Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath was inducted to this year's Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. WHOOOHOO! That's so cool.

So you might ask me, "What's that got to do with design Raph?" Well, then again, what the hell does half of what I write here have to do with design.

Well, when it comes to art and expression, EVERYTHING I do and experience day to day has a big influence on what comes out of my mind in what I do in design.

Think of it this way:

• Without the heavy metal "devil music", punk, hardcore, crazy stuff I got into in high school...
• Without the crazy colored hairdos...the mohawks, the freakish fucked up shit I used to do to my hair...
• Without the instruments, the late night jam sessions with friends, the gigs played in front of audiences big and small....

....I may have never come out of my shell. I'd be some disshelved asian kid with an old Member's Only jacket, thick ass glasses, uncontrollable nose hair. I may have never understood how to stand up for myself, never learned how to buck authority if I had my own opinion, never learned how to step out and try something off the beaten path.

So...in the end, Lowe Studio may never have existed without the likes of Black Sabbath -- unarguably the originators of all that is good! :)

Whoohooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! CHEERS!!