Connie Perignon

April 22, 2026

Okay it’s been a minute since my last proper update on this site. Unfortunately my website has been having some issues and honestly I don’t know what I am doing enough to fix it. Trying to figure that all out but for now I am just gonna try and do a better job of updating it while I can. As I mentioned in my NSFW last post, I shot eight galleries when I was in Vegas way back in January so I have a lot of content to get up. I also shot a ton of film that I am just finally getting around to getting developed. I kept thinking I was going to get to NYC this spring but flights got so expensive and I didn’t have a real reason to go back so I finally just mailed my rolls back to my old photo lab. You can keep me shooting film by sponsoring one of the rolls and in exchange you get to see all the photos from that roll and then you get to pick your favorite and I send you a signed print of it. You could even get a print of Connie Perignon.

This post is of course about the photo shoot I did in Vegas with Connie but I had to get all that out of the way before I talked about these photos. I met Connie way back in 2020 via Tinder of all places. She wasn’t a porn star back then and we never ended up hanging out but I followed her on socials and it was cool to see her absolutely blow up in the adult industry. We suddenly had a bunch of mutuals and I finally met her IRL at a party I shot for my old friend, the amazing photographer, Ellen Stagg. I ran into her again at AVN last year and when I was heading out there this year I hit her up again about taking some photos.

She was down to shoot and had some free time during the day because she decided not to sign at the convention. We made a plan to shoot at my hotel across the street but right then I had to help another model I photographed get a pass to the convention. She showed up late and I was scrambling to get her this pass while Connie was just sitting in the lobby of my hotel. I basically sprinted across the street and was in full panic mode because I hate being late, but she was just chilling and was not even slightly bothered I made her wait, which I really appreciated.

The light in my hotel room sucked but I used the one window in there to backlight her and we played with the curtains and all that stuff which was honestly a staple of my old AVN shoots. I haven’t done any shoots like that in a while and I kinda forgot how nice they look. It might not be my most original work but as you can see Connie is an absolute babe and I think they came out pretty well. I can’t wait to see the film we shot as well because it was one of only two daytime shoots I did at AVN and you know I prefer some natural light.

Anyway, if you want to see the full NSFW gallery of Connie Perignon, you should head over to Girls of Driven By Boredom, and in the meantime I have a little mini teaser gallery for you guys below…

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…

Roxy’s Playhouse – 10.15.09

February 3, 2026

Yesterday I was digging through my archives in the “2009” folder trying to find some classic party pictures to post for you guys. I have some stuff pulled already, but all of them seemed like a lot of work so I was looking for something that didn’t require a 1000 word essay, a bunch of googling and an hour of editing. I saw that in October, 2009 I had a bunch of folders for each day. I guess the CMJ music festival was right around this time. I opened one of two October 15th folder and found a bunch of really fun photos from a party that Pepsi through with my friend Roxy Cottontail and figured this would be the perfect thing to post today.

“The Pepsi DJ Collective at Roxy’s Playhouse” wasn’t part of CMJ and I don’t even know what the fuck the Pepsi DJ Collective was, but I do know they paid me to take photos and I think it was a pretty nice check, so I should probably add Pepsi as a client to my resume, if I had a resume. It’s weird to think of all the huge brands that have paid me to take drunken party pictures in sweaty night clubs… or in this case sweaty Williamsburg warehouses.

If you don’t know Roxy, she’s a legendary DJ who came up with Diplo and the Hollertonix crew out of Philly. By the time I moved to Brooklyn she was already NYC staple and we did a lot of parties together. These days she’s still doing here thing but she also hosts a podcast about those good old days of NYC nightlife. Wait, come to think of it, why haven’t I been on her podcast? In all seriousness, Roxy rules and I was psyched to get the invite to shoot this late night madness care of a corporate sponsor.

As for the event, the DJs were Roxy, Diplo, DJ Drama and Eli Escobar and there was a performance by Maluca who I always had such a big crush on. In fact in this gallery I have a photo of her and rapper Amanda Blank who was my other musical crush back in those days. It was cool to find those photos. Speaking of cool photos to find. I found one of my friends AK Murda and Ease Da Man, both of whom we sadly lost. Two other friends gone before their time, legendary bassist Andy Rorke and one of my favorite models Vicky, are in these galleries as well. It’s crazy how many people I knew back then are gone. I miss them all.

There are so many notable nightlife and music folk in these photos that I can’t begin to name them all but just take a look for yourself. If you were around back then you’ll see so many notable faces. I should mention that OG Major Lazer hype man Skerrit Bwoy was performing with Diplo as was Telli from Ninjasonik who had just dropped a remix of Major Lazer’s Hold the Line. In my original write up from that night I talked about how much fun that was.

Looking back on this it seems like this was a great time, but in my original write up I was so nonchalant about the whole thing because it was just another night back then. Any of those folders from 2009 could have opened up and been something just as legendary. What a time to be alive.

Okay that’s all I got. I spent too much time on this one already but it’s only 600 words so I didn’t get too carried away. Check out all the photos below from The Pepsi DJ Collective at Roxy’s Playhouse.

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!

Riki For Creem Magazine

January 8, 2026

Buying a house has so taken over my life that I completely forgot I had never shared with you guys all the outtakes from my shoot with an LA based musician named Riki for Creem Magazine. Way back in June I was in LA because I wanted to visit my brother and his family and I had some photos in a Superchief show so that seemed like the perfect excuse to get out there. LA is an expensive trip even when I am sleeping on my brother’s couch, so I reached out to some clients to see if I could find some work out there and one of those was Creem Magazine.

I have worked for Fred, my editor at Creem, for years back when he worked for Brooklyn Vegan and then later when he was working for Vice and Noisey and now that he’s at Creem we had been looking for a reason to work together but things kept falling through. He wanted me to shoot some photos for the “Creem Dreem” section because it’s about sexy musicians, and I am of course me. So I started reaching out to LA friends about musicians that might work and found two that Creem was interested in. I reached out to both of them and one was on tour and the other I never heard back from. I guess it wasn’t going to work out…

My friend Chad Alva gave me a bunch of great suggestions including Anastasiya who I ended up doing two photo shoots with while I was out there, one of which I still need to publish, but his suggestion they really loved was Riki. I only had her Instagram account and I saw she had never read my message so I reached out to him again to see if he would text her for me in case she hadn’t seen the IG message and it turned out she just doesn’t really mess with social media that much and hadn’t seen it. Unfortunately the day she finally got in touch with me was my last day in town and she was all the way out in San Pedro, about an hour from where I was on the eastside of LA. But fuck it, I was down and I jumped in the rental car and headed out there.

I probably would have had her meet me somewhere in the middle but she wasn’t quite ready and I knew a great place to shoot in San Pedro. My friend Aiden Ashley lived out there and we did an amazing shoot with Leda Elizabeth out there on an old military base. We shot in right before the pandemic and it’s one of my all time favorite shoots. (You can see the whole thing on Girls of DBB if you are interested in that kinda thing.) So I told Riki to meet me out there…

And of course when we got there it was closed to the public. Fortunately San Pedro is home to the Port of Los Angeles and there’s all sorts of cool stuff out there. Riki had a few outfit changes so we just walked around and took photos for an hour or so. We hit it off great and I think we took some really fun photos and honestly I can’t wait to take her photo again even if it’s not for something as cool as Creem Magazine. Seriously she is such good people and you should go listen to her music.

We took a ton of film and digital photos, but this edit is pretty small because it’s more or less the edit I sent to Creem and I think I am fine with just publishing the highlights. Some of the film photos were in my original 2025 35mm post, but there’s new stuff in here plus a bunch of digitals. I hope you dig the photos.

Now go look at Riki’s Creem Dreem feature and then come back to see all the outtakes below!