Amber's B-day

Amber herself at the piano.

Posted by matt on 2009-09-03T00:00:00Z GMT

Location, Location

Sunday was location scouting. And thrift stores. And a nondisclosure agreement, so I’m not sure what I can and can’t say, but none of these are embargoed, formally or informally, so there you have it. We’re working on cool shit, and when it comes out it’s going to be really rad, but that’s not for four months or so, so expect teasers and hints and nothing substantive until at least january.<br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/location,_location/1109/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” >Credit where credit is due: photo by Chelsea M’lynn.</span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/location,_location/1109/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/location,_location/1109/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/location,_location/1109/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/location,_location/1109/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” />

Posted by matt on 2009-09-03T00:00:00Z GMT

Another Monday

Monday rolls around and I’m looking for polaroid film when who should call me but <a href=”http://www.furburger.org”>Christa May</a>, wondering if I’m down for a little libation at Mcnellie’s. Of course I am. I’m always down for Mcnellie’s.<br /><br /><span class=”caption” >Logan and Matt, not me, but Christa’s new dude. Isn’t it nice how everyone seems to be forming couples at the same time? Or at least several of my friends have over the past few weeks.</span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/another_monday/1110/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” >Matt by himself. </span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/another_monday/1110/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />I’m posting all three of these because I can’t remember which she liked and I think they all look pretty decent. #3 is the best, but who am I to judge? Oh yeah, that’s my job. So yeah, just ignore the first two, those are just for Christa. <br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/another_monday/1110/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/another_monday/1110/0004.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/another_monday/1110/0005.jpg” alt=”Photos” />

Posted by matt on 2009-09-03T00:00:00Z GMT

Random friends

Hopefully I can be forgiven for sandwiching these photos of some friends I ran into at the concert in between band posts… these are cool people, as far as I know. I mean, I’m not their mother, so I can’t be a character witness, but at least they knew where the cool show was in stillwater that night and made it out, so that says something. And some of them, the ones I know better, are verified badass. So, guilt by association with me:<br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/random_friends/1113/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/random_friends/1113/0002.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/random_friends/1113/0003.jpg” alt=”Photos” />

Posted by matt on 2009-09-02T00:00:00Z GMT

One picture

There’s a story in news-photographer apocrypha about an old school photographer who went out on assignment to someplace very remote; say, China. Mongolia. Now this guy was old school to our old school; learned to photograph with a 4x5 and knew a time when lens caps doubled as shutters. He went to China with a new nikon 35mm and when he got back, as he was deplaning, an assistant for whatever paper he was working for met him just off the plane to rush his film to the lab. He pulls out his camera, rewinds the roll that’s inside, and hands it to the assistant, saying “Print ‘em both, kid.”<br /><br />Now, I’m not a fan of the slow, patient photography that this implies; neither am I a proponent of going out to an event and overheating a motor drive taking way too many pictures. I like to take a series of pictures that tells the story over time. But there is something to be said for being patient, and taking less pictures. The night I took this photo, I took two; this one and one of the inside of my bag as I was putting the camera away. <br /><br /><span class=”caption” ></span><img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/one_picture/1114/0001.jpg” alt=”Photos” /><br /><br />Now I have to go and edit the pictures from the next night, where I shot 500 pictures in a couple hours. There’s a lot going on here at matt mills world HQ, so stay tuned.

Posted by matt on 2009-09-02T00:00:00Z GMT