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Another Installment in the Continuing Saga of the "Dixon/Hayes History on Thetis Island" Raw Photo Dump
I continue to dig through bins of old photos, pull out the Thetis Island pics, and then scan the best of those. Here are the latest.

Justus Hayes
Mar 231 min read


Hayes Family History on Thetis Island - Raw Photo Dump
We acquired a printer/scanner recently, giving me a reason to dig through our multiple bins of photos and digitize a selection. These are...

Justus Hayes
Mar 171 min read


Dark Satire at the End of the World
A proposal for a dark satire tv show about trillionaires after the apocalypse as they live and scheme in their bunkers in New Zealand.

Justus Hayes
Feb 214 min read


No Rest for the Wicked: Big Changes at the 'Lazy River Design Works' Store
An update about the Lazy River Design Works store; its new West Coast BC theme, but also some Abstract and Low Humour

Justus Hayes
Jan 42 min read


Last Night at the LRT - Neo-Noir Music Video
Part of my ongoing efforts to promote my store, Big Shadows , is to create videos and promo reels that capture the...

Justus Hayes
Sep 7, 20242 min read


The Concrete Frog
Concrete frog and raspberries on our little back patio. I've been lugging that frog around for almost 30 years. He belonged to my uncle,...

Justus Hayes
Jul 15, 20246 min read


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...

Justus Hayes
Dec 12, 20226 min read


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...

Justus Hayes
Dec 11, 20223 min read


Interpretations of The Overlook's Gold Room
This is an examination of another of Kubrick's iconic scenic environments, the Gold Room, which is featured so prominently in his horror...

Justus Hayes
Oct 11, 20216 min read


a shopping cart saved my life
I created a group on Facebook, "a shopping cart saved my life." When I realized I could easily create a group, one dedicated to shopping...

Justus Hayes
Sep 13, 20211 min read


Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 3: Gathering Evidence
I'm using this post at present as a photo dump. All pics are linked back to their sources and given a year when possible. 195? 1955, by...

Justus Hayes
Aug 16, 20211 min read


Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 2: More Buffet Drama
I've had an interesting time researching 309 Belleville St, the building that was the Captain's Palace and is now the Pendray Inn and Tea...

Justus Hayes
Aug 15, 20215 min read


I'm back!
I probably should have mentioned this in a previous post, but we moved house on May 01. We are finally fully extracted from the old...

Justus Hayes
May 6, 202110 min read


Another Progression
Some examples of filtering and extreme filtering, from a detail of the facade of a cathedral on Edinburgh's Royal Mile to curved...

Justus Hayes
Jan 26, 20211 min read


I Added Music to the Site - the Opponent Process
During the 2000s, I dove deep into making electronic music. My artist name was "the Opponent Process" for reasons that I won't get into...

Justus Hayes
Jan 21, 20211 min read


You Won't Believe the Audacity of these Podcasts. The Top 10 of 2020!
We will see how long this prurient use of click bait titles continues. I predict, "Not long." So, 2021, a date that somehow feels the...

Justus Hayes
Jan 2, 20214 min read


My First Sale! Zazzle vs Society6
Yay! Yes, I have sold my first product online, leggings with the "Big Yellow Man" design (above) on Zazzle. I am now about $4.60 richer....

Justus Hayes
Dec 12, 20204 min read


Plenty of Rats in the Old Opsal Steel Building
Here is an assortment of photos I took of the historic Opsal Steel Building in 2008. This was the first of many visits, starting at dawn...

Justus Hayes
Nov 26, 20201 min read


The Ghost Tree at Vancouver's Abandoned Insane Asylum, Riverview Hospital
Riverview Hospital is a sprawling institutional complex in Coquitlam, BC. It's about a thirty minute drive from our house in South...

Justus Hayes
Nov 15, 20203 min read


Hostel Owner Drinks Himself into the Hospital, Gives Me the Keys, and I Visit Verano Cemetery: Prt 2
Please see Hostel Owner Drinks Himself into the Hospital, Gives Me the Keys, and I Visit Verano Cemetery: Part 1 for, well, Part 1. Once...

Justus Hayes
Nov 1, 20207 min read
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