I didn’t make any plans over the weekend because I thought I might have to attend my grandmother’s funeral as she has been unable to process liquids for over a week.  Fortunately, she seems to be invincible and refuses to die. So when I realized that I was going to be in town this weekend I started looking for things to do.  I decided to hit up the Vans House Party on Friday and I realized that the Mad Decent Block Party was on Saturday.  Right as I was about to start emailing people to try to get on a press list I got an email from PBR asking me to shoot the event for them and Colt 45’s new brightly colored malt beverage Blast.  As a former resident of Richmond, VA where PBR is considered the only respectable beer to drink I have long been a fan of Pabst.  I don’t actually drink beer but if I did clearly I would drink the only drink to be mentioned in both my favorite David Lynch movie and my favorite book about a serial killer and landscape architecture.

Anyway, the point of all of this is that everything worked out perfectly. I got an all access pass to the party, got paid to shoot, and then sold the pictures to the Village Voice which of course made PBR happy. It was a win-win-win especially since I am the brokest I have been in a couple years. Wait, why the fuck am I talking about all of this? Clearly I have taken too much 5-Hour Energy this afternoon. Let’s get on to the party…

I didn’t get down to the South Street Seaport until around 5:30PM and it was packed. It was completely wild how many people showed up.  I don’t think I have seen anything like that in NYC outside of Madison Square Garden. Not even at the Jelly Pool parties. My homie Maluca was on stage when I got there but unfortunately by the time I got my passes and got to the stage she was finished. Zeds Dead went on after her and the crowd was bumping. I spent most of their set shooting the back stage and VIP areas because PBR was giving out free PBR & Blast back there and also cause most of my friends were back there.  During Gang Gang Dance’s set I ventured into the wild masses of people and shot a bunch of crowd shots.  The night ended with Claude Von Stroke DJing until they finally had to kick everyone out.  There were so many people down there it took me 45 min to find a cab and then he wouldn’t take me home so I walked a mile to a subway and went home and passed out by midnight only to wake up 4 hours later…

All and all a great day.  Click here to see all the pictures from the Mad Decent NYC Block Party at the South Street Seaport.

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