My wife and I had completed our remodeling ordeal at our home for almost 2 months now. We love the results but I don’t feel like we’re completely done just yet. There are a couple of boxes that remain sitting outside our kitchen and some pictures and paintings waiting to be hung. I still have to work from our kitchen countertop because my...
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I’ve obviously been on a big Lego kick recently. I got another one coming in the mail. What’s especially nice is that Kingston is starting to show an interest in those toys so there’s less resistance from the spousal unit. What…is that a bad thing to call her? 😉 Anyway, there’s a fun series of Lego inspired riddles I ran...
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Yet another example of pencil art. These are pretty unbelievable…the fact that artist Paul Cadden drew these photorealistic pieces of art with nothing but a pencil and paper. Pencil is one of my favorite mediums…somewhat the same practice I used as a kid drawing ninja turtles between homework assignments (yes, geeky I know) What inevitably...
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File this under wish-i-could-do-this-but-don’t-have-the-patience category. Apparently Japanese artist Makaon creates these sculptures out of recycled tin cans. To me, what’s extra cool about these is his sense of how multi-colored cans can be combined to get the desired result. If you’d look at any one piece independently you’d...
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[youtube id=G1iVJExd5vA] As I’ve aged, I’ve learned my own limits. There are certain things I don’t know, but I have confidence that I could learn provided I had (1) the desire to learn that subject matter and (2) the time to do it. Programming, photography, and videography are some of my current like-to-do challenges I know I could...
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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.