So the doctor told my wife yesterday that our little guy may come anytime after the next 2 weeks. EEEEP! Holy Moses smell the roses, am I ready? My wife looks seems calm and prepared, but I’m in a panic in my mind — “What do I bring with me to the hospital? Where do I drop her off?” I better figure this out right away!...
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Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo. Here’s an interesting physics type game that is availabe for the iPhone. It’s pretty neat. Reminds me of a game I used to love on PC DOS a long time ago where you build these Rube Goldberg type machines to solve the puzzles, The Incredible Machine.
Read MoreLEGO goodness
You know, I’m going to REAAAALLY look forward to having a little boy. Among the many fun times we’ll have watching him grow, I’ll have a bonifide excuse for purchasing toys. Hotwheels, Legos, Action Figures…oh I’m he’s giddy with excitement. Talking about LEGO, here’s a personal project that supposedly took...
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Is it a keypad? Or is it jewelry? Perhaps both? Interesting concept taking the emoticon concepts into new areas in both function and form. On this board it acts as a keypad you can use to insert emoticons into your messages. But then you can pull out these round smiley guys and insert them into wearable jewelry. Kinda geeky but I can see this being a...
Read MoreTower of Power
OK, my hypothesis is somewhat vindicated…. we’re not the only country that does amazingly pointless activities, costing a heck of a lot of money & resources, qualifying for the “Why-Do-They-Hate-Us” list. Apparently Vienna people have a lot of time on their hands as well. A Guiness World Record was broken with this 96.73 feet...
Read MoreCars and Lego
While I was searching around for good material I could use in class to teach Illustrator, I came across this illustration that has all these cool cars from various movies, TV shows, and video games. I don’t recognize them all, but there are more then a few that bring back old memories for me. Excitebike, the Starsky and Hutch car, James Bond’s...
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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.