Omnium-gatherum

About Omnium-gatherum

I originally created the Omnium-gatherum website in early 2001 as a way to display photos to friends and family. It later grew to also include profession resources in my field of imaging science and remote sensing. In 2005 I redid the website to be more of a blog to give it more life and be more of an active growing entity. Now it is a way to communicate and express myself to any who are interested. This site is an ongoing lifetime archive that I hope will continue on to my children.

The picture galleries will continue to grow as I continue to take new pictures and scan in old. With several thousand pictures online already and more then ten thousand more waiting to be scanned, these images are the central piece of Omnium-gatherum. I originally put photos online because frankly, people just don’t like looking through piles of other people’s photos, especially with the person standing right there looking at them. Often times photos stay in shoeboxes in the dark and rarely get looked at. This is a way to show people the photos that they are interested in looking at - and they can spend as much or as little time doing so.

About Matt Hanson

While a introduction of where I’m from and a brief overview of what I’ve done doesn’t really explain much about me, I feel it is in order anyway. I was born in the early 70’s in Bangor, Maine (you can also check out the Bangor Daily News) and was raised in Hampden, Maine. I stayed until graduating from Hampden Academy (HA Grad website here), the public High School. I attended college at R.I.T. where I got a B.S. degree in Imaging and Photographic Technology in 1995. Since that time I have lived in New Hampshire and worked outside of Boston, in Newton, MA. More information on my work is in my Imaging Science and Computer Science section. In July of 2000 I married my partner of 8 years, Kimberly, when we lived in Goffstown, NH, with her son Jeff. Near the end of 2002 our daughter Kaley was born and due to her prematurity was in the hospital through the holidays and the New Year. 6 months later I graduated with my M.S. in Imaging Science from R.I.T. where I was the first of two students to complete the program via distance-learning.

In 2004 we needed a change. Jeff had graduated from High School and Goffstown did not hold much interest to us. Kim wasn’t working and I was working at home part-time and commuting to Newton the rest of the time. I thought that part of my future involved getting my PhD so we bought a house in Dover, NH (near the NH seacoast), close to UNH. I have yet to attend school - it may or may not happen. Near the end of 2004 our second daughter Maizy was born.

View my Resume here.

“Omnium-gatherum”

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(noun): a miscellaneous collection (as of things or persons)

English abounds in Latin phrases. They roll off the learned tongue like peas off a fork. “Tabula rasa”; “ab ovo”; “a posteriori”; “deus ex machina”; “ex cathedra”; “mea culpa”; “terra firma”; “vox populi”; “ad hominem”; “sub rosa” — “Omnium-gatherum” features all of those - it belongs on that list too, right? Not exactly. “Omnium-gatherum” sounds like Latin, and indeed “omnium” (the genitive plural of Latin “omnis,” meaning “all”) is the real thing. But “gatherum” is simply English “gather” with “-um” tacked on to give it a classical ring. We’re not suggesting, however, that the phrase is anything less than literate. After all, the first person known to have used it was John Croke, a lawyer educated at Eton and Cambridge in the 16th century.