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Matt

If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by...

About Me

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"...somewhere deep within us resides a profoundly healthy and trustworthy core, and...our intuitions, as deep resonances of the actuality of the present moment, are worthy of our trust."-Jon Kabat-Zinn

ABOUT ME: I am defined by my hard, chiseled abs and my gift for long-winded conversations about the qualities of my abs. I suppose I have the body of a god. (Although I question whether even God could possess abs of my caliber.) Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

Here are some of my hobbies: -composing music using piano and / or computers.
-social dancing
-producing artwork using various media including pencil, chalk, charcoal, and digital. The digital art tools I use are:

    Adobe Photoshop (for raster work) Discreet 3D Studio Max (for 3D design) Pixologic Zbrush (for 3D design, model touchups, & texturing) Sony Vegas (for editing) Adobe After Effects (for raster animation / post production) Adobe Illustrator (for vector art)
-movies and video production of all kinds (check out agentxvsagenty.com for my first short film)
-gardening (peppers, tomatoes, herbs)
-philosophy, psychology, politics (all in moderation)
-computer software development using the following languages / IDEs:
    BASIC (1989) QBASIC (1992) Turbo Pascal (1993) Turbo C++ (1993) HTML (1996-present) Javascript (1997-present) Visual Basic 6 (1998) Perl (1998) Visual C++ (1999) BASH scripting (1999-present) CSS (2001-present) ANSI C++ (2002) PHP+MySQL (2002-present) Microsoft Assembly (2004) Microsoft Visual C Sharp (2005) RealBASIC 2006
-computer security (hacking)
-"rave" parties
-non-superficial conversations

I'd like to meet:

    Nice People Relaxed People Caring People Trustworthy People Thoughtful People Worldly People Goal-oriented People Creative People Technical People Crazy People Real People

Music:

I love all kinds of music, but there is a special place in my heart for electronic music.
Here are some artists that I like: ***Electronic***
-Underworld
-Squarepusher
-Massive Attack
-Chemical Brothers
-Goldie
-Cirrus (older stuff)
-JS16
-The Prodigy
-Hybrid (older stuff)
-Crystal Method (older stuff)
-Moloko
-Portishead
-Real Time Hand Motion (realtimehandmotion.com)
-Daft Punk
-Freestylers
-Royksopp
-Zero 7 ***Rock***
-Yes
-Faith No More (older stuff)
-The Doors
-Jimi Hendrix
-Guns N Roses (older stuff)
-Jefferson Airplane
-Nirvana
-Pearl Jam (older stuff)
-Nine Inch Nails
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Tom Petty
-Aerosmith ***Pop***
-Michael Jackson (yeah - I know he's a f*cking freak, but he made some killer tracks)
-Beck
-Alanis Morissette
-Fiona Apple
-Radiohead ***Soundtracks***
-The Road to Perdition+American Beauty+The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman)
-Momento (David Julyan)
-Requiem For A Dream (Clint Mansell)
-Peewee's Big Adventure+Beetlejuice+Edward Scissorhands+Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman)
-Donnie Darko (Michael Andrews) ***Classical***
-Chopin
-Khachaturian
-Beethoven
-Wagner ***Funk / Soul***
-Sly and the Family Stone
-Roy Ayers
-James Brown
-Marvin Gaye
-Prince ***Hiphop***
-Gravediggas (older stuff)
-DJ Shadow
-Grandmaster Flash
-Run DMC (older stuff)
-DJ Rectangle
-Afrika Bambaataa
-Herbie Hancock (even better jazz!)
-Fresh Prince & Dj Jazzy Jeff (older stuff)
-LL Cool J (older stuff)

Movies:

Here are some picks from my movie collection: -Pulp Fiction
-Tim Burton's Peewee's Big Adventure+Nightmare Before Christmas
-Adaptation
-Reservoir Dogs
-Akira
-UHF
-Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
-The Wedding Singer
-Joe Dirt
-Interstate 60
-Donnie Darko
-Iron Monkey
-The Legend of Drunken Master
-Requiem For A Dream
-Half Baked
-Office Space
-Four Rooms
-Toy Story
-Team America: World Police
-Spaceballs!
-American Beauty
-Citizen Kane
-Super Troopers
-Club Dread
-Clerks
-BASEketball
-Batman & Batman Returns
-Ghostbusters I & II
-Fight Club
-Nosferatu
-The Incredibles
-Flight of the Navigator
-Robocop
-Disney's The Adventure of Ichobod & Mr. Toad
-Wayne's World
-Disney's The Sword in the Stone
-Disney's The Emperor's New Groove
-Disney's Aladdin
-Tombstone
-Oldschool
-James Bond in Dr. No
-Disney's Robin Hood
-Napolean Dynamite
-Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
-Cannibal: The Musical
-The Truman Show
-Beetlejuice
-Back to the Future I & II
-Indiana Jones I, II, & III
-All Along the Waterfront

Television:

-Chappelle's Show
-That 70's Show
-Cops
-Wheel of Fortune
-King of the Hill
-Simpsons
-Married with Children
-Peewee's Playhouse
-Scooby Doo - Where Are You?

Books:

-Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas -1984 -A bajillion technical manuals -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (currently reading) -Short stories by Thomas Pynchon

Heroes:

My friends and family. ..

My Blog

bubble magician

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Posted by Matt on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:31:00 PST

Flame-based Sound Visualization

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Posted by Matt on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:24:00 PST

See How Lego Bricks Are Made

cool flash animation shows how legos are made:check it
Posted by Matt on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:16:00 PST

How to Enjoy Sushi

Here is a detailed video by Japanese Culture Lab about how to eat sushi in Japan. Talk about social protocol!Click here to watch the video....
Posted by Matt on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:37:00 PST

Super Secret Meaning in Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger

I always thought their was something subconciously sinister about Daft Punk's 2001 track Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Finally there is proof.Click here to learn the dark secret behind Harder Bett...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:19:00 PST

VIDEO: 4 DJ's - 1 killer groove - 2002 DMC Champs

Here are some very impressive turntablists. Gotta dig that style. Click HERE to watch the video
Posted by Matt on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:30:00 PST

Daft Punk anyone?

Want some Daft Punk? 'Course ya do. Part 1 of their April 2006 show in CA. (MP3) Part 2 of their April 2006 show in CA. (MP3)Video of the same show - absolutely amazingFor the archive, here's a 1996 v...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:20:00 PST

fire video screen

very cool - uses pyrotechnics to produce a video screen.video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJduA9DVYUmore info:http://infernoptix.com/about.htm
Posted by Matt on Sun, 28 May 2006 12:50:00 PST

night club tables

check it
Posted by Matt on Wed, 24 May 2006 12:42:00 PST

Infinite Mosiac Zoomer

cool infinite mosiac zoomer (like the truman show ads)Click here to check it out - it's worth it
Posted by Matt on Sun, 21 May 2006 03:02:00 PST