B-Sides - Driven by Boredom

We Are Back!

Just a quick post to let you guys know that Driven By Boredom is finally unfucked. The site has been dealing with hackers and malware for months. The person who designed the new site retired from doing websites and hasn’t been able to help me fix it. Between trying to figure it out myself, trying to get my host to restore from old backups and frankly just me ignoring the problem, it’s taken forever to do something that apparently I could have solved in an afternoon. A couple days ago I hired someone off Upwork who specializes in WordPress malware and he was able to fix my site, and the Dolfans NYC site in under 8 hours. My brother’s website, …

Malice McMunn Dwarves Print

My friend Malice got breast cancer recently and had a double mastectomy. She’s a dancer and a model and so it has not only been a horrible experience but she’s missing out on work. She has a GoFundMe you can donate to but if you want something to go with your kindness I am selling a print of a photo from an album cover to raise a little money for her, but first I wanted to tell you a little about how we met. Malice is an iconic model in the punk world and I had wanted to take her photo forever but I didn’t know her or anything. Back in early 2013 I was in Vegas covering the AVN …

On Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall died last week and I was lucky enough to get to photograph him a few times. I was a huge fan of his work and I was so grateful for the brief moments I got to spend with him. I wanted to write something in his honor, but you can read about his incredible career anywhere and I didn’t know him well enough to tell you about who he truly was as a person. Instead I will use his passing to tell you a few stories about my handful of interactions with him as well as a few unrelated stories about one of my all time favorite jobs which gave me access to some of my favorite actors …

RIP Martin Parr

My last B-Sides post was about the impact Larry Clark, specifically Kids and Tulsa had on my work, and today I am back to talk about another photographer that had a massive effect on my work, but this time much later in life. Most of the photographers who had a profound impact on my work I discovered in my teens — people like Clark, Bruce Davidson, Diane Arbus and maybe more than anyone, Glen Friedman who made me want to pick up a camera in the first place to photograph the local DC punk bands I was going to see every weekend. The early 2000’s Vice aesthetic got me shooting film again in my 20s and had a big impact …

On Kids, Tulsa, And Larry Clark’s Impact

Earlier this year photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark had a photography show of his early 90’s documentation of the skate scene that led to his seminal film Kids. I was actually in NYC at the time for my now fiance’s knee surgery, but I wasn’t able to make it over to the show because I was taking care of her. Not only was there a show, but Leo Fitzpatrick put together a zine with photographs from that time period and interview with Clark and Tobin Yelland. I am a photobook/zine collector, a Larry Clark collector, and Kids had and outsized impact on my life so I needed that zine. I sent my friend Ronen down to the gallery for me, …