Hello, World

Jay Matthiessen is a native local, with a family immersed in the arts (a respected photographer grandfather, a grandmother and aunt professional dancers, a film producer, music teachers, a set designer, and dress maker/costume designers), it would have been no surprise to eventually work in the field. Yet while young, with a few years training under Vladimir Dokoudovsky, at the New York Conservatory of Dance, and a few minor attempts performing, it became clear some can best serve the arts by appreciating it. While majoring in more mainstream subjects, all free college coursework was dedicated to the arts: short story writing, script writing, science fiction film, photography, journalism, communications, and even three dimensional design, as well as writing for the college newspaper and membership in film club. Like his grandfather, though primarily working in a technical field, Jay has spent decades working in his spare time as a photographer, and has worked for a small newspaper. While a massive fan of blockbusters, thrillers, and science fiction films, his formative years have fostered a profound appreciation for the arts in all it's forms.

Drew Suto, not born, but raised around the capital district, lives in Troy NY with his wife and daughter. He was brought up in and around the arts, and has always had a strong passion for film. As a child, he would read the movie parodies in Mad Magazine and then seek out the actual film and watch it. Over the years he has grown to be kind of a film geek, hosting movie nights for friends to attend and even having a private double feature midnight showing of Richard Elfman's The Forbidden Zone and Takashi Miike's Visitor Q for his bachelor party at a local theater. Currently, Drew has started his own visual projection business that operates throughout the north-east and he still finds time to watch a few movies during the week. His hopes is that this blog will allow you to learn more about films that you may or may not know about.

Amy Wilson spent much of her childhood in the mid-Hudson Valley, but went away to college in far-off Virginia. After graduation, Amy lived in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area where she started working as a web developer. A work-to-live person in a live-to-work town, Amy focused on her interests away from the office, eventually writing for Metblogs DC and polishing her skills as an architecture and landscape photographer.

Now after more than twenty years, Amy has returned to her roots in New York. She currently works as a software developer at a local college."