#mattmartin

[fanthatracks]

If you're going to elope, you might as well do it in style, and that's exactly what our pals Matt and AJ did yesterday when they eloped to Salem, Masssachusetts and tied the knot. The Star Wars galaxy was quick to congratulate them, which is something we'll echo from right here in the Fanthaverse. Matt and AJ are two of the coolest, most genuine folks in this or any other galaxy, and we couldn't be happier for them [amazon box="1368095194"]

[equallyshaw]

sunkissed! | seein red au ↳ mat barzal x sydney martin sister oc ! ↳ masterlist. ↳ this takes place right after the islanders get booted from the 24' season playoffs!

livi: sun kissed. location: california 103.8k likes, 21.3k comments. + mat barzal & jackhughes

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sydney.martin: queen ↳ livi: 🙅🏼‍♀️

naiomismith (bff): so good having u back home🥺 ↳ nastiaa(bff): feels like old times fr ↳ livi: frrrrr ↳ livi: so glad to be back with my favs 🫶🏻

siennaschmidt: HunEy ↳ livi: honeyyyy bunch

greenwichjewels: thats our girl ↳ livi: hehe

sigmakappaucla: our favorite (past) president ↳ livi: miss u girls like crazy !!!!

mattmartin: did you put sunscreen on? ↳ sydney.martin: probs not lol ↳ livi: uhhhhhhhhh ↳ sydney.martin: the disappointment is loud @.mattmartin ↳ livi: 🖕🏻 ↳ mattmartin: feelings mutual

trevorzegras: lightning mcqueen ↳ livi: kuchow

jamiedrysdale: i hope u get burnt ↳ cam.york: same here ↳ livi: i hate u both

fanone: she's an actual icon fantwo: prettiest redhead EVER fanthree: queen

tito91: sunkissed pookie ↳ livi: pooKIE

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barzal97: gorgés de soleil location: los angeles 98.7k likes, 13.5k likes. + livi

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tito91: i guess ↳ tito91: also half ur engagement are canadians...that know french ↳ barzal97: hush now

naiomismith: r u still crying ↳ barzal97: idk what ur talking about ↳ nastiaa: lmao - cry harder over the pool game ↳ barzal97: i hate u both

islandershockey: model mat ↳ liked by barzal97.

mattmartin: oh @.sydneymartin ↳ sydneymartin: ouuuu the pearl necklace- love it

fanone: wait he's so hot fantwo: HOT fanthree: it should be illegal to be this hot fanfour: we barely see his face but we just know he's tannnnnnn

bohorvat: cute ↳ bohorvat: super cute

freckledred: hot damn ↳ barzal97 has liked this comment.

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POSTER SERIES - RITE OF SPRING - By Matt Martin and Danny Augustine - https://thephotocopyclub.bigcartel.com

[barzxdaddy]

i want to celebrate with the islanders tonight 🍻

[luckygoldteeth]

www.mattmartin.net

[wwtweets]

New York Islanders legends, current players, fans, more say goodbye to Nassau Coliseum UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- The primary $17 can... Read the rest on our site with the url below https://worldwidetweets.com/new-york-islanders-legends-current-players-fans-more-say-goodbye-to-nassau-coliseum/?feed_id=38568&_unique_id=60db767cc51df #AndersLee #BoboCarpenter #BrockNelson #CalClutterbuck #daily #MathewBarzal #MattMartin #NewYorkIslanders #NHL #SemyonVarlamov

[franklong12]

New York Islanders legends, current players, fans, more say goodbye to Nassau Coliseum UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- The primary $17 can... Read the rest on our site with the url below https://worldwidetweets.com/new-york-islanders-legends-current-players-fans-more-say-goodbye-to-nassau-coliseum/?feed_id=38567&_unique_id=60db767b8d13b #AndersLee #BoboCarpenter #BrockNelson #CalClutterbuck #daily #MathewBarzal #MattMartin #NewYorkIslanders #NHL #SemyonVarlamov

[naughtynylander-blog]

If they take matt away from mitch we will riot

[christianandnerdy]

Star Wars story group writer Matt Martin: Star Wars Canon Is “all fake anyway.” Is Star Wars even relevant? They brought back Palpatine from the dead and now they’re bringing Boba Fett who’s next greedo? 
#starwars #starwarscanon #mattmartin #greedo #hanshotfirst 
https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/05/11/star-wars-story-group-writer-matt-martin-star-wars-canon-is-all-fake-anyway/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAD9qb9lX9J/?igshid=acpk038fo1b3

[westphotolukedas]

Production Journal - GQ

060320

The final presentation of my photographs for this project should be appropriate for a men’s lifestyle magazine. GQ is a publication that would print an editorial shoot of this nature and I shall use it as a case study. The magazine’s focus is fashion, style, culture, fitness, music, travel, sports and technology for a male market. An article by photographer Matt Martin is the basis for my project and I will consider the requirements of print and digital platforms.

Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ), formerly Apparel Arts, started as a men’s fashion magazine for wholesale buyers and retailers. It was launched in 1931 in the US for a limited run; however, its popularity promoted the advent of Esquire Magazine and other publications that built upon its success. Apparel Arts was rebranded as Gentleman’s Quarterly in 1958. The acronym GQ followed in 1967. It was later acquired by Condé Nast, who added articles beyond fashion. Various editors have influenced the reader base over the years - Nonnie Moore as fashion editor dressed up the pages to make the content approachable yet aspirational then Jim Nelson attracted younger and more casual readers. Finally, the term ‘metrosexuality’ was coined in response to the lifestyle that GQ promoted - ownership of an impulse to shop for high fashion. It is thought to trace back to a Mark Simpson piece for The Independent via his book Male Impersonators (1994), ‘The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men's style press, magazines such as The Face, GQ, Esquire, Arena and FHM, the new media which took off in the Eighties and is still growing. They filled their magazines with images of narcissistic young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other young men to study them with a mixture of envy and desire.’ (Condé Nast, 2020)

Matt Martin is a New York-based photo editor and photographer. At GQ Magazine he has held the positions of senior visuals editor and visuals editor from 2015 to 2019. As a former e-commerce and product photographer, there is characteristic precision to his style - colours are true to life with lighting that elevates the subject to appear pristine. In an editorial shoot with boxer Deontay Wilder, Martin worked as part of team involving a stylist, cinematographer and video editor. As a showman and undisputed champion in his weight class, Wilder has many visual traits that are the subject of tropes - a gold studded mask, crown, jewellery and boxing gloves. The styling of the shoot reflects his passion for luxury and he wears Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace. In the video footage, the sitter is playful yet physical. Poses are clearly those of a boxer as he flaunts his form. The lighting is low-key with a background that falls into darkness. A soft key light, absent fill light and carefully placed back light emphasise the broadness of his shoulders and angular musculature. Metallic-based textiles and a black skin tone complement these creative choices. Cropping is bold in the video footage and high key still images. There are some full length and profile shots; however, cropping at the chin to frame his golden chain and presenting a lone tattooed fist are signifiers that are all unmistakably Wilder. (GQ, 2019)

Matt Martin, Deontay Wilder, 2019

Summary

The list of photographers and cinematographers that I have blogged about for this project is extensive - Smith, Andrew, Refn, Sigel, Norwood and Kander. Martin is being added for his clean-cut editorial approach. The opening sequence of my series will aim to recreate his low-key Deontay Wilder lighting that I have described. It champions the look that GQ has come to represent. Back lighting exaggerates the masculinity of a subject because angular features become more pronounced. Reflective textiles in this shoot were successful and Ben’s red jacket should create a similar outcome. Acting in combination with the lighting, a sense of the luxury will be inferred. The innovative cropping is effective for Wilder as he has characteristics specific to him as a boxing personality. Ben and I shall search for framing that defines him. Furthermore, there needs to be some dominant statement expressed with his drumsticks.

Production Notes

I have worked as a portrait photographer for the past eight years. Studio Photo Gallery is my preference of studio space. It is compact and well equipped for photographers on a budget. The owner provides Elinchrom heads with a variety of modifiers. Ben arrived with his clothing, drumsticks and hair product to prepare for the shoot. I set up the lighting as shown in the diagram. It refashions Martin’s design almost directly. There was a head with a soft box camera left and black polyboards either side of it. This prevented flare into the lens and flagged light from the background. A head with a snoot was placed camera right at an angle. Again like Martin, a hard back light enhanced Ben’s masculine characteristics. Finally, the black paper background was a few metres behind him. This imposed several stops difference between the subject and background, ensuring a pure black aesthetic.

My professional studio settings are f8.0, 1/125s and 100 ISO. I feel that this gives me the optimal performance of my lens and camera - Nikon D750 and 50mm lens. It is natural for me to work with people and empower them to present their personality. Ben had several ideas for poses. We started casually with his arms by his side and at an angle to me. There are variations between him looking at the camera and away. The way that he held the drumsticks came from him. Making a cross was aggressive and purposeful. We felt that worked well. Reaching with a single stick straight into the lens was another successful composition. I rejected poses that seemed forced, although I did not communicate this at the time. My final images have been retouched on Photoshop. His hair was reshaped and trimmed to remove any fly aways. His skin is free of most blemishes; however, I left some to maintain a rugged appearance. Otherwise there is relatively little post-production and the look I was attempting was captured as practical effects.

In a second phase of the shoot, I began to take more risks and to work outside of my comfort zone. I mounted my Nikon D750 and 50mm lens on a tripod and attempted long exposure motion blur. After many test shots the most efficacious combination was f8.0, 4s and ISO 200. If the shutter speed was too long then forms clumped together. If it was too short then there was no trace of a blur. Since my Mamiya 645 with 80mm lens is analogue, I had to wait until the film was processed to see if I was successful. The Kodak Professional Ektar 100 that I loaded performed admirably. It was pushed a stop to 200 ISO to reproduce the digital test shots. My lighting design was comparably simple. The head with a snoot was switched off and the head with a softbox had a range of gels taped to it. It was used as a constant light with the flash unit off and the modelling light switched on. Finally, a domestic table lamp with an open bulb was positioned under it. This had a contrasting gel taped to it. Red and blue was my preferred choice of gels. When it came to the movement, I asked Ben to be seated and to drum on his thighs to give the impression that there was a drum kit present. Music was played loudly and it was interesting to watch the movements that he would make. In the end, we selected several heavy metal tracks for him to drum to. Head banging added an extra dimensionality to the action. This definitively condensed the spirit of his music into a selective range of shots. It was Ben who suggested spinning the sticks in his hands and cropping him out. With practice he could hold still for 2s and then spin for the remaining 2s on the same exposure. This is how the solid outline of his hand was created with cyclical distortion appearing to emanate from it.

Using Photoshop, I pulled the saturation and vibrancy down on scans of these negatives. The grain gives the images a warmer and more vintage feel than a digital alternative. There was some clone tool used to remove excess blur, otherwise I felt it was necessary to preserve their rawness. A mock up magazine spread was created in the same vein as GQ. I kept the graphic design motifs minimal and made suggestions for where text could potentially appear. Each photograph is a different size to be indicative of the frenzied nature of drumming - back and forth, round and round. Ben is identified as a hand with a drumstick and two blurred profile images. I selected these latter shots because they were still identifiable as him amongst the chaotic blurriness.

Bibliography

Condé Nast (2020). GQ. Condé Nast. Available from www.condenast.co.uk/gq [Accessed 10/04/2020]

Martin, M. (2020). Deontay Wilder Always Prefers the Knockout. GQ. Available from www.gq.com/story/deontay-wilder-tunnel-style-profile [Accessed 10/04/2020]

Lighting Diagram

Digital Shoot, f/8, 1/125s, ISO 100

Contact Sheet 01

Contact Sheet 02

Analogue Shoot, f/8, 4s, ISO 200

Mock Up

[beauvilliers]

han i hate you. (yes this is about the matt martin box photos im in tears here)

bestie i’ll send you the video later 😭

[jordaneberle]

read the entire dylan strome ppt at 11pm and now am not ok. since he wasn't drafted by seattle in expansion where do you think he should go...

Oh my god well first of all that ppt could probably use an update, since he had a whole fucking child and got engaged. Nonetheless welcome to being perpetually concerned about his wellbeing.

As for where I think he should go, the teams I’ve seen spoken about as a fit are the sens, leafs, and habs mostly. Personally I’d love the leafs for a mitch reunion, or the oilers so that dylan and connor can finally discuss the toxic behaviour that was their post playoff round handshake. Also dylan would expose drai for the homophobe I know he is ❤️

[equallyshaw]

blue moon, insta edit w mat barzal. imagine link:

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@lucy.barzal: from then to now…what a difference 2 years can make 🤍 #BarzalTime

Tag: matbarzal

Location: the plaza hotel

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@lucybestfriend: YOURE OFFICIALLY A MRS

@lucybestfriend: I CANT HANDLE IT

@devonsimons: no longer a simon big sis 🥲

↳ @lucy.barzal: I love u forever little buddy 🫶🏻

@joshuasimon: party. Of. The. Century.

↳ @matildasimon-hanks: RUDE

↳ @lucy.barzal: I’m biased now so I can’t support u hehe

@matbarzal: my love forever and ever 🤍

↳ @lucy.barzal: 🥹🥹

↳ @lianabarzal: ew gross

↳ @deconsimons: tell me about it lol

@anderslee: so much fun, congrats you two kids 🥳

↳ @lucy.barzal: Thankyou LEE!

↳ titobeauvi91: favs

↳ @emmasimard: LOVE YOU

↳ @lucy.barzal: uh that’s awkward, @mattmartin and @sydneymartin are my favs ….

↳ @mattmartin: take that Tito

@tysonjost: congrats buds

↳ @lucy.barzal: feel so honored by your presence 🫡

↳ @tysonjost: u should be

@victorsimon: congrats you two! Welcome to the fam @matbarzal

↳ @matbarzal: so grateful for you all !

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@matbarzal: mannnnn, am i a lucky husband #BarzalTime

Tag: Lucy.barzal

Location: the plaza hotel

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@lucy.barzal: FIRST COMMENT

@lucy.barzal: CAN U FOLLOW & LIKE

↳ @titobeauvi91: we love a good troll

↳ @tysonjost: ur a little pest

@anderslee: king 👑

@joshuasimon: welcome tot he fam bro !

↳ @matbarzal: we still need a re do on that game

↳ @joshuasimon: still amazed I beat you

↳ @matbarzal: don’t remind me

@matildasimon-hanks: congrats you two!!! Can’t wait for Hawaii in Jan! 🤞🏻

↳ @lucy.barzal: only you would wish mat to not make all star💀

↳ @matbarzal: atleast she’s honest lolol

@devonsimon: FaceTime soon?¿ ft soon?

↳ @matbarzal: ft soon.

@devonsimon: u got games on ur phone?

↳ @mattmartin: simon = professional trollers

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Hope you all enjoyed! I don’t really know everybody on the islanders so I hope I got everybody right lol

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random tags: @matbaerzal @barzysunflower @barzal @rosesvioletshardy @canuckshuggy @bitchinbarzal @andreburakozy @jayda12

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A few photo by @brain_war from the opening night of LONDON CALLING.

Join us on the 1.2.18 for the closing party! All prints will be for sale for £5 with the proceeds going towards funding the photocopy club and it’s next exhibition. 

See you there!  - TPC

[barzxdaddy]

This is just life goals

[luckygoldteeth]

SFMOMA, SF, 2017