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Matt

Laughing, thinking, sharing

About Me

Christian, artist, designer, illustrator, webmaster, entrepreneur, curator, goofball, and croquet player living in Chicago. Absorbed in thoughts, then share those reflections, and laughing, laughing, and laughing. I've got some fun and interesting thoughts on art and life that I'd love to share.

My Interests

2nd hand shopping, anarchie basketball, art college, art history, art museums, art stuff, atari, badminton, baseball, benches, board games, books, bowling, bread, candy bars, carrot cake boycott, cartoons, ceramics, cezanne, chairs, checkers, chicago, chicago cubs, chicago metro, chocolate, christianity, clue, comic strips, community, conan o'brien, contemplation, conversation, croquet, dance, daydreaming, ddr, design arts, dialogue, digital camera, djs, drawing and sketching, drug free, duct tape, dumpster diving, education, etc, exploring, extreme croquet, fog, found objects, games, getting lost, graphics, harvest bible chapel, hobby lobby, illinois, illinois wesleyan university, illustration, indoors, intellectuals, INTJ, itunes, jackie chan, jesus, jokes, joseph beuys, julianne nicholson, kim possible, kit kat, laughing, learning, lego, libraries, library, long lunches, louis armstrong, lutheran, macintosh, mail art, making lists, maps, mass transit, miniature golf, mixed-media, monopoly, montessori, mr. t, museums and galleries, music, mysql, nerf, numbers, oil pastels, os x, outdoors, outer space, paintball, painting, paper airplanes, patience, pennies, photo, photography, php, pmachine, pondering, pool, postcards, powerbook, printmaking, public art, public transportation, quotatations, reading, reflection, reggae, religion, research, robots, rutherford b hayes, sculpture, silver, sleeping, smart, smiling, snail mail pen pals, snow, spongebob squarepants, sports, squirrels, stats, structures, table hockey, taking walks, teaching, tennis, thinking, tipping point, toys, transformers, tv, visual arts, volleyball, walking, walking backwards, walking in snow, wandering, water, web design, wondering, working out, yo-yos, you

I'd like to meet:


I'd like to meet Mohawk Monkey. You can add Mohawk Monkey to your MySpace friends list!

Music:

Bahamen, Big Joe Turner, Cab Calloway, Christian music, Dance, David Crowder Band, DJ Bobo, DJ Krush, Down the Line, Dr Bombay, Ella Fitzgerald, Evelyn, Fatboy Slim, funk, funny stuff, Harry Connick Jr, Jazz, Lily Allen, Lou Bega, Louis Armstrong, Milli Vanilli, Passion Fruit, PM Dawn, Ray Charles, Reggae, Salsa, Shaggy, Shaun Groves, Ska, Solid Base, The Prodigy, Tim Hughes, UB40, Vengaboys, Wailing Souls, Woody Herman

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind, Amelie, Armageddon, At First Sight, Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part III, Batman, Cast Away, Die Hard, Disney's Aladdin, Elf, Encino Man, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Forrest Gump, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, I Robot, Independence Day, Iron Giant, Lost In Translation, Major League, Men in Black, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Saving Silverman, Spaceballs, Star Wars, Stripes, The Blues Brothers, The Incredibles, The Man without a head, The Matrix, There's Something About Mary, Total Recall, Transformers the Movie, True Lies, Tully, Unbreakable, Word Wars, Wordplay, X-Men: The Last Stand

Television:

24, Baseball Tonight, Jackie Chan Adventures, Kim Possible, Lost, Mythbusters, PBS, Prison Break, Spongebob Squarepants, The Office, Transformers

Books:

Bible, Mere Christianity, The Monumental Impulse, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Tipping Point, Synectics, Museums and Communities, Thinking about Exhibitions, Criticizing Art, Dictionary, Thesaurus, The Kids World Almanac of Records and Facts: Volume 1, Cartooning the Head and Figure

Heroes:

Jesus first and foremost, Jesus, artists: •, Joseph Beuys, (The great teacher and artist. Warmth over coldness) •, Jorg Immendorf, (German artist who coined the phrase, "Painting must assume the function of the potato. He makes great paintings too.) •, Christo, (A fantastic installation artist that really involves the community and all aspects of life into his art. When he can get the cashier ladies at the grocery store to discuss what is art, oh dude! That is incredible) •, Edward Hopper, (Great moods established by his work. Amazing colors) •, Jackson Pollack, (The studly artist himself.) •, Starn Twins, (Their work is totally my aesthetic) •, Laslzo Moholy-Nagy, (The masta of transparency and structure) •, Erik Maldre, (very creative work)

My Blog

Mohawk Monkey wants to be your friend!

Mohawk Monkey is now on MySpace! Who is Mohawk Monkey? He's the craziest monkey to make Elmhurst, Illinois go bananas. He is also the creation of my twin brother, Erik. Check out Mohawk Monkey and add...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:51:00 PST

Concrete trucks on a mission

Whenever I see a concrete truck, I always imagine that it's going somewhere on a mission to fulfill concrete needs. Someone hauling around fresh spinning concrete could never be going on a joy ride ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Look under cap: Unwrap the experience: You lose: Now drink our product.

Coca-Cola has a promotion where you could win a PSP handheld video game system, or the new PS2, or a PlayStation2 game. So being a sucker for soda giveaways, I bought a bottle (plus feeling a little s...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Quiet Closet Poem

The empty coat closet at work, no jackets inside do lurk. All is quiet and still, Nothing moving notta nill. I hang my coat off to the side, setting over any jacket pride. Don't want it to get i...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My website is at www.spudart.org

My real blog is at: www.spudart.org. And there's lots of art, design, thoughts, and funny things.
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST