I’ve somehow managed to get a hold of the entire series of Uncanny Xmen in digital archive format so I’ve made it a mission to read it through right from the first issue. As it turns out, the early issues of the series was actually pretty difficult to read. The cheese factor and innocence of that era of comic book writing really shows through....
Read MoreOsaka water display
I won’t say it. NO! I won’t say how jealous I am that there are amazing giant futuristic mysterious water jet displays out there in the world, and I never get to see it because I’m stuck on an island. I’m going to get the inevitable, “Well why don’t you just move then” remark. “Bitch, get me some cash to go...
Read MorePicture orders
Ordered Kingston’s photos last week? It came back looking pretty sweet. I might end up doing the full set of 12 of these and have them hung down one wall of my living room. Hmm…then again, I think having these picture tiles within reach of a 2 year old will mean I’ll get little cubes pulled off the walls and tossed at my head whenever he...
Read MoreIlluminated books
File this under the this-is-cool-but-there’s-no-way-I-have-the-time-to-do-something-like-this category. (via Toxel)
Read MoreMobius sculpture
Apparently this stop-motion sculpture was set up as a giant installation in Melbourne. My brother lives out on that side. /sigh. Jealous. Looks neat…my first impression was that it moved itself kinetically somehow. But no. Just a bunch of people lugging the pieces around in a very systematic fashion. Again…the only art we have here in Hawaii is...
Read MoreCinema-graph
A nice little photography shooting challenge posted on Gizmodo this morning got me interested in looking into Cinema-graph (Cinemagraph?) work. Any old school ’90s web developer remember those animated GIFs right? Basically the same type of work but just done with photoshop masking as well. I personally think this effect works best when people are...
Read MoreAbout Me
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.