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, 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 9, 20228 min read
The Captain of Industry at Real Algarve Living: Andrew (or Andy, if you like)
It's been almost a year since I last wrote about the YouTube vloggers pursuing a simpler life, renovating land in rural Central Portugal....
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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
Mar 23, 20223 min read
Parisian Street Photography from the 30s to the 80s: Robert Doisneau
"Doisneau is remembered for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 16, 20221 min read
And the Winner of My Very First T-Shirt Giveaway Contest Is...
And the winner is Nick from Indiana in the vicinity of Chicago. Their general area of residence seems fitting, as they found out about...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 12, 20221 min read
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
Mar 5, 20223 min read
My Last Visit to Woodlands Hospital
Woodlands Hospital, or "Woodlands School" as it was latterly and inaccurately known, was an institution in New Westminster, British...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 25, 20222 min read
Bits of Portugal
As I was putting this design together, it struck me that it serves as a kind of pocket virtual tour around Portugal using the web-based...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 17, 202212 min read
More Off-Grid Options under 100K CDN in Central Portugal
My light obsession with cheap, rural property in Central Portugal continues to simmer quietly on the back burner. Symptoms include...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 16, 20221 min read
Return to Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion
Please don't get the idea from this post's title that I have physically returned to the interior of Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion. I...
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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
Feb 5, 20227 min read
The Secret Life of Shopping Carts
I have a lot of thoughts about shopping carts. They've been on my mind in some fashion for at least ten years, to the extent that I even...
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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
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Website Improvements Underway
It's 2022, my Portfolio is getting much closer to the point when I can start trying to get some work out of it, and that means the rest...
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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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