Posted by Matt on Jan 14, 2006 in
photo “Huh? But Matt’s not a sports person…?”
Too true. I’m not a sports person. But I am the type of person to feel good that his photography is in a national publication.
If you check out page 26 and 27 of the January 16th issue, you’ll understand.
So, I got’s me a few thanks to send out…
Mom and Dad, thanks for getting me that Pentax K1000, and paying/sending me to art school, and for not pressuring me too much about my job at Southwest, and for supporting me when I chose to leave. Thanks to my bro for being supportive of just about anything I try.
Chris, and Whitney, and TJ thanks for riding my ass about leaving Southwest and getting back into photography.
Chris, thanks for conning GoBig into taking a chance on a tech guy with a camera. And helping me shoot those images, and making them look so badass, and giving me a place to live, and listening to me freak out about my job on a regular basis, and and and…
Well…thank you guys.
Posted by Matt on Dec 30, 2005 in
photo Spend any time with me and you’ll notice 2 things. I’m a ‘living in the present, talking about the past’ kinda guy, and I tend to be amazed by the way that little events and discoveries collide and connect into larger ones.
Example. 2 days ago, I’m in the local coffee place, Perks (wassup Jeff!), sipping coffee, hanging out with Cornwell and cruising Digg.com on their WIFI. I come across this, Opacity. Opacity is a photo site of urban ruins.
Ever since Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse of Reason, and Depesche Mode’s Music for the Masses (check out the tracks One Slip, and Agent Orange respectively) I’ve had a connection to large industrial spaces, and associate the sound, musical themes, and the…well…’big-ness’ of these albums with ‘big’ types of spaces, industrial or natural. Opacity fit the bill, so I put it into my Flavor>Saver bookmarks folder to look at later.
Tonight, I peek at Opacity, and what do I find? This, which in turn linked to this
I remember the way it used to be.
I worked there in the summer of 94/5/6. I can remember the first summer there with Scott, and then the second with Ben Dunning and finally the third with Pete too.
I can still remember sitting on the hill behind the dining hall, longing to be out on Prudence on the 4th of July, wondering what I was missing. And the last night of the season when Scott and I (and some dude who’s name I can’t remember) walked around the park. And working at the arcade and giving away free games to little kids who’s parent’s were assholes. The night we helped Trevor pop the clutch on his Mustang. That dude Jameil who worked with Cris Peterson Martin. The way the dude on the music express loved to play Pink Floyd, and the last night…when everyone knew that it was really going to be the last night. The park had just done soooo poorly (mismanagement, bad timing, you name it, who knows?) we all knew there wouldn’t be a summer of 97 season.
The food was bad, the days were long, the pay was crappy, and the customers sucked.
I miss the hell out of the place.
Posted by Matt on Dec 18, 2005 in
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tech I just went thru 7 years of my images today.
I’m at a loss for words. It’s unbelievable to see that many images in a single day. So many memories… For a moment today, I thought of maybe setting up a completely new website just to go thru them one at a time, one a day. Someday, who knows?
Thru the night tonight, my laptop is going to chug away on over 2800 Nikon Raw (.nef) files, and convert them to Adobe’s DNG (Digital negative format)– and those are just from half of 2004! Then I’ll burn all my images, all 7 years worth, to 10 DVD’s. 10 DVD’s doesn’t seem like that much.
Meantime, I’ll get some shuteye, while my lappy does the heavy lifting for me. Just a few left…2737 to go.
Posted by Matt on Dec 5, 2005 in
photo Ok, ok, so my last post was a desktop too… So what? You wanna fight about it?
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Posted by Matt on Dec 3, 2005 in
photo I shot this in New Hampshire in the summer of 2005, sightseeing and shooting with Bob and TJ. Those of you already familiar with my Photoblog probably recognize it. I did the driving, and we hit The Castle in the Clouds, the Kangamangus, a cider mill, and a ton of good roads.
The summer always seems like a flashback. Winter is so harsh that you can’t help but be present, conscious of how cold it is and intent of getting things done so you can get inside where it’s warm. In the summer, there’s time to daydream with the windows down and the iPod shuffling thru your music. Everything to me just seems more tolerable in the summer.
Anyway I was thinking how it would make a great desktop picture when I shot it…so, here you go, just give the thumbnail a click
