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Justus Hayes
Jan 42 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
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Justus Hayes
Sep 7, 20242 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...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 15, 20246 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,...
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Justus Hayes
Dec 12, 20226 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...
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Justus Hayes
Dec 11, 20223 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...
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Justus Hayes
Oct 11, 20216 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...
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Justus Hayes
Sep 13, 20211 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...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 16, 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...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 15, 20215 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...
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Justus Hayes
May 6, 202110 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...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 26, 20211 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...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 21, 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...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 2, 20214 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...
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Justus Hayes
Dec 12, 20204 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....
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Justus Hayes
Nov 26, 20201 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...
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Justus Hayes
Nov 15, 20203 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...
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Justus Hayes
Nov 1, 20207 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...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 3, 20204 min read
Off Topic: "Practical Field Guide to Alien Abduction" and "Woodlands"
I've thrown a lot of digital spaghetti at the online, virtual wall in at attempt to make something stick. For many years I made...
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Justus Hayes
Jun 5, 20203 min read
Other People Ask and Answer the Question
Why the Algarve? | My Guide Algarve - "Come winter or summer the Algarve brims with activity, making it one of our favourite...
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Justus Hayes
May 21, 20205 min read
My Other Distraction
It's been quite a few years since I last took gardening seriously. I know it's a cliche, but the Quar really brought it out of me. The...
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