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I am responsible for several websites at Case Western Reserve University (other than this one). That means that I made them.
Squash Club
2007-present
Jewish Student Group
2008-present
Also this website for Barak's jazz club.
I made a shirt for the Squash Club.
The icon for this section was created at wordle.net with the source code of this website (in mid 2008).
X Newspaper X was a newspaper from 2005 to 2006 at Yellow Springs High School.
The first two issues are, for no particular reason, only available in the book, below.
*If you only read one, it should be this one.
This project never materialized. Maybe someday it will, but until then I really like this painting I made for it.
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Check it out on Flickr.
Here are some (old) photos.
I also have a Flickr account, which has more recent ones.
And you can purchase liscenes to some of my photos at Getty Images.
Æther was a magazine in 2003, and briefly again in 2007.
The first two issues are unavailable.
Issue 3 (PDF)
Issue 4 (PDF)
Issue 5 (PDF)
Issue 6 (PDF)
Issue 7 (PDF)
The Looker is a sort of newspaper. It isn't very good.
Issue 1 is unavailable at this time.
Issue 2 (PDF)
If you only read one, wait until a good one comes out
So I was going to say something about how I've gotten into using Illustrator, and then put some things I made with Illustrator here. Then I realized that most of the things I think of when I think of the things I've made with Illustrator were actually made with Photoshop. So now I'm not quite sure what to do, other than put some things here. Most of them are also available on my Flickr. And there will probably be more later.
These are films I've seen. Not necessarily for the first time.
The ones with a
I liked particularly well. Which is not to say that I didn't like the other movies (though it is possible).
"Spring" and "Fall" refer to the associated semester (not the actual seasons), "Winter" and "Summer" are the breaks between them.
I've started putting little notes on some of them...
Fall 2009 (hide)
The Fall (2006)
- colorful
2046 (2004) - disjoint
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
- not bad
Pulp Fiction (1994)
- "say 'bitch, be cool'"
Memento (2000)
- memorable
City of Ember (2008) - "don't push"
Alive in Joburg (2005)s - "it's like a normal life to them"
District 9 (2009) 
Wings of Desire (1987) - there's a lot in there
Outlander (2008) - not much there... pretty formulaic
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- "it was emotional"
No Country For Old Men (2007)
- "he doesn't have a sense of humor"
Brick (2005)
- still good
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) - "call me pants"
The Fifth Element (1997) 
Pulp Fiction (1994) 
Anchorman (2004)
The Fifth Element (1997) 
Star Trek (2009) 
The Informant! (2009) - "high fructose corn syrup... there it is again"
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - "that was my favorite arm..."
Primer (2004) 
Objectified (2009)d
There Will Be Blood (2007) 
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)s 
Dune (1984)
Primer (2004) 
The Fugitive (1993)
Blade Runner (1982) 
Donnie Darko (2001) 
The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)
Sunshine (2007) 
Cube (1997) 
A Serious Man (2009) - I don't think I get it...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 
Trainspotting (1996)
Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996) 
Summer 2009 (show)
Star Trek (2009) 
The Station Agent (2003) 
Los Cronocrímenes (2007) - wishes it were Primer
アキラ (1988)
- possibly the influence for everything I have ever liked
The Hangover (2009) - I wish I could remember anything that happened in this movie...
Coraline (2009) - better as a movie I think... if only for the cat's voice
Role Models (2008) - a few funny one-liners and not much else
アキラ (1988) 
Over the Edge (1979)
Outside Providence (1999)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Falling Down (1993)
Moon (2009) 
(500) Days of Summer (2009) 
L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) - lugubrious
Elizabethtown (2005) - uncanny
District 9 (2009)
- gripping
Alien (1979)
- majestic
American History X (1998)
- powerful
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 
Spring 2009 (show)
For class:
Blackmail (1929)
Rebecca (1940)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)* 
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The 39 Steps (1935)*
Spellbound (1945)* 
Notorious (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954) 
North by Northwest (1959) 
Vertigo (1958)
Dial M For Murder (1954)*
Psycho (1960) 
To Catch a Thief (1955)*
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)*
The Birds (1963) - zombie movie, but with birds
The 39 Steps (1935)* 
Marnie (1964)
Rope (1948)*
Torn Curtain (1966)
Frenzy (1972)
*for a paper/project
Not for class:
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Fast Film (2003)s 
Brick (2005) 
Cashback (2004)s
La Jetée (1962)s 
Peur(s) du Noir (2007) - some of these shorts were really good, but some weren't
W. (2008)
- worth it if only for the ending, which perfectly sums up his presidency
Watchmen (2009) 
Watchmen (2009)
- better the second time
Choke (2008) - not Fight Club (despite wishing desperately that it were), but okay
eXistenZ (1999) - vaguely interesting to think about
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 
The 39 Steps (2008)†
Kabluey (2007) - you've seen this movie a few times by now... but it's an interesting iteration
Unknown (2006)
- tries to be a bunch of things, and mostly succeeds
Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006)d
- like watching soccer but you can't tell what's going on... so like watching soccer... with good music
Cashback (2006) - should have stuck with the short
The Fountain (2006)
- lots of yellow
Tron (1982) - I am amazed by how little actually happens in this movie
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- good music... and Steve Carell manages to not make you want to punch him in the face... but he runs weird
Pi (1998) - wants to be a short film... a little too simple for a whole movie... kind of interesting though
Brick (2005) 
Winter 2008-9 (show)
Wall-E (2008) 
Son of Rambow (2007) 
V For Vendetta (2006)
Serenity (2005) 
Doubt (2008)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Synecdoche, New York (2008) 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The Spirit (2008)
The Island (2005)
The Machinist (2004)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Redbelt (2008) 
Hero (2002) 
Blindness (2008) 
The Matrix (1999) 
Fall 2008 (show)
Disco Pigs (2001) 
The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Requiem for a Dream (2001)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Iron Man (2008) 
All You Need Is Cash (The Rutles) (1978)†
Wordplay (2006)d
Cube (1997) 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Snatch (2000) 
Twelve Monkeys (1995) 
Layer Cake (2004) 
Dark Star (1974)
Quantum of Solace (2008) 
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Dante 01 (2008)
Apocalypse Now (Redux) (1979) 
Summer 2008 (show)
There Will Be Blood (2007) 
Cloverfield (2008)
The Lookout (2007)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)†
United 93 (2006)
The Departed (2006) 
Serenity (2005) 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
The Onion Movie (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008) 
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Spring 2008 (show)
For class:
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)s 
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004)
Early Summer (1951)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Third Man (1949)* 
Point Blank (1967) 
The Big Sleep (1946) 
Capote (2005)* 
Citizen Kane (1941)
Gosford Park (2001)* 
High School (1968)d
King Kong (1933)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Blue Velvet (1986)
*for a paper
Not for class:
Sunshine (2007) 
I
Huckabees (2004)
American Gangster (2007) 
Michael Clayton (2007) 
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Persepolis (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007) 
Children of Men (2006) 
Out of Sight (1998)
Crash (2004)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Pulp Fiction (1994) 
Helvetica (2007)d 
The Brother From Another Planet (1984)
Croupier (1998) 
Layer Cake (2004) 
Automatons (2006)
There Will Be Blood (2007) 
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 
Tommy (1975)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) 
Chicago 10 (2007)
Infamous (2006)
Winged Migration (2001)d
Iron Man (2008) 
s short film
d documentary
† made for television
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My name is Matt.
I go to school at Case, where I'm studying Math and English. More specifically, I'm taking these classes.
Fall 2009:
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| 8:30am MATH 304: Discrete Mathematics |
8:30am ECON 329: Discrete Mathematics |
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| 1:15pm ENGL 324: Shakespeare: Tragedies/Romances |
1:15pm ENGL 324: Shakespeare: Tragedies/Romances |
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| 2:00pm MATH 321: Real Analysis I |
2:00pm MATH 321: Real Analysis I |
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| 2:45pm ECON 378: Health Care Economics |
2:45pm ECON 378: Health Care Economics |
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| 4:00pm ENGL 395: English Capstone |
If you'd like to look at some photos, I have a Flickr account.
I also have a blog.
And a last.fm account.
If you like the stuff I've made, you can probably convince me to make you something.






