of tea, getting very excited of the small things in life, dreaming of one million things and mixing it all into what is me.

Hello hello hello!
Since the last time I posted here internet has gone even more bananas. 4.1 million views of Lights Out on vimeo and 925 000 views on youtube.
It's a weird, weird feeling knowing so many people all over the world have seen me. I really can't grasp it.
One thing that makes this even more surreal (but also wonderful!) are all the reaction videos we've found with people watching Lights out for the first time. Some of my favorites are this guy who looks completely hooked on what's happening on the screen in front of him, these two amazing people who really gets into it and this girl who is the perfect horror movie audience.
If you want to see more Lights Out reaction videos David has compiled a playlist with all of them.

Today David and I went on the radio talk show PP3 to talk about Lights Out. It was so much fun! If you want to listen to it you can find it here, we are on from 1 hour and 30 minutes into the programme. You get to hear my voice, not only scared eep sounds and terrified breathing. It's all in swedish though...

Lights Out has an imdb-page page now!

And yet another person thought my monster faces needed glasses to seem less scary.
This time: Wonky eyes!

I've noticed that there's a lot more people than usual wandering around lottalosten.com these days. Hi and Welcome!
And because I'm feeling extra happy and excited I thought I'd give you a discount in my jewelry shop . Just write coupon code LIGHTSOUT during checkout and you'll receive a whopping 20% off your entire purchase! The code is valid all through march.
Every single piece of jewelry in my shop is made by my hands and completely unique.

And to finish off this post with even MORE links here's some places on the
internet where you can find me, outside of this website:

Facebook: here
Instagram: @lottalosten
Twitter: @lostenjewelry or for tweets in swedish @lottalosten.
Email: lottalosten@gmail.com

And until next time:

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

So that happened. Yesterday evening we passed one million views of Lights Out. And it's not slowing down. At all.
Let's celebrate with Comment Bonanza!
People on the internet are funny, crazy, stupid, wonderful and AMAZING. They say the weirdest things.
So let's take a look at some of the best comments I've found so far. I've blurred the names but if you find something here that you wrote and you want me to know and give you credit: Yaay! Say something in the commments below.
If you just want to be my friend: Yaay! Say something in the comments below!
If you hate on me: NAY! DON'T say something in the comments below. This is a cuddly space.

LET'S DO THIS!

I love this person. Seriously. This is good information. Facts. We need more people like this.

I AM THE ASS GHOST!

Hey! I explained that here!

Look! This George dude has got me as his profile pic on facebook!

Someone figured it out.

Another one figured it out.

We're having so much fun with all of this and it's just so crazy and hard to grasp. 1.4 million people have seen Lights out. Some are watching it RIGHT THIS SECOND. And now. And now. And NOW.
I'm off to my other job soon. Time to return to the real world for a few hours.
See you later everybody!

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Lights out has been seen more than 848 000 times on vimeo and it has 65 000 views on youtube and the numbers are climbing really fast. This is so amazing!
I've seen a few people on twitter and facebook using my monster face from Lights Out as their profile pic.
That must be the ultimate "famous on the internet" thing, right?
Do you think we can reach 1 million views before the day is over? I'm starting to think so.
Internet is a weird and wonderful place!

Oh, and someone put sunglasses on me to make me seem less scary (and possibly even more goofy)...