Sometimes it amazes me how creative some people are. OR I’m often amazed at how they find the time for things like this. Either way, these automaton metal elephants are way cool. (via: BookofJoe)
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g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. OK this is rather cool…a bit of a giant leap in interface design akin to the fancy computers they showed in the movies like Minority Report or Matrix. Who knows, maybe in the near future we’ll be doing all our Photoshop designs using these giant hand gestures. It’ll be like I...
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Gizmodo had this great collection of “Hypnotic Gadgets” on their site yesterday. Pretty amazing stuff. I’m resisting the urge to launch into another “why can’t we have cool stuff like this in Hawaii” tirade. Think about this though, with all the talk our local politicians have about how we’re so IT friendly and how...
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Here’s another exhibit that’s pretty cool. It’s an installation art piece called CUBE that uses tech to generate “portraits” on the fly. In other words, the CUBE is designed to collect thousands of live video snippets and then make its own decisions on how it would display it on the screens. It’s like live portraits....
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Here’s a concept I quickly whipped up for my band “Miss Buddha”. I’m not sure. I was pretty excited about it at first. I liked the spirit of it…it’s very Sex Pistol-esk. I intentionally did it very fast and furious to try to get the energy of the music we played. And I noticed a lot of the iconic punk groups always...
Read MoreRolling bridges
I saw this rolling bridge thing (via: Toxel) covered a few years back on that on that Aussie show “Beyond 2000” (Is it still called that today? Shouldn’t they call the show like…Beyond 2020 for instance?) Anyway, I think it’s kind of neat. Practical? Maybe, maybe not, but it’s still cool. That’s one of the things...
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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.