Darren Hoyt Dot Com | Archive for Asides

June 2010

Thu 10^th

LiveView for iPhone & iPad

LiveView is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications.

Thu 13^th

My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress

The model for setting up a quirky blog then waiting for the coffee-table book deals to roll in is being stretched a bit thin, but good luck to this guy.
Sun 2^nd

Designing with the Elements of Play

This post by Jared Spool is another chapter in the strongest recurring theme of 2006-2010: gameplay in everyday activities. See also, this talk by Jesse Schell.

Mon 22^nd

Repent Amarillo

Design-wise, RepentAmarillo.com is a curious mix of military- and spiritual-warfare with video game aesthetic. Also, animated snow. Or nuclear fallout?
Mon 15^th

Chat Roulette Piano Improv

The first thing I thought of when I discovered ChatRoulette was “hey, stop doing that that!” The second thing I thought of was its great potential for improvised performance.

Sun 21^st

Animal Collective

A photo my wife and I took and blogged about respectively reached its peak of internet fame before completing its life-cycle and appearing on a Tumblr making fun of bad tattoos.
Sat 13^th

TrustoCorp

No one knows if TrustoCorp is more than one person, but s/he/it makes street art in the form of signage which I recently spotted on Houston Street in NYC.
Wed 10^th

World’s Most Influential Designers

Business Week profiles “27 luminaries who represent a diverse cross-section of design disciplines”.
Sun 7^th

InstantWatcher

If you need suggestions for Netflix movies and are set up to stream, InstantWatcher aggregates from NY Times and Rotten Tomatoes, and breaks them down by genre.
Sat 6^th

ChatRoulette

After an afternoon spent on ChatRoulette, Sam Anderson of NYMag, felt “socially trampled, excluded and e-viscerated”. This is a social web I’m not ready for.

Tue 29^th

Complication

How do you explain a truly disruptive band like The Monks? Someone played them for me back in college and I refused to believe they’d existed in 1965.
Tue 8^th

Best Songs of 2009

This has been my busiest year ever on a personal level, so I’m glad to see Said The Gramophone has compiled all the good music from 2009 I’ve missed out on.
Sun 6^th

Choosing a typeface timelapse

Brian Hoff records his process of choosing the right typeface for a project. Would love to see a few tooltip overlays explaining the choices he made.
Sat 5^th

Radical Faith

Shane Claiborne has been making news this year and I’ve begun his book, The Irresistable Revolution. See also his recent Esquire editorial.
Sat 5^th

BoingBoing without Steampunk

Waldo has provided what so many have wished for: the ability to browse BoingBoing without tedious references to the steampunk genre.
Sat 5^th

Build it With Me

This is kind of like a matchmaking service for designers and developers who want to collaborate on building apps.
Sat 5^th

Little Stabs of Happiness

This week I lost an inspirational family member, the second in two years. This poem by my old poetry professor always makes me feel better about feeling bad.
Sat 5^th

Google Public DNS

Google has launched a public DNS service aimed at improving speed, security and validity. Go change your settings and give it a whirl.