The French nightclub Le Baron throws yearly pop up parties at the Florida Room in Miami during Art Basel. Last Friday they held a New York themed night featuring 2/3rds of the Ruff Kids and appearances by a bunch of New York nightlife kids. The Friday Le Baron “This Is New York” night was put together by GrandLife the entertainment arm of GrandLifeHotels. You had Mike Nouveau DJing, Steven Rojas hosing plus New York based Whitewall Magazine helped by sponsoring the party.  Sophia Lamar showed up with with camera shy Misshapes and for a while it felt very NYC 2005 up in the club.

There were some not so NYC celeb sitings as well. I got a pretty hilarious shot of Mr. Brainwash and Waris Ahluwalia was hanging out all night. I saw James Murphy there for a second and I heard Adrian Brody was there but I never saw him. There were also a bunch of well known art types who I have no idea who are because I lack culture.

It was a fun party and there was a line around the block all night. People were getting wild, no doubt because of the two hour Sailor Jerry open bar, and I had multiple model looking girls tell me how much they like my punk rock jean vest thing. So it was a pretty good night.

Click here to see all the picture from This Is New York Night at Le Baron at The Florida Room At The Hotel Delano At Art Basel 2011, etc.

I want to put all these Fun Fun Fun Fest posts to bed today so we are combining artists. In this post we group our two remaining hip hop artists together, G Side and Childish Gambino.

G Side came into the Sailor Jerry trailer to get tattoo appointments before their set so I decided it would be a good idea to check them out. I think it’s pretty hard for a rap group to put on a decent set during the day time but these guys got the crowd going and dropped an amazingly impressive 90 second a capella on the crowd. I bounced back to the trailer after that and the guys came in soon and got inked.

Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover I have known for a while. We met back at SXSW and I have kept in touch with the guy. He’s good people, on one of the funniest shows on TV and I am a big fan of his music. When most comedians try to put out a rap album you can’t take it seriously but Childish Gambino isn’t telling jokes. He is fucking shit up. His new album Camp dropped yesterday and you should get that shit right away.

My Gambino shots kinda suck because they pulled me on stage to shoot which while it seemed awesome at the time was probably not the best place to shoot from. I ended up getting a bunch of shots of the back of Donald and some decent shots of his band, but it’s all good. I will get better ones next time.

Click here to see all my shots of G Side at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Tx.

Click here to see all my shots of Childish Gambino @ Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Tx.

For the second weekend in a row I found myself at a music festival in an airstream trailer watching bands get Sailor Jerry tattoos. At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans we tattooed members of Fishbone, Major Lazer, Peelander Z, TV on the Radio and Boots Electric. This time at Fun Fun Fun in Austin we tattooed Big Freedia, Spank Rock, Johnny Nelson, members of Passion Pit, G-Side, Paint It Black and nearly everyone in EYEHATEGOD.

Big Freedia was a highlight, not only because she got a hilarious tattoo but because later when she was talking to Ryan Gosling she showed him it and I got a picture and it blew up all over the internet and made my client very happy and ultimately that will lead to me going on more adventures like these. My homie Johnny Nelson is on the road with Spank Rock and he got a shark right near his Driven By Boredom tattoo and Piink from Major Lazer who got inked last week came back and got a tattoo this weekend that actually says Sailor Jerry on it. It was pretty amazing.

All the tattoos were once again done by Terry Brown at Uptown in New Orleans. Next time down there you should get him to tattoo you… just don’t get him started on his love for Public Enemy or he might never stop tattooing you.

Anyway, I got a busy day today and my band has a show tonight so I am going to get out of here, but check back in a little bit because I have one more post for you and it’s a good one….

Click here to see the Sailor Jerry tattoos from the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas.

Just like on Halloween Weekend at Voodoo Fest Sailor Jerry set up one of their airstream trailers in the artist area of Fun Fun Fun. They gave out rum drinks and actual tattoos to artists, media and festival staff. The airstream also became a place to hang out. There were benches out front and the airstream was one of the only dust storm proof place at the fest.

This star studded gallery is a collection of photos taken in and just outside of the airstream. Lot of rad bands and cute girls stopped by and you clearly need to look at these pictures. I will be back tomorrow with a sequel of sorts to this gallery when I show you all the Sailor Jerry tattoos that were given out at the airstream. Get excited.

Click here to see the party inside a party that was the Sailor Jerry Airstream at the 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas.

This is post one of a series of photo posts from the Fun Fun Fun music fest in Austin Texas that was held last weekend. I was asked to cover the crazy three day party for Sailor Jerry who seemed really happy with my work at the Voodoo fest the previous weekend. They did tattoos and passed out free drinks and I documented at all but I also got to have fun fun fun at the fest and I shot a bunch of bands and a bunch fun times and a bunch of Ryan Gosling.

This first intro post is just full of the crowd shots I took that don’t fit into any specific galleries. These photos are from all over the fest but most of them were taken in the artist/media area that I spent most of my time in because I needed to stay close to the Sailor Jerry trailer. Plus most of my friends are pretentious VIP types and they don’t like to pay for drinks or venture out into public with the unwashed masses.

Also since this is the intro post of Fun Fun Fun I should mention the Ryan Gosling thing.  He was filming a Terrence Malick film called Lawless during the fest and he was there all damn weekend and then he was at all the after parties. I ran into the guy 50 times and EVERYONE was talking about it constantly. Yesterday when I was in Chicago I felt like there was a hole in my life and I didn’t know what it was… I realized that no one had mentioned Ryan Gosling to me in the last twelve hours. So in the next three galleries will be full of “RyGo” as people kept calling him (seemingly just to intentionally make my skin crawl). After that we will move into band photos and this website will once again be a Gosling free zone. So enjoy your Gosling while you have it ladies.

Anyway, I am about to get on a plane so let’s get it on.

Click here to see all the crowd shots from the 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

Okay, this is it. The last post of the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans and we are going to pack a lot into it. I have four galleries of images for you in this one post because I gotta start getting up Fun Fun Fun fest pics later today.  In this post we have mini galleries of Snoop and Kreayshawn and then a mixed gallery featuring live shots of Cheap Trick, Z-Trip, Star Eyes and TV on the Radio. And then finally we have all the random crowd shots I took at the festival. Those probably deserve their own post but I don’t have the time for it…

Snoop Dogg and Kreayshawn were pretty much playing at the same time at opposite ends of City Park in New Orleans. Snoop was supposed to go on a few minutes earlier than her but he ended up going on late. When he did go on his stage lights shined right into my lens and most of my shots had crazy lens flare. As much as I love Snoop I have shot him before so only shot one song and booked it down to Kreayshawn. I know a lot of my friends hate her but I really do love that Gucci Gucci song and I kinda think she is adorable. I also think that the argument that she is racist is bullshit. Whatever the case I had been wanting to shoot her for a while but I only got to shoot about 45 seconds of her set before they kicked me out of the photo pit. My photos were mediocre at best and I only got a few of them. I only got one song to shoot Cheap Trick and TV on the Radio as well and that accounts for why there is only a handful of shots from those sets.  As far as Star Eyes and Z-Trip… well shooting people DJing is just boring so I only took a few shots of them.

Lastly in this post we have the gallery of crowd shots. Most of them are shots of people drinking either out of Sailor Jerry cups, people in crazy halloween costumes or the occasional cute girl. There were a lot of great costumes but it wasn’t really my job to be taking photos of concert goers so I only shot a few photos while I was in between bands. There are also a few random back stage shots like the photos of OFWGKTA members Tyler the Creator and Left Brain.

Anyway, it’s time to put the Voodoo Music Experience to bed and move on to Fun Fun Fun so click below to check out one or all of the four galleries I have left. Thanks.

Click here to see photos of Snoop Dogg at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see photos of Kreayshawn at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see photos of Cheap Trick, TVOTR, Star Eyes and Z-Trip at Voodoo Music Experience.

Click here to see some random crowd shots from Voodoo Music Experience.

I don’t really have a whole lot of amazing photos of the Raconteurs. There are a few shots I like and I don’t really have that much to say about their set but I just fucking love this band. Jack White is pretty much the only relevant rockstar left who isn’t a rapper and Brendan Benson is kinda fucking amazing. Them teaming up is pretty much my favorite thing about modern rock music. And that is all I have to say about that.

Click here to see my shots of The Raconteurs at the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience.

During CMJ I shot two after parties for music documentary screenings at Mondrian SoHo’s club Mr. H. On Wednesday I shot the a after party for “Fix: The Ministry Movie” and on Thursday I did the afters for “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest”.  I was a huge fan of Ministry when I was like 12 and a big Tribe fan for a long damn time. I am pretty sure I own like 7 of their albums.

On Wednesday Paul Barker from Ministry was going to DJ but he was missing some gear or something so that didn’t happen. He still hung out and I got to say what’s up and take some pictures.  On Thursday Questlove DJ’d and Beats, Rhymes & Life director Michael Rapaport showed up. Pharrell Williams who was interviewed in the documentary was also hanging out. I think I have now run into Pharrell three times in the last 10 months and this is the first time he let me take his picture. I am a pretty big fan of both Pharrell and Michael Rapaport. Pharrell’s from my home state of VA and Rapaport has a fucking Bad Brains tattoo which I tried to get a picture of but he had it covered with makeup for work.

Both parties were fun and everyone washed down the good hangs with free Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum and everything was right with the world. Keep up the PMA y’all.

Click here to see pictures from the “Fix: The Ministry Movie” CMJ after party at Mr. H.

Click here to see pictures from the “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest” CMJ after party at Mr. H.

Last night HTC threw a delicious party for the release of their new phone the HTC Rhyme. They had amazing food served by some top NYC chefs – Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo of Frankies, George Mendes of Aldea and Philippe Chow of Philippe. The party was DJ’d by Harley Viera-Newton and my homie Ana Calderon.  It was hosted by a massive bunch of hip motherfuckers and had to be the most fun I have had at a party thrown in honor of a cell phone.

Plus the party was overrun with celebs which always gets people excited. There were probably more than I can name but Charlize Theron, Olivia Wilde and Questlove were some of the highlights. Personally it was really cool to meet Jeffrey Wright. Jonah Hill was there but wouldn’t let me take his picture but he was pretty nice about it. He lost a ton of weight, it was pretty impressive actually. Also I found out that the Olson Twins have a sister, Elizabeth, who was dancing her ass off all night.

Anyway, the party was a blast and since I know you are all star fuckers I am sure you will enjoy taking a look at all the pictures.

Click here to see all the pictures from the HTC Serves Up NYC event at the Highline Stages!