My Photo Blog

I started a second blog where I can post some pictures that I take that I don't consider good enough to put anywhere else. I believe deviantart would call these "scraps." Anyway, you can find me over at: http://matthewsphotoadventures.blogspot.com/ take a look.

-Matthew

Root Beer

1 hour later.......
and I still haven't got my root beer.

Art Show Mishaps

Last quarter at the end of drawing class we all had to submit a picture we did during the quarter. I was going to put in one I did of this girl that actually turned out pretty good. When I pinned it up to the board my teacher told me to submit my self portrait instead because it had more "character." Because of finals I wasn't able to put much work into the self portrait and it shows, big time. The eyes are too big, the lips are too small, the hair has absolutely no texture, it's a mess. The only good thing about it is that I decided to include my cat Ariel in it and she actually turned out pretty good. One of my photographs did make it in too and I was proud of how well that looked, but I'm still embarrassed over the whole self portrait thing.
Oh and my teacher told me about a punk band called Fartz.

-Matthew

Nothing Feels Better Than Feeling The Love

Sitting here procrastinating doing my homework and I have that song from That's so Raven that Cory's band sang that went "Can you feel it? Can you feel the love? Nothing feels better than feeling the love?" When I start my record label, the first thing I'm going to do is sign a James Brown-esque soul singer and have them cover that song. Instant hit I can just feel it.

I have to read The Aneid by Virgil for my Roman Civilization class and it is seriously freaking me out because I thought I would be done with long-winded "classics" after I managed to get out alive from Pastor Gary's class. At least this one is semi interesting (here's looking at you Red Badge of Courage). I wish there was a movie version so me and Amanda B could watch that, fill out Mr. Walker's questionaire and be done with the thing. Oh well.

On a side note my grandma has a case of bronchitis and when my dad told me I started laughing and he freaked out at me and started telling me how serious it is and how she could get pneumonia and die. She's almost healed by the way. When I told Angelica she thought I was joking. No one else will admit it, but I know she got bronchitis from when the Westpark chimney exploded a few months back. The smoke probably got her back then and slowly worked its way into her lungs. It better hurry up and go away because she ain't got time for it.

-Matthew

Taryn's Senior Pictures

Last Wednesday while I was on spring break, I had the honor of taking Taryn's senior pictures. Taryn is the lone senior this year at WCA. She is one of the kindest and strongest people I know. We were really limited on time and only went to 2 locations: Randall Park and the Harmond Center. My friends Allie and Angelica did her hair and makeup and were my henchmen for the day (even though they spent most of their time frolicking around the park).

We borrowed Allie's leather jacket.

 

There they are. I'm no professional, but I still like to dabble. Hope everyone enjoys.

-Matthew

More Bad Casting More Angry Matthew

So since the whole Ben Affleck thing (which is still awful and I'm really sorry because I feel the quality of that post was quite low) there have been tons of new casting announcements for different comic book movies. Let's not waste any time and dive right in!

To start off we have Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. I just wanna ask why they are cramming Wonder Woman into a Superman/Batman movie? If you're gonna do Superman and Batman DO Superman and Batman. If they wanted to make a Justice League movie they should have made a Justice League movie. Up to this point Wonder Woman hasn't had a major big-screen adaptation and she has one of the best origin stories out there that (unlike Bats and Supy) has not been explored all that much. As for the actress, I haven't seen her in anything, so I can't judge her acting skills. I guess she could look the part in costume. Although I am afraid what they'll do to the costume.....

Next on the table is Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. This one really baffled me. Lex Luthor is supposed to be an older, successful, very muscular supergenuis. Jesse Eisenberg played the lead in the Facebook movie. Let that sink in. I think there are a lot of great older actors out there who could've played Lex *cough* Bruce Willis. I even heard Denzel Washington (Lex was totally a brother in the Justice League cartoon). I wouldn't even be opposed to this unlike some race swaps, but we'll get to that later.... Overall though, I don't think he'll be able to pull it off. He just doesn't scream supervillian to me. I'm seriously not sure what the people behind this movie are thinking.

Third we have something that's been sort of under the radar because of all these other announcements (and the one I was most excited about): Ant-Man. Simply put Ant-Man is my favorite Avenger. Yes, you hear me. Not Hulk, not Iron Man, not Squirrel Girl, Ant-Man. He has such a great story with his mental health struggles, his relationship with Wasp, creating Ultron, etc. On a side note Ultron will unfortunately apparently have something to do with Iron Man :/ Well instead of going with the original Ant-Man they are instead focusing on the 2nd Ant-Man Scott Lang. The original Ant-Man will still be featured and will be played by (get this) Michael Douglas. I'm hugely disappointed in the direction they are taking, but I'm also hoping they don't give attributes of Hank Pym to Scott Lang.

We have now come to the Fantastic Four. I am starting to think the people behind these movies actually WANT to make people mad. I'm not even sure why they are rebooting the Fantastic Four in the first place. Yes, the first one was pure camp and the theatrical reboots a few years back weren't the best. But those films are still fairly recent in everyone's mind. There are so many comic book characters out there that haven't even gotten mentioned in a film or only played a small part. Aquaman anyone? I don't see why it is even necessary to reboot a superhero film franchise, especially in the middle of the hugely successful Marvel Cinematic Universe. Anyway, the cast is full of a bunch of people I've never heard of. The part that everyone is picking up on is that the Human Torch is going to be played by a black man. Now, comic movies do this all the time for example Nick Fury and Kingpen. It has bothered me to some extent, not because I'm racist, but because I am a source material purist. But the part that bothers me the most about this is that the Invisible Woman and Human Torch are brother and sister. Are they going to be adopted? If they do that they'll probably hook up or something superawk which will make Stan Lee cry. I don't understand why they didn't cast a black woman as the Invisible Woman. On top of that I read somewhere that the woman playing the Invisible Woman wasn't even that great of an actress.....
Anyway.... that's all for now.

-Matthew

MY Top 13 Worst Songs of 2013

I know.... it's really late.  Everything is 100% my opinion.

10. Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake - "Holy Grail"
9. Blake Shelton feat. Pistol Annies - "Boys Round Here"
8. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX - "I Love It"
7. Migos - "Versace"
6. Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop"
5. Major Lazer feat. Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Tyga, & Mystic - "Bubble Butt"
4. YG feat. Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan- "My N****"
3. Robin Thicke feat. Pharrel & T.I. - "Blurred Lines"
2. Maejor Ali feat. Juicy J & Justin Bieber - "Lolly"
1. Will.I.Am. feat. Justin Bieber - "#thatPower"