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Good times at the Global Game Jam

Hi all. As a short update: last weekend I participated in the Global Game Jam, a contest in which teams are to create a game within 48 hours. As everyone started brainstorming around this year’s theme (‘extinction’), me and my team worked out the idea of the extinct Scottish beaver who runs away for a [...]

Stop the tapes!

To continue on the subject of one of the last posts; the Hmtpng challenge ended a while ago. As a participant, and newbie music producer, I managed to upload a humble album. Or rather, an EP. Because I started about four days before the deadline, I assembled all of the instruments (from a harmonica to [...]

Workworkwork

Hear hear. Good news y’all. About four weeks ago I started working as an interaction designer at Service2Media, a company which is well known for developing applications for mobile platforms. So far, it’s great to be a part of product development and its dynamics. And while I’ve designed interfaces before, mobile is a specific working [...]

Ninja Tune XX – “Twenty years! Twenty fu*king years!?”

As mentioned in the earlier post about the Bonobo Band gigs, I’m admittedly a fanboy of the hip-hop / electronic music label Ninja Tune, founded by the sampling pioneers Coldcut. While I’m not familiar with the entire catalogue and also dislike a few of the contracted artists, the label has released a lot of triple A [...]