Club Noir de Mer
"Another Set at Club Noir de Mer" My fascination with variations on the film noir aesthetic continues, mostly placing the tropes in an...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
Modes of Interaction
One of the most important tools in my abstract-generating kit is Layer Mode, also called Blend Mode and Mixing Mode. In an image editing...
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Justus Hayes
- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
The Fruits of "Alone in Kyoto"
Alone in Kyoto Photo by Simon Jowett, published as Public Domain in the Creative Commons via Flickr. Here is his description: "Today I...
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