Pumpkins! (And turning your favorite person into one!)

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!

The Life of DB: Official Relaunch

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.

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