blog is at a new location

Its not quite as interactive yet but here it is

http://www.holdstudios.com/Matthew/Mlog/Mlog.html

love you all

M

HOLD is open for business

Look at the shirt closely. Good. Now who can't agree with that!

Well it is official. Heather and I now have our new website and company online. Please visit us at www.HOLDstudios.com

This may be the last posting on this blog as our new website has its own internal blog. So for those of you who bookmark such things the blog is on my "more" page. That will make more sense when you visit.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this blog and I look forward to it continuing on the new site. Heather and I built it together and it will be a live entity with new work (paintings, photos, films, pics, blogging, etc.) posted regularly.

Its the real deal.

Much love to all of you

Sincerely, warmly

Matthew Olds

Just to let you know I am still working on this blogging thing

Guard dog at ol' studio in Georgetown.

 Much to come on the blog, video (now editing) photos (now editing) and a some exciting business developments (not to big though).

Thanks for checking back!

xoxo

M

Just some of the beauty we encountered on the road

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This is in BANFF National Park. A stunning, stunning place. There were two lakes like this we visited. The first one had an unfortunate infestation of huge huge resorts right at the base of the water. This one did not...yet. We packed a lunch at the car and Heather, Chevy and I hiked in. It was a truly beautiful spot. To the right of the picture (off frame) we could hear and see avalanches releasing down the mountain. Nothing threatening but it sounded like thunder and slide off the cliffs like a waterfall. Magical place. I believe this is Lake Moraine.

There will be more pics and yes even some video coming soon.  We are still editing both mediums.  I may slip in some more images from the Road Kill Series if there aren't to many objections.  I try in that work to make the formal issues more substantial then the gross out factor so it shouldn't be too bad for all the squeamish viewers out there.  Actually, I am going to slip one in here now.

This was the first moose we encountered on the road. There were three others. This was in Ontario working our way towards Lake Superior. There were trails from the wood to and from the moose along with the matted down areas evident of other visitors besides ourselves.

Opening tonight at the Seattle Art Museum Gallery

Heather and I would love to see any of you out there who can make it down to the SAM Gallery at 1220 Third Ave, downtown from 5-7 PM tonight. Should be fun and if you can't make it wish us luck.

Cheers!

M&H

Back home from our Trans-North American Road Trip

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We are back home after an amazing three week road trip throughout southern Canada and the northern United States. We were fortunate on this trip to be able to take our time traveling from our starting point: Vashon Island WA, to our destination: Lake Manistique in the U.P. of Michigan for an Olds family reunion and then back again.

On our way east we mostly stayed on the Trans-Canadian Highway through gorgeous mountain terrain, rolling breezy plains, and dense forests. On the way home we took the meandering Hwy 2 all the way back to WA through small towns both living and dead, swarms of May flies and even more gorgeous scenery. Of all our road trips north and south, east and west, we almost always had to take the interstate due to time constraints so this trip was a joy as we were be able to poke along with only a modest idea of where we were headed or might be staying that night. Lots of camping, lots of bugs, lots of love and lots of fun.

Along the way Heather and I were documenting, both with video and still images, our travels, thoughts, and road kill. The image above is just such an example from Northern Minnesota of a Quail. We have hundreds and hundreds of photos to go through and hours and hours of film to review. We are excited to do so and it is our intention at least in the short term to post such things here on our Olds Art Blog.

Its great to be home and to all the family we saw, we love you and had a fabulous time. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

On the Road

Heather and I have been traveling the Northern wilds of the United States and also that of Southern Canada. We will be back soon and will have plenty of posts in the coming weeks.

Thanks for checking back

Much love

Matthew & Heather