Once again I photographed another zombie crawl. I keep telling myself that I am going to stop taking photos of zombies, yet I keep going to these things. I mean how many photos of zombies can you possibly take? But they again they are always fun to look at…

NYC Zombie Crawl does two crawls a year, on in Brooklyn during the summer and one in Manhattan around Halloween. This year the Manhattan version happened around the NY Comic Con. It was a bit rainy and Comic Con stuff was still going on so when I got to Twins Pub the crawl seemed under attended but as the zombies walked up 8th avenue new zombies kept joining the hoard.

The zombies headed to Times Scare for some zombie burlesque from the Peek-A-Boo Review but right outside the bar NYC Zombie Crawl leader Doug Sakmann got detained by police after he climbed a sign post directly above a police check point. Fortunately he only got a ticket and the crawl was just mildly delayed.

After the burlesque a ton of zombies had joined up and they headed through Times Square and over to Bowlmor Lanes for the after party. A bunch of bands played and Disgraceland Hook Squad & Family Sideshow did horrible things that you might not want to look at if you are squeamish. The sound sucked at the venue which was a bummer because I was pretty excited for Murder One and Girls Girls Girls who are Motorhead and Motley Crue tribute bands. I am a pretty huge Motorhead fan and Motley Crue was probably my favorite band when I was 11. Luckily I have seen Motorhead a half dozen times and I think I am shooting Motley Crue’s last NYC show later this month.

Danse De Sade, Gash and The Deafening played as well. Danse De Sade were super creepy and featured a half naked lady which I appreciate. She got my card and we talked about taking photos at some point and I wouldn’t hate that. Gash were pretty punk rock which I enjoy and their front lady was badass. The Deafening also feature a badass front woman, Lena Hall, who won a Tony Award for her roll in Hedwig & The Angry Inch on Broadway. She was awesome and sang on the bar, made out with audience members and poured beer all over everything which is pretty much exactly what I do when I front a band except that she can sign her ass off as well.

That’s enough rambling. Go look at the massive gallery of photos. There are about 300 of them and they are reasonably NSFW.

Click here to see all the photos from the 2014 NYC Zombie Crawl.

So the Brooklyn Zombie Crawl was fun the but after party was nuts. There were bands, sideshow performances Gwar themed burlesque and a bunch of zombie nudity. That being said, I gotta leave for a wedding in an hour so I gotta make this quick. Luckily the insane pictures speak for themselves, but here’s the info you need to know.

The whole event took place in Matchless in Greenpoint after the crawl. A Metallica themed Billy Joel cover band called For Whom The Bell Joels played. Seriously. The Misfits cover band Skeletal Life played for their third straight Brooklyn Zombie Crawl. They let me do Last Caress with them since I let them do it with me when my band played the zombie crawl a couple of years ago. A rockabilly band Screamin’ Rebel Angels and another pretty bad ass female fronted band Purple Pam & the Flesh Eaters played as well. Terrifying burlesque troop Rigor Mortis Review did a Gwar tribute and the Disgraceland Family Sideshow lifted things with things and stapled stuff to themselves. And did I mention the nudity?

Now on to the pictures! Click here to see all my NSFW shots from the Brooklyn Zombie Crawl after party at Bar Matchless.

Another Brooklyn Zombie Crawl? You know what that means… Another insane Brooklyn Zombie Crawl after party! Last year the party was held at Public Assembly and my band played and it was a ton of fun. This year our drummer was out of town, but it was still a hell of a time. A half Misfits cover band called Skeletal Life played and that was awesome and later Bikini Carwash played and they were awesome and late night a singing pirate named Voltaire played and in between the bands there was just total madness.

My friend Lunchbox hosted the Disgraceland Family Freak show and the Disgraceland Hook Squad did some terrifying flesh pulls including one where Lunchbox attached a hook through his balls and my friend Sewer Sprite attached hooks to her throat and right above her vagina and it was extremely brutal.

Two things we learned from that: 1) Yes this gallery is extremely NSFW and 2) My friends have absurd names.

Scarlett Storm and Smurfasaur Suicide from the Rigormortis Review did burlesque and got naked a lot and Smurf was involved in the Disgraceland stuff and pretty much all of it was awesome. You can see them naked in places like Bombshell Brats and Suicide Girls if you are into that sort of thing. Personally I hope to shoot them for real for this site soon, but I have been saying that for a while now…

And to end the night Doug Sakmann hosted his infamous Strip for Pain which involved Scarlett and Smurf torturing guys and getting naked. Good times.

Anyway, it was totally insane and you need to look at the damn photos already…

Click here to see all the photos from the Brooklyn Zombie Crawl After party at Public Assembly!

My friend Doug Sakmann once again brought the NYC Zombie Crawl to Brooklyn and fake blood covered Bedford Avenue. The 7th annual Brooklyn zombie crawl wasn’t quite as massive as some of the crawls before it, normally it takes place on Memorial Day weekend, but hundreds of zombies still showed up ready to eat hipster flesh in Williamsburg.  The crawl started out at the Knitting Factory and went down Bedford Ave to McCarren Park before turning around and ending up at Public Assembly for an insane after party.

I have been covering Doug’s zombie crawl events for years and I think they get crazier and crazier. Between the zombies and the flesh pulls and the random nudity this gallery is very much NSFW.  But just wait until I post the after party pictures, looking at those pictures at work will definitely get you fired.

Not sure what else can be said about these pictures so just take a look already!

Click here to see all the pictures from another bloody Brooklyn Zombie Crawl!

I feel like I have shot 100 New York City zombie crawls.  Just do a search, it’s amazing how much zombie stuff I have shot for my friend Doug Sakmann who runs these crazy things.  I always end up with great photos and meet crazy girls with questionable morals so it seems to work out. This year was no different.

This year the crawl started out at Beauty Bar, made it’s way south through the Halloween Adventure costume shop and then over to The Continental for cheap shots. After that the craw continued south to the after party at Arlene’s Grocery where Angelo Moore AKA Dr. Madd Vibe from Fishbone performed his solo set for the first time. He also joined the crawl shooting a music video along the way. Also performing was Nassau Chainsaw who always put on an insane and very dangerous show. After that there was a performance by God’s Green Earth but I had been awake for way too long at that point and I left with two zombie babes to go eat some human food for the first time all day. Brains are just not that filling.

At nearly every NYC zombie crawl the Disgraceland Hook Squad performs. They are a suspension group and they hang themselves by hooks which I always love photographing. They always perform with Nassau Chainsaw and this year was no exception. One of the first people I met at one of these zombie crawls was a Disgraceland member named Spliff. He was a great guy and I was really upset when I heard he was in a horrible car crash that paralyzed him last year. Sadly Spliff died on Sunday and everyone found out during the zombie crawl.  So many people there knew him and it really changed the mood of the whole thing. Everyone still had a lot of fun but everyone who knew had their minds on Spliff. I know I did. This post is dedicated to him and I am asking you guys to donate a little something to help his family bury him. He will be missed.

Now to lighten the mood a bit before we get to the pictures I should probably mention that there are a bunch of giant zombie boobs in this gallery and on top of the blood and gore normally associated with zombies and flesh pulls this gallery is very NSFW.

So assuming you are not offended by fake blood, real hooks and zombie boobs please click here to see the HUGE gallery of photos from the 2011 NYC Zombie Crawl.

Ps. If anyone knows Jennifer Davis… I found her ID.

Sunday was my birthday and it also happened to be the yearly Memorial Day weekend Brooklyn Zombie Crawl.  My friend Doug runs NYC Zombie Crawl and they do two crawls a year, one in Manhattan near Halloween and the Memorial Day Brooklyn one. I have shot almost all of them over the last few years and despite my planned birthday shenanigans this crawl was no exception.

I met up with Doug and the zombies at the Knitting Factory where the NYC Zombie Crawl team was doing free make up for everyone for several hours before the crawl began. When I showed up they were doing their last few zombies and a huge crowd had gathered both in and out of the club. As we waited zombies began attacking passing cars and things and as the crawl began the zombie hordes attacked more cars, trucks and onlookers.  Ice cream trucks and even cop cars met their match on the streets of Williamsburg.

The crawl marched through the streets and ended up at McCarren Park where the zombies attacked people playing baseball, volley ball and kick ball. At the park the zombies were treated to a show of blood when Disgraceland Hook Squad performed a flesh pull tug of war that was not for the faint of heart.  There was also fire breathing and other assorted madness.

The whole afternoon was filmed for a scene in Doug’s newest film “Punk Rock Holocaust 3” which will be filmed primarily on the Warped Tour using bands and the crowds as actors in a horror film. He made the first two years ago but with a bigger budget, better cameras and a lot more know how Punk Rock Holocaust 3 should be pretty nuts.

Anyway, after the meet up in McCarren Park the under 21 zombies headed home and the adult zombies headed to Public Assembly for drinks and way more chaos.  I personally got blindingly drunk at the after party and took some insane (and very NSFW) photos that you need to come back tomorrow and check out.

In the mean time check out all the pictures from the 2011 Brooklyn  Zombie Crawl.  They are rated NSFW for a few zombie boobs and a lot of bloodshed…

I am leaving town for a two week trip to Vegas and Los Angeles, but don’t worry I have plenty of stuff to update the site with while I am gone.  I still have two parties and two naked girls left over plus some surprises. I will even try to get an update up before I leave tomorrow so I don’t leave you guys hanging. That being said I have a few things I wanted to mention that I figured I could put all in one update so I get this important stuff out of the way before I leave town. So let’s get into it…

The first thing is the most important. I have shot a number of events that featured the Disgraceland Hook Squad. This is a group of crazy kids who do suspensions and flesh pulls and all sorts of other insane shit involving sticking giant hooks into themselves and running around like mad men. You can’t help but love them.  Several of their members got into a car accident back in July and while most of them are recovered one of the people, Spliff is still in the hospital and needs financial help so he can raise the money to move from Texas to NYC.  They were in Texas when the accident happened and they have had to stay there all these months.  They have found a treatment center in NYC that will take Spliff but it’s going to cost a huge amount of money to bring him home. They need to get back home now because his wife Jill, who was also in the accident, is about to have their first child.  She needs her family and friends help to raise the baby and also take care of Spliff so they need to get home before the baby is born. My friend Doug who introduced me to Spliff and Disgraceland has written this blog with a lot more details. You can go there or to Spliff and Jill’s website to donate money.  So many people came out for Jessie Lee when she got injured, I hope you have a little more in you to donate to another friend of the Driven By Boredom family.

On a much happier note I am in a group show at Shadow’s Space art gallery in Philly.  Shadow’s Space is the sister gallery of Fuse gallery in NYC and I am pretty excited to be showing there.  The group show is called “Paper Trails” and it is curated by NYC graffiti icon Chris “DAZE” Ellis.  DAZE and I collaborated on some work for a show a long time ago and I was really glad he thought of me when curating this show.  Unfortunately I am not going to be able to make the opening on Friday because I will be in Vegas but I know a bunch of people from Philly read this site so I hope you guys check out the show. I have four 11×17 photos in it, all shot on 35mm, and they are all of girls naked in public on the streets of NYC.  They are pretty rad.

While we are here I guess I should talk a little about my trip too.  I am headed to Vegas for the weekend to shoot the Adult Entertainment Expo, the AVN Awards, the Consumer Electronics Showcase and all the goings on before and after these events for the Village Voice and the LA Weekly. I might actually skip the AVN Awards and for some reason I haven’t heard back about my CES press credentials yet but I’ll play it by ear when I get there.  I never know what the hell I am doing in Vegas but I do know that I booked a two bedroom hotel suite for myself for some reason so I am going to have some fun either way. After Vegas I am headed to LA for just over a week.  I don’t really have any plans but I think I found a place to stay and I have set up shoots with a bunch of girls. I am going to be doing some more work for the LA Weekly and hoping to shoot some random parties while I am there.  There is also a benefit for Jessie Lee on Thursday which I will be blogging about next week. I am also going to see Jessie Lee for the first time since her accident as she is finally moving to LA the day before I get there. The whole trip should be a lot of fun, a little bit relaxing and hopefully very productive.  It better be because it will be a miracle if I break even on the adventure.  Either way I will be updating DBB often while I am gone so keep coming back. Also, I will be updating my Tumblr with previews of all the crazy shit I am shooting while I am in LA so you should probably get on that.  And of course following my Twitter while I am adventuring is a fucking given.

Finally, I figured I would leave you guys with something fun.  If you have ever wondered to do the secret handshake pioneered by NY nightlife icons like Ninjasonik and The Death Set there is now a how to video which will teach you the handshake. Looks like the “Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Slap Snap” handshake is not so secret anymore. You no longer have any excuse not to be down. Get on it.

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So normally I wouldn’t just copy and paste a press release, but I am on vacation and this is important. I know most of the readers of this site aren’t from Philly, but one of my favorite establishments is facing some problems and they are staging a series of events to reopen. If you are a fan of film or music or culture you could think about donating, even if you might never get a chance to visit. If you live in Philly you should do everything in your power to make it out to one of these events. The show tonight seems completely insane. Click below to read the press release.

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The Zombie Bar Crawl on Sunday was pretty nuts.  And I want to go into the whole thing in detail but I haven’t been sleeping at all and when I started typing this all the letters went sideways and nothing was making any sense.  So when I wake up next which will probably be in like 3 hours I am going to finish this post, but in the mean time I will just leave you with the pictures.  Rated NSFW for both nudity and adult situations.

UPDATE: Okay, let’s do this.  I am wide awake now…

So after a late brunch at Moto I made my way over to the Charleston on Bedford where the zombies were turning themselves into zombies.  My man Doug Sakmann and his Backseat Conceptions crew were reading the troupes and applying horrifying amounts of gore to people. Outside the zombies grew rowdy.  On my way up the block just about everyone I passed was wondering what the hell was going on. The zombies were attacking cars and buses and filling the streets.  As they were mobbing the bus a cop showed up and tried to get the crowd to disperse.  As I looked again I realize he didn’t have a gun and his ironic mustache didn’t look quite right.  Okay, so it was a fake cop, but he had a real uniform on and I think he kept people from calling the actual cops.  Because despite the zombies blocking off all of Bedford and doing all manor of horrible things in the park we only saw one cop car all day and they just drove slowly by looking very confused.

So the zombies walked all the way down Bedford to McCarren Park where they crossed the park to a shady spot under some trees.  During this trek across the park all the hundreds of people standing around had a great time laughing and pointing at the zombie hoard.  There were at least 200 people strong staggering through the park.  When they got to the baseball fields they walked through the outfield that separated two softball games in progress. The people playing on the southern end of the park were making jokes and didn’t seem to mind the less than 5 minute delay in their game while everyone walked through.  The teams on the northern side started yelling at the zombies and eventually started hitting balls into the crowd.  It was insane.  They hit between 5 and 10 balls at the zombies.  One came inches from my head.  Another ball hit a girl in the leg knocking her to the ground and giving her a huge welt. If one of those balls had hit someone it could have been deadly.  Doug grabbed one of the balls and held it up to the zombies and poured fake blood on to it.  When one of the outfielders saw this he started yelling and tried to get his ball.  After almost having my head taken off and seeing this 100 lb girl get nearly crippled I had had enough and started getting in this guys face.  I am not sure what the hell the baseball players were thinking but there were 20 of them, 200 of us and we had the DisgraceLand Hook Squad with us and they are a bunch of motherfuckers I wouldn’t mess with.

After that drama was over it was time for DisgraceLand to put on a show.  I have shot these guys a bunch of times before and if there is one thing they are good at it is scaring the hell out of old people and children.  They picked a far off corner of the park, but I have to say everyone felt pretty bad when we noticed families watching in horror as DisgraceLand put suspension hooks in their back and began their bloody game of tug of war.  It was zombie VS human.  Fortunately for humans like myself, our contestant was much bigger and took the zombie to task whipping him about the park.  Doug and other DisgraceLand members tried their best to help the zombie win the flesh pull tug of war but the blood covering their hands made it impossible to hold on.  I didn’t post any of this stuff on the main page because it was pretty graphic, but there is plenty of it in the gallery so you have been warned.  If this image doesn’t make you vomit, then you are probably okay moving forward.

After the flesh pull there were zombie games like zombie Red Light, Green Light were the zombies had to crawl instead of running.  The winner got free porn from Burning Angel.  Classy as always.  Backseat Conceptions makes horror films as well as all the other madness they do, so they had a blood cannon on hand and fired a few rounds at people.  We took a group photo and got ice cream and relaxed for a bit and then headed back to the Charleston for beer and free pizza.  Andy Rourke from the Smiths was at the Charleston and after taking photos of him being bitten by a sexy zombie I ate pizza with him and my friend Ole and some kids we met from Asheville, NC.  At this point I was thinking about just shooting the shit with them and going home to sleep.  You see, I had been awake for 30 hours at this point and was a bit tired after chasing zombies around in the sun all day.  But Doug is one convincing guy and dragged me over to the metal bar Duff’s for an after party.

Duff’s is a few blocks from my house so I figure I could just stop by for a second and then go home, but I didn’t end up leaving until after three in the morning.  I am not sure if it was just the zombie crawl, but Duff’s is amazing.  I am not a huge metal fan, but my hair is finally long enough to head bang properly so I was enjoying the music.  The bartenders were both super hot and covered in blood.  They, along with another lady put on quite a blood filled show for my camera on the bar.  Doug wrote DBB on one of the girls chest in fake blood and everyone was slipping all over the place. Not many people made it to the after party, but the people who did and an amazing time.  We were doing sing a longs and Jimmy Duff was there and got quite the kick out of zombie boobs (again, NSFW) and shit just got wild.  This weird gypsy band from New Orleans called Ruby Ruby Ruse played and everyone danced and fell about the place like mad men. The bar was playing Deadly Weapons which is this amazing Dorris Wishman sexploitation film starring Chesty Morgan who kills people with her freakishly huge breasts.  I lectured these two cute girls on the history of exploitation cinema which was super fun to do because I rarely get to rant at people about Mondo films or the oeuvre of Jack Hill.  After that I pulled this crazy punk rock chick into the bathroom for some dirty photos.  I had met her at past zombie crawls and we had talked about shooting her naked before, but in more of a studio setting, not in the bathroom of a metal bar.  Still, that is always fun.  Those shots will be up later tonight (here they are!), so just hold your horses.  After that I went home and slept for about 4 hours before waking up for absolutely no reason.  Insomnia is even worse than zombification.

Okay, so it was a long crazy adventure. I was shooting zombies from 4pm to 3am and I took about 800 pictures of sex, violence (both real and imaginary) and rock and roll.  It was a great day and I can’t wait for the next one. Click here to see all the pictures.

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