After writing 1200 words about fucking wrestling I think life calls for me to make this post a lot god damn shorter. This is everyone’s favorite post of the year for some reason and it’s my second to last Gathering of the Juggalos post. I am on a bus to DC where I am getting picked up tomorrow to go on a mini vacation so let’s just enjoy some weird juggalette nudes and let’s all move on with our lives okay?

So the last few years there’s been less nudity than normal at the Gathering. The Wolfpac girls seem to wear clothes now and even the Busey Beauties were fairly well dressed. Luckily juggalettes give no fucks about clothing or standards of beauty and there were plenty of horrifyingly wonderful boobs to go around.

I also should mention that while most of the Busey Beauties were quite clothed, Mike Busey brought out a woman aptly named Jenny Jizz who was just blowing dudes all weekend. At some point if you bought a Busey Beauties t-shirt you got a free blow job. Like, I am all for promiscuity but blowing 50 juggalos without using condoms seems dangerous for humanity. People keep asking me about those photos but I am not gonna post shit like that on my site… Fortunately for you scumbags I did post them on Girls of Driven By Boredom because I like money. So go fucking sign up now if you haven’t.

Okay, this post is way too long already. Let’s look at some photos. Btw, normally I photoshop the Insane Clown Posse’s faces over the images I post below but I found a few mildly safe for work images in the edit so I don’t have to deal with that shit on a bus.

And one more thing… If you want to see past naked juggalette posts just click here.

Now click here to see the newest gallery of naked juggalette photos from the 2016 Gathering of the Juggalos.

I have returned from the Gathering of the Juggalos and although I slept for an unreasonable amount of time I still feel physically destroyed after not sleeping or eating real food for four straight days. If you don’t know by now the Gathering is the weirdest music festival on the planet thrown each year by the Insane Clown Posse. This year, and the last two years it has been in a town called Thornville, Ohio just outside of Columbus. Like most festivals the Gathering features a lot of sex, drugs and music, but the Gathering is unique in that it also includes wrestling and bareknuckle boxing and strippers and no real security or pretension of safety. Oh, did I mention everyone is dressed like clowns?

This is my 7th straight Gathering of the Juggalos and I will probably keep going back because it’s impossible to take a bad photo there (although I try my best) and people keep paying me. I have covered the Gathering for probably two dozen media outlets and it seems like someone always wants me to shoot something or write something and I’m not mad about it even if my brand has become juggalo adjacent.

I am (thankfully) going on a mini vacation tomorrow so I have broken the hundreds of images I have for you guys down into 5 total posts with six total galleries. The plan is to get two up today, two up tomorrow and then one final massive update on Thursday featuring over 400 images in one post. I gotta get these up quick so we can all move on with our lives and I can enjoy a few days of my vacation.

This gallery serves as an intro to the festival coverage as well as a place to put all my best images so if I need to come back later to find a photo it will probably be in this gallery. That makes sense right? Didn’t want to shoot my metaphoric load right away, but it’s too late and it’s happening…

These are my favorite images from the 2016 Gathering of the Juggalos and you should click here to look at them.

It seems like just last week I turned this over to the DBB Road Trip Blog and it certainly does not seem like it’s been a year since the Gathering of the Juggalos. But it is that time again! Time for weird terrifying clown photos and fun time madness. Nudity and violence and music and all the insanity you expect from my annual Gathering of the Juggalos coverage.

This year I am covering the Gathering for the LA Weekly and associated papers as well as Noisey and Chicagoist. I have a feeling I will pick up a few other clients along the way (because I always do) and I am sure my juggalo photos will be all over the internets as per usual.

If you don’t know what the Gathering is, here is a link to 6 years of GOTJ coverage. Good luck.

For the rest of you it might be time to temporarily block me on all social networks because you are in for a week of juggalo overkill. I will try to break it up a bit, but no promises…

So head on over to my road trip blog. Hopefully I will be throwing stuff up there daily but at the very least I got a little surprise in store for you for the first update.

Click here to head over to the DBB Road Trip Blog.

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Last night the Insane Clown Posse played New York. Given that my favorite people to photograph are juggalos I of course had to go. This is maybe the third time ICP has played NYC in the last decade and I think I have been to all the shows, but this time they played Webster Hall where I have spent countless hours of my life.

They played their third album, the Riddle Box, front to back on the middle floor of Webster aka the Marlin Room. It is kinda a weird space for a band that spends most of their set throwing two liters of soda at the crowd. The ceilings are low and the room is wider than it is long so unless you were right by the side bars you couldn’t really avoid getting hit with a bottle. I took one to the head and I actually have a cut from the lip of the bottle.

One of my best friends was in town because we were ICP fans in the mid 90’s before juggalos were a thing. That’s how I got into shooting juggalos in the first place. I had a pretty good background in ICP before I started documenting this wonderful madness. He hasn’t listened to ICP in the last 15 years but thought it would be fun to come up from DC for the show.

So I shot photos before the show and after the show but during their set we just ran around getting covered in soda and moshing with juggalos and whatever one does at a concert when they aren’t shooting photos. I don’t even remember how that works. It was actually a lot of fun.

I should also note that there were a ton of under cover hipsters in juggalo costumes there which I guess is probably Camille Dodero and my fault for breaking the internet with our original Village Voice cover story that lead to the massive amount of media at the Gathering of the Juggalos every year. See if you can spot the juggalo tourists!

Now click here to see my photos from the Insane Clown Posse show at Webster Hall!

This is it. The very last 2015 Gathering of the Juggalos update. You made it! Now we can go back to naked porn stars and hipster parties and shit. Get excited. As soon as I get back from vacation I will hit you with a few naked babes to make up for all the juggalos.

This post is just a dump of everything left over from the Gathering. It starts with the very first photo I took of a car that was being signed by everyone and ends with a photo of some wrestlers moving a safe. (Just FYI I was told on good authority that the car was signed by Tech N9ne’s tattoo artist so it’s pretty valuable.)

In here we have a lot of juggalo photos that weren’t quite good enough to make the Juggalo Portraits gallery plus photos of stuff for sale, some crowd shots, pictures of juggalo campsites and vehicles and some of the Wolfpac/ Psychopathic Radios events that didn’t make it in the fight club update. There’s also some juggalo tattoos and some pictures of juggalos getting tattoos. No photo of my new juggalo tattoo though…

So that’s it for the photos, but I also wanted to include a list of all of the articles and photo galleries I had published in different outlets across the internet.

Noisey:
– We Followed Electronic Punk Rappers Ho99o9 To Their First ‘Gathering Of The Juggalos’ Festival
– Inside The Gathering Of The Juggalos’ Annual Bare Knuckling Boxing Competition
– Waka Flocka Won Over A Skeptical Gathering Of The Juggalos Crowd By Force
– No Frowns In Clown Town: The People At The Gathering Of The Juggalos 2015
– Behind The Scenes At The Gathering Of The Juggalos’ Most Infamous Stage Show

Rolling Stone:
– See Freaky, Fiery Photos From The 2015 Gathering Of The Juggalos

Chicagoist:
– Get Weird With Our NSFW Photos From The Gathering Of The Juggalos

Now click here to see the massive gallery of the rest of my 2015 Gathering of the Juggalos photos!

This is my favorite Gathering of the Juggalos update and the second to last. The final update will just be a dump of everything that didn’t fit into another category so I saved the best for second to last.

These are my favorite juggalo photos (although I pulled a few NSFW favorites out for the naked juggalettes update). This is the gallery I am gonna pull from when I finally do my juggalo book. 

The only problem with this gallery is that it features 75 images and least 50 of them are a fantastic. It’s almost too easy to take good juggalo photos. Every day when the sun would start to go down I would have about 90 minutes where every photo I took came out great. Festivals suck because of the harsh light during the day, but once magic hour hits the shots can be great… especially when your subjects are dressed as terrifying clowns.

Now because Amtrak blocked my website I am updating this using my iPhones hot spot so I am gonna make this quick. When I get to DC my vacation officially starts but I am gonna try and get the final update written while on the train so all I have left to do is upload the gallery and hit send on the post tomorrow and then I can just ignore everything until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks for digging these photos and continuously crashing my website. See you tomorrow.

Click here to see all my favorite juggalo portraits from the 2015 Gathering of the Juggalos!

Wanted to come at you guys with a late night post featuring late night things. Really I am just trying to organize these Gathering of the Juggalos photos into as few updates as possible so we can all get on with out lives. Plus I am going on vacation tomorrow so I don’t want to be doing this while I am supposed to be fishing. Yeah, I am going fishing. I go every year. Deal with it.

Anyway, this post is pretty much just all the photos I took using the rented flash that I had to drive 90 minutes to get because I left mine at home because I was on two hours of sleep when I packed. Most of these photos are just photos of juggalos but we got some other stuff going on. After the headlining band plays at the Gathering there is about 5 hours of events going on including a dance party every night featuring various DJs and dancers and stuff. Plus there is comedy and wrestling. I didn’t do any of the wrestling this year but I did hang out with Colt Cabana a couple times if that counts for anything.

I also caught Big Jay Oakerson and Judah Friedlander’s comedy sets. Well I caught part of Oakerson’s but left because I don’t hate women or gay people but that’s just me. Friedlander was really funny but I run into that dude in NYC from time to time so maybe our sensibilities are a bit closer in line than Big Jay Oakerson. True fact: Once when waiting for a friend in Times Square a guy promoting a Judah Friedlander show was so certain I was him that he started telling everyone who passed that I was playing that night. I had to tell a dozen people I wasn’t him before I decided to wait inside the movie theater…

Okay, enough of this madness. Let’s look at some photos. They are slightly NSFW thanks to a lingerie contest.

Click here to see a fairly gigantic gallery of nighttime photos from the 2015 Gathering of the Juggalos.

Every year I come back from the Gathering of the Juggalos with a massive amount of naked photos of juggalettes and do a naked juggalette or juggallette porn gallery or whatever it is. This year things were a bit more sparse. Not sure if it was just me slacking on the nudity (I can only photograph so many boobs…) or the new wave of juggalo feminism or what but my naked juggalette gallery is pretty sparse this year. It’s about 25 images and not all of them are actually naked (or juggalettes).

If I were you I wouldn’t stress it too much though, because when I post a the Busey’s Beauties gallery you will get all the nudity you can deal with.  Actually I am gonna combine this gallery and the Busey’s Beauties gallery into one extra naked gallery and post the high res images to Girls Of Driven By Boredom right now.

Girls of DBB is actually 15 off right now using the code “bw” (cause of this black & white gallery) so you might as well go look at that stuff now.

Anyway, go look at the full gallery of naked juggalos and come back later in the week for the Busey Beauties stuff. Got one more post to go up today too so maybe just come back tonight…

Now click here to see 25 uncensored photos of naked juggalettes at the 2015 Gathering of the Juggalos!

I decided it would be a good idea to combine both Waka Flocka Flame and Machine Gun Kelly’s Gathering of the Juggalos galleries into one post. They played back to back before ICP on Saturday but they also played a song together to open MGK’s set so it just makes sense.

Let’s start with Waka Flocka because he put on one of the greatest sets I have ever seen. When he first came out on stage most of the juggalos gave him a huge cheer, but some of the juggalos started throwing stuff at him. First it was the standard Faygo bottles but I started to see rocks and glass and even fireworks thrown on the stage. Waka Flocka looked pissed as he performed and I couldn’t tell if he was about to walk off stage.

Instead as one bottle came particularly close to his face he just jumped in the crowd. I thought he was about to fight someone but instead he performed the next few songs of his set while in the mosh pit. I saw a juggalo pass him a bottle of vodka and he just chugged it. Juggalos were taking selfies with him mid song and he was actually posing for them while rapping. The whole thing was honestly fucking amazing and probably the best set I have seen in 6 years of photographing the Gathering and maybe one of the top five sets I have seen in 20 years of shooting live music. He must have agreed cause he commented on my Instagram photo of him with “best show ever”.

– Click here to see the story I did for Noisey on his Gathering set. – Click here to see a slightly blurry photo of him on a golf cart that I shot for Rolling Stone. –

After his set Machine Gun Kelly went on. As I mentioned before I have seen him at the AVN Awards and photographed him backstage at the Woodie Awards but this was the first time I had seen his full set and he put on a great show. I don’t love his music but it was fun to watch and the juggalos loved it. He came out with Waka Flocka on a golf cart and they performed a song together and then he did his own thing. Good show.

More photos coming later tonight. In the mean time check out full galleries from both artists.

Click here to see Waka Flocka Flame performing in the crowd at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Click here to see photos of Machine Gun Kelly at the Gathering of the Juggalos.