If you recall from two posts ago I was in Aspen for the Winter X Games last weekend working for Sailor Jerry. The main promotion that Sailor Jerry did at the X Games was to set up “Hold Fast” a pop up tattoo shop at the Sky Hotel.  They had tattoo artists Terry Brown from New Orleans and Preston Chambers from Denver working all day for four days giving out free Sailor Jerry tattoos.

The man behind the name Sailor Jerry was Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins who revolutionized tattooing and designed thousands of what are now classic tattoo designs. Anyone who wanted one of them could come by the shop and set up an appointment and get tattooed by one of these amazing tattoo artists.

Aside from a ton of bar tenders, hotel staff and X Games fans Hold Fast hosted a few notable people who got some SJ ink. A hilarious BMX biker named Mike “Hucker” Clark came by with BMX legend Tim “Fuzzy” Hall and got his first ever tattoo. He had such a good time that he was constantly in the shop hanging out with us. The next day he signed a huge sponsorship deal with Red Bull and seemed to be having the best weekend of his life. I reached out to folks on Twitter and found out that former The Pack member Stunnaman was in town with Trouble Andrew performing a few hotels away. Stunnaman came by and got this sick pharaoh tattoo and then came back a day later with Trevor from Trouble Andrew who got inked as well. I was actually on my way back when they came by again but I got shots of Stunnaman first tattoo. We also had two members of AWOLNATION come by. They were playing a show at the base of the mountain and got matching ship tattoos to commemorate both their travels and their hit song Sail.

The most legendary icon to get tattooed was of course the hero of men that is Igor from Driven By Boredom AKA me. I got my third Sailor Jerry tattoo when I convinced Preston to tattoo a rooster chasing a pig to my leg.  In nautical lore pigs and chickens are the only animals to survive a ship wreck so sailors would tattoo the animals to their feet for good luck. I got mine on my leg instead because drowning at sea is not really one of my top fears at the moment….

Anyway, it was a great time staying in an amazing hotel in Aspen and hanging out with rad people all day. I didn’t get to see any actual X Games but it was fucking cold outside… and besides ESPN was on in the hotel room. I can’t wait till the next Sailor Jerry pop up tattoo shop event I get to shoot in March at SXSW!

Click here to see all the pictures from Hold Fast the Sailor Jerry pop up tattoo shop in Aspen for the Winter X Games.

A few weeks before I went to LA Brooklyn Lee hit me up about possibly doing a shoot when I was in town. The day of our shoot I was 15 minutes late and left her waiting sitting on a giant rock at a subway stop (who knew LA had a subway…) because I had to eat two insane hot dogs from Pinks. I then made her go to a pawn shop with me before we drove to downtown LA to look for a building to break into so we could shoot on a roof.  Unfortunately it was Sunday and all these textile factories were closed for the weekend.

We decided to just park my rental car and walk around and try to open doors and perhaps find a parking garage we could get onto. We finally found a textile factory that had a mall on the bottom floor that was open. We walked around and it was basically a sweat shop on the upper floors and groups of little latino kids were just playing by themselves. I personally wouldn’t leave my four year old to play on an escalator but what the fuck do I know… We climbed back stairways until we got to the roof. When we got on it we were bummed to find out that there were tons of people parked up there and walking around. We pretended like we had a reason to be there and went back down the way we came.  We were about to give up when we found a stairwell that seemed blocked off. There was a cone in front of the door to the roof so we figured no one would use it. The only problem was that we were clearly visible from the street if anyone just bothered to look up.

We banged the set out in 10 minutes and took some awesome shots. Brooklyn Lee is super hot and not afraid to get dirty or get caught. She was covered in black dirt which looked awesome with the beautiful light and the cute white outfit she picked out. It was a great quick shoot and we got away with out getting arrested which was probably a good thing since the next day we went to Vegas for the AVN Awards where she ended up winning the award for Best New Starlet (as well as several other awards). It would not have been awesome if she was in jail for that…

So congrats to Brooklyn Lee on the huge AVN win and congrats to everyone else because you get to look at a bunch of fun NSFW photos of her for free.

Click here to see all the photos of Brooklyn Lee in the stairwell of a sweatshop in Downtown LA.