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...

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...

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...

The original source photos of the plates used to make these designs were posted on Pixabay by tunaolger. One of the few drawbacks of...

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...

Taking photos with Rowan of Hawaiian shirts and bucket hats from the Lazy River. Merchandise IRL via print-on-demand and dropshipping.

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...

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...

Wondering what size Hawaiian-style shirt you should order? Wonder no more. Here are size charts for both the square-cut shirts from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

And the winner is Nick from Indiana in the vicinity of Chicago. Their general area of residence seems fitting, as they found out about...

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...

Win an original WhyTheAlgarve t-shirt! My amazing wife, Lisa, suggested recently that I hold a contest and give away a free, original...

As I recently wrote when I posted the above image on Facebook, "I think I'm narrowing in on something." I'm discovering (well,...

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...

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...