Day 100

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I hit triple digits today, so I found it fitting to shoot a triptych. 1-0-0 baby!

Day 99

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When I'm stressed, I cook.

Day 98

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Today was a yard sale (shit was all over the place!)

Day 97

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It's all fun and games until somebody falls off of the cliff. 

Day 96

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Last night we had a "welcome back" concert, and the headliner was Major Lazer. 

Day 95

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Today was my first day as a TA and these are the kids in my class. Sure, they all may look kind of bored or mildly annoyed by my existence, but they're mine and I'm excited. Props to the girl in the front row who threw me a funny face, you're getting an A.

Day 94

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I am surrounded by great people wherever I go. A few of them also happen to make some good food.

Day 93

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Sooo I've been rockin' the beard lately.

Day 92

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Pardall tunnel connects Isla Vista to UCSB's campus.

Day 91

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Today was the convocation for the 2010 freshman class. The man at the podium is Chancellor Yang, head of our university, a local celebrity and all around awesome dude. 

Day 90

90/365, originally uploaded by Aaron LaRue.

Today was fantastic.

Day 89

Day 89, originally uploaded by Aaron LaRue.

Today was busy, some of the boys came down and we had a NIGHT! I did squeeze this off, though, I thought it was pretty ingenious. Jordan made Victoria a drink but we didn't have ice, so he put an otter pop in there. Major bonus point on the presentation, and it was super effective. 

Day 88

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I'm having a rough day.

Day 87

87/365, originally uploaded by Aaron LaRue.

This is my friend Miko.

Day 86

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There's a naked baby on the loose in my house. Like the mysterious "Big Foot", she is evasive, secretive and incredibly hard to photograph. 

Day 85

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This is my friend Amanda. 

Day 84

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After a long weekend in SF, and a long night in SB, I woke up this morning, packed my bags, and headed home. 

Day 83

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We spent 7 hours in the car today driving back from SF. We got stuck in traffic going through the city and it was terrible. Thankfully, Yardley and Claire made the whole thing bearable. Then I got home and had a long night, it was a not-so-good ending to an otherwise fantastic weekend. 

Day 82

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Today we went to Power to the Peaceful in Golden Gate park. This little girl, obviously, was having a good time.  

Day 81

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This is my friend Claire. She was nice enough to take me in for the weekend and show me around San Francisco. Now for my first day in the city and a crap load of photos....

Day 80

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I finished summer school today (HALLELUJAH!) and then packed my bags and headed out into the world. 

Day 79

79/365, originally uploaded by Aaron LaRue.

I spent the last 6 weeks working on a screenplay for my film class. Today I turned in the fruits of my labor.

Day 78

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I had a day jam-packed with screenwriting, so I didn't get to go outside much. I went with Jordan to get some dinner, and we ran into the one-and-only pirate bum on our way home. Who is the pirate bum, you say?

Day 77

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So it was 11:30 tonight and I hadn't taken my picture yet. I had taken some pictures throughout the day, but I wasn't in love with any of them. I was in the process of taking lame pictures of lame things in my room when JT called me out hard. "Haven't you already done a picture like that?" he tells me...

Day 76

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Since I take my camera everywhere lately, I was in desperate need of a small camera bag. Instead of paying a ridiculous amount of money that I don't have, I went DIY and made my own (with the help of my beautiful and talented girlfriend, of course).

Day 75

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Last night Josh and Miko stopped by to visit, so we adventured out into IV and I brought my camera out with me.

Day 74

74/365, originally uploaded by Aaron LaRue.

Rita has a ton of funky little figurines/statues throughout her room, and this one always catches my eye. Nice, simple, quick picture for today, freeing up some time for a fun night. 

The Poetry Series

        I've been in summer school for the last few weeks, and one of classes I'm taking is a class on contemporary American poetry. I ended up in that class by accident (it was listed as contemporary American LITERATURE), but it ended up being cool and I actually enjoyed a lot of the works we read. Instead of writing a final paper (which, in the long run, would have been way less work but much more boring) I pitched a creative project. My goal was to create 4 visual representations of certain poets or poems.
        The link has been up for a while as a "rough draft" if you will, but after some work over the last few days, it's finally done. I'm actually really excited with how it turned out and am considering making at a reoccurring part of this project. You can check out the project here, or visit the link at the top right of the page. As always, feedback would be fantastic. What you thought of the pictures, what you thought of the poems, any suggestions for future "adaptations", put it all in the comment box at the end of the post.

Day 73

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Writing is hard, especially screenwriting. Because of the strict format, typing it up on a computer is pretty much a necessity. Sometimes, though, when I hit a block, the only thing that helps is doing it by hand. 60 pages in 6 weeks and it's so close I can almost taste it.

Day 72

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I had to take my picture today, so I decided to go for a walk and I made Jordan come with me. I think he summed today up best when he said, "Some days are just awful".