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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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

The Union: Girl with the red coat
Originally uploaded by matteich.

& 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.::

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 Aftermath of an Underwear Party
Originally uploaded by matteich.

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.