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New Video Work – Rural Colors/ Ohio River

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Rural Colors – Ohio River from Matt Swift on Vimeo.

Rural Colors is a series of short poetic experimental films that documents the natural landscapes of the world around us. This film explores the eastern border of Ohio and the river that runs between Wheeling, West Virginia and Martins Ferry, Ohio. Using a single tracking shot layered upon itself and timed to music the scenery becomes a kaleidoscopic cornucopia of color that provides an abstraction of the landscape original documented changing it into an aesthetic experience void of the details that influence our interpretation of such landscapes.

Two chances to see Rural Colors – CMIAR 9/27 and Autumn Innvocation 10/5

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Over the next two weeks I will be screening some of my new moving image work at two different events.
Columbus Moving Image Art Review ( CMIAR ) Summer 2013 Screening
CMIAR 16 will be showcasing my new piece as well as highlighting work from 9 other local filmmakers on Friday September 27th at 8PM in Hagerty Hall 180

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Autumn Invocation: Samuel Hoar, Tiffany’s Collections, Sun Thief featuring Matt Swift
The Autumn Invocation will feature my new work City Lights, City Lights- Columbus, and Rural Colors-Ohio River along side experimental audio visual presentations by Samuel Hoar, Tiffany’s Collections and the Sun Thief at Milo October 5th at 8:30.

New Photo Tumblr site called Tubby Likes Walls

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So, to keep myself in a mode of creativity, I like to find new ways to take photographs whenever possible. My newest adventure has combined my need for more exercise, walking my dog, and taking pictures. Tubby Likes Walls is a new Tubmlr site devoted to my Shepard/Samoyed/Lab mix 11 year old male dog named Tubby. For the past 10 years Tubby and his sister Precious always loved to walk on walls and jump over obstacles on their walks. Last year we lost Precious to Cushing’s Disease making Tubby a only dog for the first time ever. To help provide him more attention and help me lose some weight we now take very long walks with one goal in mind, find a cool wall or object to take a picture of Tubby on or around. Here are a few Photos (mostly taken with my phone) from the tumblr site. If you want to see more feel free to check out the original site Tubby Likes Walls.

Tubby at Glen Echo Ravine

Tubby at Glen Echo Ravine

Tubby on watch at Glen Echo United Presbyterian
Tubby on watch at Glen Echo United Presbyterian

Tubby on a Bench
Tubby on a Bench

Tubby as Compass at Olentangy Wetlands
Tubby as Compass at Olentangy Wetlands