You guys remember Whitney right? We went on a road trip across the country this summer. You might recall that we took topless photos of her along the way. It was good times. Unfortunately after she dropped me off I didn’t see her again until a few days ago. Whitney was in NYC for a little bit after that but we never managed to run into each other and then she was back to LA from whence she came.  Luckily for us she was in town this past week and we decided we had to do a new photo shoot.

But where could we shoot I wondered? I am pretty much out of locations. I noticed on the Twitters that Mishka was promoting their Black Friday sale pretty heavily and it gave me idea.  Their 350 Broadway flagship store is right around the corner from my Brooklyn apartment so I hit them up and asked them if I could use it as a location. Mishka said yes and we pulled come clothes for Whitney out of boxes in the back (including this Engineered To Destroy snapback that I now own) and we got to work.

350 Broadway has insanely weird mixed lighting so we got to mess around with that a lot. The photos glow of liquor store esque neon lights. We had her play Street Fighter and lay around on top of sweaters. They probably could sell for more now… One of the funniest parts of the shoot was that we did it right around 3PM and school kids and Hasidic families kept walking by.  We hid her pretty good when we could but I think a few people got a pretty good show.

Anyway, enjoy the NSFW photos and make sure you score some Mishka swag for all the hip kids on your Christmas list. They are having a big Cyber Monday sale today only!

Click here to see all the shots of Whitney at Mishka’s 350 Broadway flagship in Brooklyn.

I have been a fan of comedian/musician Dave Hill for a long time. When I first moved to NYC I was very involved in the comedy scene because some of my first friends in New York were comedians and girls who liked banging comedians.  Stand up comedy is pretty boring to photograph so I would usually just go to the shows and then go shoot parties after. I never really did much comedy photography although I always talked about it.

Over the last few months I have been wanting to do more editorial work but I don’t really have a portfolio for it so I hit up a bunch of comedian friends of mine to try to do some photo shoots. None of them happened because both comedians and I travel constantly so it was hard to find a good time. I kept trying and finally Dave and I had a chance to meet up.

I went over to his place in the West Village the other day and we just hit the streets to find something to shoot. We didn’t really have any ideas until I remembered their was a pet store near his house. He suggested we walk a bit further and see if a place called Citipups would let us take photos of Dave with their puppies. Citipups were awesome and they let Dave and I play with an adorable Westie puppy and the most awkward looking dog I have ever seen, a cross eyed Boston Terrier.

We shot a bunch of photos of the dogs in this awful mixed light that they had in the store and then we went out and hit the street for some just standard portraits.  We eventually ended up at Teen Vogue’s Fashion Night Out event which is even funnier if you knew Dave’s history when it comes to reporting on fashion week.

After you check out all the photos you need to check out Dave’s website because it is fucking hilarious.  But before you do that click here to see all my photos of comedian Dave Hill.

I am headed to Philly in an hour or two for a tattoo convention and some parties and some madness. I have no idea where I am staying or exactly what I am doing but I guess that’s the fun part of traveling when you are me and never make any sort of plans. Anyway, I probably am not going to bring my computer with me on this trip which means I won’t be able to update this weekend so I wanted to get something up really quickly today so you guys don’t suffer.  I would hate to deprive you of new DBB content for 3 days.  That would just be mean. So…

Last night I shot this crazy Das Racist show at the Highline Ballroom, but before I went over there I stopped by the New Era flag ship store to say what’s up to the Mishka guys who were having a party to celebrate their collaboration with New Era.  They designed two exclusive hats and matching T-shirts for New Era.  I took a few shots for fun so you can check them out and then run over to the New Era store on E. 4th street and Broadway and check these fuckers out for yourself.

Back in may on the day of my 30th birthday I awoke strangely not that hung over. The night before I got so drunk that I ate a bag of cocaine and got stuck in my laundry basket. I don’t even do drugs… much less eat them. So when I woke up the next day I didn’t really think I was going to be functional. Surprisingly I was, and the Alumni look book shoot was happening a few blocks away from me so I stumbled over there with my camera in hand.

I was hired to do just a general behind the scenes shoot and just get shots of the goings on so that when the look book was launched I could bring you a post just like this promoting the new line. But I really think I was mostly there to get the Burning Angels and Suicide Girls who where there modeling naked in the bathroom. I am totally fine with that. So not only do I have this wonderful gallery of behind the scenes shots from the look book shoot, but I also have three galleries of hot alt babes that I will be bringing to  you throughout the week… Starting with later today..

So, get excited about the new Alumni line. The shirts are fresh. I have a couple shirts I have been wearing since May and people love them.  Check out the new Alumni 2012 website and buy some shit. And then click right here to look at all of the BTS photos from the Alumni shoot.  The NSFW shots are just tiny previews from the hot galleries to come. I repeat: get excited!

Check out The IGORR.

The IGORR is some sort of Frankensteinesque version of a Converse Chuck Taylor All Star made by Steve Madden.  While the shoe is completely hideous it does have one main feature that makes me have to buy a pair: it is named after me.  And not in any sort of coincidental way… the shoe was actually named after me.

Last year I had a roommate named Kara.  She was pretty much the best roommate I have had since my freshman year of college.  When she moved in I figured she would be around for ages, but she snuck out in the middle of the night to move in with my good friend and now next door neighbor OJ.  Seriously, they moved less than 5 feet away from me.  As a going away present Kara, who happens to be the male shoe buyer for Steve Madden, named a shoe after me.  That was in September so I figured it would have been out ages ago (and it probably was since they are on sale) but she just sent me the link today.  I am pretty excited about it.  It’s not quite a shoe colab with Etnies, but I’ll take it.

Now the real question is… Which color should I get?

Married To The Mob had a party at the Thompson LES Hotel yesterday to premiere their Summer 2010 Video Look book. The look book starred one of the hottest porn stars on earth, Faye Reagan and you can watch it here.

I ran out of time today to do a write up about it, so just look at the pictures for now, and I will be back either really late tonight or tomorrow to update this post.

So yeah, the party was on a sort of roof deck on the Thompson and there was Belvedere Vodka and a ton of chocolate candies everywhere which I kept eating because I was starving.  The party started a little bit slow, but by the time I had to leave the place was well over capacity I am sure. They had the video playing on repeat and there was a large balcony for the smokers with a great view of the LES. The one drawback to this smoking balcony was that it had two sliding glass doors and as I was going through one opening, someone else was going through another and slid his door into my door crushing me in between. While hilarious, the whole thing really fucking hurt my spine. The party was DJ’d by N.I.R.E. and DJ Jazzy Joyce who both were both killing it with really amazing hip hop all night. Jazzy Joyce spun like three of my favorite songs in a row, so I have to give extra love to her.

So anyway, I took a ton of pictures and then I escaped to do a photo shoot with a girl in Hell’s Kitchen and then on my way back home I saw a really fantastic fight in a bodega that involved a guy jump kicking the shop keeper in the chest and then getting beaten with some sort of club until the cops showed up. I took a few pictures with my 35mm camera so when I develop them I will let you know.

In the mean time click here to see the pictures from the Married To The Mob Summer Video Premiere party at the Thompson LES.

So if all goes well everything I shot in Miami for WMC will be up today.  I have two big parties to update later with some of the more fun I shot in them, but in the mean time I am just going to give you all the other random stuff I shot at WMC.  In general I took WMC pretty easy.  I had two parties that I was hired to shoot, and then I could shoot whatever I wanted for the Village Voice and I needed to put a tattoo gallery together for Inked Magazine.  Other than that I didn’t have a lot to do and I took advantage of that by just loafing about most of the days.

In this gallery you will find a few shots from my first night in town where I slept all day and then went to White Room for about an hour before taking a cab back to the hotel I got by the airport just so I could take a nap. My cab driver meanwhile was taking a nap while he was driving me to my hotel.  It was insane. He was driving 40 MPH in a 55.  People were zooming past us while he was drifting lanes. I thought I was going to die.  I didn’t.

After that we have some pictures from the Raleigh Hotel pool where Steve Aoki was Djing for about 25 people drinking free Alize. That was pretty exciting.  I think one of the first times I met Steve was at the same hotel, but we were on the roof and we had a conversation about how we would jump off if there was a fire. I am glad to know that people think about weird shit like that as much as I do.

Aslo in the gallery are shots from this fashion takeover of some store.  I really wish I had the energy to figure out what it was exactly, but I am really tired so I will just wait until Paloma or Robb sees this and yells at me until I put in the correct info.

There seem to be shots of DJ Loli and Tommie Sunshine in here, but I have no idea where they came from, and then there was the night that I went to a few spots for no reason and then the girl I was trying to entertain left with her exboyfriend. That was fun. And then tehre are a few shots that just seem to be lost.  Whatever, it’s all Winter Music and its all Miami. Deal with the disorder.

Oh! This gallery even has some boobs! NSFW!

Click here to see all the randoms stuff from WMC that didn’t fit into any of my other galleries.

Brooklyn Royalty has a new home.  Bob Bland and her partner Jeff opened a new spot in Williamsburg called Kingdom. It is on N. 4th street between Bedford & Driggs. It is right next to the San Loco.  The reason I am getting all specific about the date is because I am throwing an event there tonight at 9pm.  But of course you know that already. What is more important at this moment is that Bob threw her Brooklyn Royalty fashion week party at her new spot.  It was the official opening of Kingdom and while the place isn’t finished yet, it is a very cool looking spot. I can’t wait for the show tonight.

Bob had some models on hand showing off her new line.  They took turns posing in a picture frame.  I got there pretty late, but I ran around and got a bunch of shots anyway.  I took a few cute ones of Bob on the Skee-Ball machine.  Any place with Skee-Ball has to be amazing.   In the 30 mintues I was there I manged to annoy a group of four girls, walked in on one of the models changing and managed to take some absolutely horrible pictures (now deleted).  Fortunately I managed to take some good ones too.  I hope you like the shots, Brooklyn Royalty’s new line, and of course the venue.  Come check it out for yourself tonight.  Free! 9pm! Bands at 10!

 Check out all the shots from the Brooklyn Royalty Fashion Week party at Kingdom by clicking here. Oh, and there is a show there tonight too, just incase you didn’t get the memo.

So I am doing a little bit of work for The Fashion Spot during this fashion week and last night I was on my way to cover a Patricia Fields party in Midtown. But right before I left my house I got a text from my editor there telling me I needed to get over to the John Varvatos store because Guns and Roses were doing a private set. Yeah, that’s right, Guns and Fucking Roses were playing for like 200 people in the same location that CBGB’s used to be.  Fashion Spot was on the list and I just had to go over there and drop some names.  Of course when I got there it was at max capacity and they weren’t letting anyone in. I was cold and frustrated and about to give up when I saw that the bouncers were all wearing PBR hats.  I knew that NYC PBR rep Dan James had to be inside. I hit him up and he came out and they still wouldn’t let me in.  He wasn’t sponsoring the event but he had a bunch of PBR shwag.  One of the bouncers asked him for another hat and he traded them hats in trade for letting me in.  That was a huge move. It almost makes up for him being a Jets fan.

So after an hour of waiting packed like sardines in a 120 degree clothing store Guns and Roses made the stage… Well at least Axl did, I am pretty sure none of his backing band were actually in Guns and Roses, but I didn’t really give a fuck. I met Slash at Sundance last year so I’m all good.  Guns and Roses were pretty much all I cared about in 1991.  In the late ’80s and early ’90s all I listened to was rap and metal.  And by rap I mean shit like Young MC and Run DMC and by metal I mean Poison, Motley Crew and G’n'f’n'R.  I wanted to see Guns and Roses with Metalica in ’91 so fucking badly but my mom wouldn’t let me go with all my friends.  Well, if I had told my 11 year old self that I would be two feet from Axl Rose singing Sweet Child o’ Mine I would have lost my shit.

Now, admittedly 20 years later it’s not quite the same thing.  There were 200 people there instead of 20,000, Axl has put on a few pounds and my enthusiasm for ’80s hair metal is not quite what it once was, but I was still pretty excited.  I told a girl next to me that I was going to take off after 25 minutes, but Axl fucking brought it.  I stayed for the entire set and it was nearly 2 hours long.  Brooklyn Vegan has the set list if you care.  Speaking of set lists, I escaped with Axl’s set list, so that was pretty fan boy of me.  I think it’s probably the only set list I have ever taken.

Anyway, the show was actually really great.  They played some of the new stuff that people didn’t really care about, but they played the hits and they did an AC/DC cover which was great. Axl was much more relaxed than I imagined him to be.  He was joking around the whole time.  People waited hours to see them and actually a ton of people left before he even showed up.  Because of this people were calling him “Asshole” when he got on stage.  He was joking about how he had never heard anyone rhyme Axl with Asshole.  He just took it in stride.  He was actually really hilarious. He kept smiling the whole time. He was clearly having a blast, joking about someone had stolen his shirts. He was not nearly the Asshole Rose I assumed he would be.

I have to say it must be sort of weird for him to be playing for a bunch of people who don’t really give a fuck about being there.  There were a few serious fans but most of the people were just fashion week types and people who have the pull to get into some exclusive G’n'R show.  A lot of people sang a long to the hooks on the hits, but the bouncers didn’t really have to keep any screaming fans from tearing his clothes off.  Even when they finished their set to Paradise City the crowd just sort of started filing out instead of demanding an encore.  The band had to run band on stage before the crowd left so they could finish their set. It could have been sort of awkward and embarrassing but Axl just kept going and he fucking killed it.

It was really great seeing Guns and Roses on a $5000 PA.  By the end you could barely hear the vocals. It was like they were playing in an actual punk club.  At once point Axl excitedly screamed something about playing CBGB’s.  It was sort of epic. Again, I just wanted to say, before I finally go to sleep, that despite the sound system, and the shitty crowd and the heat and the fact that he is old as hell, Axl really put on a great show and I could not have been happier to have been there.  I figured when the entire 1990s passed without me seeing my one time favorite band that I probably was not going to get the chance, but here we are a decade later and I was shooting them live from 5 feet away.

Lastly, it was insanely hot in there and I was shooting over people’s heads and I was generally a bit disappointed with the shots I got, but none the less, there are some images here that I think really capture the night. I hope you dig them because this show is something I am going to remember for a long time.

Click here to see all my pictures of Guns and Roses at the John Varvatos fashion week party.

Ps. I forgot to mention this, but I sort of have to say something about it. On the same table where Axl kept his beer, he also had a box of tissues and he kept going over there and using them between songs.  I am not sure he would have had a box of Kleenex on stage with him 20 years ago, but if he had the sniffles you have to admire his dedication.

Ps. These were posted on TMZ.

PPs. GNR Fans… these images are available as 16″x20″ archival art prints. Contact me for details.