Dim Mak NYC – 10.19.08

Adventures on a Sunday?  Crazy.  I went to the Dim Mak event at Blvd.  It was slightly dead but I met a friend there who I had not seen in a while so that was fun.  I even danced a bit.  Stretch Armstrong, Steve Aoki, Eli Escobar and Pase Rock DJ’d.  Photos go here.

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Trash – 10.17.08

Well you waited long enough for these… And the results from last Friday are pretty unimpressive. I am not sure what I did to make it take 4 days to upload them, but here they are. Enjoy.

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Help Wanted

I put this out there a while ago, and I got a bunch of replies but they were mostly from out of town folks.  Right now I am looking for an intern.  If you wanted to do it for school credit I could help set that up for next semester, but I am looking for someone to help me pretty soon.  I am really looking for someone who knows Facebook really well and can help me organize a Facebook page, mailing and text list and someone to post myspace bulletins a few times a week.  In all I figure 2 hours, three times a week at min.  I could come up with a lot more stuff if you need hours and you are local.  You can work from home for most of it.  I can pay you in links, drink tickets and free entry into some parties.

I also I am probably not going to find anyone who would want to do it for free, but if anyone is really bored and good at photoshop I plan on doing a series nudes that are not the normal sleazy “adventurous” night club stuff I normally do.  I got this new camera and I want to do some new light set ups and non-flash stuff.  Do something classy.  I might do some normal portraits as well.  Point being, I suck at photoshop and if you want to help, that would be awesome.

Anyone who wants to contact me about it can do so at igor@drivenbyboredom.com

Also, just to keep you informed, there are only 13 more hours until my site is reuploaded and I can update with photo galleries from Trash Friday and Dim Mak Sunday.

Here is a preview of one of my new “classy” nude photo shoots.  If anyone is interested in posing, hit me up too.

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Unnecessary Rant.

Well this week was the biggest waste of time in my life.  I was going to go to LA if I could get the plane tickets for free, I did not.  I was going to go to Chicago and just pay for the tickets, but I did not.  I was going to go to Philly, but I decided I shout get things done.  I did not go to Philly or get anything done.  I was completely excited about my new camera and I wanted to do all these photo shoots, but I only did one.  I did it a full week ago and I haven’t even looked at the photos.  I didn’t clean my room which is a disaster and is probably one of the leading causes of my complete inability to get anything done.  I am fully depressed, I haven’t seen my friend Joe’s new movie yet, and I have watched 18 hours of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, which is not quality time spent.  I didn’t go out several nights and on two days I did not even leave my house.  I got nothing done on this site, and I didn’t even bother to pay my bills, not because I don’t have the money, but because I am too lazy to write checks.  The Dolphins also lost today which is quite upsetting in itself.  I cannot function as a human right now.  Starting tomorrow, my job moves to Jersey City which is most likely going to be hell.  I don’t even know where it is.

Oh, and on top of that I am having serious issues uploading photos to my server so the one decent update I do have you can’t even see.  I am fucking upset. FUCK.

Here are some links to entertain you with.

Kris’ Mix Tape For Purple Crush
My Favorite Election Blog
A Great Poltical YouTube Page
Planet Money Podcast
Ok, Ok… Some Nudity Too…

And lastly to end this awful update to end an awful week… here is a self portrait…

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Disco Down, 66Sick Up – 10.14.08

Somehow, while approving comments on this post it got deleted.  I feel like I had written a few paragraphs but I am not sure what it was about.  I think part of it was about my new camera and how I am still experimenting with it.  Hopefully I will have it on lock in a few weeks.  Anyway, I don’t want to redo the post but check out the photos from Happy Endings on Tuesday.

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New Published Work

I have a few photos in some things right now.

When I was at the beach the other week I got a call wondering why I hadn’t sent in images from the Jump party for URB Magazine.  They had a 6pm deadline and I hadn’t received the email since I was on the beach.  It was 530PM and I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Well maybe not quite the middle…) fishing.  They were all flustered and when we got back to shore I rushed to my computer and spent an hour editing all the images they wanted until they were nice and pretty.  My friends were pretty annoyed that we were sitting around instead of enjoying the beach. But I got them done, and they told me they had time to publish them.  A month later, I get a copy and they only used two photos (featuring 3 Burning Angels) in this spread with tons of other parties.  There wasn’t even a write up of the party or anything.  It was mildly disappointing but what can you do.

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The next published shot I have was pretty hilarious.  I got an email about a photo on my flickr account a long time ago.   I completely forgot about it and then the other day I get a package from Australia in the mail.  What could this be I wondered?  Well it was a travel magazine called “Get Lost“.  I flipped through it until I recognized a photo of two of my friends making out that I took at Le Royale about a year ago.  They used it for an article about how people from Lesbos were sick of being called Lesbians.  I think that is pretty hilarious, especially because the girls kissing are in no way lesbians (Jamie is about to have a daughter!), but I have to say that the photography in get lost is pretty amazing, so I am at least in good company.

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Lastly, we have a photo of Prince Terrence published in his home town paper, the LEO Weekly. He told me he was going to bring me a copy of the paper, but you can read the article on him online, so that is probably good enough.  The LEO didn’t credit me though.  That’s the last time I do them a favor, god damned horse raising, bourbon drinking bastards.

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Vote With Your Stomach

One of the questions that questionable pollers ask is which candidate would you rather have a beer with.  Well I don’t drink, but any man who can mention pie 15 times in 90 second without sounding like a complete lunatic has my vote.   I am a key lime man myself, but this country is all about diversity and I am pretty comfortable supporting a candidate who would support a wide range of pies all the way from coconut to sweet potato.  Well meow, God bless America.

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Trash – 10.10.08

IT’S BAAACK!  I finally got my camera back.  For about two months I had a Nikon D300 which is the first digital camera I have ever been happy with (although the Fuji Fine Pix S2 Pro was pretty nice at the time).  After about two months, one of the memory card reading pins got bent and I had to send it to Nikon to get it fixed.  To their credit, they fixed it for free, however when they sent it back UPS lost it.  It should have been delivered on Aug 21st.  By the time I went through all the bullshit of dealing with Nikon and UPS (they will be receiving hate mail shortly) and got my camera back it was October 9th nearly two months later.  I am just getting used to the camera again.  I have to reread the manual and figure out what’s what.  So these photos are a test run.  Check back in a month and we will see how we are doing then.   I also shot these photos with a fixed 20mm lens so they should be a bit wider than normal.  Anyway, let’s get on to the post.

My day was sort of a travesty.  I woke up at 7 AM to watch myself on Good Morning America.  I was going to go back to sleep but after a run to the post office and a few McGriddles I didn’t really feel like sleeping.  I went into my day job an hour early to take some photos.  I work for the Internet Archive and until Friday we worked out of the Donnell Public Library.  However, they are turning that library into a hotel so we had to leave.  I spent some time photographing the now empty building.  Those photos should be up soon.  We had to pack up everything at the office and my coworkers and I busted our asses getting everything done so we could get today off of work.  It was successful, but I was completely exhausted.  We got off work a bit early around 10:30 so I decided I had some time to kill before heading over to Trash.

My friend Mandy Morbid was in town and her boyfriend Zak Sabath had an art show in the city so I went to meet them at the after party.   It was 5 avenues and 25 blocks (about 2.5 miles) southwest of my work, but I wanted to play with my camera so I decided to do it on foot and walk through Times Square.  When I got to the bar, Zak and Mandy left to have sex and told me they were going to be back soon.  The bar was called Billy Marks West and it was the worst bar I have ever been to.  I wanted to just walk around until they got back because the bar looked so god awful, but I really needed to pee, so I decided to go in.  But I didn’t want to just use their bathroom and walk out so I took a seat at the bar and was going to order a coke or something.  I don’t drink as you probably know by now, but I was extremely thirsty from the walk.  I really just wanted a water, but I wanted to pay for something.  The bartender came over and asked me what I wanted.  When I said “What do you have that is non-alcoholic?” He snapped back “Nothing.” And walked away from me.  I was sort of bewildered but I just sat there.  A few minutes later he said in a quite threatening way “What can I do for you?”  I said “Don’t you have a coke or something?”  He told me it would be $5.  Now, I would have spent $5 (Plus tip) to just sit there and wait and use their bathroom, but the way he said it, it was clear he was just trying to be a dick.  So I said “$5 for a coke?”  And he said “It’s the same price as a beer, a drink is a drink”. So I told him to make me a Shirley Temple.  Again he turned his back on me.  A few minutes later he came back and said I was making him uncomfortable.  I told him I was didn’t drink and I was just waiting for some friends.  He told me that normally when people come into a bar they drink.  I told him again that I was just waiting, and that I would buy a Shirley Temple.  He then got in my face about how this was his bar and blah blah blah… So I left.  I didn’t even get to pee. Never go to Billy Mark’s ever (Not that you would).  It is a horrible bar with at least one asshole for an owner (I’m not sure if he was Billy or Mark but he is on their bullshit site).

I walked over to Rebel and talked to their manager while I waited for Mandy to text.  When she did, she said she had run into some people and they left and she had to get up early anyway.  At this point I am just in a horrible mood.  I take a cab over to Webster Hall for MSTKRFT.  I should be on the list, but I am not for some reason, and the door guy who I have talked to probably 25 times or something didn’t recognize me, even though he let me in without even looking at the list less than a week ago.  He told me I wasn’t on Alex English’s list and then started quizzing me about what Alex looked like.  He told me he had never heard of Driven By Boredom.  Now, I probably sound like an asshole here, but how do you work in night life in NYC, work with the same people I work with, and have never of even heard of my site.  That’s just upsetting.  He did eventually let me in any way, but my mood went from bad to worse.  After being twice asked to sell people E in the first 10 minutes of me being there, I decided I should just pack it in and go over to Trash.  On the way out I talked to JFK from MSTKRFT about working on a blog I might start with Terrence soon and got a hug from Bronques and a pep talk from Paulo so by the time I got to Trash I was feeling a little bit better.  My friend Joe Swanberg was in town for his movie premiere  and I got him and his friends a table and a few bottles of champagne.  I made out with some cute girls and even danced a bit.  Good times were had and I went to bed just a mere 26 hours after I woke up to see my self on national TV.  What a weird fucking day.

Photos are here.  They are NSFW including one of my favorite photos I have ever taken. It’s of Apathy.  You can see it below in it’s censored version.

PS.  Joe’s movie is called Nights and Weekends.  It is playing at the IFC Center in NYC and is available on IFC OnDemand.  You should see it.  As soon as I do I will get up a review.

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