35mm Film Dump – 11.21.25

November 21, 2025

The very first post on this redesigned website was a film dump from late 2024/early 2025, and I am back with another one for a few related reasons: 1) I don’t think I am going to develop any more film in 2025 so this is a good year end post a month early 2) I need content to post 3) I haven’t updated this site in a month. Why is that you ask? Well, I bought a house.

As I mentioned in that B-Side post linked above, I bought a house in late August. Since then I have been absolutely consumed by the house. We had to do a bunch of renovations before moving in, we had to pack in less time than expected because our old apartment got rented immediately and since we have moved it has been non stop. I was up until 2:30am last night because I was building Ikea shelves. We still have so much goddamn stuff to do that I am pretty sure I am going to be completely underwater until like March, but I guess that’s what happens when you buy a sixty year old house built on a swamp. That being said, it’s fucking awesome and I am so excited to be in my new office even though it’s missing a light fixture, more Ikea shelves and blinds on the windows.

Anyway, I wanted to give you some film to hold you over while I go through life not taking any fucking pictures because I am consumed with house. Let me pull up this gallery real quick and go over what’s inside…

We got a bunch of photos from my trip to LA for a Superchief show I had some art in. Really used it as an excuse to see my brother and his kids and a reason to shoot some photos. You have seen the digital photos from Leda and Anastasiya already, but I do have a second Anastasiya shoot I need to post sooner or later. On that same trip I shot a musician named Riki for Creem Magazine and I have no idea why haven’t posted those yet as that has been out for a while. Aside from Leda those shoots were pretty tame but there are some NSFW photos I posted exclusively on Girls of DBB if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Speaking of NSFW, this film dump also includes all my Gathering of the Juggalos 35mm stuff, including plenty of NSFW stuff (again exclusive to Girls of DBB), my run in with Channel 5 (video out January 1st), and plenty of assorted chaos. There are some local North Carolina road trip stuff in here as well including trips to South of the Border and a Strawberry festival. Weirdly enough the Strawberry festival photos might be my favorite shots of the whole film dump.

Let’s see what else? We got a NYC trip with some safe for work photos of my old pal Daniella as well as some mediocre street photography. I got photos from my vacation to Delaware this summer to see my parents and my yearly “fishing trip” with three of my childhood best friends, although we rarely actually go fishing. I also proposed to my fiance there so there’s a photo I took on that day. I saw my brother and his kids again there and they also visited us in NC so I had a TON of photos of his kids and my family and stuff, but I just gave you a few highlights cause I feel weird posting a lot of that stuff.

Lastly this post teases at two projects I am working on, a vanity license plate zine and a book called Nothing But Flower that features nature taking over civilization. I was hoping it would be out this fall, but looking like early 2026 for that one. The book is done, but my friend Teddy needs to finish the design and he’s too busy winning Emmys to help. In all seriousness have plans on working on it in early December so hopefully we can get it finished soon.

I think that’s it, but just to plug Girls of DBB one more time, I did post some of the NSFW photos from my last film dump, just so the NSFW gallery would represent all of 2025 (I will update later if I shoot any other nudes this year). And speaking of, someone remind me to book my AVN trip so I can get you guys a bunch more content in 2026.

Okay for real that is it, enjoy a bunch of film I shot from March to November 2025, I gotta go build another shelf.

2025 Gathering Of The Juggalos Day 4 – 8.16.25

August 20, 2025August 20, 2025

The final day of the Gathering of the Juggalos was fairly chill, at least for me personally, for juggalos as a whole it was anything but chill. The last night ends the big Insane Clown Posse show and everyone has to do all their nitrus, drink all their beer and set off all their fireworks. We gotta go out with a bang.

Day four was also the Miss Juggalette contest. The contest has evolved over the years, back when I first started going it was absolutely insane but overtime the contest got “woke” as an idiot might say. The contest became about actual talents and actually being a juggalette. I remember Vice doing a whole thing on feminist juggalos which I thought was pretty cool at the time, but I think for the betterment of society it’s good that the pendulum has swung back a bit to be an absolute shit show again. The last couple years there has been a LOT of nudity and wild stuff happening and as much as I honestly hate shooting it, I knew I had to be there for the content. The things I do for you guys…

The contest started out slow, the “personality” part went on way too long and the juggalos were getting restless. As some point my friend Cordelia gave an answer they didn’t like so they started throwing shit at her. When she came back for the talent portion of the contest, she threw and entire bag of trash into the crowd and from there it was just mayhem. For the rest of the contest shit was just being launched on stage and then back in to the crowd.

The contest was still a bit boring, as far as the competition went. I had a bunch of hot tattooed girls standing behind me and I took a photo of them looking bored as hell and joked about how the girls behind me were more interesting than the contest… and boy was I right. At some point the girls behind me just got sick of it and all went on stage and got naked and did some things I won’t even mention out loud that you will have to look at the photos to see. The crowd went wild. The judges decided that the girls on the side of the stage, “The Sidewinders” could all compete as one. They ended up coming in second. The girl who won, Lydia (she also came second in the wet-tshirt contest), grabbed an actual chicken foot that had been thrown on stage, put it inside of her and then threw it back into the crowd. The juggalos loved that shit.

After Miss Juggalette I started to walk around for a bit, but I just happened to run into those same “Sidewinders” who had showed up with my old pal Charlie Classic. They were there filming content for his TikTok and their OnlyFans or whatever these kids are up to, so they of course needed to make a scene, which I appreciated. Angela, one of the judges of the Miss Juggalette contest, started trying to convince people to have an ass eating contest. Several couples put pudding on one of their asses, and then the other person ate it off, as one does. There followed a similar contest, but with boobs instead of butts and honestly I just kinda blacked out at that point. Don’t worry, there are photos, but again, they are only on Girls of Driven By Boredom. Channel 5 also filmed the whole thing so who knows what is going on there.

After that it was finally time for some music. The final night had the best lineup with Immortal Technique, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia. Three 6 and Onxy were the two groups I was really excited for and they are both on heavy rotation in my playlists. Three 6 had played the Gathering before, and DJ Paul was pretty much a regular. Great to have Juicy J back again this year. Did you know that ICP and Three 6 had a super group called Killjoy Club? That is a real thing that happened. They have a whole ass album out and Jellyroll opened for them on tour.

Anyway, the night ended with ICP coming out with this amazing game show set and for maybe the first time ever I took some decent shots of them and I didn’t even get my life ruined by Faygo this time, and yeah that’s about it. I walked around for a little bit and took a few more photos of sticky, wet juggalos, but that was it. On my way out I stopped at a juggalo named Charlie Brown’s campsite. I met him on a juggalo cruise ship, yes that is a thing that happened more than once, and we have kept in touch. He cooked me a couple tacos for the road which I greatly appreciated.

So yeah, that’s wrap on the 2025 Gathering of the Juggalos. I should mention that a ton of these photos are also on Brooklyn Vegan. And as I mentioned there are three NSFW sets over on Girls of DBB, with a fourth one to come eventually. Also if you are looking for old NSFW juggalette content, a ton of it is on that site.

Okay, that’s it. Go check out all the (mostly) safe for work photos from the final day of the 25th annual Gathering of the Juggalos!

2025 Gathering Of The Juggalos Day 3 – 8.15.25

August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

Day three of the Gathering was a super weird one for me and we are gonna have to get into it a bit. I had to run some errands in the morning and while I was in a shopping center parking lot I got a call about a family emergency. Things are mostly okay now but that shit set me off a bit. On my way back to the hotel I noticed my tire air pressure was low. It was low to begin with when I picked up the rental car but I wasn’t too worried about it, but now it was quite a bit lower. I pulled into a gas station and found a nail in the tire. I called roadside assistance and then put some air in it and returned the rental car. By the time I got back to the hotel it was already 5pm.

At some point during all that bullshit I got a text from one of the crew from Channel 5. If you somehow don’t know who they are, they are a YouTube show run by a guy named Andrew Callaghan who came to prominence for his interviews during the BLM protests in 2020. I was randomly in one of his earlier “All Gas No Breaks” videos back in early 2019, so I got to see the progression of the channel. Most recently he made news for interviewing Hunter Biden. I am a big fan of Channel 5 because I see a lot of my own work in it. They cover subcultures and people on the margins in a way that doesn’t feel exploitive and honestly I am jealous of it. I wish I still had it in me to be out there searching for the next crazy thing instead of going to my 15th Gathering.

All that being said, recently Channel 5 used one of my photo in one of their videos without permission or credit or payment. I was pretty pissed off about it, especially because of my admiration for their work. When I recognized Sidam, another Channel 5 correspondent on day 2 of the Gathering I struck up a conversation with him and his crew and ended up giving them some tips for their coverage. I knew their video was going to be seen by millions and I want it to correctly represent the Gathering. So when they reached out the next day to ask for an interview I said yes.

By the time I finally got to the Gathering it was 6pm. I was in a horrible mood because of the family emergency and the popped tire, but I was also getting stressed out about talking to Andrew about using my photo. I was just going through what I was going to say, or if I should even say anything. I knew if I didn’t say anything I would spend all interview thinking about it so I decided I needed to confront him. When I met him I told him I needed to talk to him before we did the interview. It honestly was a pretty stressful conversation. I could tell he was a bit nervous about the confrontation, but he didn’t back down from his position that it was fair use. In the end we just moved on and I just was glad to get it off my chest.

While I still don’t agree that it’s fair use (that’s a much longer conversation), any issues I had with Andrew quickly vanished. We ended up talking for about an hour and I felt like by the end we were friends. That’s the sign of a great interviewer. He made me comfortable enough to say some shit I probably shouldn’t have said, but I do somewhat trust him not to fuck me with the interview. Maybe they won’t even use any of it. I have no idea. But I am once again a fan of that guy and as far as I am concerned the beef is squashed… At least until I see their juggalo video. Honestly I see so much of him in myself, I just wish I still had that drive, that courage and half his talent. I really liked his crew as well. One of his filmographers just happened to sit next to me on my connecting flight and we spent the whole time talking and honestly feel like I am gonna be friends with that guy now. Really good dude.

Okay, that is way too much about Channel 5 but that was most of the day, up until the bands started playing. I got to photograph Gwar again which is always fun. They brought out fake Elon Musk and cut his head off to open the set which was perfect. I think last time I saw them was right before the 2016 election and they brought out Trump and Hillary and murdered both of them. Good times. Just a side note, the first time I saw Gwar was when my friends PCP Roadblock opened for them at the 9:30 club in DC probably in like 2002. The crowd absolutely hated them which they just ate up and played even worse to piss off the crowd. At some point sprinklers were set off in their dressing room and it flooded the soundboard and one of the bouncers cut the fuel line in their van and I believe the owner came down just to spray them with a hose in the middle of winter. What a weird memory that was unlocked.

After Gwar was Tech N9ne who is a Gathering regularly and is always great. Bonus Tech N9ne story. I was at this pool party at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA a decade or so ago and someone came up to me and told me there was a juggalo at the party and I had to go photograph him. When I went to see it was Tech N9ne in his face paint. Turns out he had done Kimmel or something that night and came to the party directly. Amazingly he knew who I was and the guy with him told me that whenever they used to go to the Gathering they check my Twitter to see what the festival was like. I was honored. Lastly the night was headlined by my old pal Ouija Macc. I really do love that guy even though I don’t actually listen to his music. People always ask me if I am a juggalo and I tell them I am “juggalo adjacent” because I don’t think you can really be a juggalo if you don’t listen to the music, but like I am happy to rep Ouija and his label Chapter 17 anytime.

After that I went to this “stunt show” which was kinda a clusterfuck. Most people were there to see the wrestling match that followed and you couldn’t really see anything because there were so many photographers. I just sat back because I didn’t want to be in people’s way. I ended up taking photos of a guy getting hit in the nuts twice with a bowling ball but that was about it.

My night ended with quick visit to my buddy Clownvis’ party where he had a bunch of juggalettes dancing around on stage. One of the juggalettes I have become friends with over the years got set on fire which made for some insane photos. There are actually a few of them that are really too NSFW for work for this post, but I am gonna upload them with all the other miscellaneous NSFW shots to Girls of DBB tomorrow.

Okay that’s it, sorry this is 1300 words but honestly I had to talk about some of this shit for my mental health. When I started this blog in 2001 it was pretty much a diary and once in a while I still gotta get my thoughts down on paper even if no one gives a fuck and just wants to see crazy photos.

Now go look at over 100 photos from day three of the 25th annual Gathering of the Juggalos!

2025 Gathering Of The Juggalos Day 2 – 8.14.25

August 18, 2025

Turns out I have come down with some sort of plague from the Gathering, I tested negative for covid so it’s most likely Clownitis. I am trying my best to get all these photos edited and up, plus I gotta unpack and then repack cause I am going on vacation on Wednesday. Not sure if I can get it all done while I am feeling like hot garbage, but I am trying.

Speaking of hot garbage, the first thing I photographed on day 2 of the 25th annual Gathering of the Juggalos was the Faygo Wet T-Shirt Contest. To be clear, the hot garbage thing was a joke, you know I love my juggalos deeply and I had a couple of friends enter the contest and quickly became friends with a bunch of the babes hosing the juggalettes down. The Gathering is great place to meet hot naked people to photograph, but also no one wants to shoot at the Gathering so, hopefully I will run into some of them one day.

I shot a million photos of the wet t-shirt contest but I can’t post most of the publically, luckily I have my site Girls of Driven By Boredom which has the full gallery of wet t-shirt contest photos uploaded to it already. Might be worth signing up for because there will be more juggalette content where that came from.

Anyway the contest was chaotic as always. I honestly kinda hate shooting them cause I feel like kinda a creeper and it’s sort of the same thing every year, but it’s such good content I have to. I can’t tell you how many people email me about NSFW juggalette content over anything else I shoot. It’s wild. But yeah, as someone who is a professional naked person documenter, it feels weird to be part of a thraul of people just trying to take photos they can get off to at home. I mean, no shade, but that’s just not what I am about.

Remember that time two sentences ago when I said it was always the same thing every year? Well not this year. This year the contest was won by an elderly woman who had the entire crowd chanting “Grandma! Grandma!” Turns out she is an OnlyFans model named Linda Hope. What an absolute legend. Seeing her win really warms your cockles.

I guess day two was just a NSFW day, and a day of me going back on things I just said. Remember a few paragraphs ago when I said no one wants to shoot at the Gathering? Well it turns out I did do a NSFW photo shoot. I photographed a juggalette last year named Lil Filth (the set is up on Girls of DBB) well this year I went up in the hills with her and her friend to take some photos and it turns out we were standing in poison ivy but they were wearing tall shoes so I think everyone was okay. That shoot will be coming sooner or later, but I did post a few previews in this gallery.

Man, we are 500 words into this thing and we haven’t even got into the music and the rest of the day. I only photographed three musicians on day two, ¡Mayday!, Waka Flocka Flame and of course the Insane Clown Posse. I have photographed ¡Mayday! before and they aren’t my thing but people seem to dig them a lot, but I honestly can say that about most of the musicians at most festivals so that’s no slight to them.

Waka Flocka I have now photographed four times, three times at the Gathering and once at the AVN Awards. Everytime he put on a show and I appreciate the hell out of that shit. This year I ran into him getting his face painted (huge shout out to the juggalette who pointed it out) which made for some fun photos. His set was insane and when he jumped in the crowd I immediately jumped in after him. I covered his 2015 set for Vice after I jumped into the crowd with him so of course I had to do it again. But turns out 35 year old me and 45 year old me are not the same. I got straight fucked up in the pit. I still got some great shots, but I am getting too old for this shit. It was still a blast.

After that ICP performed their first of two sets at the Gathering. I have photographed them so many times, and honestly I alway suck at it. These days I try to stay out of the Faygo rain and just make sure I get a couple decent shots and get out of there before I get too soaked. Didn’t really work out for me this year and my lens got blasted. Between my sticky camera and getting beat up in the pit I decided to call it an early night. I think I was back to my hotel by midnight.

The only other thing I should mention about day two is that you might recognize Sidam, the ski masked from the YouTube show Channel 5. If you follow me on Instagram you might know I had a recent bone to pick with Channel 5 for using one of my juggalo photos without permission, well let’s just say we had a conversation about that, but I will keep you in suspense until I post the Day 3 photos…

Now go check out all the safe for work photos from day two of the 25th annual Gathering of the Juggalos.

2025 Gathering Of The Juggalos Day 1 – 8.13.25

August 17, 2025August 18, 2025

That’s right, we are back! The Gathering of the Juggalos celebrated their 25th anniversary and somehow I am celebrating my 15th anniversary of attending the festival. How time flies. The Gathering was packed this year and had a better lineup than the last few years since this was the “Gathering of Legends”. It was also a particularly weird one for me because I had some personal life shit going on which slightly affected my coverage, but I still shot nearly 4000 photos in four days so I don’t think you should complain too much.

But yeah things didn’t start great as my flight got delayed three times and for some reason my rental car place closed at 5:30pm so I had to spend way more than planned on a fucking rental car. By the time I got to the festival I was just super fucking grumpy and I probably took a dozen photos in the first hour I was there. Luckily I ran into a bunch of the juggalo friends I have made over the last 15 years and that really cheered me up. A lot of times I tell myself I keep going back because I don’t want to miss a year before I publish my juggalo book, but I know a huge part of it is just getting to see the same insane clowns every year.

The first musician I photographed was Lardi B who I took some pretty fun photos of last year, but since I started my website over from scratch you can’t actually see them on here, but they are probably on Brooklyn Vegan if you do some digging. (That being said, if you are looking for any of my NSFW juggalo photos they are all on my paysite Girls of DBB.) Anyway, Lardi B was pretty fun and then I got to photograph Onyx again. I photographed them several times because I fucking love Onyx. I loved them when I was 13 and I still listen to them all the time to this day. The photos I took kinda suck cause the stage lighting at the Gathering is terrible and also I am a bad photographer, but like, I had a blast.

The first night was headlined by RA The Rugged Man who I have also photographed a bunch of times. I only know a couple of his songs but we got some mutual friends and he puts on a hell of a show always. You only get to photograph the musicians for three songs at the Gathering (and most festivals) but he pulled a bunch of juggalos up on stage during his fourth song so I just went up there and shot some more photos and they ended up being some of the most fun photos of the night.

The Chapter 17 party was late night that night so I had to stick around for that because my old pal Kev Buc was DJing with Ouija Mac. I love both those guys so of course I was gonna go, but I had an hour to kill so I went over to “Juggalesque” which as you would imagine is a portmanteau of juggalo and burlesque and it is exactly what you would expect. I was too tired to put any effort into that so I just hung out backstage and took photos of the girls back there and took a couple shots from the side of the stage. It’s fine. I made it about an hour into the Chapter 17 party before I had to go to sleep but I did have a good time hanging out with that crew.

Currently I am at a Bob Evans in the Columbus Ohio Suburbs eating a salad with a pancake side because it came with bread and they let me substitute for a stack of pancakes which is absolutely reckless. I don’t know why I told you that except to let you know that I gotta go to the airport now so you get to go look at a bunch of photos now. Just a heads up some of these are mildly NSFW. I am gonna paywall all the actual nudity but maybe don’t look at these in public. Gonna try and get (almost) everything up by Wednesday because I am going on vacation and I want this off my plate so expect a lot of rapid fire posts.

Now without further ado, I present you with about 150 photos from day one of the 25th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, OH!