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
- 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 6
- 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 31
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 12
- 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
- Feb 12
- 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
- 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
- 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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