Damn, it would've been nice to live back then. See it all happen from the start. Niceness. Music by the great They That Cried Wolf.

Chapter three of the 'Diploma' series – here we go! Besides constantly stuffing food down our throats and slamming small white plastic balls across a black table we actually did manage to get some work done. At least that much so that we could all finish university :D

Seriously though, often stressful, sometimes frustrating and – especially near the end – panic inducing, working at school remained mostly fun. At least for me it did. It was good, soothing almost, to have everyone 'there', being able to walk around school from door to door, see familiar faces working on their particular project, mostly just as stressed as oneself, and have little chats, a cup of coffee or a smoke. Almost – sorry, I couldn't think of anything less cliché – like one big family.

I think, I'll miss it.

Yupp, another video, this time by dub-electro-whatever artist Scuba (video directed by Sam Geer). Again both visually and acoustically striking. But I promise that later on today I'll post something 'normal'. Whatever that means... :D

A little treat, both visually and acoustically. By the way, at the moment I'm loving the remix album of Phoenix' 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' called Wolfgnag Amadeus Remixed. I'm really not a big Phoenix fan, but man that remix thing is good! Almost every single track is awesome. The only other two remix albums I know which are of similar quality are probably Bloc Party's 'Silent Alarm Remixed' and Crystal Castles' 'Remixed Rewired'. Anyways, I'm rambling, here's the vid.

Part two of my look back the past, at my last semester at HDA. It took a lot convincing by Falko one night in November to get me to move my ass from the front of my TV out into the cold in order 'to get something'. That something turned out to be an old ping pong table that was left in the streets. We dragged it – the wheels on the bottom were busted but it was too heavy for carrying – to the backyard of our house and a couple of days later the boys dragged it all the way up to school.

First in the basement and later in the foyer it would serve as our favorite way to pass time when we weren't working. And for all other students as well one might add. Seriously, I sometimes wonder how much better each of our diplomas could've been hadn't we literally spent hours on end improving our top spins...

I'm gonna start a little series of blog entries depicting and describing essential parts of our daily diploma life over the past five months. Starting off with maybe the most fundamental building block of our creative process: food.

Since we spent an average 10-15 hours working at school each day, it was pretty much inevitable that we also eat our breakfast, lunch and dinner there. As our days usually got off to a relatively slow start, breakfast often didn't consist of more than store bought sandwiches and orange juice / coffee at 12:00 a.m. Logically, lunch was mostly skipped due to time issues and so the next time we'd eat something was typically around 9 or 10 in the evening.

In the beginning we tried to cook as often as possible but near the end of the semester no one had the time or nerves to do so. So we ordered. Almost every fuckin' night. The pictures might suggest we had Dong Dong asian food each time, but no sireee, don't get the wrong picture! We tried hard to vary our nutrition as it is generally recommended, yes. So half the time we had pizza or schnitzel from these guys...

Super nice video by French indie poppers Hold Your Horses! for all you future art dealers. Never really heard of these guys before but their stuff does indeed sound pretty sweet.