I found these little paper & wood craft sets over at a local store this past weekend. The sets were from Japan. There’s a website for all the sets. I took a chance…spending $22 for essentially what amounts to just paper & wood wasn’t something I can do all the time. But I figure after my last project with LEGO I wanted something...
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I spent my birthday just staying home and building this fancy R2-D2 Lego set yesterday. No, it’s not finished yet. Which is fine! I wanted something that would take me a few nights to put together. It’s actually my first lego set in years and years. I forgot how fun it was as a child to build these things. It got me thinking about my boy...
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Shhh! Don’t tell anyone I bought myself a lego set to build for my birthday next week! Which is more pathetic…buying the Lego? Or having to end up buying my own bday gift? I’m going to go with neither, because I’m going to LOVE it. It’s got tons of pieces which should keep me occupied for at least a good few hours while my...
Read MoreThis little shirt film gave me joy & hope. Joy that this world isn’t all just about terrorism, capitalism, dirty politics and taxes. Joy that there are good dads out there who care as much as I do about the lives of their children. Joy that there are simply good people out there who will go out of their way to make someone’s day a little...
Read MoreDid 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 MoreI sit in this little awkward space between being a full-on geek to being completely behind the times. It’s like, I stumble across stuff that the average Joe I interact with doesn’t know about, but by the time I’ve discovered it, it’s probably something that many people online have known about for a long time. Take Kickstarter for...
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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.