Despite my whole life kinda being a vacation there is really only one weekend a year when I actually go on vacation. Every year me and three of my closest friends who I met almost exactly 20 years ago go on a fishing trip. None of us are really the fishing type but it is a good time and pretty relaxing. I won’t be bringing my camera and I won’t be working on my website and I am leaving in about 30 minutes and I guess the point is that I need to get these photos I took from last night up right now so I can take a shower and get on the road so I am gonna make this quick.

Last night PBR brought a mobile art gallery to The Shop in Williamsburg. They had tons of PBR themed art everywhere, free PBR, live art, free made while you wait PBR t-shirts and beedazzled hats and all sorts of madness. DJ’s Monica Sharp and Jenn City DJ’d everything from punk rock to hip hop and my home girl Shira, the Brooklyn PBR rep had a birthday and got drunk on PBR and danced on tables. If I hadn’t hit my head on a cross beam trying to take a photo and nearly knocked myself out I would have had an amazing time. Instead, I watched people have a good time in a total daze. I also watched the Packers beat up on the Saints defense, but that is a whole different story.

If you wanna find out more about the PBR Art Tour click here and if you wanna see all my pictures from the PBR Art Tour at the Shop you should click over here. See you Monday!

I feel like calling yourself a Goddess is a little bit presumptuous but then again in the dominatrix world I guess that is sort of standard practice. Personally I think Shea is pretty fucking awesome but I will leave it to her clients to worship her. I will instead just hang out with her at 5am and take a ton of naked photos of her and then eat delicious foods at some shitty diner near her apartment.

Seriously though, Shea does rule and we shot two sets in one night on the spur of the moment. She was just bored and awake and hit me up and we made some magical arts in her kitchen and then things got really weird, but you are gonna have to wait for part two for that…

I gotta go do another photo shoot right now so I am just going to leave you with these rad NSFW shots of Shea just rolling around naked in her kitchen.

Click here to see all the naked pictures of Goddess Shea!

One year ago yesterday my friend Ross Harman took his own life. I have lost a lot of friends in my life but never one as close as Ross. He was like a brother to me after I managed his band, The Gaskets, for five years. It was insanely difficult for me and the way I decided to mourn him was to put that grief into a project and manage him one last time.  Over the last year I reached out to a bunch of his musician friends and we put together an 18 track tribute album with 15 different artists covering Ross’ music.

Originally the idea was to just release a CDR of the music for friends and then give it away digitally but after hearing how amazing the record was we decided to try to release it on vinyl as a double LP. It seemed pretty ambitious considering to do it right we would need to raise more than $4000 so we decided to do a fundraiser show on the anniversary of Ross’ death and then try to raise the rest of the money through a Kickstarter project. I figured if I put in a few hundred bucks and a few other of his close friends did the same we could get about half way to our goal before we launched the Kickstarter… But evidently I was a bit off on my estimation.

Edo’s Squid in Richmond, VA was amazing enough to not only donate the space but give us 100% of the cash bar they had set up. The bartenders donated all their tips to the project and a bunch of people cooked and brought free food for everyone. The show was completely free and the booze was cheap but we left donation buckets out everywhere. We also sold CDRs of the album and I hit up a few people for some larger donations.

We had a great turnout and a great turnout of musicians who took turns playing their covers to Ross. We had Ross’ best friend and Gaskets partner Teddy Blanks DJ to start off the evening and then Schnitzel, who opens the album, opened the show with a mini set dedicated to Ross. After that we played a music video James Wallace recorded during Burning Man since he couldn’t be at the show and we played the video Ross directed for the Gaskets song Left Hand. Next, Rabbits and Novios reformed to play their covers to Ross and Chris Smith and Shannon Cleary each did two of Ross’ songs acoustically. After that The Atkinsons did a four song set ending with their cover of  “Left Hand” with Teddy Blanks fronting the band for that one song. Finally the night ended with one of Ross’ favorite local band the Ex-Patriots doing a six song set including the Gaskets cover they did for the record and a cover of Ross’ song Posture which I sang on the album and performed with the Ex-Pats.

The whole thing was so much fun and ran very smoothly considering that everyone involved was coming from all over the place to put this thing together. I need to give extra special thanks to Ryan Jones who did most of the event organizing and Brad at Edo’s who went out of pocket for this whole thing. It really is a testament to Ross’ life that so many people would do so much to make this happen. I also wanna thank Todd Raviotta who filmed the event and provided the videos that I linked to in this update. (Click all the links in this post!)

Oh… and did I mention that we raised over $4000 in one day? Fucking unbelievable. We are still going to try to raise a little more on Kickstarter but his record is really going to happen!

But if you want to see pictures from Ross Harman’s Memorial Fundraiser at Edo’s Squid click here! I was too busy to take great photos but I took wide shots of everything so that you can see all the bands that played and get a sense of the crowd that was there. I mostly took pictures so friends and family who couldn’t be there could see what we did. Enjoy!

Ps. For updated info on all of this please join Remembering Ross Harman on Facebook!

Fucking Bullshit played a show at Lit Lounge last Thursday and Coach Mike Pics was there to take photos.  He only took a handful mostly because I told him before the show started to be careful because might try to destroy him in a fit of punk rock violence. Once I started to run out of steam at the end and flop around on the floor he got his shots.

I just wanted to link to these and get up a few photos while I wait for my tire to get changed. I have been in VA all weekend doing a fundraiser for a tribute album dedicated to the music of one of my best friends, Ross Harman, who died one year ago today. I will be back in NYC tonight and then I am leaving again Friday so I needed to get something up so this page isn’t a wasteland.  Pics from the party last night will be up tomorrow, a naked girl for Thursday and hopefully I can get up the party pics I shoot for PBR on Friday. So yeah, there are some heads ups so you aren’t worried about me after I didn’t update for four days. I know how much you care.

Click here to see all of Coach Mike’s pics from the Fucking Bullshit Show.

Way back in June when I was in LA I shot so many girls that I needed to spread out the galleries a little bit so my site didn’t start to look like a porn site. I realized as I was going along that I wanted to post all my favorite galleries first so I made a conscious effort to save one of the best galleries for last.  The problem is that by the time I was ready to post this fucking amazing gallery of Miss Crash I was on some trip and then something else came up and then something else and all of a sudden it is September and I am just getting around to posting her pictures.

I have wanted to shoot Miss Crash for a while now. I kept seeing photos of her and I kept not realizing it was her for some reason. I would see a photo and ask “Who is that girl? She is amazing!” and every time the answer was “Miss Crash”.  Eventually I started putting her name to her face and realized I needed to shoot this girl!

Unfortunately, I don’t think Miss Crash really wanted to shoot with me that much and she sort of kept putting it off. She doesn’t do a lot of modeling anymore, much less free modeling, but I did her a favor and gave her a bunch of shots from her insane suspension show in Philly so she finally had me over to her downtown LA spot Studio Servitu to take some photos. Walking into the building I fell in love with the window light on the stairs so instead of shooting her in her amazing studio I pulled her into the hall and we shot what might be one of the easiest and quickest shoots either of us have ever done.  We pretty much had her whole set done in the time it took her to smoke one cigarette.

She was so easy to work with and I liked nearly every shot we took. I know she is not into the whole big sets of images but it was really hard for me to edit the pics down because I dug them all. I think she is going to be happy with them too because I sent her a preview months ago and she said the shot was one of her favorite images of her ever. That means a lot to me considering how much modeling she has done. I think she ended up being pretty happy she shot with me and I know how happy I was to shoot with her.  We are already making plans to do it again and I can’t wait.  God knows what amazing shit we would get if w shot for an hour or two instead of 10 minutes…

So do yourself a favor and click here to see all the NSFW pictures of the amazing Miss Crash!