As you may know I have been making my way through every photo I have ever taken, trying to pull the best images, and somehow organize everything a little better. The goal in the end is to make a series of different portfolio sites highlighting several types of work I do because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to show all my work to every client. I launched a rough version of my new very NSFW 35mm site yesterday and it’s a bit bipolar already without involving any of my event or commercial work.

For a while I was editing a month a day but things slowed down recently as I worked on Dinner With Igor and my Vegas photo album, but I finally finished going through all of 2010. Since people seemed to love my “Best of 2009” gallery I figured I should do a 2010 version. It’s pretty much just event work, I decided to leave the naked babes out of this, but the gallery is still NSFW.

2010 was interesting because I really stepped up my game as far as camera gear. I upgraded from the consumer camera the Nikon D-300 to the pro full frame D-700. I also stopped using kit lenses (I was always worried about bringing a $1700 lens into a nightclub) and bought a couple serious lenses including my standard event lens the 24-70mm 2.8. The odd thing is I think my event photography actually got worse as a result. My portrait work got a lot stronger but as I went through 2010 I noticed that I started slacking on my party photos. Looking back has made me want to up my game a little bit. I think this whole thing has been a great experience despite the tedium.

A few highlights from 2010 include:

• Covering SXSW Film for the Village Voice for the first time
• Photographing Robin Williams, Billy Crystal & Whoopi Goldberg for NYU/Tisch
• The release of Lena Dunham’s first film Tiny Furniture before anyone knew who she was
• Electric Daisy Carnival’s last year in LA made for some hilarious photos
• More juggalos
• The Anthology Film Archives 40th anniversary
• The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
• Guns & Roses in the husk of CBGBs
• Maiden, Miami & Most Interesting

I got laid off from my last real job in December 2008. Most of 2009 I was still thinking about getting a real job, receiving unemployment and trying to figure out what the hell I was doing next. By 2010 I was all in. Aside from spending a quarter of my income on camera gear I also started traveling a lot more including a month long trip where I photographed SXSW Film, SXSW Music, Winter Music Conference and then hit Slaughterama on the way home. It was a pretty good year.

Click here to see a massive gallery of the best of 2010 event photos!

 

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A new episode of Road Strip came out last week! It’s one of the best ones yet and stars Ash Hollywood. It’s really fun and in it we go to the Grand Canyon. I had never been to the Grand Canyon and it was really foggy and rainy and I was worried it wouldn’t be amazing because it was so cloudy. Turns out a big hole in the ground is fucking amazing no matter what the weather is like. Seriously, it was as impressive as people say it is. Plus the rain allowed for a bunch of public nudity!

We didn’t have to walk far to get away from people, but as we shot we could hear people walking the trail a few feet from us. We also could see people across from us the whole time we shot. If they just looked over they could have easily seen us. It was a lot of fun. I even made Ash take photos of me to send my mom.

The video has a lot of other public nudity in it and some hotels that look like tee-pees and another giant hole and a bunch of other fun stuff, but the Grand Canyon is certainly the highlight and I have all the pictures for you to check out too! I already uploaded em to the DBB Girls app in high res, but if you are impoverished and can’t afford my app they are here too now.

In other news my Dinner With Igor book Kickstarter is about $200 from where it needs to be for me to break even and not lose money so that fucking rules. There are some stretch goals too so you get a free print if it hits $2000 and a bigger print if it hits $2500. Got big ones for $3000 and $3500 too so get your money in now!

Now click here to watch the new Road Strip!

And click here to see all the NSFW photos of Ash Hollywood naked at the Grand Canyon!

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I just launched the Kickstarter for my second book, Dinner With Igor! All the info I could give you is on the Kickstarter so I am going to try to make this short. If you are a long time DBB fan you might remember the Dinner With Igor posts I was doing a while back. Part of the reason I stopped posting the galleries is because I started working on a Dinner With Igor book! It’s over 100 pages with an insane amount of photos of my friends eating.

Believe it or not but this book has no nudity in it! But it does have a ton of hot babes eating food. I tend to take models out for food after shoots since I don’t pay people unless it’s for another client. Buying them a cheeseburger is the least I can do. So yeah the book has porn stars and celebrities and stuff, but it is really about this massive collection of my friends eating. The book gets really interesting when I started plotting out spreads with four photos per page. I actually think it turned out better than I thought it would.

The book is 95% done and I hope to finish it this weekend. Teddy Blanks of CHIPS is designing it and they did my last book too so if nothing else it’s gonna be flawlessly designed. It should be in your hands within a month from when the Kickstarter ends!

I am trying to raise at least $2000 to pay for the full print run, but the Kickstarter is set to $1000 because I know I can hit that number. So please donate and tell your friends and get cool stuff like prints of Dana DeArmond and Bobbi Starr and signed 8″x10″s from Stoya & Charlotte Stokely!

Okay, enough bullshit, go to the Dinner With Igor Kickstarter now!

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