I am back in Brooklyn! My insane South By Southwest is over! I slept on average about three hours a night for 11 straight days and I started to lose my mind. After SXSW was over I still had a couple days in Austin so I checked into a hotel and took a nap. I woke up 13 hours later. Since then I think I have been asleep more than I have been awake, but I think I am finally recovered and now it’s time to start getting up photos! Today I am going to get up the stuff from SXSW Interactive and tomorrow I am going to post my SXSW Film gallery that I am really proud of. Friday I will start in on my photos from the Sailor Jerry House. I shot nine parties there during SXSW Music week and I have a ton of cool stuff. Hopefully by this time next week everything will be up… and I will try to break it up with a little nudity… Let’s see how it goes.

So yeah, today I have not one but TWO galleries for you. Admittedly they are both pretty small.. but still. SXSW Interactive is notoriously hard for me to photograph. A tech conference is pretty boring to look at. In the past I have covered the trade show, photographed branding, and shot nerds on their cell phones, but it’s all a little tedious to look at. This year I hit up two SXSW Interactive parties instead.

The first party was IHeartComix first ever Interactive party. Franki Chan and crew always throw great SXSW events and this year was no exception. I was working during music week so I missed all their serious parties but their Interactive party was nothing to sneeze at. AraabMusik and Just Blaze DJ’d and there were a ton of babes mixed in with nerdy tech dudes so it was a pretty good look. I was only there for an hour or so because the after party for the movie my brother edited was also that night, but I think I got a few fun shots anyway.

Click here to see all the photos from the IHeartComix Interactive party at Empire Garage.

The second party I hit was the Mobile Movement party that AT&T threw with Motherboard. Vice put me on the list and I saw that Reggie Watts was playing so I clearly had to go. I have been a Reggie fan since I saw him do stand up a few weeks after I moved to NYC almost a decade ago. So glad to see that dude so successful. He performed on a giant soundboard called a Keezy. It’s a giant version of an iPhone app.  He also performed on the main stage as well. I left after Reggie was done because I wanted to get food with an old friend, but evidently Lady Gaga showed up later or something. I think I have taken enough photos of her to last a lifetime so I didn’t regret my dinner move.

Click here to see all the shots from the Mobile Movement party!

Last summer I left town for 31 days on a cross country road trip and I came up with the idea of creating a specific Road Trip Blog. It was a way for me to create smaller daily posts that I could get up very quickly from the road. That way there would be constant new updates but I didn’t have to spend all day in front of the computer to get them up. I then brought the blog back when I was at the Gathering of the Juggalos last year because the internet was so questionable. Once again, I am bringing it back.

Today I am in Austin, Texas for my 11th straight trip to the South By Southwest music/interactive/film/comedy festival. I will be here for almost two weeks and starting Friday I will be shooting constantly. The first week I will be shooting mostly SXSW Film related stuff with some interactive or comedy stuff thrown in. On Tuesday night I start work for Sailor Jerry shooting the Sailor Jerry House at Gypsy Lounge all day every day for 4.5 days. The next day I am getting tattooed my pretty much my first tattoo artist every and then I will be heading the fuck home on the 18th. Should be a crazy trip. So follow along!

Click here to view daily updates from South By Southwest!

I met Stoya many years ago and we have become pretty good friends but until recently we had never done a proper photo shoot. I have a ton of photos of her drinking milkshakes and things like that but none of her naked on my Interents (okay ALMOST none). Fortunately, Stoya saw this shoot I did of a naked girl on the Subway. Stoya does naked acrobatics for a living and she thought it would be a fantastic idea for a shoot and who was I to argue? It makes the third time I have done a naked photo shoot on the train and it will not be the last. I even got Hustler on board and photos from this shoot were published in March 2014 issue of Hustler Magazine.

Stoya is very fancy and bi-costal so I met her at place in Brooklyn that she lives in when she’s in NYC. We took a bunch of photos there because we needed full nude stuff for Hustler and she only wanted to get topless on the train. It’s technically legal to be topless in NYC but not fully nude and she had a big photo shoot the next day and didn’t really want to be in jail for it. So we did a mini shoot at her place and I got some nice shots including some adorable ones of her brushing her teeth topless.

After that we headed to the M train. We got totally lucky because their was construction and they were running a shuttle train between three stops. So all we did was take the shuttle train back in forth in the middle of the night. We did it about four times and only once did we have a person in our train car. It would have worked out perfectly except Stoya quickly realized that it’s really hard to do her circus tricks on a moving train because it throws off her balance. Luckily she was able to do a few fun moves and she is totally fucking adorable so it doesn’t really matter.

In conclusion, Stoya is amazing and I am glad she exists and I am really glad I got to finally photograph her and even get us both paid for it. I hope to do it again one day soon…

Oh! By the way, these photos were shot for Hustler so I had to shoot a bunch more explicit shots. I don’t really like to post that stuff on my website so instead I put them on the Girls of Driven By Boredom App. So yeah, there are like 20 extra high resolution extra sexy extra photos on my app. So go sign up already. It works on all smart phones and even on your web browser!

So click here for a bunch of adorable NSFW photos of Stoya topless on the subway and naked in her apartment!

So Driven By Boredom turned 13 on Saturday and the party was a total shit show of amazingess and undeniable weirdness. I only drink on special occasions and for some reason I decided the DBB anniversary was going to be one of those occasions and people kept buying me drinks and by 10pm I had about 15 shots of rum and left my party before it ended, went home, vomited, napped and came back to the Flat around 2am to apologize and ended up staying there til 4am and for whatever reason went to bed around 7.

The party itself was pretty fun, or at least that’s what people keep telling me. My friend Friday Jones talked her former apprentice Tim Acupunx to do Driven By Boredom tattoos live. We only ended up getting three done but two of them were on hot girls who got tattooed topless for no real reason other than boobs.

I was supposed to do live nude photo shoots and  technically I did do one but I was so drunk by that point that the photos are terrible. Like when you look at these photos you will see a pretty steady decline in quality and a steady increase in insanity and nudity. I think somebody should graph it. There’s a lot of photos of me in there too which is odd. I think Mark from Return To Nuke Em High took those photos and I am pretty sure we started a band but what the fuck do I know?

Shout out to Scarlett Storm and Alicia for being my nude models for the evening and getting tattooed! Pretty sure there were other people who were supposed to get naked but I was too drunk to deal with that. For example Deanna Deadly was supposed to come and I texted her the next morning to see why she didn’t make it and then I looked at my photos and I had taken her photo and apparently talked to her but I have no memory of that. And shout out to my friend Joy who just took her shirt off and started hanging out because I guess that’s what you do when you have boobs the size of your head.

Thanks to RekLES and Prince Terrence for DJing and extra special thanks to Roofeeo for DJing last because I was obliterated the entire time he was there and I left before he was off cause I am an asshole. Shout out to Bad Brilliance for showing up in and staying in his weird costume all night. Glad to see Buff Monster, Sucklord and Tod Seelie there cause they are three of the raddest artists in NYC. Awesome to have one of my best friends come up from DC and bring his brother who I haven’t seen in a decade. Great to have a ton of the people I watch hockey with show up, was awesome to have them in the awkward mix. And thanks to everyone else who came out especially my old friends I rarely get to see. Oh, and thanks for the Village Voice for running these insane photos.

I am legit embarrassed that I got so drunk. I haven’t vomited from drinking in probably a decade. I spent all day yesterday feeling shitty, not from being hung over but from regretting the shit I did Saturday night. But whatever, it seems everybody had a great time and nothing bad actually happened. I just felt like a moron. So fuck it. Enjoy the very NSFW photos and maybe I can pull something even more epic together for my 14th anniversary.

Click here to see all the photos from the Driven By Boredom 13th Anniversary party at The Flat.

Before I get to posting the completely insane party photos from the DBB anniversary party last night let’s take a step in the opposite direction to a far more conservative event that I shot last week. On Wednesday I headed over to Salon Millesime at the Carlton Hotel to the NYC book release party for Charles A. Archer’s new book “Everybody Paddles: A CEO Strategic Guide to Building Company Consensus“.

Now I realize that covering a party for a book marketed to CEO’s isn’t exactly something that you would expect to find on Driven By Boredom, but Charles’ books are all about working together with all sorts of different people and the party was an interesting mix of characters. The party featured many of the contributors to the book ranging from doctors to CEOs to fine artists. I ended up talking to people about everything from graphic design to sports to mobile dating apps. It was a good change of pace from the madness I normally photograph. Plus as someone who works pretty much by himself all the time it was a good excuse to think more about collaboration something I am always hesitant to do.

So take a look at the photos and if they aren’t as wild as you’d like, come back tomorrow, I assure you the photos from last night will more than make up for it. Until then…

Click here to see all the shot’s from Charles A. Archer’s Everybody Paddles book release at Salon Millesime.

In February 2001 I was a sophomore at Penn State University. I had recently been destroyed by the first love of my life and I was a straight edge punk kid in a city full of nothing but drunken frat boys. I had a few friends (all of whom I somehow still stay in touch with) but I didn’t have much to do. I had no interest in partying with bros and hitting on these preppy college girls and I was so fucking bored all the time. I spent a lot of time on the internet.

Penn State had broadband internet and my time on it wasn’t restricted by how many hours I had left on my dial up AOL account. Napster was invented and I was downloading massive amounts of music and hanging out in my dorm room coming up with shit to entertain me. I started selling funny shit on eBay, I was re-captioning Family Circus cartoons, I was making terrible music with early versions of programs similar to Garageband, I was making weird videos and I was of course taking photos.

The problem was that YouTube didn’t exist yet. Flickr didn’t exist yet. Blogs didn’t exist yet. I had all this content but I didn’t know what to do with it. I was mostly emailing stuff to friends one by one if I wanted to show them what I had made. Fortunately my brother introduced me to a community of websites called E/N sites which stood for Everything/Nothing meaning they would post about anything they wanted or just ramblings about their everyday lives. They were the first blog sites as we think of blogs now.

On March 1st 2001 I launched Driven By Boredom into the world. By mid 2002 it was an incredibly popular blog and I got emails from fans every day. It was really amazing. Unfortunately my site was hosted by a guy who hosted a bunch of E/N sites. One day all of the sites went down and my site was down for months before I gave up and started over almost completely from scratch. It wasn’t the same after that and when I started managing a band in 2003 DBB took a back seat. By the time I moved back to NYC in 2006 DBB was pretty much dead.

By the end of 2006 I had been shooting parties with a point and shoot digital camera just for fun and people kept asking me what website I was putting them on. Last Night’s Party and Cobrasnake had just come out and everyone thought I was a party photographer. So I said fuck it and brought DBB back from the dead. On April 25th 2007 I bought a flash and started taking nightlife photography seriously and on December 23rd 2008 I  got laid off from my last job became a photographer and blogger full time.

It’s been a long and exciting 13 years for this blog and it’s amazing that it still exists and is somehow my actual job.

To celebrate DBB’s 13th anniversary I am having a party tonight at The Flat! There will be free DBB tattoos, cheap booze and naked babes. If you live in NYC you should come out! But if you don’t live in NYC I have something for you to look at anyway.

As a present for my blog I created a new Tumblr site called Fuck Yeah Driven By Boredom! It’s a Tumblr compiling fan signs and Driven By Boredom tattoos and sightings of my stickers and anything fun I can think about that has to do with this blog! It’s probably of marginal interest to anyone who is not obsessed with me or this blog, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun to catalogue all this stuff. I hope you dig it!