Last year at the Gathering of the Juggalos a guy named Nebraska Warrior volunteered to fight anyone, without gloves, during the live Psychopathic Radio broadcast hosted by the band Wolfpac. Before Nebraska all the Psychopathic Radio fights were done with boxing gloves and head gear and on roller skates. It started off as this funny thing but in 2013 he and a guy named Burnout went at it until they decided to take off the skates and gloves. It was one of the most brutal things I had ever witnessed and although Nebraska lost he instantly gained juggalo infamy at the Gathering.

Fast forward to last year and he beat everyone who challenged him and with my pals at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis we published this article about Nebraska. I also published even more photos of the fights on DBB over here.

So this year Nebraska was one of the first people I saw at the Gathering. I asked him if he was going to fight again. He was all about it. The next day I saw a juggalo bleeding from the face and I asked him what happened. He had just been in a fight at the Psychopathic Radio stage and lost. I asked him who he fought… It was Nebraska. I couldn’t believe I missed it.

When I saw Nebraska again he promised he was going to fight again and this time I wasn’t going to miss it. The next day I watched him destroy a much larger man who looked like a bruiser. In that guys defense he took everything Nebraska gave him and almost looked like he was enjoying it. When I saw that guy on Saturday he had a huge black eye but was still smiling.

I took a bunch of photos of the fight and Noisey ended up running them in this story about juggalo bare-knuckle boxing.

The next day I watched Nebraska fight a third challenger and made the guy tap out so quickly that I barely got any pictures. The ones I did get were too dark because by the time I figured out my settings it was over. I saw the challenger later that day and he told me he really won the fight because he made Nebraska’s nose bleed and he only tapped out because he didn’t like being choked… right.

When it was all over Nebraska had destroyed three dudes and his only wound was a slightly bloody nose that he told me he was glad to have finally received. On top of all that Nebraska is a great dude and is the nicest most peaceful juggalo when he’s not beating peoples faces in.

Now go look at this gallery of Nebraska Warrior taking on all comers during Wolfpac’s live Psychopathic Radio show. 

Tomorrow I head to my 6th straight Gathering of the Juggalos and that means I am opening up the road trip blog so that I can do quick daily updates while I am on the road and then I can upload full galleries when I get back. I will also be posting links on there to when my stuff runs on Noisey and Rolling Stone who are paying for my trip.

I should also probably mention something about my website and lack of updates recently. My site is up and running after being hacked so that’s great but I haven’t been shooting much but naked women recently which is obviously not a problem but I just hate to fill my site with just nudity because it looks like even more of a porn site than usual. So the combination of the slow season for nightlife, my site being hacked and a pretty shitty bit of depression has made for a pretty empty website.

But yeah that should be about over now. I think I’ve pretty much pulled out of the bullshit in my life, the site is back up and the Gathering will provide for a ton of fucking updates. Plus I got some fun projects coming up so be on the look out.

I also should mention that I shot porn star Brandy Aniston yesterday (who incidentally is an ICP fan). The main point of our shoot was to shoot her topless in Times Square but I did that on 35mm film so I have no idea what that is going to look like. I hope it will be epic. But we also spent about 10 minutes (maybe closer to 5) shooting in her hotel room and actually got a few nice shots.

So to give you guys something else to look at other than Juggalos I uploaded a temporarily exclusive set to Girls Of Driven By Boredom. Most of the set will be posted here eventually but I wanted to upload something for my hard core fans while I am off photographing clowns.

So head over to Girls of DBB to see Brandy Aniston.

And then head this way to the Road Trip Blog for daily Gathering of the Juggalos updates!

As you may know I have been making my way through every photo I have ever taken, trying to pull the best images, and somehow organize everything a little better. The goal in the end is to make a series of different portfolio sites highlighting several types of work I do because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to show all my work to every client. I launched a rough version of my new very NSFW 35mm site yesterday and it’s a bit bipolar already without involving any of my event or commercial work.

For a while I was editing a month a day but things slowed down recently as I worked on Dinner With Igor and my Vegas photo album, but I finally finished going through all of 2010. Since people seemed to love my “Best of 2009” gallery I figured I should do a 2010 version. It’s pretty much just event work, I decided to leave the naked babes out of this, but the gallery is still NSFW.

2010 was interesting because I really stepped up my game as far as camera gear. I upgraded from the consumer camera the Nikon D-300 to the pro full frame D-700. I also stopped using kit lenses (I was always worried about bringing a $1700 lens into a nightclub) and bought a couple serious lenses including my standard event lens the 24-70mm 2.8. The odd thing is I think my event photography actually got worse as a result. My portrait work got a lot stronger but as I went through 2010 I noticed that I started slacking on my party photos. Looking back has made me want to up my game a little bit. I think this whole thing has been a great experience despite the tedium.

A few highlights from 2010 include:

• Covering SXSW Film for the Village Voice for the first time
• Photographing Robin Williams, Billy Crystal & Whoopi Goldberg for NYU/Tisch
• The release of Lena Dunham’s first film Tiny Furniture before anyone knew who she was
• Electric Daisy Carnival’s last year in LA made for some hilarious photos
• More juggalos
• The Anthology Film Archives 40th anniversary
• The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
• Guns & Roses in the husk of CBGBs
• Maiden, Miami & Most Interesting

I got laid off from my last real job in December 2008. Most of 2009 I was still thinking about getting a real job, receiving unemployment and trying to figure out what the hell I was doing next. By 2010 I was all in. Aside from spending a quarter of my income on camera gear I also started traveling a lot more including a month long trip where I photographed SXSW Film, SXSW Music, Winter Music Conference and then hit Slaughterama on the way home. It was a pretty good year.

Click here to see a massive gallery of the best of 2010 event photos!

And this concludes your 2014 Gathering Of The Juggalos photo updates! A week and eleven posts later the juggalos updates wrap up with this post entitled “Errthang Else”, named of course after DJ Paul’s delicious On Errthang seasoning that I purchased at the Gathering. This post is juga  massive gallery of everything that didn’t fit into the previous ten posts. I know some of you are glad to see me get back to normal on Driven By Boredom, but I know just as man of you will sadly miss your favorite insane clowns.

For those of you that are glad to get back to real life, I have some pretty good updates for this week including some new Shay Laren pictures and some photos from my trip to the Creation Museum. It should be pretty weird. For those of you that are sad to see the juggalos go, don’t worry, there are over 200 photos in this gallery AND I still have a bunch of naked jugglatte photos from 2013 that still haven’t gone up. I know right? Madness.

But yeah, that’s it. I kinda have a feeling this might be my last year covering the Gathering. I think I have taken all the juggalo photos I can and with more media covering it I feel like the thrill is gone. Thornville was a good place to hold the Gathering I think but not being in the middle of nowhere takes some of the adventure out of it. Now I will probably change my mind by next summer and I will certainly be back if a media outlet throws some money at me but if not I just wanna say it’s been a hell of a five years. Whoop whoop and MFMCL!

Now click here to see the final photos from the 15th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, OH!

Ps. Here is a bonus link to ALL my Gathering coverage over the last 5 years. Scroll down. Forever.

The penultimate 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos update is the one people wait all year for. An entire gallery of topless and naked juggalettes! This year the gallery was sadly smaller in years past, probably because there were cops at the Gathering, but fear not, there are still a bunch of naked ‘lettes for your viewing pleasure and/or horror.

This post is great because it is loved by so many different people. Juggalos love it cause it features naked juggalettes, perverts love it because it features boobs and then everyone else loves it because they get to send it to their friends and force them to look at people that you would not necessarily look at naked. But you gotta give it up to some of these ladies, there is no shame in their game so to speak. As sexist as people claim juggalos to be, there are no body image issues here. But don’t worry creeps, there are a bunch of babes in here too like Pepper Kester and Gypsy Ninjette!

But yeah, enjoy this post cause I had to spend like 15 minutes photoshopping ICP’s faces on to their boobs for the main page. But don’t worry, all the photos are fully uncensored and NSFW up in the gallery. And if you can’t get enough, here are links to the last 4 years of juggalo porn!

– Naked Juggalettes 2013 – Naked Juggalettes 2012 – Naked Juggalettes 2011 – Naked Juggalettes 2010 –

Now click here to see the brand new 2014 edition of naked juggalettes from the Gathering of the Juggalos!!

Ps. There is no explanation for why there are photos of the burrito men in this gallery. Just embrace it, ninja.

In my efforts to finish getting up all my photos from the Gathering of the Juggalos I just through a bunch of stuff into a gallery called “Nighttime Madness”. This gallery includes a bunch of stuff including shots of the late night after parties, comedy showcases, wrestling, and much more. Let’s see if I can walk you through it…

Every night at the Gathering there is an after party. In the past they have been some of the Gathering’s best events. This year they did them on the main stage and something about that got away from the intimacy of a small tent in the middle of the woods. A couple years ago I sat on the stage and watched Pharcyde and Warren G did a tribute to Nate Dogg. This year not so much.

The comedy highlights were Gilbert Gottfried who I see all the time in the Lower East Side just walking around and former wrestler Mick Foley. Gottfried did a set of really old jokes which was honestly amazing to see. These are jokes you have heard your entire life done by the guy who wrote them. Watching him get a kick out of the juggalos was the best part though. He just kept getting them to chant insane things like “Fuck Jack Parr!” and then would laugh to himself. It was great. He also did a particularly offensive telling of The Aristocrats which you should clearly watch. Mick Foley really impressed as well. I always enjoyed him as a wrestler, and the guy has written a bunch of best selling books, but he is a fantastic raconteur and told stories that even people who aren’t wresting fans would enjoy. Not that it would matter since pretty much all juggalos are also wrestling fans.

Also included in this gallery are some shots of the girls of the infamous “Passed Out Juggalos“. They find sleeping jugglaos at the Gathering and put their butts on their heads. I realized those pronouns might be confusing and the concept seem mildly awful, but in reality it’s a good time for all and kinda hilarious at 5am.

We also have a few shots of lady wrasslin’, the legendary and mysterious burrito men, and a camp set up by fire juggling steam punk maniacs RIFT (Rhythmic Illusions Fire Tribe). Oh there is also a terrifying wheel and some fire works. Whoop whoop.

Click here to see all the nighttime madness from the Gathering of the Juggalos. NSFW as you would expect.

How many Batmans is too many Batmans is a question I asked myself many times at the Gathering of the Juggalos. One of my Village Voice cohorts asked me why juggalos liked Batman so much. I had never really noticed until that moment but maybe 4% of all people were wearing Batman related clothing. So three days into our coverage we decided we need a juggalos are Batman gallery! We couldn’t actually talk our editors into running the Batman gallery across all 11 Voice Media papers but fuck it, I am going to post it here!

Before you look a this gallery you need to keep in mind we didn’t come up with this idea until late on day three of four days of the Gathering. That means nearly every one of these photos was taken on one day. That’s a lot of Batmans.

And yes, I realize this is a terrible idea for a post, but fuck you, it’s the weekend, go play outside or something. And calm down, theres’ just three juggalo posts left.

Click here to see undeniable proof that juggalos are Batman!

Update: I knew Twiztid had a connection to Batman themed stuff but according to @YoungFinna on Twitter the Batman link is because of this Twiztid song specifically. 

After this I only have four Gathering of the Juggalos posts left. The goal is to get two up on the slow weekend and then bust the last two out on Monday including everyone’s favorite yearly naked juggalettes post. For now I have some photos of “juggalo rides”. Much like the juggalo tattoos post, this was thought up by the Village Voice for a slideshow, but unlike the tattoos this one never ran.

I guess the idea was that everyone has all these interesting vehicles they cruise around the Gathering in so maybe we should document them, and then we could toss in actual amusement park rides and call it a day. Seemed easy enough but clearly it wasn’t compelling enough to end up as it’s own post… but clearly my editorial standards are a lot lower than the Voices.

So click here to enjoy some photos of juggalo “rides” at the Gathering of the Juggalos. 

One of the things people seem most interested at the Gathering of the Juggalos is the concept of “juggalo justice”. I remember when I first went to the Gathering 5 years ago I heard they put people in cages if they break juggalo law. Then a few years ago someone was caught stealing and juggalos destroyed his car completely. When my reporter friends talked to the cops this year they told them that “Juggalos have their own court system. They police themselves.” Is juggalo justice a thing?

Kinda. Juggalos are pretty cool to each other, certainly more than at any other festival I’ve been to. One of the food vendors in his 60s told me that it was just like Woodstock. Of course there are a lot of really shitty juggalos there too and if you get caught stealing or something, God help you cause juggalos will fuck your shit up. But the juggalo court system is not a real thing… it’s just something entertaining to do in the middle of the night.

If you go to juggalo night court you can take someone to court and “Judge High Bone” will hear your case and juggalos will vote on who has to spin “the wheel of bone”. If you win you get a free t-shirt. If you lose you get tortured for juggalos amusement. The whole  thing is pretty entertaining, but the cases are rarely actual complaints, just shit made up to get a free t-shirt and see their buddy get fucked with.

The photos I took of the whole thing are pretty mediocre but Daniel Hill of the River Front Times wrote a great article about it using my photos so just read that and then if you really want you can…

Click here to see all my photos from Juggalo Night Court at the 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos. Oh yeah, they are NSFW.