I really miss my home and my things. I really do. I’m trying hard not to complain because we essentially invited ourselves into my parent’s condo. My old room had since been long converted in my dad’s man-cave for a while now and there’s barely enough room for me to stretch out flat to sleep. As it is, I have to sleep at an angle on...
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So remodeling has begun. We spent an entire weekend packing up our house and covering up all our good in anticipation for all the work. And this morning I invited a whole crew of strangers into my home and watched as they begin taking sledgehammers, screwdrivers and crowbars to my once happy home. I recognize that I shouldn’t bitch…being in a...
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We had some problems getting Kingston into the Halloween mood this year for the first time. We did what we could — we took him to the costume store weeks ago, let him pick his own costume and I even got him into the mood by watching some selective hero fighting scenes in the Avengers. He just loves imagining being the Hulk, Capt. America, Iron Man...
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I set in an all day PHP, JQuery meeting yesterday amongst campus developers. I thought to myself, “how is it I ended up being a web developer and I hate programming so much?” Is that odd? I mean, at one point in my life I really loved getting my hands dirty with this stuff…I programmed stuff on my Radio Shack Tandy machine in BASIC to do...
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I thought this project was pretty creative. I’m a little envious of the commitment and level of creativity in a project vision like this. In a campaign that sets out to change drivers’ attitudes to low-level speeding by exposing the community problem that sits at the heart of it, we constructed a crash made up of people. The final image was...
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LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.