San Francisco’s People. Canon 5DmkII 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. I was chatting with a good friend yesterday about how much fun I’ve had with my camera over the past year when we started discussing how all these DSLRs are now coming packed with video shooting capabilities. Quite a few people had dismissed this as a gimmick, but I’ve...
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I stumbled across this photographer’s website this morning while checking around for daily inspiration. His name is Jason Lee Parry. (via Tobacco and Leather) Caveat emptor on the video and website, there’s some nudity so it’s definitely NSFW. As always, I’ve had an interest of getting more into photography in recent years, albeit...
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I like this guy’s site. Damjan Stankovic is a designer in Serbia who apparently thinks up new concepts for everyday objects. I like a couple of his ideas like the tea infuser or the traffic light concept above. He’s got some good photoshop/illustrator prototypes up on his site as well. Having done some prototyping for a couple clients in the...
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Kingston’s 10 months old now. He’s gotten to the point where he’d be considered actively mobile? I guess that’s the fancy way of saying he can get to where he wants to go whenever he wants to go. Case in point…here I’ve caught him in the act of touching my audio equipment. I think he has a little bit of an idea that he...
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I just finished my last evening of a series of non-credit photography classes yesterday. Overall I found it to be fun. In the 2nd class I don’t think I learned quite as much as I’d like to simply because it was a critique class and as these typically go…critique is often not quite as direct and harsh as is helpful. You know, sometimes you...
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So daddy took me to the beach yesterday when it raining. Daddy thought he needed to bring me here because he’s been coming to this Ala Moana beach place since he was as old as I am. Daddy had homework this week in his photo class where the teacher said to take an assigned color and evoke the emotion of the color. I think Daddy had “blue”....
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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.