Gonna make this post a quick one because 1) I am in Detroit visiting my girlfriend 2) You don’t care about the Miami Dolphins and 3) I am gonna do another post with a video from this event so I am gonna talk about it all over again. But I got some photos for you and they need at least some explanation.

My friend Michelle and I run Dolfans NYC, the largest Miami Dolphins fan club in the world. We throw this event every year called the #MetLifeTakeover where we throw a huge tailgate when the Dolphins play the Jets in New Jersey at MetLife Stadium. We also buy over 1000 tickets every year so you can sit in an almost all Dolphins section and it feel like a home game in Miami. It’s a lot of fun, especially when we win like we did on Sunday.

The night before we throw a pre-party at our bar Slattery’s Midtown Pub so that’s what the first half of the photos are from. 

We do raffles and fundraisers and sell merch both nights and we raise a ton of money for charity. We donated $2000 to the Miami Dolphins Foundation at the tailgate during the live taping of a radio show called Cup of Joe hosted by a former Dolphins player. We also had two of my favorite Dolphins of all time come to the tailgate as part of the Cup of Joe show. It was great. We also donated $2000 to the Jason Taylor Foundation as well and raised a lot more money that will be donated to various charities. 

Okay, so that’s enough of talk. Go look at the photos and I will be back in a few days when I get home and hopefully the video will be out soon. You can check out the trailer for it here if you want. 

Now click here to see my photos from the 2018 #MetLifeTakeover. 

Indian Larry Motorcycles used to be a few blocks from my apartment and I would always stop by their block parties. One of the first jobs I ever did for Inked Magazine was shooting the block party in 2009. A few years ago they moved to Greenpoint and I haven’t been to a block party since, but my friends at Sailor Jerry were there and asked me to swing by and when I heard a guy was going to jump a motorcycle Evel Knievel style I wasn’t gonna say no. 

Cole Freeman jumped his Harley across a pyramid of 9360 bottles of Northern Chill water which is honestly a god damn incredible branding promotion. I mean the actual jump lasted about 2 seconds but it was awesome and a million people took photos and video of their water. They got promotion and we got the chance to maybe see a guy die right in front of us, but he made it because he’s great and because this is fucking America god dammit. 

Look, it was great, it was a really fun time and I would have stayed a lot longer except I had to do all of this Miami Dolphins related stuff which I will tell you guys about in a couple of days but I gotta wake up in 4 hours to organize a tailgate party for a few thousand people at an ungodly time in the morning so look at these photos in the meantime. 

Click here to see the photos from the 15th annual Indian Larry Grease Monkey Block Party.

I uploaded these photos of Michelle to Girls of Driven By Boredom last week and then totally forgot to write up this post and give you guys the pictures too. Well here we are and it’s Monday night and you are finally getting an update. My bad.

So here are some photos of my friend Michelle. I actually met her on Tinder years ago and we hung out once and didn’t really talk again but we were friends on Instagram so when I was working on my book Instaxxx she hit me up and asked me if she could be in it. She’s not a model or anything and I was really looking for more people to be in the book that weren’t professional naked people so I was excited to have her in it. 

One night I hit her up about doing it and she told me she couldn’t because she had to pick her friend up for the airport and I made some dumb joke like “is she hot and does she want to be naked in a book?” and Michelle replied “actually she probably would be down” and later that night I showed up at Michelle’s apartment and we shot a bunch of photos of her and her friend and a few of them ended up in the book. (There are some digital outtakes on Girls of DBB somewhere too.) I think they were the first professional naked photos either of them had ever taken.

After that night Michelle and I stayed in contact and actually became pretty good friends and she told me that after we took photos she became way more open to doing naked photos and had shot with a mutual friend of ours and she wanted to do a proper shoot with me. I was down and we took a bunch of photos of her in her bedroom and now you get to look at them.

I should plug Girls of DBB one more time, because by the time Michelle got out of her underwear it was too dark in her room and so most of the fully nude photos were pretty bad so instead of giving them to you guys I figured I would just put them on Girls of DBB and make the people who want to see those pay for them so that I can afford to eat delivery food every day of my life and never learn to cook.

Yeah, now go look at some damn photos and remind me to take more photos of Michelle ASAP now that I have published these because I think the world needs more photos of her. 

Click here to see the full gallery of NSFW photos of my friend Michelle!

Back in January I was on the floor of the Adult Entertainment Expo in Vegas and I was looking at this girl trying to figure out how I knew her. She recognized me from the logo on my hat and introduced herself as Whiskey Kitten a cam girl I knew from Twitter. I was excited to meet her because we had talked about taking photos and she asked me if I had some time to shoot and I honestly didn’t but I found some time anyway and met up with her and her friend Goldie Fawn at the AirBNB they had rented. 

We took a ton of photos and there’s pretty much an entire set of them that I published already but we took to many photos that I have this second set which is totally different from the first photos. But before I get any further in this, we need to address the title of the post: Raya Blade & Goldie Fawn.

Who is Raya Blade you ask? Well apparently that’s Whiskey Kitten’s new name. Her name is constantly changing on Instagram too and I can never find her when I am trying to tag her in something. It’s really a branding nightmare and I really don’t know how to deal with any of it, but I promised her I would complain about it in the post so here we are.

Anyway, getting back to the pictures…  after we shot that first set I mentioned above, they asked me if I would take some photos of them out on the balcony that overlooked the city. I don’t usually use lights but it was pretty impossible to get both them and the skyline to show up without a little bit of light on them. They had a small light that they use for camming and that was all I needed. I cranked my ISO and put this little bit of light on them and we were good to go. I even was able to get some pretty cool shots of them in the reflection of the sliding glass door that looked out onto the balcony. It ended up being a really good shoot and I hope I get to shoot both of these girls again.

And as always make sure to sign up for Girls of Driven By Boredom to see these photos in high resolution and a ton of other exclusive content that only exists over there. With the death of media in this country I am running out of clients so I need Girls of DBB to make some more damn money so I can keep doing this shit for a living. Thanks. 

In other news I am going out of town for Labor Day so I will see you guys next week. Have fun with your holiday or whatever. 

Click here to see all the photos of Raya Blade & Whiskey Kitten in Las Vegas.

This is it! The last “lost” gallery! I have now gone through every photo I have taken up through June 2017 which means there are no more surprise galleries lurking out there! This one is of one of my favorite people Dahlia Sky. I met her at a party many years ago and then I finally took some photos of her at AVN with Samantha Bentley and then she ended up on my Christmas card at some point but we had never done a one on one shoot. 

I was out in LA at some point in 2016 and I went over to her apartment. Unfortunately I got there a bit late because LA and the light was pretty much all gone in her place. I had to break out my flash and I honestly hate the way that shit looks these days and so even though Dahlia is super pretty and real awesome I just didn’t really care for the photos so I guess I never posted them and then I just forgot about them and here we are.

I find myself apologizing for my work a lot, and I know I post a TON of photos I think are garbage, but I like making you guys happy and if I know anything about people who look at my work it’s that you guys can’t tell the difference between good photography and bad photography. Don’t take it personally, most people can’t and thanks to that I’ve had a successful career for the last decade. 

Anyway, yeah these photos are not good, BUT, Dahlia is attractive and naked so I know no one is complaining about it but me. Hopefully I will get to take better photos of her one day. Speaking of better photos, there are slightly more explicit photos of Dahlia on Girls of Driven By Boredom so you should go there if you like nudity and mediocre photography. I could use the money. Thanks. Now go look at photos.

Click here to see some lost NSFW photos of Dahlia Sky! 

I have been posting a ton of older sets recently, but today I decided to hit you guys up with my very newest shoot. Jane Wilde grew up in NYC but moved to LA to pursue her adult filmmaking dreams. She was visiting family when she Tweeted about needed a photographer to take photos of her in the city. She wanted do document her return to New York. Our mutual friend Sarah Vandella recommended me and two days later I had met Jane in Tompkins Square Park ready to take some photos.

We just walked all over the place shooting and traveled all the way across the city and spent a few hours taking advantage of NYC’s lax public nudity laws. It was a lot of fun and I shot a bunch of film too including a half of a roll of black and white film that turns out wasn’t loaded correctly because I am an idiot/ the worst thing about Leicas are how annoying they are to load. Still I am sure we got some nice film stuff because we got some nice digital stuff so it only makes sense. I guess I will find out tonight when I get my film back.

As happy as I am about a few of these shots, the best part about the whole shoot was that I get to title this post Wilde In The Streets which is a play on both one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite Circle Jerks songs. I had Wild In The Streets in my head pretty much the entire time we were shooting and guess what? It’s back in my head again. RUNNING RUNNING!

Anyway, my girlfriend is coming to visit tomorrow so I am gonna go get ready for her and I will leave you to these photos. I should probably mention they have been on Girls of Driven By Boredom in high resolution since yesterday and I should also mention that I probably won’t update while my girlfriend is in town because all I want to do is hang out with her in my bed and watch Netflix so you’ve been warned. Okay. Go look at some photos already.

Click here to see all the photos of Jane Wilde in New York City!

Ps. If you are wondering what happened to the bottom half of Jane’s shirt, she spilled ice cream on it and I performed fashion surgery with my mailbox key. 

I attempted to get the final photos from the Untold Festival up yesterday during my layover in Istanbul but, surprise, my website was blocked. I then had a 10 hour flight from there on two hours of sleep and then we got stuck on the runway for two hours and by the time I got home I was barely alive and I fell asleep and woke up 14 hours later. But here I am, functional once again, and ready to give you the final photos from my trip to a Transylvanian rave.

On day three I had this idea to walk to the festival with the two other American press people there for the fest. It was an under an hour walk and we got to see a little of the city. We got there and ate food and hung out a bit, but I didn’t shoot a ton of photos. Suddenly I realized it was 5:30 and the fest was taking us back to our hotel at 6 so I only took a few photos during the day. We went back to the hotel, packed up and took a little break because we all had stupid early flights the next morning and would be out late.

I got to the festival in time to see the Black Eyed Peas who were one of the few non-EDM musicians to perform. I was a pretty big fan of them before they became huge pop stars. Before Elepunk was released in 2003 they were sort of considered “Backpack Rap” and was a white college student I of course loved them along with groups like Jurassic 5 and all the Native Tongues stuff.  I was notably not a fan of the Fergie era BEP, but I was really surprised how much of their set I knew most of the words to. Fergie is no longer in the group, but they have someone doing her parts. Also, for the record Fergie was super nice to me when I met her and on two different occasions nearly a decade a part Will.i.am has completely ignored me when I asked him if I could take his photo. I am respectful enough to not do that paparazzi shit and the least you could do is make eye contact and tell me no. Okay, enough bitching.

After the BEP I went out and walked around checking the rest of the festival out and I sort of hit a wall. I don’t know if it was the jet lag or just three days of walking around a massive festival, but I was pretty beat. I still shot a bunch more photos because there was madness everywhere and it’s super easy to do it, but I also spent a bunch of time sitting on a hill just observing the whole thing. I also happened to eat the best cannoli I’ve ever had which is impressive given that I live in New York City and love cannoli and have gone to all the famous bakeries just to try their cannoli but fuck this thing was made with Nutella somehow and I would go to Transylvania again just to eat another one of those. 

Anyway, this whole thing was an incredible experience even if I don’t really care about dance music. Seeing 80k people listening to music together is amazing no matter what kinda music it is. Everyone was super nice and I think my only regret was that it wasn’t a super terrifying experience full of vampires, but instead a family friendly good time. And although I didn’t see any vampires, I did get bit by something and now my arm still itches 4 days later so it’s entirely possible that my arm is filled with vampire eggs that will hatch while I am sleeping and devour me in the night. Hey, you never know.

Click here to see my final gallery of photos from the Untold Festival in Transylvania, Romania. 

My second day at the Untold Fest was a lot longer than the first. It’s 24 hours but during the day it’s a bit slow with nothing going on on the main stage but plenty of things to do. I wanted to get some daylight shots in but I wanted good light so I went down just an hour or two before sunset. I think I am going to go down early today and then maybe come back to my hotel and finish this post because it’s 6am in NYC as I type this and 6am on a Sunday is not an ideal time to post content on to the internets. I also got a super early flight tomorrow so I don’t know if I am gonna stay out late tonight. Whatever the case part 3 of the Transylvanian rave photos will have to wait until Tuesday unless I can find decent WiFi on my layover in Istanbul tomorrow. 

Yesterday I actually took advantage of my press access and shot some of the main stage stuff from the photo pit. I didn’t bring a long lens because I hate carrying it and I wanted to focus on the crowd a lot more than the DJs. Still I got some shots of The Prodigy performing and some shots of Steve Aoki headlining at 4am although they kicked us out of the photo pit before he got into the crowd and did the fun stuff he does smashing children in the face with cakes, etc. It was crazy seeing Aoki play for a massive arena full of people. There are something like 70-80 thousand people who go to Untold every day and most of them were watching him DJ. I’ve seen the dude DJ for a couple dozen people at a pool party in Miami, so it’s pretty fucking insane to see a million kids holding up “Cake Me!” signs and going absolutely insane. 

Another thing I should mention is that I broke out two flashes last night for the first time in years. I have been organizing old nightlife photos and realized I was way better in like 2009. A big part of that is that I am not shooting party photos every day of my life anymore, but part of it is that my technique changed. I used to use two flashes. I would use the pop up flash on my camera as a fill light and then I would have that trigger a hand held flash which was my main flash. But when I bought my workhorse 24-70 lens it was too long for the pop up flash and would cast a shadow so I just stopped doing that. This trip I brought a second flash as a back up and I just decided to put one on my camera and have the other one trigger the flash and it honestly worked pretty well. I might have to stop being so fucking lazy and start shooting with two flashes again. I guess we will see…

Okay, that’s about it. I am gonna try to do some daytime stuff and come back and hit send on this post when I get back to the hotel. Check out these photos and I will see you guys when I get back to NYC (or at least when I get back to the Istanbul airport). 

Click here to see the photos from Saturday at the Untold Festival in Transylvania, Romania!

Less that two weeks ago I got an email from my friend Dave who runs the music blog Brooklyn Vegan. I was shooting a Gathering of the Juggalos gallery for him and he pitched me on another idea. He wanted to know if I wanted to go to a EDM festival in Transylvania. “I got offered a free trip to Romania to cover this festival. Do you want to go for us?” Obviously I had no choice but to say yes and here we are.

After a 20+ hour trip with an upsettingly long layover in Istanbul I made it to Cluj-Napoca, the capital city of Transylvania which is an actual place that exists and from what I can tell the locals have zero interest in talking to you about vampires. By the time I finally got to my hotel I had been awake for more than 30 hours. It was about 11pm in Cluj and I decided the smart move would be to miss day one of the festival completely and just get some damn sleep. I had three more days of the Untold Festival to attend. 

The team from Untold were great and offered all the media people a tour to see Transylvania during the day so the next day I jumped on a tour bus and got to see some of historic Cluj and then we headed out to a famous salt mine that for whatever reason has a sports complex/ amusement park in it. It was completely insane and I would talk about it more but I want to get these photos up and get back down to the festival, so you are just going to have to imagine if the Batcave was 300 feet deep and at the bottom a bunch of families were playing ping pong and rowing boats around the lake at the bottom. 

I finally got down to the festival around 10pm and had plenty of time to shoot considering music goes until after 5am and the festival is open 24 hours a day for the four days of the fest. They are not fucking around. I spent most of the night with one of the festival media guys Ioan and my friend Lina who I brought with me as a writer and another New Yorker who works for Tumblr. We pretty much just got the lay of the land and explored the festival. I didn’t shoot a ton, but I still came back to the hotel with more than 300 photos on my memory card.

By the time I finished editing photos it was after 6am and I was completely dead, so much so that I slept through my alarm today which I never do. It meant missing another media tour to check out Transylvania which I am honestly pissed about, but at least I had some time to get these photos up.

I am going to talk more about the festival when I post more pictures, but honestly I am not going to pretend to know what I am talking about when it comes to EDM (which is why I brought Lina with me) but I will just say that I got to see Hordor from Game of Thrones (aka Kristian Nairn) DJ and when I was in the media area Jason Derulo walked by me and he was wearing a t-shirt that said Jason Derulo on it which is kinda perfect.

I probably won’t post any more pictures from the festival until it’s all over which is why this gallery is called part one instead of day one (also it was day two of the festival so that’s confusing) but maybe I will get a chance to get more photos up tomorrow. There’s no tour tomorrow, but I have a feeling I am going to want to sleep in again…

Now click here to see my photos from part 1 of the Untold Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania.