Journal and Portfolio of Matthew Taylor Ruggieri
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I think I know what I want to do with my life.

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My peers have lost hope in myself because of the decisions that I have made. I really hope to prove them wrong.

I’m still a leader.

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I become very attached to every person I come across. For that, I don’t know how I am so acustomed to “change”.

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I haven’t been able to take many pictures lately as my days have consisted of extensive photo projects and essays for school, travel time between small farm towns and urban cityscapes, a drink or two (or three) to keep me grounded, and script writing and developing for my feature that I have been working on for the past year or so.

Everything has been extremely exciting; many new projects are coming, but I can’t wait to have a “home” and be somewhat stable.

If I leave Brooks Institute of Photography, I will miss those that I have met dearly, but it is for the better of myself.

I can’t wait until I can call Los Angeles my “home” again.

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Anna and I at Coffee.

Visiting back at home. Anna and I.

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I have found that the most valuable times of your teenage years is spent driving around in the car.

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It was at this very moment where he learned where his moralistic line was crossed. Even though this event is about him and his mistakes, I feel like I had a large part in it and learned a lesson that I would never want to test. It was a moralistic line that I crossed when I let him out of my house, knowing that there was only room left for bad to happen. Nonetheless, we are both safe, but it is the co-dependent relationship that I had with an addicted individual that forced me into experiencing many, many life-threatening events. I still believe that he is a good person at heart, but I’ve set a moralistic line for myself that I do not wish to cross any longer.

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Black Pearl from Verizon Commercial

It was freezing cold last night, but it was a blast. This picture was taken around 4am. The party was still going then. Verizon commercial out soon!

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Change, once again.

I have yet to find an entire week that is completely planned and stable. I’m turning eighteen in a month and a few days. The real world is just about to begin. I’m have a teleconference with a few executives at Warner Bros. Records later on today. So soon. I’m excited to move back to Los Angeles, but I’m frightened, of course.

However, I did say I was ready for change, right?