I woke up at 5pm yesterday and pretty much raced out my door to get down to the Pool Party to see Girl Talk.  It is the first time I have ever shot one of the Jelly NYC Pool Parties and I have to thank them for hooking me up with a press pass at the last minute.  I might have mentioned this before the last time I shot Girl Talk but The Gaskets used to play with him back in the day and I always thought he put on a fun show.  I am glad he is getting all this attention. I remember the first time we played with him at the Delancy several years before I moved to NYC.  It was probably 2003.  We ended up getting our car towed and had to pay $250 to get it out PLUS another $250 for parking too close to a meeter. When we got paid at the end of the night we made $11.  All the other bands made $7 but they felt bad about our ticket so we got the little bit that was left over after splitting the money.  Girl Talk was way glitchier then. He was closer to Kid 606 than the stuff he is doing then.  Musically I didn’t really get it, but he got the crowd going nuts and by the last time I saw him in VA he was fucking clubs up.

The show was pretty good, but the way the press area was set up was kind of annoying.  They let all these people on stage but they were kicking the photographers off.  People were going up and getting their shots and getting kicked off.  I decided that I was probably only going to get one chance to do it, so I wanted to wait for the perfect time. Unfortunately before I got that time the stage broke and it started raining.  So many people had jumped in the press pit that it was impossible to do anything.  Usually that is where I shine as a photographer because it makes me feel like I am in a battle, but the rain was really worrying me and after they pushed his DJ booth back to protect it from the rain I pretty much gave up and shot some crowd stuff before.  I was on the way home when the girls I met from NJ told me they had a table reservation at Brooklyn Bowl and I was starving.  Brooklyn Bowl was the after party spot so I ended up hanging for a bit, taking pics and spending $34 on brisket and a milkshake.  They day was somewhere between a disaster and an amazing fucking time… I am just not exactly sure where.

Oh yeah, one more thing.  This gallery has exactly one NSFW pic in it that I feel like I need to make note of. I have seen my friend Kari’s boobs at parties many times over the 8 or so years I have known her and she was one of the early Burning Angels and I never once took a photo of her boobs. Last night she flashed me for a picture and while it is not exactly a work of art it is pretty historic.

Anyway, my flash batteries died on me again by the time I was at Brooklyn Bowl so those , but click here to see all the pictures I took Sunday.

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