A Pocket Terraced Grape Farm in Central Portugal for under 50K USD
It's been quite a while since I wrote up a piece of rural Portuguese property, but this little gem jumped out at me a couple of days ago...
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Please visit my new store, Lazy River Design Works, for print-all-over goodness
on Hawaiian shirts, umbrellas, bucket hats, and more!
WHYTHEALGARVE
WHYTHEALGARVE
Freelance Graphic/Applied Design
My new store is online and open for business during this soft launch period before the Grand Opening. Everything works, but purchases are still being tested.
"AS HEARD
ON A
PODCAST"
Rhys and Jesse, the guys behind the podcast, Canadian Politics is Boring, gave my War on Christmas series a big plug! Thanks, guys!! Check out the episode on YouTube.
Justus Hayes
- Jan 9
- 3 min
What's Going On in 2023
Here we are in a new year and big things are afoot at the Lazy River Design Works store. The last time I posted was mid-December, and...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 12, 2022
- 6 min
What is Art? Part 2: How AI-Generated Art is Like a Camera
Yesterday, I wrote a post on social media and here that outlined as many of the arguments against AI-generated imagery as I could think...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 11, 2022
- 1 min
Film Noir de Mer - A Midjourney Image Dump
Squid Town. The Big Murk. That bottom-dwelling metropolis where the dregs drift in and settle down in the mud and debris. A place where...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
What is Art: Criticisms of AI-Generated Imagery
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the growing controversy over AI-generated imagery. It's a complicated issue that can be...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Midjourney Image Dump
I just started using the AI art engine, Midjourney. I have many thoughts, but as always I am short on time. While I'm processing and...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 14, 2022
- 1 min
T-Shirts Found Drifting Down the Lazy River
Now that classic format t-shirts are a part of the official Lazy River Design Works inventory, I thought it would be a good idea to post...
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Justus Hayes
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Wedding Ring
Back in August, I related a couple of remarkable events from my life and mentioned a few more (see this post). Today being Halloween, I...
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Justus Hayes
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
Not Quite Azulejos
The original source photos of the plates used to make these designs were posted on Pixabay by tunaolger. One of the few drawbacks of...
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Justus Hayes
- Oct 1, 2022
- 3 min
My Characteristic Style
Keen-eyed observers will have noticed by now that much of my creative output has a certain finish, a look or style that is present to...
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Justus Hayes
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Specs and Size Charts for HugePOD T-Shirts in cms and Inches
HugePOD offers quite a few t-shirt styles, each with their own size charts. Unfortunately, Wix has problems displaying all this info in...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 14, 2022
- 6 min
Bleeding Speedo, Haunted Wedding Ring, Abandoned Lullabye, and Other Remarkable Events
As I slide into the latter half of my fifties I find myself being more than a little retrospective. A part of this is Recovery work but...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 6, 2022
- 1 min
In the Backyard with Rowan and Merch
Taking photos with Rowan of Hawaiian shirts and bucket hats from the Lazy River. Merchandise IRL via print-on-demand and dropshipping.
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Justus Hayes
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
The Lazy River Just Got Deeper: The Latest Developments
Some big changes just came down the pipe and I am scrambling to catch up. Where to begin? I'll summarize with some bullet points and then...
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Justus Hayes
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
A Look at the Umbrellas from HugePOD
I have a feeling that umbrellas are going to become a lot more relevant in the near future as global warming continues to deliver extreme...
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Justus Hayes
- Jul 12, 2022
- 2 min
Hawaiian Shirt Size Charts (HugePOD and InterestPrint)
Wondering what size Hawaiian-style shirt you should order? Wonder no more. Here are size charts for both the square-cut shirts from...
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Justus Hayes
- Jul 9, 2022
- 3 min
A Look at the Hawaiian Shirts from HugePOD
Now that I've ordered and received a few of these shirts from HugePOD, I can write up a description of what they are like. Spoiler - I...
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Justus Hayes
- Jun 21, 2022
- 4 min
What Are and How Does Print-On-Demand and Dropshipping Work?
This article answers the questions in its title, and in doing so answers the MFAQ (most frequently asked question): How long is the...
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Justus Hayes
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
Much Progress on the Store Front
This morning saw two very large boxes and a slightly smaller one being ticked: - Thanks to a generous cash injection from my father, I...
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Justus Hayes
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
Ever-So-Softly Introducing "Lazy River Design Works"
My last post asked you to "Please stand by" because of working on the new online store. And, it turns out, with good reason. I'm very...
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Justus Hayes
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Please Stand By - I'm Building an Online Store!
Yep. I've decided to take the plunge and open a stand-alone, print-on-demand, dropshipping online store, a site with its own name and url...
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 27, 2022
- 7 min
So You Want to Design a Bucket Hat
I spent some time in my last post, What Do Magnum PI, Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys, and Hunter S. Thompson Have in Common? talking...
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 18, 2022
- 5 min
What Do Magnum PI, Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys, and Hunter S. Thompson Have in Common?
A big part of my overall plan to create a sustainable income stream from my creative work is figuring out what products I want to sell....
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 9, 2022
- 7 min
The Captain of Industry at Real Algarve Living: Andrew (or Andy, if you like)
It's been almost a year since I last wrote about the YouTube vloggers pursuing a simpler life, renovating land in rural Central Portugal....
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Source of Distress
My Great Big Europe Trip of 2005, referenced many times throughout this blog, had the explicit goal of collecting as many photographs of...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
Parisian Street Photography from the 30s to the 80s: Robert Doisneau
"Doisneau is remembered for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
And the Winner of My Very First T-Shirt Giveaway Contest Is...
And the winner is Nick from Indiana in the vicinity of Chicago. Their general area of residence seems fitting, as they found out about...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
How I Got There: Steps in the Design Process
I'm developing a new processing technique that results in images that look like printed ink. These images chart my steps in an attempt to...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 5, 2022
- 3 min
My Last Visit to Woodlands Hospital
Woodlands Hospital, or "Woodlands School" as it was latterly and inaccurately known, was an institution in New Westminster, British...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Bits of Portugal
As I was putting this design together, it struck me that it serves as a kind of pocket virtual tour around Portugal using the web-based...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 17, 2022
- 12 min
More Off-Grid Options under 100K CDN in Central Portugal
My light obsession with cheap, rural property in Central Portugal continues to simmer quietly on the back burner. Symptoms include...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
Return to Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion
Please don't get the idea from this post's title that I have physically returned to the interior of Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion. I...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 12, 2022
- 3 min
My Very First T-Shirt Giveaway Contest
Win an original WhyTheAlgarve t-shirt! My amazing wife, Lisa, suggested recently that I hold a contest and give away a free, original...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 5, 2022
- 7 min
The Secret Life of Shopping Carts
I have a lot of thoughts about shopping carts. They've been on my mind in some fashion for at least ten years, to the extent that I even...
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Justus Hayes
- Jan 31, 2022
- 2 min
Pockets of Radiance
As I recently wrote when I posted the above image on Facebook, "I think I'm narrowing in on something." I'm discovering (well,...
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Justus Hayes
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
A Look at Cartoonification
One of the techniques I have been spending a lot of time with is what I have been calling "cartoonification," the process of turning a...
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Justus Hayes
- Jan 4, 2022
- 1 min
Website Improvements Underway
It's 2022, my Portfolio is getting much closer to the point when I can start trying to get some work out of it, and that means the rest...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 26, 2021
- 6 min
Where to Find High Quality Free Graphics
Anyone who likes to mess around with digital images and image editing and who also doesn't want to steal intellectual property is always...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Next Design Series: British Columbia
This design series has a very focused and pragmatic goal - to create designs for merch that would appeal to tourists visiting British...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Next Design Series: British Columbia
This design series has a very focused and pragmatic goal - to create designs for merch that would appeal to tourists visiting British...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
V Day for the War on Christmas!!
Here we are, Dec 12, and the War on Christmas has finally run its course. Whew! I pumped out 17 unique designs in about 5 weeks, which is...
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Justus Hayes
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
V Day for the War on Christmas!!
Here we are, Dec 12, and the War on Christmas has finally run its course. Whew! I pumped out 17 unique designs in about 5 weeks, which is...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
And to All a Good Night - The War on Christmas
And to All a Good Night - The War on Christmas The Great Big War on Christmas Design Drive of 2021 has arrived at drop #15 with And to...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
And to All a Good Night - The War on Christmas
And to All a Good Night - The War on Christmas The Great Big War on Christmas Design Drive of 2021 has arrived at drop #15 with And to...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
I Don't Know What I Want - The War on Christmas
I Don't Know What I Want - The War on Christmas What's this? #14 in the Great Big War on Christmas Design Drive of 2021? Yes, it is. I...
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Justus Hayes
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min