Tuesday, April 29, 2008

What is up

Hey all,

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been updating this blog for the past 2 years or so. My apologies for that. To keep up to date with things, please visit my website or the newly formed Aevum photo collective website.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Flight


Flight
Originally uploaded by matteich.
We never really grow up.

Piano arson


Piano arson
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Arson left this piano and the house it resides in charred nearly beyond recognition. Nobody was charged in the incident.

The Union: Girl with the red coat

& shadows creep by bars as the night drags on.

Chauncey: Traces


Chauncey: Teddy
Originally uploaded by matteich.
An abandoned stuffed animal lies in the mud where children used to play in Chauncey, OH on January 11th, 2006. The family that used to live there recently split up with the father moving to Florida with some of the children while the mother took the rest to Tennessee leaving only telltale traces that they were ever there.

The Union: Pool


The Union: Pool
Originally uploaded by matteich.
James Chance plays pool at The Union.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Tickets


Tickets
Originally uploaded by matteich.
At the movies.

Safety


Safety
Originally uploaded by matteich.
& we can feel like children under there. Safe from the world outside as the light filters through her favorite blanket.

Mood


Mood
Originally uploaded by matteich.
& I don't know what was weighing on my mind when I made this picture.

Dance


Dance
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Smiles & alcohol & dancing.

Beth & Mike.

Carwash


Carwash
Originally uploaded by matteich.
When I attempted to clean my car before she arrived.

The streetlights


The streetlights
Originally uploaded by matteich.
En route.

Monday, December 26, 2005

Rainy Christmas: Mother


Rainy Christmas: Mom
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Its Christmas morning & the rain is running down the car windows as she gets in. I tell myself that somewhere colder it is snowing. But all I took this Christmas day is this dark blurry picture that I love & I can't tell you why.

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Christmas


Christmas #1
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Joy.

Noon & time for a beer


Noon & time for a beer
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Nothing's perfect. Our lives, your car, this picture. But we can make the most of it & we do.

The light will set us on fire


The light will set us on fire
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Two and a quarter beers. She's giggly drunk & singing Christmas songs while washing my mom's dishes as the afternoon light poured through the kitchen window.

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Richmond


Richmond
Originally uploaded by matteich.
& you love this city & you hate this city because it's eaten love & so many memories & the people you were closest to but it still manages to be beautiful somehow.

You can see it & you know it is


You can see it & you know it is
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Love.

A Navy ship returns.

O'Hare #2


O'Hare #2
Originally uploaded by matteich.
O'Hare International Airport; Chicago, Illinois.

O'Hare #1


O'Hare #1
Originally uploaded by matteich.
O'Hare International Airport; Chicago, Illinois.

Santa


Santa
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Wandering around Truxtun in Portsmouth there were telltale signs of the holiday approaching littering people's yards. This yard wasn't so telltale but Santa hid in the back corner like an afterthought. So, Merry Christmas. A little early.

Carter


Carter
Originally uploaded by matteich.
The last time I saw him before he moved to Richmond.

Paper airplanes


Paper airplanes
Originally uploaded by matteich.
I looked out the window this morning to see the ground littered with paper airplanes where my brother had thrown them from the second floor. His childlike amusement fluttering to the ground below.

Truxtun


Truxtun
Originally uploaded by matteich.
He asked me to take his picture in front of the house. Standing there
so proudly in the green shirt that matched his shutters as the wind
blew his tie.

Chrissy


Chrissy
Originally uploaded by matteich.
But now you question yourself & everything & you're wondering what Christmas will be like once the hearts have been separated

Mikey


Mikey
Originally uploaded by matteich.
When Mikey realizes that the girl he had been staring at couldn't be any older than 15. "Fuck man...I'm a pedophile", he groaned

Mootispah


Mootispah
Originally uploaded by matteich.
& my guess is as a child he never saw himself dying behind bars.

Holding hands


Holding hands
Originally uploaded by matteich.
& I can't wait to see you again.

Where I've been...

So once again it has been forever since I've posted. I will try to be more regular but find myself posting more often on my other photo page . Please feel free to look into that. This blog will become more of a haven for personal photos and the thoughts that come with them. I hope you all are well.

::.matt.::

Sunday, October 30, 2005

The Ridges #1


The Ridges #1
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Whitney Osterhort was a character from Phantom of The Opera. She was photographed in the graveyard behind 'The Ridges', what was once an asylum in Athens, OH.

The Ridges #2


The Ridges #2
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Adam Fardy was a character from Scream.

The Vampire Couple


The Vampire Couple
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Neil Waggoner and Colleen Dougherty dressed as a vampire couple for Halloween. They woke me in the early morning hours to make this picture of them before their makeup washed away.

Walking into the light


Melissa
Originally uploaded by matteich.
After days of rain, the sun finally broke through the clouds, nearly blinding us.

Ross Mantle loves kittens


Ross Mantle loves kittens
Originally uploaded by matteich.
Mr. Gilligan and Ross Mantle share a moment in the early morning hours at Sarah Nix's house in Athens, OH

Decorating


Decorating
Originally uploaded by matteich.
There were some scary masks floating around.

Siegfried


Siegfried
Originally uploaded by matteich.
The view from the 3rd floor of Siegfried Hall in Athens, OH.

The Aftermath of an Underwear Party

The party's hostess was helped into bed by a couple of less inebriated friends before they donned their clothes and trudged home in the cold.

Underwear Party


Underwear Party
Originally uploaded by matteich.
I kept my clothes on.