Haley Ann

When I went to Cleveland on the Why Do I Live Like This mini tour I was in sort of a bad mood. I didn’t want to take photos and I was just sitting in the back of this club called B Side playing on my iPad. Prince Terrence came back there and while trying convince me to take photos started a conversation with one of the hottest girls in the place. Her name was Haley Ann and it turns out, as I mentioned in a previous post, that she ran the clubs blog and seemed to know everyone at the party. She walked me around and introduced me to people and we ended up hanging out mot of the night. Towards the end she showed me some photos of her on her iPhone and I pulled out my iPad and showed her the rough edits of this book I am working on. She loved the photos and we started talking about taking photos.

At the end of the night after the bar closed and while Terry and Dances With White Girls were waiting to get paid Haley pulled me into the men’s room for a few naked photos. I have sort of been trying to avoid bathroom shoots but she was super into it and I haven’t done one in a while so it seemed like a good idea. People kept coming in to piss and spy on the shoot so I took a few pictures of her and Dances and Terry.  Tragically after about 20 pictures my camera battery died on me which almost never happens. I guess I had forgotten to switch batteries out after the Kentucky Derby. So the shoot was cut short, but Haley is a total babe so I am sure you will dig on the photos anyway… NSFW of course.

Click here too see all the pictures of the super radical and obviously babelicious Haley Ann from Cleveland.

Haley Ann Nude

Haley Ann

Haley Ann Naked

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Minx Release Party – 5.11.11

My friend Andrea Grant released a new comic book series of her character Minx and had herself a party over at Bedlam. Bedlam is the new club where 40C used to be and I haven’t been there since Trash was at 40C a few years ago.  I like the new spot because it has a lot of weird medical stuff and taxidermy everywhere.

Anyway, the Minx party was a lot of fun. There were a bunch of very scary clowns there who evidently were NOT juggalos. They were the Clowns About Town and they were selling raffle tickets and comic books.  One raffle winner won the chance to be killed in comic book form in a future issue of Minx. I am pretty jealous I haven’t been murdered in a comic fashion since the late 90’s when an illustrator had a beef with me over a girl.

The party ended with a burlesque number by Stormy Leather, but she kept her pasties on so I guess this gallery is mostly safe for work. Probably less safe for work if you work at PETA.

Anyway, I gotta go to DC real quick to hang out with my parents new puppy and take my mom to dinner for her birthday so I am just going to leave you with pictures.  But make sure you check out Minx here and as always…

Click here to see the pictures from the Minx release party at Bedlam.

Pin Up Poet Andrea Grant

Clowns About Town

Andrea Grant And Minx Illustrator Ray Arzeno

Minx Release Party @ Bedlam

Stormy Leather

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The Get Up! – 5.8.11

I can’t say that I have ever been to Ohio before. I probably have and just don’t remember it, but either way I was not exactly excited about going to Cleveland.  My dad used to work in Cleveland all the time so I was half expecting to run into someone who looks exactly like me only to find out about a second family my dad had, otherwise who would willingly spend that much time in Ohio?

When the Why Do I Live Like This tour stopped at B Side Liquor Lounge in the suburbs of Cleveland I was not exactly surprised to see about a half dozen people on the dance floor and another dozen watching from the sides.  It was Sunday night and I had a feeling this was going to be a disaster.  I had pretty much committed myself to not having any fun and I was sitting in the smoking area out back playing on my iPad. The crowd had gotten better by this point and Prince Terrence started yelling at me for sulking and somehow convinced me to take photos.  The first girl I shot Terry had just started talking to. Her name was Haley Ann and it turns out she runs the B Side Blog.

She introduced me to everyone and told me the hip kids to photograph. I ended up having a lot of fun and took a bunch of photos and after the bar has closed Haley and I went into the mens room and shot some old school naked bathroom photos until my camera ran out of batteries and we had to go back to the hotel.  Those pictures will be up on Monday probably, but there is a little NSFW teaser at the end of this set to get you excited.

Also, totally randomly Trail Of Dead were playing upstairs at the Grog Shop and I ran into Jason who is one of the owners of Beauty Bar Austin. I didn’t get to talk to him much but it was good to see him anyway.

Anyway, click here to see all the photos of The Get Up at B Side in Cleveland, OH.

Prince Terrence, Haley Ann & Dances With White Girls

Jason Reese From Trail Of Dead

The Get Up @ B Side

The Get Up @ B Side

The Get Up @ B Side

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Why Do I Live Like This – 5.6.11

The Prince Terrence/ Dances With White Girls tour continues on with a stop on Louisville, KY the night before the Kentucky Derby. When we got to the club Headliners we were told 400 people were already there.  That was true, however they were there to see some band full of 40 year old dudes wearing fezzes. Seriously.  The entire crowd were old people dancing like your drunk parents at a wedding.  When they ended the Ok Deejays started DJing and the crowds switched over real fast. Most of the old people left and they were replaced with a hand full of 18 and 19 year old kids and several break dancers.  I thought shit was going to be real awkward but about half way through Prince Terry’s set shit got a lot better.  VHS or Beta DJ’d for about an hour and then Dances With White Girls took over.

By the time his set was over the fog machine had pretty much exploded, cute Kentucky girls danced on stage and we were ready for the after party. We hit a place called Z Bar until they turned off the music so Terry’s friend Rock took us, Brad from the Bronx and this girl I was flirting on to this super sketchy after hours where we were greeted by a suspiciously nice man with a scar across face which was not the only thing that reminded me of Omar from the Wire. We were taken past a hall full of what appeared to be prostitutes to a speak easy type place with a pool table and card table and lots of leather chairs and couches. The owner of the spot looked exactly like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force a fact which I was not the first to notice as a poster of Carl hung on the wall.

After a few games of pool it became increasingly clear that we were not really wanted there and we went back to Rock’s house. At that point the sun was coming up and I drove my lady friend to her place and then I finally managed to get everyone back in the car so we could get 90 minutes of sleep before we had to hit the Kentucky Derby.  All and all it was a pretty epic night.

Click here to see all the pictures from the Why Do I Live Like This show at Headliners.

Dances With White Girls & Prince Terrence

Headliners In Louisville, KY

Headliners In Louisville, KY

Headliners In Louisville, KY

Headliners In Louisville, KY

VHS Or Beta @ Headliners

Headliners In Louisville, KY

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OMG Indy – 5.4.11

On the first stop of the Dances With White Girls/Prince Terrence “Why Do We Live Like This?” 6 day tour we hit Indianapolis, Indiana.  I have absolutely no stereotypes about Indianapolis in my head. I really had no idea what it would be like and I still don’t really. I just didn’t expect there to be a duck pond between where we were crashing and the club.  Five minutes after we got to Indy DJ/Promoter Action Jackson’s house DBB Regular Kelly Frank’s mom walked into place offering to buy us pizza and promising us a get out of jail free card (she is a cop) which we later took advantage of by shooting off fire works for an hour at 4 in the morning.

We walked past the duck pond trying to avoid duck shit on the way to Casba Bar where the boys were DJing. When we got to the door they demanded two forms of ID. Both Dances and Terry’s girlfriend Bijoux didn’t have ID so the bouncer wouldn’t let them into play their own show.  When Dances stared to argue that he tours all over with just his passport the bouncer said “I have flown over 40 states with two IDs!” which makes absolutely no fucking sense. When the manager walked us in the bouncer tried to argue with him for some reason. It was really absurd.

The show started off really weird with a bunch of kids in single colored outfits dancing around with each other freaking all of us out. We all just stood next to the DJ booth while Terry did his thing.  Fortunately the party was sponsored by Colt 45’s new energy malt beverage Blast and people started to get buck wild by the end of his set.  When Dances got on he murdered shit and it was all over after that.

We ended up having a ton of fun and then exploded mad fireworks at the after party at Action Jackson’s house.  Terry and Bijoux slept in the car with their dog, Frog and his wife Jonna slept on a couch and I slept on the floor.  We woke up about 3 hours later and drove to fucking Louisville, KY begging the question Why Do We Live Like This?

Click here to see all the photos from OMG at Casbar Bar in Indianapolis, IN.

Ps. Prince Terry took about a dozen of these photos while I was off flirting with the locals.

Action Jackson

OMG Indy

Prince Terrence & Bijoux Altamirano

DJ B Qwyatt

OMG Indy

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137th Kentucky Derby – 5.7.11

A week ago going to the 137th Kentucky Derby was not even a thought in my mind but 20 hours after a midnight conversation with Prince Terrence I was on the road to Louisville, KY with our sites set on the Kentucky Derby.  The night before Terry and Dances With White Girls played a show at a spot called Headliners we hit a few after parties and ended up getting home after 7am. A few hours later we were headed to Churchill Downs. Between the three of us and their girlfriends we probably got less than 8 hours of sleep.

The Derby is a very strange scene. Its a perfect mix of all the worst people in the world.  You have really shitty poor people mixing with really shitty rich people.  You were just as likely to see a shirtless redneck in jean cutoffs as you were to see some rich asshole in an outfit that costs more than my camera. It was a pretty amazing horror show. I had a lot of fun.

We had the super cheap infield seats which means that we got to experience the drunken madness without actually ever seeing a horse. When the actual race was happening I was too busy photographing an extremely drunk woman putting her boobs in a dwarfs mouth (NSFW).  I ended up losing $40 on the race and no one in my group won either.  I don’t think any of us really cared. It was just a weird experience and as a group we probably dropped over $100 on Mint Juleps. Good times.

Oh, before we get to the pictures I should mention the highlight for me.  Really drunk assholes get super drunk and try to run across the port-a-potties and other drunk assholes throw beer cans at them trying to knock them off. Several people fell off after getting hit in the face.  One guy jumped off the potties right in front of us and was tackled by a half dozen cops. It was amazing.

Click here to see all my pictures from the 137th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

137th Kentucky Derby

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Insane Clown Posse Cruise – 4.29.11

Right now I am in Louisville, KY with Prince Terrence and Dances With White Girls. We got the Kentucky Derby tomorrow and I am fucking exhausted.  We have been at it all day and we gotta go do some more stuff in a minute and I need to take my first shower in four days.  That being said I need to get these juggalo cruise photos up so let’s get it on… quickly…

The after party for The Insane Clown Posse’s NYC gig was on a fucking boat. Seriously. We were on the Jewel Rocks Off Cruise on the East River. We were on a boat for four hours with ICP and a bunch of juggalos. Mike E Clark and DJ Clay were DJing all night.  You might know DJ Clay as the male host of the Gathering of the Juggalos infomercials.  There was also free food. In fact at one point people started moshing and the bouncers had to stand in front of the food so no one knocked over the tables. I asked the biggest bouncer “When you were a little kid did you ever think you would be guarding hot dogs from insane clowns?”  He laughed and then shook his head and said “I just go where the money is..”

Anyway, as crazy as this whole thing was you have to give it to a band like ICP to do something like this for their fans.  All these kids got to hang out with ICP, get autographs, get pictures with their heros and a bunch of free food all $17.  You don’t see too many bands do stuff like that for their fans.

Anyway, click here to see all my photos from the Juggalo Midnight Cruise.

To check out my ICP photos from the Gathering of the Juggalos click here.

Insane Clown Posse NYC

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

Violent J In NYC

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

Shaggy 2 Dope In NYC

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

Insane Clown Posse Midnight Cruise

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Insane Clown Posse – 4.29.11

Insane Clown Posse played in NYC for the first time in over a decade. They finally found a place, The Gramercy Theater, that would let them put down enough tarp to protect their club from juggalo juice, AKA Faygo.  Normally when I shoot a band, I shoot the band and I don’t pay too much attention to the crowd, with ICP it’s just the opposite.  As interesting as ICP is live, they spray bottles of Faygo soda at the crowd and it’s very hard to take photos of them without getting covered in the sticky stuff.  I got my shots and then just shot juggalos.  And everyone loves juggalo photos!

I should mention that Saturday Night Live writers were there hanging out trying to get new material for their next juggalo sketch. Also there was only one fight that I saw but I got kicked out of the club for being in the middle of it taking photos. Luckily I called Psychopathic Records PR babe Andy who got me back in.  Now lastly, before we get to the pictures from Gramercy remember in the next day or two I hope to get up photos from the Juggalo Midnight Cruise which should of course blow your mind. Come back soon.

Click here to see all the photos from Insane Clown Posse’s first NYC show in a decade at the Gramercy Theater.

And if you want to see how magnets really work, click here to see all my pictures from last years Gathering of the Juggalos.

ICP In NYC

JCW

Super Hot Juggalette!

Saturday Night Live Writers

That Tongue Rules

New York Juggalos!

Juggalos Love Big 'Lettes Too

Shaggy 2 Dope In NYC

Faygo

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ICP In NYC

So on Friday Insane Clown Posse played in New York City for the first time in over a decade. I was there to take pictures as you all might expect from one of the worlds foremost juggalo photographers. After the show I then went on a god damned Insane Clown Posse cruise ship and road around with ICP for 4 hours in the middle of the night. It was clearly an intense experience.

I had two updates planned. I was going to post one on Sunday and then one on Monday. However as I was on my way home to get the first of the two updates up I found out that Osama Bin Laden was up and I spent an hour watching the news before heading down to Ground Zero.  I ended up getting those pictures up late last night and my plan was to get the first of the two posts up today.  Well it turns out for some reason I agreed to head out of town with Dances With White Girls, Prince Terrence and their ladies and now I am about to head to Indianapolis on my way to Kentucky on my way to Cleveland and I will be back in NYC by Monday. Evidently we have to drive 12 hours right now which seems insane.

Whatever the case, I am on the move and the pictures get delayed another day.  Hopefully I will have a moment on the road to get this shit up for you guys but in the mean time I do have a video someone made from the photos I took on the Juggalo Midnight Cruise that were posted on the Village Voice.  Ill get the rest up ASAP. Enjoy and Whoop Whoop.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwwPuAQ9GQ[/youtube]

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