Recently I had the idea to make a coffee table from scratch. We needed one in our apartment and I figured the fun thing to do would be to make one. Here’s how it went down. I wanted the coffee table to include copper piping – I’ve waiting for a project that I could use …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
2017 in Numbers
1 broken finger, 7 new countries, 32 books read, 63 selfies, 95 Instagram photos (only 28 of which were food!), 80 Crossfit classes, and 3669km travelled by foot. “Space I can recover. Time, never.” – Napoleon Bonaparte And now for 2018.
Door Table Project
As the first of my projects to make more furniture and household objects, I settled on the biggest need in the house at the time. A table. We wanted something long that we could use equally for working on or for hosting dinner parties around. There are admittedly a lot of off the shelf (or …
2016 in numbers
2 broken fingers, 6 new countries, 39 books read, 63 selfies, 92 instagram photos (only 44 of which were food!), 95 crossfit classes, and 3678km travelled by foot. “Let all your efforts to be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things …
New year new things
In somewhat typical fashion, the coming of a new year makes you reëvaluate what you’re doing a little bit more, and rescrutinise any previous goals you may have had. Substituting them for more challenging, more trackable, or maybe even more socially acceptable goals. 2016 will be the year of more, more books read, more exciting …
Cold brew coffee
After visiting Bluebottle Coffee in SF, trying out their cold brew awesomeness and subsequently seeing this whole cold brew thing blowing up across the California coast I had to give it a go. The big coffee drippers at bluebottle are these amazing steampunk-esque brass looking behemoths. They drop cold (presumably filtered) water over loosely packed …
So just what is a new customer?
In my recent work, and in the industry that I’m involved in, the words new, existing, customer, and unique get thrown around rather frequently. And frequently, their usage is incorrect. Marketers, advertisers and publishers know what they want (generally), but they for sure do not know how to express it. These are all terms bandied …