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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Please visit my online stores, Big Shadows for film noir art and attire,
and Lazy River Design Works for everything else.
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Justus Hayes
Aug 6, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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