The Irony Indicator, aka The Rayburn Ironic-O-Meter This an example of a design that was conceived, implemented, thought about, then...

This design is kind of unique. It was made as a very specific inside joke based on the podcast, Knowledge Fight, but also works on its...

I've had the idea for "Just Say NO!! to Interdimensional Demons" for a while. Once again, inspired by the podcast Knowledge Fight (I am...

One of the very first designs I made with this stencil-style used a Gage Skidmore photo of Trump as its source. I needed a graphic for...

Once again, the inestimable podcast, Knowledge Fight, provided the inspiration for this inside-jokey design. One of my short-term goals...

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...

I chose a driftwood texture for Joe mostly as a rather lame comment on his age - weathered, worn, silvered. However, when I dropped the...

Alex Jones is a complex and fascinatingly horrible human being. It seems fitting to me that he should embody the cliché of the stupidest...

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...

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...

This design was part of the development process while doing some work for Luke and Sarah's Off-Grid Life. They said no to it due to...

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...

When the Lockdown started and I became a stay-at-home dad, I had some early graphic design successes that really motivated me and helped...

This is just one variation of many that resulted from Simon Jowett's excellent Public Domain photo, "Alone in Kyoto." When I saw the...

"Lisbon Facade" is a very good example of a design that provides multiple application options, depending on level of zoom and positioning....

My wife, Lisa, has been working at a construction site on the Fraser River for over a year, and I have been driving her to and from work....

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...

The Gothic Quarter in Barcelona is a fabulous place in which I could have happily spent weeks wandering around and documenting. This...

Sarlat is a small, medieval town in the south of France, in the Perigord region, where I spent a few days in 2005. At the end of that...

Hey, Jack! Joe Biden, the greatest living socialist in America, is ushering in a new, golden Soviet era. Or at least, so some would have...