Sundance Film Festival – Day 3 – 1.20.07

I was going to go to Salt Lake City Saturday night to hang out with my friend Presley, but I was told that the Friends Of Animals Benefit Brunch would be packed full of Celebrities so I stuck around. I had to sleep in the lounge and I had to be locked in so no one would rob the place. One of the other lounges was robbed, so I was stuck inside all night. It also meant I had to wake up at 8AM, which meant I couldn’t stay out or have any fun that night. Then, no celebrities showed up at all. After the brunch two actors and one of the heads of 20th Century Fox showed up, but Carlos Moreno Jr and Hal B. Klein don’t exactly turn heads. Then after that Presley fell asleep and didn’t pick me up. Luckily this girl Miriam saved my ass and drove me to SLC and we met up with some people and had dinner before I had to go to the air port. Anyway, have some really boring photos if you want.

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NY Times Destroys Giuliani

The NY Times announced their endorsements for the primary elections today picking Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and begrudgingly choosing John McCain for Republican nomination. They gave a pretty glowing review of Obama in Clinton’s endorsement as well. All of this was not surprising, it was actually pretty expected. What WAS surprising was how intensely then went after Giuliani who they endorsed just a decade ago…

Why, as a New York-based paper, are we not backing Rudolph Giuliani? Why not choose the man we endorsed for re-election in 1997 after a first term in which he showed that a dirty, dangerous, supposedly ungovernable city could become clean, safe and orderly? What about the man who stood fast on Sept. 11, when others, including President Bush, went AWOL?
That man is not running for president.
The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square.
Mr. Giuliani’s arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton, the architect of the drop in crime, because he couldn’t share the limelight. He later gave the job to Bernard Kerik, who has now been indicted on fraud and corruption charges.
The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city’s and the country’s nightmare to promote his presidential campaign.

Oh snap. That is pretty intense. I don’t think Giuliani has much of a chance, but it is still pretty amazing that the Times would have the balls to go after him like that. It is good to see that Fox News and Keith Olbermann aren’t the only ones with some bite in mainstream media. The one good thing that would come from Giuliani being president would be all the great Punk flyers and album covers that would be made from the photos of him in drag….

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Erica

Meet Erica.  She is a Gods Girl.  I called her when I was driving from Las Vegas to LA.  She is from San Diego and decided she would meet me in LA to take photos.  We go to the city at almost the exact same time.  We had coffee and watched people play dominoes for about 20 minutes and then walked to my rental car and took dirty pictures in the back seat.  She had a really bad cold and it was pretty hard to get stuff out of her feeling as bad as she did.  Luckily we had the time to take a LOT of photos and I think the good ones came out very well.  I just hope she digs them.  After we took the photos she immediately got back in her car and drove the two hours to San Diego.  Crazy.  Rad girl.  If you want to see her naked you should click here.  NSFW.

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Sundance Film Festival – Day 2 – 1.19.07

Here are the shots from day two of my Sundance experience.  I actually shot an NYU party this day too, and I hope to put up those photos one day, but I am not sure Tisch wants their photos on my site.  Anyway, this day had the biggest star of the weekend in Danny Glover.  My photos seemed a bit dark this whole day and my photo of him holding a purse, while hilarious is unfortunately under exposed.  David Blue from Ugly Betty was there, as was Shar Jackson and her kids.  Deidre Hall from Days Of Our Lives was staying in the same suite as I was and on my way back from the NYU shoot we had to squeeze into a shuttle bus.  The bus fit 11 and we fit 15 people inside.  She had her assistant sitting on her lap.  When the ride was over she made everyone stand in front of the shuttle and pose for a photo.  She was pretty amazing.  But she did take the bed I was sleeping in so I had to sleep on a cot in the lounge.  But since it could only be locked from the outside I had to be locked in which meant not getting up during the night to pee.  Luckily that didn’t come up.  Anyway, check out the photos.

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Ice Camo And Malt Liquor

The Infertil have a myspace page.  In 1995 I went to a house party and saw this pretty horrible band called the Infertil.  I ran the punk rock club in my high school and I had a punk rock zine, but I didn’t know very many punk bands, so when it came to putting out my first compilation record I asked these guys to be on it.  In the time between when I first saw them, and when the record (Raise The Flag, harDCcore Vol 1.) came out they got fucking awesome. They were from my town of Alexandria, VA and I repped them to the fullest.  AV 4 Life.  Anyway, these dudes were awesome and I used to go to all of their shows.  Some of the first photos I ever took were of these guys.  The below photo for example was a show where someone spit on one of them and a huge brawl broke out.  What you can’t see in this photo is that I am kicking a guy in the head while I am taking this photo.  Download Misfire today!

The Infertil – Misfire

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We Smoke Crack

My old roommate is back again.  He wants to go all over the world making music like this on the streets and in clubs and in peoples houses.  He hitchhiked across the west doing this kind of stuff as street performance.  I hope he keeps it up and comes to NYC as soon as possible.  Enjoy his newest jam.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7-nZS2E7w[/youtube]

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Sundance Film Festival – Day 1 – 1.18.07

So I sort of explained this gifting lounge thing.  Celebs come in, and they talk to people about their products, then if they are famous enough, they get free products.  And then they hold up their product and I take pictures.  Our lounge was off the main street so we didn’t get anyone too exciting, but they were all surprisingly nice and listened to everyones rants.  We had Faune Chambers who is in epic movie and had a film in the festival with Brad Pitt called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  We had Cisco Adler and Shwayze who were on tour together.  Shwazye and I have the same watch and we talked about shoes for a while.  Those guys were pretty much the only celebs I met that I figured I would hang out with in real life.  What is funny is that they were at the Cinespace party I shot last week, but they didn’t show up in any of my shots.  Those guys also showed up with Simon Rex, he was that guy who got fired from Mtv for doing gay porn.  Pretty exciting.  Lastly very late in the day a woman named Emily Wagner who is best known for her role as Doris Pickman on ER.  Check all of them out, holding stuff, here.

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Again Dysfunctional Family Circuses

Here are some more of these guys… I sort of forgot to update them while I was out of town.

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Gifting

Okay, so I am back from my trip and fully recovered.  I spent the whole weekend photographing celebrities holding products and over the next three days you will get to see the extremely boring photos from that event.  Trying to explain this whole thing is kinda hard, so you should just watch this video from myspaceTV that my friend Joe worked on.  I invited him and his crew to the event on Sunday and they did some question and answer stuff with some of the people involved.  It was a very weird experience.  I get interviewed near the beginning of the video.  Enjoy.

[myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=26669057[/myspace]

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