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Why I moved my shop and blog from Shopify to WordPress
I moved my website from Shopify to WordPress hosted in AWS (Lightsail). There were many reasons why, but the two biggest reasons were the blogging capability and spam management. WordPress has been my go to for years for blogs and when I started my first one back in Japan, it…
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Kotouen (小陶苑) a beautiful pottery gallery and tea ceremony classroom Arashiyama, Japan
Kotouen (小陶苑) is a beautiful pottery gallery and tea ceremony classroom in the heart of Arashiyama, Japan. I visited the couple who’ve run it for over 50 years, a business passed down from the owner’s father. The atmosphere was still and I didn’t want to leave. Sitting in the garden with…
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Recreating hand-drawn artwork using ChatGPT experiments
ChatGPT is pretty amazing, I call him G and he calls me Jezza. The fact that we’re leaning on and personalising this AI so much indicates how good it is. So the major concern from artists is being replaced by AI, G disagrees this is going to happen and I’m…
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Results of eight months of TikTok effect creating
I’ve been creating TikTok effects fairly regularly until recently when life got busy. My motivations were these: Here’s some stats of where I’m at after eight months of creating (Mar 2025): Other notes What has the effect creating translated to? Learnings Wrap up It’s been an interesting time investment and…
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Print on Demand (POD) services that I use
If you’re looking for options for print on demand (or produce on demand) and you’re based in Australia, this article may be helpful. I’m an illustrator and artist based in Western Australia and so I searched for POD (Print on Demand) options locally first. After finding there were no options…