Driven By Boredom is changing, once again.
I started this site in my college dorm room back in 2001. If you had told me I would still be running it in 2025 I would never have believed it, but here we are.
As I have grown up this site has changed with me. When I first started the site it was mostly a place where I could share my creative projects with my friends, it quickly grew into a popular blog where I posted about my life, shared my photography and shared fun things I found around the internet. A few years into it, I started managing a band called the Gaskets and the site started getting updated less frequently and most of the updates were about the band.
Around 2006 I decided to start over and I started from scratch with what I called Driven By Boredom 2.0, which was set up to look like a review site, but I was just using the review format to talk about whatever I wanted. It seemed like a good idea, but I don’t think I did ten posts before I gave up. Driven By Boredom was dead… or so I thought.
That same year I moved to NYC and I was going out to parties every night and I had my camera with me. I was just taking photos for myself, but party blogs like Last Night’s Party and Cobrasnake were just blowing up and everyone just assumed I was a photoblogger. Everyone would ask where they could find the photos and I decided maybe it was time for Driven By Boredom to return.
In early 2007 Driven By Boredom 3.0 launched as a party photoblog and has remained nearly the same all this time. In fact the last time the site was updated was 2008 or 2009. 15 years later and the site barely functions, the photos are incredibly low res and my galleries are all broken. The site was in some serious trouble. It was time for a change.
Driven By Boredom 4.0 will be launching in January and it will hopefully feel very similar to what you are used to, but it will give me a lot more flexibility. There will still be a ton of my photography, but my hope is to get back to blogging a little more. I am so sick of how broken social media has become, and I want to go back to my roots. I want to share my life, tell old stories and make running a website fun again.
I can’t wait for you to see it.
In the meantime you can follow @drivenbyboredom on everything, @vintagedbb for old party pictures and all the NSFW photos are still here: www.dbb.im