If you’ve been paying attention to my social media for the last couple years I have been posting throwback party photos from the “Indie Sleaze” era over on my VintageDBB Instagram account. I’ve been having a ton of fun doing it and part of that has been going back to old parties and finding photos I totally forgot about, sometimes finding photos I never even published because they didn’t seem interesting to me at the time.

Recently I started doing posts that consisted of images from just a single night or event and writing a bit about it in the caption and with the launch of Driven By Boredom 4.0 I want to expand that. As we start from scratch with this website and start moving forward, I also want to be moving backwards by reposting old images with new context, new edits and most importantly larger files without giant watermarks on them. Back in the day I wanted my logo to show up on people’s MySpace Top 8s so I made my logo take up like 15% of the image. I also posted so many terrible photos that I didn’t edit at all and they were all 750px wide which is way too small for modern screens. I still don’t do a lot of editing these days, but at least I am not posting images that are underexposed by three stops. 

Going back and doing this is going to be a lot of work for no financial reward so I have come up with a bounty system where people can pay me to see old photos again. For $150 I will track down the party or event you want to see and reupload it in high resolution with new edits and all of that. I am happy to shout you out as well in the post if that’s something you are interested in as well. Perhaps your old band from back then has a new album out and you want a little bonus promotion, I got you. I just need to come up with a way to justify all the time I am going to be spending digging through the archives, and maybe you guys can help. If you want to see an old gallery, just reach out. 

Lastly I should mention that one of the reasons that I am starting all over again is because 2025 is not 2007 and I know there are a ton of middle aged people out there who would prefer if there old drunken photos don’t exist anymore. As I reupload old content I am sure I will be unearthing some not so great memories for people and images they wish disappeared with MySpace, so as I go through this stuff I am going to 1) Try and not post the drunkest of photos 2) I will be presenting everything with new context instead of whatever fucked up thing I said about the photos at the time and 3) as always I will be removing any photos that people don’t want up. Again, just reach out. The last thing I want to do is upset anyone. I will be posting some old NSFW content, but all of that will be paywalled, so no one can accidentally stumble on that so if your boss sees it before you can ask me to take it down you can ask him why he’s on my pay site. 

We are currently building a private archive of the old site so that I can go back and see what I wrote at the time so I might not start uploading Vintage DBB posts until that is ready to go, but in the meantime go follow VintageDBB on Instagram. See you guys back here soon…