Welcome to another day of my 2024 Gathering of the Juggalos coverage. Today we got some nightlife photos or something. Basically everyday I would go down to the Gathering around 5pm and shoot until it got dark. Once it was too dark to shoot without a flash I would walk back to my rental car, drop off whatever 35mm camera I had with me and pick up my flash and head back down.

The problem is I hate shooting with flash these days. It’s weird, I used to shoot everything with flash, even portraits, but I am so over it. I just hate the way flash looks these days and it’s so pitch black at the Gathering that the focus assist light is super fucking annoying for everyone. You add to that the fact that I am old and tired and didn’t want to stay up until 4am every night I didn’t shoot a ton of late night photos, that being said I did shoot SOME stuff at night. 

The first night was the only night I stayed up late because on night two I was so fucking tired, night three the battery door on my flash broke (luckily I had an extra door) and on night four I left early. But night one was pretty good. I shot two events in this red circus tent and I fucking HATE the light in there. In the day it’s worse but even at night with a flash it’s so red because the flash bounces off the red roof. I said fuck it and just made every one of those photos black and white. 

The first night one event was the Queen of Cheeks which was an ass contest, seriously. Last year was the first year they had it and the photos I took were so fucking insane I had to come back. This year’s was slightly more sedate, but still VERY NSFW. There was a ring toss and a butt cheek Faygo carrying contest and god knows what else. Of course I had to paywall most of this stuff. I included some safe for work images, but 90% of it was too NSFW for this site. You can see everything, plus all my other NSFW content, on Girls of Driven By Boredom. I also uploaded a pretty tame video to the same site. I made it just $3 which is the lowest I am allowed to charge, and made it free to subscribers. 

After the Queen of Cheeks ended the Chapter 17 Records party took place. My buddy Kev Buc was DJing for some of it, and Ouija Macc was there and some other musicians and stuff. It was pretty fun. Lots of cute juggalettes were hanging out including the adult film start Kazumi who put a butt plug in live on stage which resulted in some pretty great photos I wish I could show you but of course I can’t because once again we live in a society created by and governed by religious extremists. They are of course available on Girls of Driven By Boredom.

The other night I stayed out at all past midnight was the second night because my old pal Zac Amico was doing stand up. I was glad to see him but I was kinda afraid his stand up was gonna be some edgelord bullshit trying to be offensive because I know he does a lot of roast battles and he seems to hang with a bunch of comedians who complain about people being woke all the time. I was pleasantly surprised to see that while his set had some edge to it, it was mostly just storytelling and he told a few interesting and genuinely funny stories before I had to bounce so I could actually get some sleep after getting six hours total in the last 48. Someone opened for him and I forget his name and I feel like a dick for that but I know he was from Chicago and friends with my Gathering of the Juggalos pal wrestler Colt Cabana, cause I ran into Colt there.

Okay, so yeah, I didn’t go out on night two, but there are plenty of crowd shots in here too. Some of my favorites were taken at the end of ICP’s Thursday night set where I photographed everyone who was coming off stage. ICP does this “Faygo Armageddon” thing where they bring up about 100 people on stage to throw Faygo everywhere. I have actually done it twice myself and it is so god damn fun. Truly joyful. But yeah, soaked people are fun to photograph so got a lot of that stuff. 

Yeah, I don’t think there’s anything else worth mentioning, just go check out the gallery and I will be back tomorrow with even more NSFW stuff and we will wrap everything up on Monday. See you soon.

Click here to see all the after dark photos from the 2024 Gathering of the Juggalos.

And click here for the NSFW stuff!

 

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