Maya Rue

February 27, 2026

Last month when I was in Las Vegas covering the AVN Awards week I did six NSFW photo shoots and of course I decided I needed to spread them out because I don’t know any naked people in North Carolina so I gotta stack content and then give it to you guys every few weeks until I go on another trip (I should be back in LA fairly soon). That being said, I didn’t mean to wait this long to give you some photos from the trip… in fact, these photos of been up on Girls of Driven By Boredom for over a week. I was all ready to post them here but then Robert Duvall died and I wanted to write a post about my relationship with him but that post took a few days and then I was suddenly, inexplicably, locked out of my website for a few days and now here we are, finally back here, ready to share some fun pictures with you guys.

So meet Maya Rue. I met her at AVN two years ago totally randomly. I was at some insane party at some weed company’s Vegas mansion or something and I was photographing someone I just met topless on a basketball court when this cute porn star started peeing next to us. I jokingly pointed my camera at her and she told me to actually take the photo so I did and she gave me her IG account so I could send her the photo. That was pretty much our only interaction but her posts have appeared in my life over the last two years and I honestly just became a fan of her outspoken left wing political beliefs. She also happens to be really hot and makes music so what’s not to like?

Anyway, I ran into her in Vegas and I was like “hey I met you at that party two years ago and I took that photo of you peeing” and she was like “that photo is my Venmo photo!” which is honestly incredible. Anyway, we scheduled a shoot on the last day of the AVNs which I try never to do because people are flaky as hell when you are partying for four days straight so I try and get people to shoot as soon as possible. In fact, two other people flaked on me that same day. Fortunately for me, Maya did not flak even though she was super sick. I thought I had a good location but it fell through so we ended up walking back to my hotel. I had already done two shoots there so I wasn’t really sure what we were gonna do, but I knew I would make it work.

Not only did we make it work but we did three shoots! We shot on the couch, in a bathtub and on one of the bed. I think this one is my favorite of the three but they are all great. Turns out Maya is an incredible model and fun to shoot with even though she was super sick. I kinda feel like we killed it even though the lighting in the hotel room sucks. I can’t wait to see the 35mm stuff we shot with flash. I deeply want to shoot her again with natural light and fortunately she lives in NYC and I am there all the time so hopefully that will happen soon.

The first of the three shoots is up on Girls of DBB now, and it’s extra spicy because she wanted that kinda content for her OnlyFans and who am I to say no?

So yeah, click here to see all the NSFW photos or just check out the kinda safe for work preview gallery below and come back for a ton more photos from my trip to Vegas last month…

2026 AVN Awards Week

January 27, 2026

In January of 2008 I flew to Las Vegas for the AVN Awards. I had no real reason to be there, but my friend Doug was up for an award, the Burning Angel crew were gonna be there and my friend Jess was DJing some late night sex party. It seemed like a weird time so I booked a cheap hotel room at the Circus Circus and went out there. The next year the Village Voice/LA Weekly sent me out there and from then on adult sort of became my beat. I have covered the AVNs for Vice, The Daily Beast, Complex, Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse and even AVN themselves. I know I am forgetting a few, but it became a yearly trip that was half money making and half content acquiring as I would always do a bunch of photo shoots while I was there. I went every year from 2008 until 2020, but I had only been back once since then, but I returned this year.

This was the first time I ever went to the AVNs without a client. I have spent the last six months buying, renovating, and moving into my first (and hopefully last) home. It’s been a huge undertaking and very rewarding, but also I have barely taken any photos and it made me a little stir crazy. I figured AVN would be the perfect excuse to go take a ton of photos, see a bunch of friends and return with a bunch of stuff to share with you guys and of course all of that happened. I used some airline miles and booked a cheap hotel across the street and I was on my way to Vegas…

Because I wasn’t shooting for a client, I kinda half assed my coverage. I just have so many photos of the AVN Expo and I hate shooting red carpets for the actual awards so I just focused on seeing friends, scheduling photo shoots and trying to meet new people to photograph. The adult industry really feels like a family to me, I have had two long term relationships with people I met in the industry and some of my favorite people on earth work(ed) in adult. I ran into so many people this week I have known for almost 20 years. I hadn’t seen Tommy Pistol all week and I ran into him as he was exiting the Awards. We gave each other a big hug and caught up for a second before I asked him what award he won. “Best Actor” he said as I gave him a high five. It’s very silly to be happy for someone I haven’t seen in a couple of years and it’s not like we were ever close friends or anything, but we met when we were kids and I am just proud of the guy for everything he’s done in adult, while also not being a piece of shit. There are so many people like that I was so happy to see including people I hadn’t talked to in a decade. I sort of felt like I wasn’t really part of that world anymore, but people were happy to see me and was just happy to be back.

Anyway, with all that sappy bullshit out of the way, let’s get into the photos. As I said I sort of half assed it, but I still have more than 150 photos for you to look at between the convention and the night of the awards. More importantly I did six photo shoots (see a preview here), with a total of eight sets that I will have for you in the future. I also shot a ton of film that I am pretty excited about so if I do a film dump post you will probably get a total of ten updates from last week.

As far as the photos go, I think the convention stuff speaks for itself. It was nice to be back at the Hard Rock which is now the Virgin. It’s weird being in a place that is very similar to a place you have been a million times but slightly different. I have photographed so many adult conventions and it’s all kinda the same. I get a few portraits, especially of friends, and then I mostly try and shoot the candid stuff, especially people taking photos. I made a zine that is like 50% photos of people taking selfies, so it’s sort of my thing. The lighting sucked in there, but I am over flash and wasn’t getting paid so you are just gonna have to deal with it.

Back in the day I had great access to the awards themselves, but these days AVN has a deal with Showtime so no press is allowed to shoot the awards outside of the AVN photographers. Maybe one year I will work for AVN again in exchange for access or something. But yeah, I hate shooting red carpets. Why would I want the same photos everyone else has? I did it a few times back in the day but never again. So instead I just hung out in the hotel before the awards and got people as they were waiting for the red carpet. When the actual awards were happening I took a million photos of Maya Rue that I love and then I came back and photographed people as they were hanging out in the hotel after the awards. I still got a bunch of photos of people in their outfits and they weren’t on the step and repeat, so I am pretty happy about it even if I didn’t shoot a ton.

Before I go I also need to mention that all these photos have been up on Girls of Driven By Boredom since yesterday including some bonus NSFW shots that I didn’t feel comfortable posting on main. Today I also uploaded previews from all six photo shoots I did: as mentioned, Maya Rue as well as Connie Perignon, my old pal Goldie Fawn, Desiree Dulce (who I have been trying to photograph for six years), Tat2 Barbie who I met at the Gathering of the Juggalos, and lastly a photo shoot I did with Emma Starseed and Olivia Wildin in their AVN dresses. Go to Girls of DBB now to see all that stuff!

Okay so yeah, I think that’s that. I really did miss AVN and I feel like I need to go shoot an Exxxotica or something or at the very least get to LA again soon. I love all you guys and wish I hung out with you more. Oh, and fuck ICE.

Check out the gallery from the 2026 AVN Awards week below!

New Years Eve 2008 – 12.31.07

January 1, 2026

Making some actual New Years Resolutions this year and one of those things is updating this site more, primarily the Vintage DBB stuff. My plan was to drop a new, completely re-edited gallery every Thursday but that is so overwhelming and took so long and I think that’s why I stopped updating as much. A lot of shit happened in my life as well and I should hopefully have a little more time now, but my main plan is just to not edit as much. I pulled over 200 photos from this gallery and I just batch brightened them in Lightroom and then came back and fixed the ones that were way too over exposed. It took me less than ten minutes instead of over an hour. At least they are in much higher resolution now. Here’s hoping I update with Vintage DBB posts at least a couple of times a month going forward.

Anyway, let’s get into it. I used to only drink twice a year (now I drink never), NYE and my birthday, and this particular NYE was a blur. I barely remember it, luckily I have an offline copy of my archives so I can go back and read about that night. Apparently the reason I got so drink is because I took six shots in 45 minutes before I even got to Don Hills for the big Rated X/ Trash/ Burning Angel collaboration party.

If you weren’t there for all this, Trash was my favorite Friday night party hosted by friend DJ Jess (and Alex and Twig) but Jess was the first person to ever pay me to take photos in NYC and he died a decade ago now and I miss him all the time still. Rated X was a Saturday night party hosted by Michael T, Theo Kogan and Peppermint. It was famous for being a “no pants” party where they had a coat check for pants and you could get discounted drinks if you were pants free. They also were home to the infamous hot body contest which we will get to in a second. The party was hosted by the Brooklyn based alt porn site Burning Angel and Joanna Angel herself. She did some burlesque and helped host, but she also brought a bunch of her girls with her including my good pals Jessie Lee and Draven. My friend Apathy did a burlesque performance as well.

The hot body contest was absolutely wild that night thanks to Jessie and Draven. I uploaded all the photos of them to my paysite Girls of DBB. I tried not to post photos of people who looked wasted or were sort of being bashful about it, but there are 80 NSFW photos up there, mostly of the Burning Angel crew. There are some random people also pulling a titty out which was apparently a thing everyone just did back then. In my original notes from that night I said “The next couple hours were pretty much a blur… A lot of boobs and kissing people and trying not to puke.” What a time to be alive.

Apparently I left the party at 5am, which was probably hours before Don Hills actually kicked everyone out. I was pretty drunk and it’s hard to take photos when you have a drink in one hand as it is, so take that for what it’s worth. It was also a few months before I got a pro digital camera, but the chaos and the fun still shine though and I think you guys will really dig these despite the mid photography.

So check out the gallery below to see a bunch of photos from the Rated X vs Trash vs Burning Angel 2008 NYE party and head over to Girls of Driven By Boredom if you want to see the really crazy stuff. See you soon, I hope!

Leda Returns

October 16, 2025

It’s weird doing “X Model Returns” posts when I have wiped my entire archived on here, but if it makes you feel better, all my old NSFW photos are still up on Girls of Driven By Boredom including multiple shoots with Leda Bear. The last time I was in LA she was somehow the only person I shot actual NSFW photos of. I shot some pretty damn sexy photos of Anastasiya (I still have more of her to come) and I did a shoot with a musician named Riki for Creem Magazine and I got that in the mail today so I can post those soon too. But the only actual nudity I encountered on my trip was care of Leda.

Leda rules and even though she’s pretty much retired from being a naked person on the internet she was still down to shoot. Last time we took photos together it was back in 2021 and we shot a bunch of photos on her very pink bed and then we got some food and I took this shot of her I holding her leftovers, mask on cause you know that whole Covid thing. Some of my favorite photos of all time were of her and Aiden Ashely back in 2020 right before the pandemic when we went to this former military base in San Pedro, CA and took photos and then went down to the beach and took photos of them climbing cliffs nude. Seriously love those photos (go find them on Girls of DBB.)

This time we took photos in her room again, but they are a very different vibe. As you probably know by now I love photographing people in their spaces and I really appreciate people who let me shoot them in their messy rooms in just living their real lives, just maybe with the sex appeal turned up a tiny bit. All I wanted to be was a documentarian, but nudes pay better than journalism so here we are.

This is all a bit rambling but I gotta move in two weeks and I haven’t started packing yet and there’s still contractors in the new house and today the electrician just basically gave up and said he would be back eventually so that’s promising. Meanwhile the painters told me they couldn’t finish painting until a drywall guy showed up so they left and won’t be back until Monday. I wish someone told me that buying a house was a huge pain in the ass (oh wait, literally everyone told me that).

Anyway, most of these photos are NSFW and are only available on Girls of DBB, but here’s a small safe for work gallery of Leda Bear to hold you over until you can sign up for the paysite and help me pay for the dehumidifier I had to buy for my flooded crawlspace.

Happy Endings – 7.21.09

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025

It’s been a minute since I have done a Vintage DBB post on here, but my life has been in a wild transition. If you missed the recent B-Side post, I bought a 60 year old house with 60 year old house problems and have spent the last three weeks working on it every day and then I was on a slightly too long vacation. These are some real Champaign problems but I got poison ivy from doing yard work and I have to spend $2500 to cut down a tree before it destroys the foundation of my house so I am exhausted. Oh, I also got engaged but I haven’t really told anyone so I guess if you are reading this you know before some of my close friends and less close family members.

So yeah, I wanted to update my NSFW paysite thing, Girls of Driven By Boredom so I started digging for a random night out from back in the day that had some nightclub bathroom nudes and I found just the thing. I met my friend Ginger at tattoo party I shot for Inked Magazine before they stopped paying photographers. We talked about shooting and actually had this idea for a larger documentary project that never happened, but we got diner one night to talk about both things and since it was Thursday night we ended up going over to Happy Endings after the meeting (and yes I know it was called Happy Ending and not Endings but I called it Endings the entire time it was open so I am not gonna change it up now).

Every Thursday you had the party 66Sick in the basement and at that time Disco Down was the upstairs party. Downstairs there were a bunch of rooms you could sort of go hide out in so Ginger and I went down there and took a bunch of topless photos of her which are all now uploaded to Girls of DBB. I was going to head out after that but then my neighbors showed up and the three of them, to quote myself in 2009, “went off on a wild tear through the bar, ending up with them having their own personal bouncer who stood by them dancing to keep creepy dudes away from them… ”

I gotta say it’s great still having all my old archives so I can go pull quotes like that, because I don’t remember any of that shit. So yeah, this gallery is a ton of photos of the three of them mixed with a bunch of photos of the Disco Down kids writing a bunch of shit all over themselves with Sharpie. I was hoping I explained what was going on with that in my original post about the night, but I didn’t.

Anyway, I hope to update with old throwback posts more often, I actually have a few random nights pulled for me to reedit, but I need to make time for em. Hopefully once I am moved in I can get back to posting one of these a week, but no promises. This night was pretty unexceptional aside from the Ginger chaos, but it’s always fun looking back at what we were up to 15+ years ago.

Check the gallery for all the photos from a random Thursday night at Happy Endings back in 2009 or jump over to Girls of DBB for the NSFW stuff.