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!

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!

2025 #MetlifeTakeover – 12.7.25

December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

Every year I go over this so let’s make it quick… If you didn’t know by now, my friend Michelle and I founded a Dolphins fan club called Dolfans NYC near the end of the 2008 NFL season. What started as a way to get enough people into a sports bar so that we could sound and the big TV turned into the biggest Miami Dolphins fan club in the world and a non-profit organization that has raised six figures for charity. It’s probably the most successful thing I have ever done. Even though Michelle moved to South Florida nearly a decade ago and I left the city in 2024 we still run the club and spend months organizing our biggest fundraiser of the year: The Metlife Takeover.

The Takeover, Written as #MetLifeTakover since it was the 2010s when we came up with it, is a huge tailgate we throw around the yearly Dolphins game in New Jersey when they come up to play their division rivals, the “New York” Jets. We started organizing these trips in 2009 back before Metlife Stadium was even built, and by the time it was officially called the #MetLifeTakeover we were bringing hundreds of people, peaking at more than 1400 in 2023.

This year was not our peak. Coming into the season the sentiment around the Dolphins was low and getting blown out the first week of the season followed by losing 5 out of the next 6 games was soul crushing to the fan base, and decimated ticket sales. The cold December game didn’t help much either, but then the Dolphins destroyed our hated rivals the Buffalo Bills and haven’t lost a game since. As the Jets game grew closer game ticket sales started coming in and amazingly we sold 40% of our tailgate tickets in just the last week before the game.

Despite the strong last minute sales, it was still the lowest attended #MetLifeTakeover in years and I was pretty worried it ended up being a blast. We had a great crowd and it was a lot less stressful. Tailgate lines were shorter, the weather held up and we didn’t need a bunch of volunteers. We sold a ton of t-shirts at half price to clear out inventory so we can make all new merch next year. We did a 50/50 raffle that raised over $600 for charity and the winner happened to be a school teacher who said she was going to use her winnings for school supplies for kids so it was a real win/win. The game itself was an absolute blowout with the Dolphins going up 21-0 in the first half and it made for a just a really great day.

I always do a terrible job documenting these events because I am so busy throwing them but I wanted to share with you some of my shots anyway. It’s been such a weird life being a Dolphins fan when most of my friends don’t like sports (or in the case of my fiance, absolutely despise them), but it’s great to have found a community to watch football with and to do some good for charity in the process. Check out my photos below!

35mm Film Dump – 11.21.25

November 21, 2025

The very first post on this redesigned website was a film dump from late 2024/early 2025, and I am back with another one for a few related reasons: 1) I don’t think I am going to develop any more film in 2025 so this is a good year end post a month early 2) I need content to post 3) I haven’t updated this site in a month. Why is that you ask? Well, I bought a house.

As I mentioned in that B-Side post linked above, I bought a house in late August. Since then I have been absolutely consumed by the house. We had to do a bunch of renovations before moving in, we had to pack in less time than expected because our old apartment got rented immediately and since we have moved it has been non stop. I was up until 2:30am last night because I was building Ikea shelves. We still have so much goddamn stuff to do that I am pretty sure I am going to be completely underwater until like March, but I guess that’s what happens when you buy a sixty year old house built on a swamp. That being said, it’s fucking awesome and I am so excited to be in my new office even though it’s missing a light fixture, more Ikea shelves and blinds on the windows.

Anyway, I wanted to give you some film to hold you over while I go through life not taking any fucking pictures because I am consumed with house. Let me pull up this gallery real quick and go over what’s inside…

We got a bunch of photos from my trip to LA for a Superchief show I had some art in. Really used it as an excuse to see my brother and his kids and a reason to shoot some photos. You have seen the digital photos from Leda and Anastasiya already, but I do have a second Anastasiya shoot I need to post sooner or later. On that same trip I shot a musician named Riki for Creem Magazine and I have no idea why haven’t posted those yet as that has been out for a while. Aside from Leda those shoots were pretty tame but there are some NSFW photos I posted exclusively on Girls of DBB if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Speaking of NSFW, this film dump also includes all my Gathering of the Juggalos 35mm stuff, including plenty of NSFW stuff (again exclusive to Girls of DBB), my run in with Channel 5 (video out January 1st), and plenty of assorted chaos. There are some local North Carolina road trip stuff in here as well including trips to South of the Border and a Strawberry festival. Weirdly enough the Strawberry festival photos might be my favorite shots of the whole film dump.

Let’s see what else? We got a NYC trip with some safe for work photos of my old pal Daniella as well as some mediocre street photography. I got photos from my vacation to Delaware this summer to see my parents and my yearly “fishing trip” with three of my childhood best friends, although we rarely actually go fishing. I also proposed to my fiance there so there’s a photo I took on that day. I saw my brother and his kids again there and they also visited us in NC so I had a TON of photos of his kids and my family and stuff, but I just gave you a few highlights cause I feel weird posting a lot of that stuff.

Lastly this post teases at two projects I am working on, a vanity license plate zine and a book called Nothing But Flower that features nature taking over civilization. I was hoping it would be out this fall, but looking like early 2026 for that one. The book is done, but my friend Teddy needs to finish the design and he’s too busy winning Emmys to help. In all seriousness have plans on working on it in early December so hopefully we can get it finished soon.

I think that’s it, but just to plug Girls of DBB one more time, I did post some of the NSFW photos from my last film dump, just so the NSFW gallery would represent all of 2025 (I will update later if I shoot any other nudes this year). And speaking of, someone remind me to book my AVN trip so I can get you guys a bunch more content in 2026.

Okay for real that is it, enjoy a bunch of film I shot from March to November 2025, I gotta go build another shelf.

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.