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Times News · August 4, 2026

Feeling Beltzville'd Featured in the Times News

Jill Whalen's piece for the Times News on how a disappointing childhood swim trip to Beltzville became a game — a food truck spills roller hot dogs into the lake, and Dad chases them on a motorized duck float past geese, algae, bacteria, floating diapers, and snapping turtles. It covered the food power-ups, the bonus for near misses, the live leaderboards, and the three hits that get you Beltzville'd, alongside Route 22 Rampage and Send Martin Tower to Mars!

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WFMZ-TV · July 28, 2026

Feeling Beltzville'd Featured on WFMZ News

Rick Holmes covered Feeling Beltzville'd for WFMZ — a tipped food truck spills into Beltzville Lake, and a dad on a duckie tube races to eat the hot dogs and pretzels while dodging geese, dirty diapers, and an algae bloom. The piece traced the idea back to childhood summers when bacteria counts closed the lake to swimmers, and noted the game runs on Android, iPhone, and the browser with a shared leaderboard.

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Lehigh Valley with Love Media · July 22, 2026

Feeling Beltzville'd Featured in Lehigh Valley with Love

Lehigh Valley with Love on Feeling Beltzville'd — a food truck goes into the lake, Dad rides a motorized duck float after the scattered hot dogs, and algae, bacteria, geese, snapping turtles, and floating diapers get in the way, with food power-ups and a run that ends on the third hit. The piece covered the live leaderboards for score, hot dogs, and distance, and where to play: the browser, Google Play, or pay-what-you-want from the shop.

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Lehigh Valley Press · January 3, 2026

Route 22 Rampage Featured in Lehigh Valley Press

A feature on the Atari 2600 homebrew Route 22 Rampage: the history of the console, the surprisingly active modern homebrew community, and how the game was built into 128 bytes of memory — from Batari Basic and assembly through 3D-printed cartridge cases and cover art.

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WFMZ-TV · November 17, 2025

Route 22 Rampage Featured on WFMZ News

WFMZ-TV filmed inside the Allentown workshop where Route 22 Rampage was designed, coded, and 3D-printed, covering the game's retro design, its local detail — traffic, potholes, an enthusiastic horn — and its intentionally limited run of 42 physical cartridges.

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Lehigh Valley Press · December 23, 2022

Nature and Machine — Rotunda Gallery Exhibition

Lehigh Valley Press on Nature and Machine at the Rotunda Gallery in Bethlehem — palladium, cyanotype, albumen, ambrotype, gumoil, and silver gelatin prints, several made with pinhole cameras fabricated on a 3D printer.

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The Morning Call · November 15, 2022

Nature and Machine — Featured in The Morning Call

The Morning Call covered the 30-photograph exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery, highlighting Iris in palladium and 1956 Lincoln Premiere as a silver gelatin print. Photographs by April Gamiz.

WDIY — Lehigh Valley Arts Salon · October 10, 2022

LV Arts Salon — The Many Mediums of Storytelling

A radio conversation with host Silagh White and actor and comedian Kate Hughes about how artists across different disciplines approach storytelling, whether working in the spotlight or supporting other creatives behind the scenes.

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Lehigh Valley Press · February 11, 2022

Paradoxes of Time — Group Photography Exhibition

A review of the group show at Arthaus at the Mezz with Gary Asteak and Peter Gourniak, curated by Deborah Rabinsky. Matthew's contribution included Winter Tree (2020), a digitally originated image printed by a palladium process dating to the 1890s.

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Dan's Camera City · November 17, 2021

Wednesday Night Photo Show — The Film Episode

A guest appearance on Dan's Camera City's Wednesday Night Photo Show, on why film photography refuses to disappear, why it is resurging, and how the constraints of shooting analog deepen creative choices.

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The Morning Call · April 2, 2020

New times, new techniques — Featured in The Morning Call

Glenn Koehler's piece on how Lehigh Valley visual artists adapted during the early months of the pandemic. With commercial work stalled, Matthew turned inward — back through the archives and into the darkroom, and toward palladium and carbon printing.

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Lehigh Valley Press · October 25, 2019

Windows of the Past: Lehigh County — Baum School of Art Exhibition

Coverage of the show in the David E. Rodale Gallery: 17 images of historic Lehigh County locations drawn from sites on the National Register of Historic Places, printed in cyanotype, tintype, gum bichromate, albumen, silver gelatin, and palladium.

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Lehigh Valley Press · November 4, 2018

Billboard — Lehigh Valley Press Review

Paul Willistein's review of Billboard, the Lehigh Valley-shot comedy inspired by the real early-1980s billboard-sitting radio contest. Matthew served as director of photography, and the review called out the cinematography across the film's exteriors and interiors.

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Lehigh Valley with Love Media · September 10, 2018

Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast — Episode 031

A wide-ranging conversation with hosts Tyler and George about photography, videography, and filmmaking in the Lehigh Valley, including the role of director of photography on the locally produced narrative film Billboard.

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Art in the Park · June 16, 2018

Art in the Park | 2018

A live ambrotype demonstration at Art in the Park — glass plate portraits crafted on site, offering visitors a window into the precision and artistry of 19th-century wet plate photography.