My last night in Miami proper was a pretty fun one. I had a photo shoot on a beach with a hot naked girl (coming tomorrow I hope…) and then I tried to drive to South Beach to get some food with some friends. I tried to park for over an hour before just giving up and driving down town for this Exhibitalia party that Fiat and Fader put on.  It was a bunch of Italian art and some of it was really good and some of it was really really bad. I was asked to shoot the thing for the Miami New Times but I was also excited to go because Nick Catchdubs was DJing and I love that dude.

When I got there Nick was nowhere to be found but there was plenty of meat and sticks and I ate a bunch of meat on a stick and took photos for a while.  It was sort of empty and seemed kinda lame for a while but then for some reason Pharell was there. I asked him if I could take his photo and he said no, but he shook my hand and introduced himself.  I told him I was a fan, and I am, and he told me that I could take a picture of me and him together. I don’t really take pictures like that but he made it seem like this was something we had to do, so I took a picture of him and I with my little point and shoot 35mm camera.  Later in the night when I was outside on my phone he came out and thanked me for being cool about not taking his picture. I appreciated that and while I haven’t bought the last two N.E.R.D albums I do still wear trucker hats from time to time… so respect.

Later Nick showed up and brought his Fool’s Gold partner Atrak with him and Atrak brought his brother Dave 1 of Chromeo.  Roofeeo from the Death Set showed up with his girlfriend and Matt & Kim. I finally met Matt & Kim which seemed a long time coming because we have so many friends and they were pretty awesome.  One of their crew was this dude Taylor who is actually roommates in LA with my friend Annaliese who runs Gods Girls.  Small fucking world. I also met a NYC graffiti artist named Fumero. I had shot his work for Unseen NYC and I recognized his work on his t-shirt. We had a good conversation and I hope to get him involved somehow with Unseen.

The party was fun and the meat on a stick was awesome but soon I was in my rental car with far too many people.  I had an entire band in the passenger seat (Matt & Kim) along with Matt’s brother, Taylor, Roofeeo & his his girlfriend in the back seat.  We went to the Miami version of Bardot where Matt & Kim were doing a DJ set.  I hung out with those kids for most of the night and unfortunately could not take photos in that club.  At some point we met up with some guys from Fader who took us to Electric Pickle which was pretty dead but their was an amazing taco truck parked outside. By this time Kim and Matt’s brother Fletcher were so wasted it was amazing. She could barely walk and  Fletcher kept taking off his shirt. From that point on it is kind of a blur but I ended up with a film canister full of wine, we hunted for chickens, scared several people at Wallgreen’s and listened to Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” five times in a row.  I ended up getting back to my place around 7am.  It was a pretty fucking good night.

Click here to see the photos form the Exhibitalia party that started the night off with free wine and delicious meats.

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