So like the other day in the comments section of the Lilly Allen topless pictures I was talking about how celebrity nude photos are just an easy throw away post. It gets a lot of search engine traffic, gives me a quick post and has some sexy shit for you to look at. Anyway, to get that stuff I just put Egotastic on my RSS reader and just look at it when it has someone I have heard of naked on there. Today they had paparazzi shots of Agyness Deyn on there. She was posing for Ryan McGinley who for whatever reason I am not a huge fan of… although I probably should be. Anyway, she was naked on a fire escape and a bunch of people took shots of her up there. They were recreating a photo of a woman and her daughter falling to their deaths to escape a fire in their building (note: the daughter actually lived). The photo is one of my favorite images of all time. It won a Pulitzer in 1975 and I first saw it in a book of Pulitzer winning photos. Of all the amazing images in the book it is one of the ones that really stood out to me.

Anyway, I usually am all about posting naked celebrities, but I know Agyness. It is not like we are pals or anything, but she has always been nice to me and I wouldn’t post (unflattering) shots of anyone else I know naked on here… unless of course I took the photo. So yeah. Instead I am just going to post the photo that the shoot is inspired by… and if I see the finished work from McGinley, maybe I will post that here… but not the paparazzi shit. You are just going to have to look for it on Egostatic.

So at the below skate party I mentioned that there was a skate ramp. Now the last time I took a skate photo was in 1996. I had no idea what I was doing then, and the same applies now. I sort of figured out why every skate photo is shot in wide angle though. I found it near impossible to focus. Having a wide angle and a high fstop would allow you to pretty much not have to focus. I did not have a wide angle lens. I think having a hand held flash would be nice too. I watched other photographers work and they either flashed down while they shot up, or bounced the flash off the ceiling. I think that gave me the cleanest results when I tried it. For me to use a high fstop in order to focus and get light and not over flash stuff, I set my ISO very high, which made everything look grainy and almost film like. For fun, I dragged the shutter like I would night life. I figured if I can’t get good shots, I might as well experiment and see if I can shoot some stuff that looks like my style. Anyway, the work is not good, but some of the photos are fun.

I do have to say that I see why people love skate photography. Seeing these guys fly up at you is pretty scary when looking through a view finder. It is a nice feeling.

Lastly, I am trying to get the names of all these skaters, so wait a day or two and then check back. If you mouse over the images hopefully it will say their names. If you know any of their names, post them in the comments. Thanks.

Photos go here.

FUCK.  I wrote this long ass post about this party but WordPress ate it for some reason.

Lets do it short hand.

• These are late to get up because I wanted to get some of the skaters names.
• I still don’t have any of their names
• This was a party for the movie Deathbowl To Downtown about the history of NYC skating.
• It was held at KCDC Skate Shop in Williamsburg.  KCDC is amazing and they have a skate ramp in the shop.
• I shot the party even though I was on a party photo break as a favor to my friend Adam who designed this site for free.
• I got paid in sneakers.

Photos go here.

While I don’t seem to be able to update my site right now, I can always make time for a half naked celebrity jumping off a cliff. Here are a bunch of naked photos of Lilly Allen just chilling.

On the site note. Not only do I not have any time to blog, but I am having severe problems with my gallery uploading software. I am not sure what is going to happen with that.

I am staying in tomorrow night to work just on the site and figure things out and catch up on sleep. So just hold your horses until then. I will get us up to speed some how. I love you tenderly.

Download: Lilly Allen - LDN

Click the photo below to see it uncensored.

It is instantly clear to me at 7AM this Tuesday morning that this website is going to suffer greatly at the hands of this new full time job. Just 8 hours after I completed my first day I realize that I got nothing done tonight… and I didn’t even take a picture. The idea is that I go out straight from work, take photos until like 3, go home, edit photos, upload photos, update site and be asleep by 7 am. It is now 7am and while I have edited all the photos I took Saturday night, I did not yet get them online, and I did not shoot anything. I didn’t have my camera on me when I got off work. I will tomorrow, but since I got nothing done tonight, why on Earth do I think I am going to be able to get anything done from 4-7 tomorrow. That is three hours to get two galleries up from Saturday, edit all the photos I take tonight, get them online and update again. Yikes. I need to streamline my work…. And I need an intern. That is no joke. If you want to be my intern, and know Facebook really well, basic HTML and are willing to work for college credit and drink tickets, let me know. Also, you can do almost all your work from home except some occasional night club stuff and maybe a few runs to the store. Being 21+ or having a reliable fake would be a bonus. Let me know soon, I hit up Craigslist next week.

Okay, off to bed as soon as I put watermarks on the Saturday skater party pictures so they will be ready for upload first thing tomorrow when I get back from party photoing.

Tuesday night update:  I did shoot some pretty fun photos tonight, but I got into some shit instead of coming home to do work, so once again it is nearly 7AM and I have nothing to show for it (although I will have edited the photos of tonight before I go to sleep).  I also paid a ticket.  And I had a lot of fun, and I have not done that for a bit.  Let’s see what happens tomorrow…

Have some Lulz courtesy of Defame: Orlando’s comment section and 15 more minutes of not going to sleep.

When people ask me my ethnic background I have been known to say that I am 1/4th Swiss, 1/4th Scottish and 1/2 Texan.  I am not quite sure of the hillbilly roots on my fathers side, but its a pretty reasonable guess that his family was living in Texas between 1836 and 1845 when Texas was known as The Republic Of Texas and was in no way part of these United States.  And since I don’t really know what else I am made of (I have heard rumors of French, Irish, Dutch and German) I just consider myself part Texan.  My father spent the first 20 sum years of his life living in Denton, TX a small one horse town suburb of Dallas.  My grandmother still resides in Argyle which is a 0 horse town which is pretty much a suburb of Denton.  (Full disclosure, my grandmother owned at least one horse and at some point in my life it tried to buck me off and I held on because even at 9 years old I was a bad ass.)  My grandmother is also pretty much a bad ass and she proved to me that living in a trailer home is not as bad as it is made to seem in the movies.  She also retired from her job when she was 70 in order to become a truck driver with her husband who taught me to shoot a gun when I was like 7.

Anyway, I could write many paragraphs about my father’s life in Texas before he quit eating meat and became a sell out corporate lawyer and bought me this Mac Book, but that is not the point of this blog entry.  The point is to show you this NY Times article my dad sent me this morning about the Denton, TX rock scene.  The article talks about how Denton is the new Austin and the hipsters are leaving Austin because it is too commercial and trendy.  Now I have spent a good deal of time in both Denton and Austin and I will tell you this:  Denton is pretty much the town that George McFly grew up in in the first Back To The Future… Austin is not.  The funny thing is, that the NY Times article said almost EXACTLY that about a decade after I first thought it.  Denton has like one record store and 3 bars and this amazing hardware store that my dad told me has not changed since he was a kid in the 50’s.

There is a college there UNT, of which my father is a proud alum.  He briefly played on the same football team there as Mean Joe Green and he played clarinet in the school marching band. That is not exactly living the rock and roll dream but I do now own a copy of the UNT marching band’s record, which is exactly one more records than I have from his surf rock band who’s dream of fame was horrifically ended when their lead singer was run over by a motorboat and killed.  But these are the things you have to deal with when you are living in Texas.

Anyway, next time I am in Denton, I am going to have to check out this so-called rock scene.  It sounds fun.

Download: Midlake - Roscoe
For more Free Denton music check out Anyone’s Guess.

I just wanted to say Happy Mother’s Day to all my friends out there who keep having babies.  It seems like there are more and more of you every year.  Maybe I should stop being old….

Anyway, I hope that all your kids are one day as thoughtful as I am and get your mothers wonderful gifts like what I got my mom this year:

After months of half-assedly looking for jobs and eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and dwindling down my savings to nothing, I finally got a job.  Unfortunately I was looking for part time and despite my promising interview at Starbucks, I decided to take a full time job at the Internet Archive.  I am going to be photographing public domain books the archive.  I get to play with Cannon 5Ds everyday… sort of.  Well okay, I just press a space bar and the cameras shoot the book automatically, but it has more to do with photography than bar backing or something.  I was very interested in this job for two main reasons.  One is that it is from 3pm - 11-pm which means I can still do night life work and two is that I am extremely interested in sharing of information and getting all the public domain stuff available to everything.  As you might know, I have released many of my photos under a Creative Commons license, so that you can use some of my images for anything you want as long as credit is given and that your work is also released under a similar license.  The license for some of my images aslo state that they can only be used for non-commercial projects.  For more information on licensing any of my work, email me. Also another nice thing about the job is that it is right across the street from MOMA.  Plus you know, maybe I can start eating real food and buy some new camera equipment.

So the answer is yes, this is going to effect this site.  I start work Monday and I am going to try to maintain two posts a day instead of my normal goal of 3-4.  One thing this will do is cut down on some of my bullshit posts and allow me just to focus on photography and quality updates.  I have some good ideas in the works.  I am not sure how this is going to effect that new site design I am trying to work on.  I think the biggest issue with that is actually the health of my friend who is working on it.  She has diabetes and has been very sick recently.  Wish her luck and health.

Anyway, let’s see how this goes.  I am still on website break until Monday, but I start work Monday so who knows if I will be able to make it out on Monday night.  Hopefully party photos start rolling in again soon….

Because of my love of the HBO show OZ, about a year ago a friend recommended I check out the Wire which has a lot of the same cast. Over the last year I watched the entire series right up to the final episode ever that came out a few weeks ago. (Speaking of the last season of the Wire, I shot the after party to the season 5 premiere.) It was sad to see the end. I was talking about this to a friend and he recommended I check out The Corner which was a mini-series on HBO that was based on a book of the same name which eventually spun off into the Wire. The writer of the book, David Simon, was also the man responsible for Homicide back in the day. I used to watch that show and since it was filmed in Baltimore I have met tons of people in my life who have appeared as extras and such. I grew up in DC, and Baltimore is about an hour away and I have spent a lot of time there. The Corner and the Wire are also based on Baltimore which is probably one of the reasons I did the show so much.

Okay, let’s get back to the point of this post. The Corner like I said was based on a book. That book as a work of non fiction. The Corner the mini-series is fictionalized, but it is based on actual people. At the end of the series they interview some of them. The heroin addict mother on the show I recognized from a cameo she had in the Wire so I googled her. Her name is Fran Boyd. What I found when I looked her up was this amazing article in the New York Times about her recent marriage to a man named Donnie Andrews.

Donnie Andrews was the basis for the drug dealer murdering anti-hero on the Wire, Omar. Omar is by far my favorite character on the show, and probably everyone’s favorite character. I was shocked to learn he was based on a real person, a real person who was serving a life sentence for murder… That is until David Simon introduced him to Fran Boyd.

“They had a hunch Mr. Andrews, who was turning his life around by earning a general equivalency diploma, taking college-level courses and studying the Bible, could influence the life of Ms. Boyd, who was still nodding out in the old neighborhood. They gave Mr. Andrews her phone number.”

Mr. Andrews, also a former heroin user, understood her struggle and her pain. His first wife was murdered three years after he went to prison. He began calling Ms. Boyd frequently. Their conversations were sometimes “four and five hours long,” he said. After a $2,900 phone bill, limits were set on their calls. He used less expensive communication, too, sometimes writing three or four letters a week.

After Boyd and Andrews began talking, Andrews helped Boyd quit drugs forever and Boyd did everything she could to get Andrews paroled. After calls and letters and even convincing the DA who prosecuted Andrews to testify at his parole hearing he was released after 17 years. Andrews has turned his life around and now works security at a church and works in anti-gang outreach programs in Baltimore. Fran has been sober for many years and works in outreach programs for drug addicts. And in August of last year they were married.

I could not imagine a happier ending to a story that could have ended so badly for both of them. At the end of the Corner they tell you what happened to the people on the show since the book was written. They were not good stories. This one is, and it just goes to show you can never write people off.

I managed The Gaskets for 5 years and during that time I probably took over 1000 photos of them… maybe more.  I have had a ton of those published in all sorts of magazines and weeklys and such.  In a recent article on the band for Richmond, VA’s Style Weekly I was asked for a photo of the band.  I sent them what is probably the best photo I took of them (at least best live photo) in all those years.  Style’s art director thought the photo wouldn’t print well and we argued back and forth and eventually I photoshopped the hell out of it until Teddy was glowing, and he accepted it.  Unfortunately, he was right, it printed way too muddy and didn’t look great.  Luckily, you can see the original here.  The published image is below.  Click that picture to see the full article in it’s newspapery form.

Eva Mendes got topless in Italian Vogue.  And since I am sort of on a break from DBB, you are going to have to live with things like this to pass as updates while I get my life organized.  If it makes you feel any better, I was extremely productive today.  And I also at lunch in Washington Square Park and watched over a dozen people practice using fake light sabers.  One of them was wearing a shirt that said NY Jedi, in the style of the NY Jets logo.  The lameness could not be equaled.  It was a good 20 min of entertainment though.

Also, I wanted to mention that my Sex Map has been quite successful with about 20K hits in the last two days.   I was also asked to do an interview that could be pretty awesome, but they have not gotten back to me, so who knows if that will happen.

Anyway, here are more Eva Mendes nude pictures.  Or you can just click the photo to see the uncensored version.  NSFW of course.

This is the 1000th post on DBB 3.0. I have no idea how many posts were posted in the previous versions of the site, but this is the 1000 since last March. In celebration of this milestone I would like to make this the most contentless post of this entire site so far.

Enjoy:

Today is the exact 10 year anniversary of me losing my virginity. In celebration of this fact I am posting a project that I have been working on for a while. I was not thinking about today when I started the project, but when I realized what it was, I thought that this was a perfect time to post it. Enjoy.

On a recent drive through the neighborhood I grew up in I realized that most of the strong feelings that I had were a result of a nostalgia directly related to a more innocent feeling of women and my own sexuality that I had when growing up in Alexandria, VA. I wanted to do a photo project on this and take some images of the spots that gave me the most tingles. I decided to use Polaroid film because it’s number one use is taking dirty pictures of people. My relationship with the film has also been a sleazy one as 95% of the pictures I have taken using the medium have been of naked girls. I though documenting my early sex life would be a perfect reason to use Polaroids to do something other than take naked pictures, yet to still play on the sexual identity of the medium.

I lived in Alexandria from 1980 to 1999. These were my formative years and they were they determined the way I dealt with women. When I was a kid I was very weird and had no luck with girls. This was not really an issue until I transfered to a private school outside my neighborhood in the 4th grade. From that point on I was in school with the same people for the next 9 years. The first week of 4th grade I made a joke about eating a praying mantis and that haunted me for the rest of my time at the school. At my old school eating bugs was funny, at my new school it was weird. From then on I was the weird kid… and then the fat kid, and then the weird kid kid again when I started getting into punk rock my freshman year of high school. I eventually started working out, lost all the weight and starting in about the 10th grade I really came into myself and started acting confidently. I stopped getting beat up at school, but I still had no luck with girls, because even then I was still viewed as the weird kid who ate bugs. As soon as I met girls outside of school, that changed forever. I have spent the last decade of my life trying to make up for my short comings as a kid and that has left me perpetually single and probably a bit more promiscuous than is healthy. But my unhealthy relationship with women started slowly and those more innocent times bring back amazing memories and that’s what this project is all about. Working thorough those early sexual encounters and finding out what the fuck went wrong.

I decided only to include stories and images from directly around my old neighborhood. Many of the important events in my life happened outside this little area as my school and all my high school hang out points were farther away. That being said, this is the most concentrated area and because of that, being in these few square miles gives me the strongest sense of my past, both of my life and specifically of my early sexuality

This project can be viewed by visiting the Google Map I made. Each map point has a Polaroid and a description of why that photo is important. The map points are listed in chronological order and should be read in that order. I hope you enjoy the project, I spent way too much time on it.

To view higher resolution versions of the polaroids click here.

Update: Due to the amount of interest that this post has received, if you are linking this, please link this post and not the map directly, as the explanation of the project is important to it, and the google map did not allow me enough space to get all my thoughts down. Also, if you dig this, Digg it.

Check out Jess’ new Trash promo/ Kill Shop Kill ad.  Try to make it past the night shot… it gets better.  NSFW thanks to my Burning Angel associates.  A lot of this is good, but much of it is a bit too serious for me, as well as like um… people look like they aren’t having any fun.  I still have no idea what happened to the video footage from the Trash video booth we did… maybe that will be seen one day.  Maybe not.  Anyway… this is what Trash is like except for less green lights and raccoon eyes.  Party forever, motherfucker.