If you haven’t noticed I am in Austin for SXSW. My main gig down here is working for my favorite client Sailor Jerry. They are doing a TON of events down in Austin to promote their spiced rum and I am shooting all of them. I am working around the clock so I don’t have much time to work on the website but I wanted to get some pictures up from a pretty fun party that happened on Wednesday.

Sailor Jerry took over the Gypsy Lounge all week and throws two parties a day. The night party on Wednesday was thrown by SJ,  CMRTYZ Dolce Vita, and shoes who gave a way and insane 500 pairs of their shoes. The line was down the block for a free pair of shoes and a bunch of awesome bands played. The Coathangers are one of my favorite new bands and they totally killed it as always. I was pretty into Slutever’s Hole cover and we talked a bunch about the other Slutever and how they should t-shirts together and split the cost. They gave me a 7″ so I was psyched. The Jacuzzi Boys are playing a bunch this weekend and they fucked some shit up and Shannon and the Clams were so weird but yet so awesome. They are pretty much the soundtrack to a John Waters movie in every conceivable way. Summer Twins, Colleen Green, The Mallard and Audacity also played but I have to go take more photos now so let’s keep it moving!

Click here to see all the photos from the CMRTZ/DV8 OMG Free Shoes party at the Sailor Jerry at Gypsy Lounge!

Despite my new found hatred of doing stuff, I went out again Saturday night. Three of my favorite party throwing crews were teaming up, in Brooklyn, and shit was going to get wild. Whorehouse NYC and Gold Whistle combined forces to throw a party at the after hours spot 35 Beadle. Trouble & Bass took over late night starting about 4:30am with Drop The Lime which I assume led to more music from Star Eyes and Strange VIP but I had to get the fuck out of there around 5:30am.

The party was honestly fucking wild. WC Kids always throw down but they absolutely killed it Saturday night. There were about 100 people on this little tiny stage all just grinding the fuck out of each other. Right when I was thinking the party would explode if they played some NOLA bounce shit they dropped Nicky Da B/ Diplo’s Express Yourself and I am pretty sure at least 16 people got pregnant. At some point I saw some girl climb a wall to try to get to a bottle of Vodka that was floating around Chippy Nonstop twerked herself out of her shirt and Psycho Egyptian performed with a KKK piñata for some reason.

This gallery is reasonably NSFW which will make the creeps happy. People were in various states of undress all night and I put a topless girl in a refrigerator for whatever reason. It seemed like an important idea at the time. Anyway, shit was crazy and I took a lot of photos and you should look at them.

Click here to see all the insane pictures from Whores N Gold at 35 Beadle St.

The nerds are winning. Not sure if you noticed but the geeks have taken over and they are now in charge of our pop culture. Case in point, some of the hippest people in NYC spent an evening in the basement of a toy store talking about trading cards… and it was a lot of fun. I know two people with their own line of trading cards, Sucklord and Buff Monster. The company that makes them is called Sidekick Lab and they all threw a party at Toy Tokyo Underground featuring Sucklord’s SUCKPAX, Buff Monster’s Melty Misfits and “The Art Hustle” trading cards. They had cards for sale of course, but they also had a big table with custom cards on them where you could draw, sell and trade your own cards. Buff Monster had a bunch of his exhaustive Garbage Pail Kid collection on display as well.

I made a bunch of my friends draw me cards (tell me I don’t look like this) and in exchange I took awkward photos of them. I bought a pack of Buff’s Japanese edition of the Melty Misfits and one of Lamour Supreme’s cards which cost an unreasonable $1. Greg from Mishka bought a pack of the Art Hustle cards and he pulled a Mishka card and a Nick Gazin card in the same pack. Nick happened to be standing next to him at the time. There were also a bunch of cute girls there which isn’t really fair because when I collected trading card as a kid there were NO hot girls around. Oh, I should also give a little shout out to Sailor Jerry who provided the booze. Since they are pretty much my favorite client I figured I had to give ‘em the free plug.

Anyway, this is sort of a disjointed write up because I just got Doggystyle on vinyl and it’s really hard to write and listen to an album that I know every single word to. So let’s just get to the photos.

Click here to see all the photos from the 2nd Ave Trading Card Convention at Toy Tokyo Underground.

Ps. Don’t you think Driven By Boredom needs sexy girl trading cards?

Trash was pretty much the first party in NYC that I photographed. I don’t really shoot it anymore but I still have a lot of love for the party. Their 11th anniversary was last night and I knew I had to stop by Webster Hall at least for a few minutes to say hi. Upstairs Just Blaze and Harlem Shake DJ Baauer were spinning at the party Boys & Girls. My plan was just to stop by and say hi, but I ended up staying all night and photographing both parties.

I have two art shows today so I am going to make this quick but last night was pretty insane. Upstairs was packed like I have never seen it. Just Blaze absolutely killed it and little raver kids were crowd surfing to hip hop. It was pretty funny. Baauer took over after and those kids went crazy. I assume he played Harlem Shake, but I was downstairs at Trash for the end of his set, but I bet that place exploded when he played it. It’s not every day you get to see a meme DJ at the hight of their meme. Did I just actually type that?

Downstairs at Trash things got real weird. They did their normal 20 minute burlesque show at 2:30am and then filmed their own Harlem Shake video in tribute to Baauer spinning upstairs. These two events provided a lot of NSFW photos in this gallery, but I gotta warn you, between some wild boylesque and Sammi Sprinkles getting weird it might not be the nudity you were hoping for… But personally the weirder the better so I was pretty psyched about it.

Anyway, I gotta go deal with things and you guys need to look at these insane photos.

So click here to see all the photos from Webster Hall last night featuring the 11th anniversary of Trash plus Baauer and Just Blaze DJing Boys & Girls.

My dude Hannibal Buress turned 30 years old yesterday and decided to throw a party at the Knitting Factory. Last time I was there was for the premiere of Hannibal’s Comedy Central  special Animal Furnace. This time there was less comedy and much more hip hop. The night started out with hip hop legend Prince Paul DJing. After that things got real weird with Hip Hop Karaoke NYC taking over. I am not a big karaoke fan but when I do it I am always tempted to do some old school hip hop classic but I have seen people fail miserably when trying to do songs they think they know every word of. Now try that while holding the lyrics in your hand instead of timed out on a screen and you are in for a disaster. It was a pretty amazing train wreck although some people certainly stood out.

Halfway through the hilarious hip hop karaoke Hot 97′s Cipha Sounds showed up. He was DJing after the karaoke but he rolled in with Action Bronson and Questlove. Quest very begrudgingly did a song at Hannibal’s insistance and he kept slowing down the track. “This is why I am a drummer. I stopped trying to rap 20 years ago.” It was pretty epic. Action Bronson enjoyed himself a bit more and did two songs including A Tribe Called Quest’s Scenario with Cipha, Hannibal and Hannibal’s insane cousin Percy. As you can see if you click that link it was epic.

After that Cipha Sounds DJ’d and although he properly killed it the crowd began to thin out as you might expect at 1am on a Monday night but the jobless people who stuck it out were in for a rare treat. Hannibal really upped the weirdness game of his 30th birthday and did a 15 minute version of his 70 second “Gibberish Rap” and invited Mario, Alvin of the Chipmonks fame and Spongebob Squarepants to join him. It was in the top 10 most surreal moments of my life. Oh, did I mention the ballet dancers? Yeah, that too. It was a supremely weird and awesome way to end the night.

Click here to see the bizarre photos from comedian and gibberish rapper Hannibal Buress’ 30th birthday party at the Knitting Factory.

Ps. I gave Hannibal a $5 Arch Card for his birthday. Never say I am not a good friend.

When I saw the Brooke Candy video for Das Me I quickly put her on my mental list of people I want to photograph. The video was so insane and super catchy and I figured her live performance would make for great photos. So when I heard that she would be playing at Santos Party House I figured I had to check that out. It had to be a weird scene.

Brooke Candy was performing at a Friday night weekly that is amazingly titled “Friday”. It’s a super gay, super wild party that made for some fantastic photos. I have always said that the best parties in NYC are the gay parties and Friday takes that shit to another level. Some of the weirdest fashions I have ever seen were on display. These 20 year old kids are putting some of the most bizarre queers in New York to shame. I cannot even get my head around a football jersey kimono. That’s just some future gay shit I don’t even know about, but I am totally on board. When Michael Alig gets out of jail he is going to be psyched. Oh, did I mention the disco penis?

Brooke Candy finally got on stage around two and while I was photographically disappointed (she performed in a hoodie and jeans) she actually put on a pretty good show and by the end of her 5 song set she had the crowd losing their minds. I was hoping she would be dressed in some cholo space stripper ensamble but I had good time and her fans more than made up for it.

Also, I just realized that the last event I shot was a gay party too, so this website right now is like porn awards, gay party, naked chick, gay party. I will keep that weirdness coming with another naked girl update Monday. It’s always good to confuse your websites sexuality.

Now click here to see the pictures from Frankie Sharp’s Friday featuring Brooke Candy at Santos Party House.

I was hired on Saturday night to shoot a party called Blunderland at a spot called the Red Lotus Room. I had never heard of the place but when I walked in I was suddenly in a turn of the century opium den or something. Eric Schmalenberger  hosted a super weird night of singing, dancing, drag and burlesque performances. I really had no idea what I was in store for but it was all very photographable and weird which is exactly look for in a good event. Also nudity, there was a bunch of nudity. I would say this gallery is very NSFW unless your work is cool with Tigger dick. You have been warned.

Highlights included Darlinda Just Darlinda’s “Menstrual Show” a horrifying “red face” play on the minstrel show concept and The Pixie Harlots insane drag performance that I cannot even begin to explain. My friend David Slone sang and had a bunch of girls dressed like pirates fight each other and Eric’s performance of Creep by Radiohead was appropriately intense.  Generally I am not a fan of cabaret type shows but somehow I keep getting asked to photograph them and I have to say this was one of the most well put together events I have been to and if you are into this sort of thing it would be well worth checking out next time there is a Blunderland. If nothing else you will see some really wild shit and I am guessing you will have a good time. I know I did. I mean any party where three people who don’t know each other show up wearing sombreros has to be a good one.

Click here to see all the madness that is Eric Schmalenberger’s Blunderland at the Red Lotus Room.

Famed tattoo artist Sailor Jerry would have turned 102 on Monday and the rum company that bares his name threw a party at the new Brooklyn spot Passenger Bar. They had a bunch of the tattoo artists from Three Kings come out and tattoo anchors for free on the first 102 people who showed up. It was a crazy night and a ton of fun. Steve Lewis spun rock and roll all night and I ended up getting a tattoo of a donkey thanks to Myles Karr who was doing some alternate Sailor Jerry designs in the VIP upstairs. I would talk longer about this rad party but I am in LA and on my way to Vegas tomorrow for the AVN Awards. It’s gonna be a crazy week but I should have a TON of awesome photos coming your way.

Until then, check out these photos from Sailor Jerry’s 102nd birthday party at Passenger Bar!

Despite my history of documenting the “EDM” scene for the last half decade I actually don’t like dance music. To me it’s just background music for a fun party. The only things I look for in a dance music DJ is someone who puts on a good show and packs a party with a fun crowd. One of my favorite people in NYC is Luca Venezia aka Drop The Lime of Trouble & Bass. T&B have been throwing awesome dance parties in Brooklyn for almost as long as I have lived here. So when Luca started experimenting with a musical genre I actually like, rockabilly, I was really psyched about it. I kept missing him play with a live band as Drop The Lime but last night I finally got to see his new rock and roll band, Haters.

Haters played a new rock and roll monthly called Black Label Circus at The Flat which is pretty much my favorite bar on Earth. It’s a block from my house and always a good time, especially at 3am when I am hungry and stop by on the way to get some food at the bodega down the street. I have never shot photos there but I hang out there all the time. In fact if you are ever there Tweet at me and maybe I will come down and say hi.

Haters fucking ruled and I can’t wait to see them play after more than four practices. I love good, not corny, rockabilly and Haters is that. Luca is a hell of a front man and they get a ton of sound from just drums and guitar. I am really glad he has started fucking with this stuff because maybe it will introduce a bunch of his dance music fans to people like Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.

After Haters played a raw rock and roll band called Dirty Fences played and really killed it. They had a good crowd and people rocked the fuck out to their whole set. After that the rock and roll dance party continued with The Captain, JR Jailbat and Bad Lupo. After shooting a few NSFW pictures of Lena Marquise just to spice the set up I headed home to edit images.

Around 3am I decided I needed to get some food so I headed back towards the Flat and stopped in on the way to the bodega. I ended up leaving close to 5am, going to a friends house and I think I might have gone to sleep around 9am. I never even got any food. Woops.

It was a fun night and I saw a ton of people I hadn’t seen in ages including my friends Bianca and Nikki who happen to both be retarded hot and half naked doing some rock and roll go-go dancing for the party.

So go look at the photos of Haters, Dirty Fences and a bunch of cute girls from Black Label Circus at the Flat already.