I LOVE the Christmas season…but it really kicks my ass. I got tons of work to do, I’m backlogged on my accounting duties, I’ve got to grade my classes, I got to hurry up and record all my videos in time for next semester’s online classes, I got to rush on some work at the college web job because apparently work that was sitting...
Read MorePotty Training
I think I’m really starting to resemble Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, such that I’m being pessimistic a lot lately. Even when things are good, (and I appreciate that they really ARE good right now), I’m just perpetually in this state of feeling stressed, tired, and wired up. There have been some days lately I felt I...
Read MoreUpgrade policy for Adobe
I’m not sure how certain this will come to fruition, but it may be the case that Adobe’s tightening up their policy on upgrades to their Creative Suite products. Apparently, if you don’t have their latest, CS5 or CS5.5 versions of CS, you may be stuck paying the full price for the next version when it comes out. From Scott Kelby’s...
Read MoreI love my new workplace.
So far I’m enjoying my new role as webmaster for the Community College. Yes, it’s challenging…not because of the actual technical work (because I’ve done web production many many times), but more so because of the way the academic environment works and how long it takes to get things decided. But there are a lot of not-so-obvious...
Read MoreSuper Mario
Did I miss something, is it some special anniversary for Super Mario? Just today I noticed Super Mario crop up in my daily browsing. Who over the age of 20 doesn’t have a soft-spot for this guy. I remember fondly those days when I used to go to the house of a friend who happened to have the first SNES of anyone I knew…watching the game of...
Read MoreHigh need low expectations
It’s been increasingly difficult to post regularly here on my blog sorry. Couple things going on here. First, I’ve split up my teaching material from my business website here, so I created another site and blog rather than mix everything all up on this site. I haven’t exactly worked out how I’d manage two blogs. The one on the class...
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.