B-Sides - Driven by Boredom

One Year Of Home Ownership

One year ago today Shannon and I bought a mid century modern home in North Carolina. One of the main reasons we moved there was because of all the affordable MCM homes we had seen when visiting, but when we started looking we realized that maybe living in an old ranch home wasn’t for us. They were all too dark, not well taken care of and just kinda a bummer. At some point we started looking at new construction, but we just couldn’t see ourselves surrounded by drywall and grey floors after decades of living in old buildings in New York. We had just about given up when our friend (and realtor) Jane told us that a house we had …

2025 Metlife Takeover Recap Video

I go through this twice a year, once when I post the photos from our yearly Metlife Takeover event and once months later when I post the recap video so let’s do it again… When I first moved to NYC in 2006 I had no one to watch football with because I don’t spend a lot of time hanging out with people who are into sports, especially with my level of intensity. It took me a couple of years but I finally found a small group of Dolphins fans to watch games with and as it began to grow we decided to launch social media accounts for it to spread the word and Dolfans NYC was born.

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 …