A Week In The Life: 2007

September 8, 2026September 8, 2026

Once again I have been slacking on Vintage Driven By Boredom posts, and once again I have a reason for it: In the hack I lost access to my archives. That means I can’t look up a specific event and remember what the hell happened that night. My memory is terrible. My visual memory is okay and I think that’s why I take photos, but I can’t remember any of the details without that archive. Fortunately a backup of it exists, but it’s just code and hard to search and until I pay someone to get it back online I am sort of without it. So I had an idea…

Instead of posting photos from a specific party and telling you all about that night, I am going to post hundreds of photos from a bunch of different, all taken in August 2007. The idea is to sort of break down the average week in my life as a party photographer back then when it was just a side hustle and I was still going out nearly every single night.

In August 2007 I had been living in NYC for about a year and Driven By Boredom was pretty popping. My camera sucked and my photos were bad, but somehow I was getting a ton of traffic and was having a ton of fun. I could pretty much get in anywhere at that point and I felt very cool, but I was still working as a busboy at a hotel restaurant. Every day I would go out around midnight, hit one or two parties, make out with some babes and party my ass off until 4am. I would take the train back to Brooklyn, dump my photos, take a shower and head back into the city so I could get to midtown before my shift started at 6am. It was pretty fucking soul crushing to work this shit job after taking off my hipster nightlife persona. About a month after I took these photos I quit and tried to make it as a full time photographer. I made it about nine months. At the end of 2008 I got laid off of my last “real job” thanks to the economic collapse and finally “made it” but in August 2007 I was sleeping a few hours a day and just absolutely grinding trying to live this fun life I eventually managed.

So let’s go through the week:

On Monday’s eventually I started going to the party M at Darkroom, but in August 2007 that was my night off. I went through a couple of months of photos from back then and I think the only time I worked on a Monday was to photograph a band.

Tuesdays were always at Happy Ending or was it Happy Endings, I will never remember. Six Six Sick was downstairs and eventually Disco Down was upstairs, but I don’t think that party existed at the time. Happy Endings was such a fun place to party. This particular night I actually stopped off at Lit first. I think it was a party called Rebel Rebel, but don’t quote me on that. I don’t have anything specific to note, other than I shot a couple bathroom nudes at both bars and that’s going to be a running theme because I uploaded a whole gallery of NSFW photos from this week to Girls of Driven By Boredom.

Wednesday was High Voltage. It was one of the first parties I started going to in New York and I think Dimitry was the first person to ever pay me to shoot a party. It was either him or DJ Jess, but we will get to that on Friday… High Voltage started at Sutra and then moved over to 200 Orchard before finally ending up at The Annex where we were on this particular evening. I didn’t shoot a ton of photos this night for some reason but there are so many photos of people I love in the few shots I did take. My first girlfriend in NYC was there and at least three people that I consider real friends to this day. I fucking loved Wednesdays.

Thursday was either back at Lit of back at Happy Endings or more likely both. I texted DJ RekLES to ask him what the Happy Endings party was and he told me it was called Steam Machine, but I don’t believe him because that is not even slightly familiar. It was hosted by him and Sean Roberts and Antwan and Julius Onah who directs fucking Marvel movies now. Wild. This night I had my friend Alex visiting and he and a few of his friends were crashing at my place. I ended up photographing the two girls he was with naked in the Happy Endings bathroom, and also my friend Tracy who I used to take photos of a lot back then. Fortunately for you guys, you can see all that stuff only on Girls of DBB. As far as the Lit party goes, that was called NC-17 and it was thrown by DJ Jess and Jeremy Bastard. It was a very different crowd by the always had go-go dancers and Lit was such a grimey place I knew I was gonna get someone naked or make out with someone in a bathroom. Honestly that night I took so many photos of people making out but I only photographed one person nude: my old pal Apathy who I have photographed naked more than maybe anyone on earth. Again those are over on Girls of DBB… I should also mention that I think Girls and Boys was on Thursdays at Hiro Ballroom back then. It was a blast and I photographed it a handful of times, but none in August 2007.

Friday nights were two of the best parties of all time: Ruff Club and Trash. Ruff Club was at Annex and it was the very first party I ever went to as a New York resident. Trash was at Rififi at the time and was maybe the first party I got paid to shoot. It was hosted by DJ Jess as well (and Twig and Alex) and lasted longer than any of these parties. Jess was such an important part of my life and I will miss that dude forever. Nearly every Friday I would take the J train to the LES for Ruff and then head up to Trash in the East Village and then take the L Train home (or vice versa). I am actually including two Friday’s in this gallery because one of them I only went to Trash. For some reason on the Ruff Club night I mostly shot photos outside of the club, it was probably insanely hot inside, and I don’t have any photos of the “Ruff Kids”. Both Trash galleries feature so many people I love and of course a tiny bit of nudity…

Misshapes ruled Saturday nights but it was at Don Hills and it was so far away and I had some dumb beef with one of the Misshapes so I rarely went and never photographed it. The party had ended by this time anyways and I think their short lived Wednesday night party Bleached was gone too. Saturday’s for me at that time was Rated X at Luke & Leroy’s (and Robot Rock across the street before that party ended). Rated X was the wildest weekly party. It was thrown by Theo Kagan, Michael T, Jess and Peppermint Gummybear who hosted the insane Hot Body Contest. The whole party was designed to be debaucherous. If you checked your pants at coat check you got discount drinks and they would do a late night hour of two for one well drinks. Somehow they also let 18 year olds in so it was always full of these SVA kids who were fresh out on their own and partying so fucking hard. The aforementioned hot body contest was a complete shit show of nudity and chaos. This is the party you’d think I would have the most NSFW photos from, but the hot body contest was so wild I don’t really want to put anyone on blast all these years later. I do have a few mildly safe for work photos in this gallery, and a few in the paid gallery but only because I think some of the people were in the adult industry so I am sure they don’t care if their nudes are online. Oh, I almost completely forgot, that night I also went to see Andrew WK play at Highline Ballroom, a venue I almost completely forgot about. I almost didn’t include these because it didn’t make a ton of sense for this breakdown of what I did in a given week, but it was a lot of fun and there are some great photos in there.

Sundays really belonged to the Smiths party at Sway. I have photographed that party so many times and I think it existed back then, but Sway, like it’s neighbor Don Hills, was a pain in the ass to get to and I don’t like the Smiths. I still always had a blast there. I have some super memorable nights in my life that happened at Sway. Back then Sundays was also a bit of a day off. I would sometimes shoot a monthly, like the industrial/fetish party Byte at the Delancey or Bowie Ball. If Motherfucker fell on a Sunday I would always be there, but none of that stuff was weekly so I am not including any of that in this gallery.

So yeah, speaking of galleries, this gallery is probably the biggest I have ever posted. It has five hundred and forty nine photos. If you see less than that it’s because someone didn’t want photos of them making out with a stranger when they were a kid online in 2026. I feel you and I am happy to take it down. There’s also that NSFW gallery of 60 something images over on Girls of Driven By Boredom, and that takedown request goes double for those. Not trying to fuck up anyone’s life which is mostly why all that stuff is paywalled. So yeah enjoy, and check out the Vintage DBB Instagram all this week because I plan on posting highlights from each night on there on the corresponding day. (Tag me if you post em.)

Okay go look at all the photos!

Don’t Worry, We Will Always Have Juggalettes

August 22, 2026

In 2010 Saturday Night Live released a video mocking the Insane Clown Posse’s song Miracles. The line “fucking magnets, how do they work?” had already gone viral and the SNL video just added fuel to the fire. Everyone on the internet was dunking on ICP and juggalos. The problem with all that is that if you are at all familiar with their music you would realize that ICP was in on the joke and I just so happened to be familiar with their music.

When I was 17 Insane Clown Posse released an album called “The Great Milenko”. It’s possible that you would have never even heard of the band if a bunch of conservatives hadn’t lost their damn mind and started protesting the record. Hollywood Records, and imprint owned by Disney, dropped the band. MTV News picked up the story and a bunch of disaffected teenage kids picked up the album…

The subculture of juggalos didn’t really exist back then and so it didn’t seem that out of character for a bunch of DC punk kids who loved b-horror movies to take a chance on the band when their albums were essentially musical b-horror movies. The music might not have been great but the songs were funny and fucked up and people had been telling us forever that our music was terrible, so it’s not like we gave a single fuck what people thought about that.

By the time I went to college in 1999 I had pretty much stopped listening to ICP. They had a new album out that year and it wasn’t really for me and I wasn’t hanging out with my high school punk friends on the daily. I didn’t really think about them again until the Miracles video dropped. But when it did, I found myself defending them constantly. I don’t know how many times I had to explain to someone that they were trying to be funny. They thought the famous “magnets” line was funny too.

At some point I almost jokingly Tweeted “Who wants to go to the Gathering of The Juggalos with me?” My editor at the Village Voice, Camille Dodero was the only person who responded. She started working at the Voice wanting to write, but she had been stuck editing other people’s work and she thought this would be the perfect story for her. The Voice only wanted to send a photographer but she wanted to go so she paid for her trip out of her own pocket. By the time we returned from the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos my photos had already blown up, her story had become a cover story, and she definitely got reimbursed for her expenses.

From then on juggalos were my beat. I returned to the Gathering every year and ended up covering juggalos for dozens of outlets, from Rolling Stone and Vice and the Daily Beast, to countless alt weeklies and music magazines to even Playboy and Hustler. Last year I was even interviewed by All Gas No Breaks/Channel 5 as their “juggalo expert” for a video that tragically still hasn’t dropped yet.

Over the years (amazingly partially thanks to my coverage) juggalos have become less of a punchline. The Gathering of the Juggalos has become less terrifying and far more accessible. The festival has publicists and wifi and dozens of social media influencers who show up to make fun of juggalos only to leave loving these insane clowns. The problem for me is that I am a victim of my own success and people are sort of over it. The collapse of media hasn’t helped, but my clients have ben dropping one by one. Last year I only had two clients and one of them was Brooklyn Vegan who just laid off most of their staff.

That’s all to say that The Gathering of the Juggalos is happening right now and for the first time since 2009, I am not there. I was going to lose money on the trip and it was the best time for me to visit my family and see my niece and nephew and I made the hard decision not to attend. I hope to get back next year because I am having crazy FOMO and I miss my clowns. I have been working on a Gathering of the Juggalos book for years that still doesn’t exist and until it does I can’t retire… just take a little break.

Now, did I think this post was going to be 1000 words long? No, probably not, but I started and I couldn’t stop and here we are at the main point on this post, which is to say, don’t worry, I still have some NSFW juggalettes for you which is honestly half the reason people love my photos in the first place. I have not one, but two juggalette galleries for you that I have already posted to my paysite Girls of Driven By Boredom (which has so much juggalette content if you are interested).

The first shoot I actually did on the ground last year at the Gathering. I shot my pal Lil Filth and her friend Quaesita on a poison ivy covered hill that people were camping on for some insane reason. I actually never asked them if they got poison ivy, I hope not but sometimes you have make sacrifices for art.

The second shoot is of Malibu Montana aka Tat2Barbie who I met at the Gathering of the Juggalos years ago. I have some insane photos of her over the years but we had never done a proper shoot. I followed her on Instagram at some point and while I was in Vegas in January for the AVN Awards and noticed she was also in Vegas. I hit her up and she came by and we attempted to shoot some photos in the “kitchen” of my hotel room. The lighting was so bad I actually turned off all the lights and used this cheap video light I have to light her and those ended up being pretty cool. I feel like we could have done better, and hopefully we will one day, but like if juggalette strippers with face tattoos are your cup of tea I have a feeling you are gonna love these photos.

So now that we are over that 1000 word count I mentioned earlier let’s get to the photo gallery. I have just hand full of mostly safe for work images below from both shoots, but you can see everything over on Girls of DBB, so go there now and I will be back soon, I swear.

Click here to see all the NSFW photos of juggalettes over on Girls of Driven By Boredom!

Maya Rue Part Two

August 3, 2026August 3, 2026

Hello we are back and I have some new photos of Maya Rue for you. And by new, I mean new to you, because I shot these back in January when I was at AVN. Maya and I did three photoshoots together back then and I am spreading them out a bit. I didn’t mean to spread them out this much, but we had that whole hack thing and my site was down forever. Weirdly enough these would have been up a week ago but something new was going on with my site and I got locked out. This time it was my host’s fault and their AI support fucking sucks but we finally got through to a real person and got it resolved. None of that is important, we have photos for you to look at.

Anyway Maya rules and if you haven’t checked out the first shoot we did, you should do that right away. Now that you are back, you need to go look at these new photos because it’s actually my favorite shoot of the three. The hotel room I was staying at in Vegas had a livingroom, a bedroom and a bathroom so we did one shoot in each room. Problem solved. I don’t know what it is but I just love shooting in a bathroom. I am sure it’s because I got my start shooting nudes in nightclub bathrooms, but also the photos just look good. Maybe I should just do a zine of bathroom nudes one of these days. Actually, don’t give me anymore ideas I got too many projects in the works…

Okay I need to finish this up because I am going to NYC tomorrow and I got too much to do before I leave. This gallery is nearly 50 photos, but they are pretty NSFW so you get to see 12 safe for work ones and the rest are paywalled over on Girls of Driven By Boredom. They are absolutely worth the few dollars a month it costs to sign up and you will have access to two shoots with Maya plus probably several hundred thousand other nudes because I am nothing if not prolific.

So yeah, go to Girls of Driven By Boredom to check out all the photos, or if you don’t value my work and still want to see some sexy photos check out the gallery below…

Goldie Fawn

July 16, 2026

I have excellent news for you all, we have new photos of Goldie Fawn!

I met Goldie way back in 2018 through another model and we did this amazing shoot in their hotel room around the AVN Awards week that year. Fast forward to AVN 2024 and I got to photograph Goldie by herself, this time on the roof of my rental car right before the Awards. She walked the red carpet and then we took some photos of her in and out of her dress in the parking garage super quickly, and then she went to the Awards. We didn’t take enough to justify a full post so she ended up in my Girls of AVN update, but that post came out about a month before I redid my entire site, so that post is sadly gone, but on’t worry, all the photos are still on my pay site. Just saying…

Fast forward once again to January and I was headed back to AVN and immediately hit Goldie up. She is just so nice, so fun to be around and and a fantastic model (she can essentially bend in half) so I am just always excited to get to take her picture. Not only that, but I cannot tell you how many models have reached out to me based on her recommendation. She’s just the best and I cannot wait to do it again.

So yeah, this year I shot her in her hotel room after the convention. I think we tried to get some other people to shoot with us but it’s always so hectic there but I am glad we got some one on one photos anyway outside of the quick shoot we did on my rental car. My one regret is that she had these tiny heart shaped pasties on and we kept them on for most of the shoot because they looked cute but when I went back to look at the photos they are kinda distracting and technically not even naked. I knew you guys would be deeply upset about that so I threw in some bonus 35mm photos we took after she took them off. I would hate to deny you actual nipples like god intended. That being said, I am paywalling them and honestly all the pastie photos in general because am trying to keep this site kinda SFW and I am also trying to pay for never ending problems with the slowly sinking 65 year old house my girl and I bought. So yeah, go sign up for Girls of Driven By Boredom. You can see all these photos of Goldie, all the old shoots we did and probably over 100k other NSFW photos. It’s worth the $6 a month or whatever it costs. I should probably know that.

Anyway, I cannot wait to shoot Goldie (and all of her friends) again. I also should mention that obviously we are way behind because of the hack, but the good news is that I still have four more shoots I did at AVN to get up, and I have two other NSFW shoots I sill haven’t published yet. So we got plenty of content to look forward to in the future. Okay that’s it. See you guys soon.

Check out the preview gallery of Goldie Fawn below and then head over to Girls of DBB for the good stuff.

Lit Lounge 8th Anniversary – 2.22.10

June 29, 2026July 16, 2026

I have had these photos ready to go for months now. That whole getting hacked thing caused most of the delay because even though we recently solved that problem the one thing that we lost permanently was my old archives. I had an internal use only version of my old website that didn’t have any of the images, just the text, that way I could go back and check my archives. I could pull up a random folder, like for example a folder only called 2.22.10 and then I could type 2.22.10 into my archival site and pull up that night. I could then see what the party was, what I was doing in my life and what happened that night. It was a great tool and it was deleted forever.

My former webmaster thought she had a back up so she sent me those files, I sent them to the guy who unfucked my website and he uploaded all the files she sent and it turns out it was just some random early version of the current site that only had four posts. No idea what happened there. Since then, I have found my backup of the site, but it’s not the archive site, it’s just the whole ass website, so I can hopefully build back a new archives site, but that probably won’t happen for a while because I have spent all my money on my goddamn house. Anyway long story short I don’t have my notes from February 22nd, 2010… but I do have some memories.

First things first I know it was Lit Lounge’s 8th anniversary party. I actually had to look up which anniversary it was, but I knew it was an anniversary. Lit was one of my all time favorite bars. Before I even moved to NYC one of the best days of my life ended dancing at Lit (it almost ended at an emergency room, but that’s another story). The bar had an art gallery in the back, and incredibly seedy basement, and multiple lockable bathrooms. There are not a lot of places on earth more conducive to debauchery.

The other thing I remember from this night, is that earlier that day the US beat Canada in a huge Olympic hockey game. We of course then lost to them in the gold medal game in heartbreaking fashion, but the reason I remember that day is because in the Lit photo gallery there are a few photos that I shot on a 70-200mm lens, and it’s the only time I have ever brought that lens to the club and the only reason I brought it to the club was because I brought it to watch US hockey at a bar in the East Village and the only reason I brought it to that bar in the first place was because I had just bought it and it was snowing and I had my friend Vicky meet me at the bar and we shot topless photos in the snow. I actually really loved those photos and I am going to re-edit those right now and upload them to Girls of Driven By Boredom, so if you are seeing this, they are up there right now.

You know I love a tangent, but let’s get back to it… What else? For some reason that POS rapist Ron Jeremy was there that night. I used to run into him all the time and he always sucked even before I knew all the shit he did. Aside from that, so, so many of my friends were there and so many girls I had crushes on and went on one date and then just became friends with after it didn’t work out because I was a mess back then. I guess I wasn’t so bad if they still wanted to be friends with me, but I was not really someone anyone took seriously as a romantic partner. Oh and speaking of dates, the girl who I went on my first ever internet dating site date was randomly at the party. We lived in Richmond, VA and we met on a site called Make Out Club (iykyk). She moved to NYC first and then when I moved there she moved back to RVA, but just happened to be in NYC that night.

Anyway, I honestly don’t really remember anything else and this has gone on long enough, but I know people are going to dig these photos because pretty much everyone from like 5 different downtown scenes was there because Lit had something different going on every night. Shit, even my terrible punk band used to play there. Man I miss that spot.

Anyway check the gallery below, and then if you feel like it you can go look at some photos of my old friend Vicky topless in the snow taken earlier that day. She isn’t in this gallery at all, but I promise you will dig the photos if you like that sort of thing. Okay bye.