Here some abstracts and semi-abstracts that I've been playing around with over the past couple of days with Midjourney. Just a sampling...

It's been quite some time since I've posted here on the blog, and I have a few minutes this morning to get caught up. The biggest online...

I started paying attention to cheap rural land for sale in Central Portugal at the beginning of 2020, right around the start of the...

One of my longest YouTube subscriptions has been Joseph Marsh's farmer for fun channel (he also has a website here and is prolific on...

A couple of months ago, I listened to a podcast (I thought it was CBC's "Ideas" but apparently not) that discussed the influence of...

"Another Set at Club Noir de Mer" My fascination with variations on the film noir aesthetic continues, mostly placing the tropes in an...

It's been quite a while since I wrote up a piece of rural Portuguese property, but this little gem jumped out at me a couple of days ago...

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...

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...

Squid Town. The Big Murk. That bottom-dwelling metropolis where the dregs drift in and settle down in the mud and debris. A place where...

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...

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...

Now that classic format t-shirts are a part of the official Lazy River Design Works inventory, I thought it would be a good idea to post...

Back in August, I related a couple of remarkable events from my life and mentioned a few more (see this post). Today being Halloween, I...

The original source photos of the plates used to make these designs were posted on Pixabay by tunaolger. One of the few drawbacks of...

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...

HugePOD is no longer one of my suppliers. A good product, but they became a little too unreliable.

As I slide into the latter half of my fifties I find myself being more than a little retrospective. A part of this is Recovery work but...

Taking photos with Rowan of Hawaiian shirts and bucket hats from the Lazy River. Merchandise IRL via print-on-demand and dropshipping.

Some big changes just came down the pipe and I am scrambling to catch up. Where to begin? I'll summarize with some bullet points and then...