As promised, here’s a Photoshop tutorial for your creative pumpkin pleasure in which we’re going to make a picture into a pumpkin face. Steven and I did this the other night and the results were pretty fantastic for an on the fly creative project.
My friend Matt, who has left NY for Alabama, but is still here in spirit! Boo!
So the other night I was over at Steven and Moy’s place to carve pumpkins, listen to copious amounts of Greenday, and bake pumpkin seeds! It was a pretty fantastic evening that was documented by Steven over at his blog/website Chocolate Milk but you can check out the video here:
We essentially took a photo of my friend Matthew, who has left New York for a 9-month stint at the Alabama Shakespeare Company, and turned him into a pumpkin to share the love. The cool thing is, you can turn most portraits into pumpkin carving designs with very little work. If you like the pumpkin design, I’ll be posting a tutorial soon on how to create you own pumpkin designs using Photoshop and Illustrator! Until then, Happy Halloween!
High school can be rough.
A couple weeks ago, I arrived early to my SAT class, and took the extra time to sit in a nearby park and look over my student’s score reports. As the final bell rung, students streamed out the doors and into the park to hang out with their friends before it was time to go home.
I would have paid them no mind, but a silver-grey streak caught my eye, and I found myself watching a boy in black trench-coat, heavy boots, and long silver wig, brandish a stick in his best Sephiroth impersonation… (Read more…)
So it’s been awhile. But I’m back.
I’ll admit it, this blog fell into a state of neglect over the past 3 months or so. Outside of the month where I gave up on life and instead watched every episode of Burn Notice, Battlestar Gallactica, and Mad Men I could get my hands on, I’ve been trying to navigate my way towards a real life in New York. For the most part it’s a case study for banging my head against concrete, but every now and then something gives and things start to go well.
So what’s new? well, I’ve… (Read more…)
