Brooklyn Zombie Crawl After Party – 5.25.14

So the Brooklyn Zombie Crawl was fun the but after party was nuts. There were bands, sideshow performances Gwar themed burlesque and a bunch of zombie nudity. That being said, I gotta leave for a wedding in an hour so I gotta make this quick. Luckily the insane pictures speak for themselves, but here’s the info you need to know.

The whole event took place in Matchless in Greenpoint after the crawl. A Metallica themed Billy Joel cover band called For Whom The Bell Joels played. Seriously. The Misfits cover band Skeletal Life played for their third straight Brooklyn Zombie Crawl. They let me do Last Caress with them since I let them do it with me when my band played the zombie crawl a couple of years ago. A rockabilly band Screamin’ Rebel Angels and another pretty bad ass female fronted band Purple Pam & the Flesh Eaters played as well. Terrifying burlesque troop Rigor Mortis Review did a Gwar tribute and the Disgraceland Family Sideshow lifted things with things and stapled stuff to themselves. And did I mention the nudity?

Now on to the pictures! Click here to see all my NSFW shots from the Brooklyn Zombie Crawl after party at Bar Matchless.

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Skeletal Life

Gwar Burlesque

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Disgraceland Family Sideshow

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Disgraceland Family Sideshow

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2014 Brooklyn Zombie Crawl – 5.25.14

The NYC Zombie Crawl returned to Brooklyn on Sunday. Held every Memorial Day weekend for the better part of a decade I feel like I have photographed this madness dozens of times… but maybe that’s because there is also the Manhattan version of the crawl in October, plus special events like movie premieres, zombie beauty pageants and even zombie raves. I have photographed so many NYC Zombie events that I want to do a book of this stuff quickly to cash in on the zombie craze before people finally get sick of zombies. I mean the Walking Dead has to end eventually right?

Anyway, the crawl started out at Trash Bar in Williamsburg, headed to McCarren Park to harass kickball playersa, then over to Bar Matchless for the insane after party. This year the zombies got stopped by the cops and for some reason they were totally reasonable. After pulling several hundred zombies over, they just redirected them up Bedford Ave instead of Driggs. Despite the fact that zombies were jumping on cars and stopping busses all the cops asked was that we walk with the flow of traffic. They then shut down all of Bedford as we walked to the park. It was sort of amazing considering the zombie crawl had no permits or any sort of permission to be doing this madness.

So I gotta get ready to leave town again tomorrow so I am gonna just leave you with these pictures, but I will be back before I bounce with some wild photos from the after party. So come back ASAP.

Now click here to see all the photos from the 2014 Brooklyn Zombie Crawl!

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

Brooklyn Zombie Crawl

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Quinn Cornchip

Last fall I was in Austin and I reconnected with my old pal Quinn Cornchip. I hadn’t seen her since the time we took photos in a hotel. We went out to what I am pretty sure is the only mountain in Texas, Mount Bonnell, and took some naked photos a few feet below a hiking trail. We could hear people above us but I don’t think they could see us. Pretty sure one couple caught us but I am pretty sure they were looking for a place to have sex so I guess we are even.

Anyway, I the first time I shot Quinn she was a Gods Girls model named Anais so because my photo gallery system is so messed up she’s still Anais in there. One day I will finally install my sites redesign and we can fix that stuff, but in the mean time shit is confusing.

Quinn rules and she introduced me to Brooke and her set was a site favorite so you can thank her for that too.

As per normal there are some extra dirty extra high resolution pictures of Quinn on the Girls of Driven By Boredom web app so check that shit out.

Now click here to see all the NSFW pictures of Quinn Cornchip naked in public on Austin’s Mt. Bonnell.

Quinn Cornchip

Quinn Cornchip

Quinn Cornchip

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Four Years Ago Today…

As I work through organizing my massive photo library I keep stumbling on gems from the past. Building a portfolio website has become a massive undertaking but it’s going to be fantastic to eventually have my work organized. During the process I keep finding amazing events and crazy moments in my life that are worth resharing. Some of my Throwback Thursday posts on Instagram have done very well and since I am shooting less and less nightlife I feel like it’s worth taking a look back at some of the better nightlife moments from the past. So this might become a new feature of the site… perhaps even on Thursdays…

Today it’s Monday and if the internet can come up with dumb things like Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday I don’t see why I can’t call today Moveback Monday. I realize that’s insanely stupid but I am highly caffeinated and found some amazing photos from exactly four years ago. Well, okay, the images aren’t actually that amazing from a photography standpoint but it was a pretty incredible event and one that can never happen again.

Four years ago I shot a benefit for the Anthology Film Archives celebrating their 40th anniversary. The Virgins opened for Sonic Youth and Lou Reed an Hiro Ballroom. The Virgins and Sonic Youth have split up and of course Lou Reed has died. Philip Seymour Hoffman introduced Lou Reed and he has sadly passed as well. Amazingly the 91 year old avant garde film legend Jonas Mekas is still alive. Badass filmmaker and writer Keneth Anger also is still living and played the theremin to end the evening. Moby DJ’d and Julian Schnabel spoke as well. Ben Foster hosted the evening and I got to take a photo of Nan Goldin which V Magazine ran. All and all it was a pretty epic night.

So take a look back at this amazing night four years ago. Click here to see all the photos from the Anthology Film Archives benefit from May 19th, 2010.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Jonas Mekas

Lou Reed

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Ladies Ladies Art Show – 5.15.14

Last night the Ladies Ladies Art Show returned! I shot the event two years ago and I was glad to be back for this edition! This time it happened at 8 Of Swords Tattoo in Williamsburg where I just happen to get tattooed by my friend and lady Betty Rose!

Ladies Ladies is a collection of awesome art from female tattoo artists curated by Miss Elvia and Magie Serpica. Female artists tend to be somewhat marginalized in the male dominated tattoo industry but there are some bad ass lady tattoo artists out there. Personally I have been tattooed by six female tattoo artists and the three artists who have tattooed me the most are all women. Betty Rose has tattooed me more that anyone and she and my homegirl Minka Sicklinger both had art in the show.

The work in the show was great, there were tons of hot tattooed ladies there and I got paid in tattoos. Win win win.

Now click here to see all the photos from the Ladies Ladies Art Show at 8 Of Swords Tattoo!

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

Ladies Ladies Tattoo Art Show

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Another Road Strip!

Just a quick update to plug the newest episode of my Route 66 web series, Road Strip! It’s the last of three episodes featuring Sidney Scarlet. The trip is the last day of Illinois and we say goodbye to Sidney in St. Louis. But don’t fear, in St. Louis I meet up with the lovely Theresa Manchester as she takes me on a naked tour of her home town and then I pick up Charlotte Stokely and we head out on the road again. So there should be some great episodes coming up!

On this episode Sidney and I got caught by some bikers while we were shooting naked photos in front of a giant rocking chair. The funny thing is that at our next stop we ran into them and they were a German couple driving Route 66 too. They loved that we were taking naked photos and I actually shot one of my favorite images in my Route 66 book while they were watching. I didn’t have photo releases for them so you don’t see that stuff, but the episode is pretty funny. Plus you get to see what a breakfast shoe is (hint: it’s food) and you get to see Lincoln’s lucky nose. It’s all pretty exciting.

So yeah, check out the new episode of Road Strip (NSFW obviously!)  and hopefully I will be back soon with some new and exciting stuff for you guys to look at.

Road Strip: St. Louis Or Bust

 

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Coco’s Vanity Vixens – 5.12.14

Last night I got to shoot Coco’s burlesque show “Coco’s Vanity Vixens” at Highline Ballroom for the Village Voice. I even shot the red carpet which I rarely do because photos of celebrities in front of advertisements that 15 other photographers have is not exactly exciting, but you gotta do the work sometimes…  The show itself was a well conceived burlesque performance featuring some decent dancers that didn’t get very naked. Maybe I am spoiled by crazy NYC burlesque where people get fully naked and pull egg rolls out of their vaginas but the show was pretty tame. Coco herself killed it and she did end up topless at the end which truthfully I was not expecting. She is pretty amazing to watch out there, especially set against a bunch of skinny girls. I have no idea how her butt exists but it is awesome.

I had fun at the show and my only real complaint was that it was horribly lit and made for awful photos. I mean it looked pretty good live but when you light people and the stage with the same color red it’s pretty impossible to photograph which is really all I care about. If I can’t take a photo of it, it might as well not exist.

Anyway, I have a ton of shit to do today and you guys have mediocre photos of mine to look at so let’s get it on!

Click here to see all my photos from Coco’s Vanity Vixens at the Highline Ballroom!

Coco's Vanity Vixens

Coco & Ice T

Coco's Vanity Vixens

Coco's Vanity Vixens

Coco's Vanity Vixens

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Things! And Stuff!!

First of all, happy Mother’s Day! Check out my mom at her wedding in 1978!

Do to one of my best friends weddings and a strange series of coincidences and cancelations I haven’t touched my digital camera in weeks. I couldn’t get into the (first day of the) NFL Draft and I even had a dentist appointment postponed. It’s been a weird month but it’s been a great excuse to start getting my life together. I am in NYC until the end of this month so I am going to use these three weeks to hopefully get a TON of work done.

I have two big projects that I am going to take on while I am in town. I am working on a series of food books as I mentioned way back in November. Finally I am going to really get my shit together. I have a pretty good edit and a great idea how I am going to do it. Hopefully by June I will have at least a layout done.

The second big project is building a damn portfolio site. Not sure why I don’t have one or why you would even care, but hopefully me organizing thousands of photos will end up being good for you somehow. Moving on.

Back in the day on Driven By Boredom I used to post links to websites I thought were cool and things like that. I don’t really do it anymore, but here is one link you should really check out: a group of people are trying to create a road out of solar panels. It’s an amazing project that could completely change the world as we know it. It only took 35 years to build the interstate highway system. If this road actually works there’s no reason we couldn’t see a complete end to gas powered cars in our lifetime. Go donate some money now. 

In other news my Tumblr just hit 10,000 followers. It was my first social network to hit 10k followers and it features a ton of my 35mm work and just random shots from my daily life. Check it out if you haven’t already. My Instagram would have hit 10k if it hadn’t been deleted the first time. Go follow my new one already…

Hmm… What else? Oh! My web series Road Strip has a new episode coming out this week. There are a bunch of good ones coming up so catch up on the whole series already! Very not safe for work!

Last bit of news is that NYC’s own Superchief just opened an art space in Los Angeles and they are having a big show on Thursday for the grand opening. I have at least one photo in it (I gave them a bunch of stuff to choose from) and a bunch of artists I love are in it as well. My buddies (and amazing photographers) Tod Seelie and Brock Fetch are two of the featured artists and other people I dig like Lee Trice, Eddy Segal and Prettypuke are in it as well. So if you are in LA go to the opening on Thursday. If you can’t make it the show will be up until the end of July. Hopefully I will be able to make it out there to see it myself! Really psyched to be in this show!

So check out the flyer for the show and I will be back Tuesday with some photos you do not want to miss…

Superchief LA Opening

 

 

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Arabelle Raphael Returns

NSFW Week finally comes to an end. It stretched over two weeks because of how busy I have been but you still got five straight naked lady updates so I feel like you should be psyched about that. The last update of NSFW Week is a good one: Arabelle Raphael.

I love Arabelle both as a human and a model. Last time I shot her was the first time I had met her and the next day she ended up driving to Vegas with me. She also has really amazing eyes, lips and um… you may have noticed the boobs… She is one of the easiest people to shoot and both times we have shot together the shoot was done in 20 minutes.

We took these photos at the tail end of my Route 66 road trip last summer at her place in LA. It seems like a good time to post these since I saw on Twitter last night that she is about to move back to the Bay Area so here is a goodbye to her LA apartment or something.

Anyway, these photos are good and there is a cat that kept photobombing her and people love cats. Boobs + cats = winning the internet. So go look at the adorable photos. There are some slightly sexier ones on my app and if you want to watch her actual porn you can do that over here.

Now click here to see my photos of the amazing Arabelle Raphael!

Arabelle Raphael

Arabelle Raphael

Arabelle Raphael

Arabelle Raphael

Arabelle Raphael

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