I found one really good by-product of being self-employed was the fact that there wasn’t really one spot that tied me down as my “office”. Yes, I had set myself up very comfortably with my own home office…painted it up really nice, bought myself a nice desk with fancy lap and just about all the tech conveniences I need to do my...
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Finally after almost 3 decades of independent travel, I think I finally found the secret to having a real vacation such that I feel much more refreshed than I have been in a long while. You know how you can go off to a long vacation and feel even more tired than you left? You feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? I didn’t feel any of that...
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[youtube id=PmeeUGrDkPw] I may be a little partial to Audi lately. I just love my car. One of the things that really appeals to be about the car are the lights — what the car salesman described as “bling lights”. It just appeals to my 10 year old kid in me watching Knight Rider and wishing someday to own a cheesy car with fancy lights....
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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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I think these examples would be great for my future graphic design students. As these tips and examples (by Martín De Pasquale) reveal, the secret to a good photochop is all about lighting. (image: Gizmodo)
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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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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.