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...
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Justus Hayes
- Jul 15
- 6 min
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,...
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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
- 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
- Oct 11, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Justus Hayes
- Sep 27, 2021
- 5 min
The Bathroom in Room 237
The bathroom in The Shining's room 237 is one of the most iconic environments in film history. The fame of this room is due as much to...
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Justus Hayes
- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Regarding "Consider the Halibut"
I have removed the latest installment of the series on the Captain's Palace, "Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 4: Consider the...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 16, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 15, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Justus Hayes
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 1: The Determined Wee Man
I got my first job as a busboy at the Captain's Palace Restaurant when I was 14, back in 1981. I started waiting tables when I was 17, a...
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Justus Hayes
- Jun 30, 2021
- 12 min
That time I got locked inside an abandoned military hospital, twice
I was just memory-strolling by reading my old Livejournal page, kept during my Great Big Europe Trip, 2005. I was going to retell the...
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Justus Hayes
- May 6, 2021
- 10 min
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...
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 10, 2021
- 9 min
The Great Big Europe Trip of 2005
I thought it would be a good idea to summarize the time I spent five months traveling around Western Europe, seeing as how these days I'm...
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Justus Hayes
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Goddammit, I'm on Facebook
I avoided it for a long time, but I finally gave in and started a Facebook page. The thing that tipped the scales for me was the ability...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 25, 2021
- 5 min
Turning a Corner: The Beneficial Effects of Relentless Jolliness
This, as many of you will know, is Rowan, our youngest son. He just turned 12, and I have been his (and his brother, Alex's) primary...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Modalities of Awakened Doing
An old friend of my father's and more recent friend of mine, Larry Walske, posted this on Instagram, and it really resonated with me. It...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 6, 2021
- 2 min
Wikimedia Commons Debacle Resolved!
Yes, the great Wikimedia Debacle of 2021 is over. See this post for the history up to now. Here's the latest, and final I suppose,...
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Justus Hayes
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
Please Stand By
Talk about not enough hours in the day. I have a lot to write, but not enough time for the last few days and at least a couple more. I've...
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Justus Hayes
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
I was afraid this might happen
My uploads to Wikimedia Commons have been flagged for deletion, and I am in the midst of defending them to the administrator who flagged...
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