Matt Smythe
HARD WORK, SON.
The Pere Marquette was a lesson in the art of disciplined optimism. This is not sunshine-and-puppies optimism. This is not...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 26, 2012
TRIFECTA
One trip. Three videos. All from the same footage. No…not win, place and show. Win, win and win. Big props to the editorial-stylizations...
Matt Smythe
- Mar 14, 2012
YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES
Then all of a sudden, there we were. Straight from the airport. Three of us and a drift boat and a river unhinged and in the trees. Gusts...
Matt Smythe
- Mar 7, 2012
a.m.
Flight, flight, Grand Rapids by 10 a.m. I’ve been told Michigan knows how to welcome a fella. All I can tell you is that I’ve been...
Matt Smythe
- Feb 23, 2012
HEADING FOR WATER
Back in late-April of last year, Grant Taylor, Dean Milliman and I got together to do an advertising/awareness campaign for a local...
Matt Smythe
- Jan 18, 2012
THE VIEW FROM MY BOOKSHELVES
My home office has got some hellafied built-in bookshelves. As a matter of fact, those bookshelves and the barn were the two things that...
Matt Smythe
- Dec 25, 2011
WHY 2012 WILL BE BIG
I was just recently diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. More specifically full-blown Tourette Syndrome. The full-blown part (which sounds...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 23, 2011
THE IDAHO TRIP: HENRY’S FORK
When we were planning this trip to Idaho, right up to the week prior, there were gaps in our itinerary. Even after we had finished dinner...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 20, 2011
THE IDAHO TRIP: THE SOUTH FORK, DAY 2
The next morning our drive to the South Fork felt entirely different. It was the same landscape of sprawling grain fields and foothills,...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 19, 2011
THE IDAHO TRIP: SOUTH FORK OF THE SNAKE
DAY 1 By 9:30 we had packed the truck, eaten some breakfast, gassed and coffee’d up and were on the road for our four hour haul to Idaho...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 15, 2011
THE IDAHO TRIP: PAYETTE AND SALMON RIVERS
Out front of the hotel and across the highway, the geese were up, flying west/southwest at 7 a.m. just as they had the last two mornings....
Matt Smythe
- Sep 14, 2011
THE IDAHO TRIP: RIVER X
Looking out the window at 30,000 feet over the canyons and low-slung foothills of southwest Idaho, my brain still hadn’t registered the...
Matt Smythe
- Sep 12, 2011
I’M HOME. SORT OF.
Ten Days. Five different rivers. A whole lot of new friends. Idaho kicks ass. Stay tuned for reports from the trip.
Matt Smythe
- Aug 25, 2011
NOLA’S OTHER SHOW
The wake-up call rang at 3:45 on Sunday morning. From my 44th floor window, Canal St. was still a neon flow of people swarming from one...
Matt Smythe
- Aug 22, 2011
GETTING AFTER IT
It’s been a busy summer for house-projects, travel and work. Four months have already passed since I made the jump from the agency world...
Matt Smythe
- Aug 3, 2011
ALIVE ON ARRIVAL
this road begs a truck and a full tank of gas windows down tire-tread serenade humidity and cool 4 a.m. headlights bugs on the...
Matt Smythe
- Jun 15, 2011
SLIDE GUITAR
She asks Tell me, sad eyes What would it take to get a dance? I don’t answer My silence doesn’t register as an answer She asks again I...
Matt Smythe
- Nov 11, 2010
BASIC
5:30 a.m. Rain, low/mid 40’s August 28, 1990, my 18th birthday Ft. Leonard Wood, MO Up at that hour, I wished I was getting my gear...
Matt Smythe
- Jun 9, 2010
SOMETIMES
We climb out of the dark for sunrise, ease into night from the evening. Somewhere in there the fish bite.
Matt Smythe
- Apr 9, 2010
OLD MAN RIVER, Installment 4, Thesis
Another from the thesis. I spend a total of two months in the Delta doing research for a book about the Delta Blues. One day I had a...
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