My 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos coverage is sadly coming to an end. I have one more update after this one and I think we are going to have to save it for tomorrow just because I am currently on a train headed out of town on vacation. I am staying the night in DC and don’t actually leave for the beach until tomorrow evening so I will have time to get the last update done then.

This post is the bulk of what’s left. We have all the shots of just juggalos hanging out. This is the party picture type stuff that didn’t fit in anywhere else. There are a lot of half naked jugalettes in here but for the most part it’s at least reasonably safe for work. If you were at the Gathering and you are looking for the photos I took if you they are probably in this gallery. It’s over 200 images of juggalos, juggalos and more juggalos… and a couple of juggalo dogs. So sift through this stuff and enjoy all the crazy mother fuckers that make the Gathering my favorite event to photograph.

And Juggalos… if you don’t see yourself in here maybe you are in the Juggalo Portrait gallery or if you happen to be a juggalette and you had your shirt off you probably ended up in the Naked Juggalette gallery.

So until tomorrow…

Click here to see all the juggalo party pictures from the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos!

The Gathering of the Juggalos is a yearly music festival in Cave In Rock, IL created by the Insane Clown Posse that I have now photographed three times. Every year it produces some of the best photos I have ever taken. To see my complete GOTJ archives please click here.

Every year I cover The Gathering of the Juggalos by FAR the most popular post is the naked juggalette photos. In 2010 I gave it the catchy title of “Juggalo Porn” and then I got yelled at because it’s juggalettes so in 2011 I called it “Juggalette Porn” but this year the post is just going to be called “Naked Juggalettes” mostly because I am already on the first page of google for Juggalette Porn so I figured I would try something else. Gotta get those page views!

Speaking of page views I think I know why this stuff does so well. When I post photos of hot naked chicks a ton of people look at them but they don’t show their friends because sharing porn is creepy. But with the juggalettes there are enough fat ones and crack headed looking ones that it’s funny to share them with your friends even though we all know you are secretly jerking off to this stuff. Don’t lie. I know you.

So get fucking excited because today I am finally bringing to you 91(!) photos of naked or at least topless juggalettes for your pleasure and horror. This is the post you have been waiting for so show your friends this madness already. Tweet and Facebook this shit and do whatever you must to show the world these clearly life changing and of course photos. Make sure you send these not safe for work photos to your friends while they are at work. Thank you for your time. That is all. And now without further ado…

Click here to see all the uncensored photos of naked juggalettes from the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos.

The Gathering of the Juggalos is a yearly music festival in Cave In Rock, IL created by the Insane Clown Posse that I have now photographed three times. Every year it produces some of the best photos I have ever taken. To see my complete GOTJ archives please click here.

This is my favorite post of all the Gathering of the Juggalos posts this year. Yeah the naked juggalettes I am going to post tomorrow will get the most traffic but this gallery is my favorite portraits from the festival. I decided to shoot a lot of these day time portraits at F 2.8 so it would give a low depth of field and blow out the background just like I would if I were doing a proper photo shoot. I probably should do that whenever shooting day time event stuff because I am really happy with the results.

Juggalos are one of my favorite subjects and a number of these people I got to talk to for a long time before or after I took their photo. I met a number of people who had helped destroy a guys car who had been kicked out of the Gathering for stealing. One of those guys was homeless and he had spent a month and a half walking from Oregon to get to the Gathering. While he was at the festival he had all of his belongings stolen and was walking around with the catalytic converter from the thief’s car so that he could sell it to help fund the next leg of his journey. I talked to some juggalos who came all the way from Poland to be there and they were so excited to make the pilgrimage to The Gathering. I talked to people I had met in years past who were now fans of my website and couldn’t wait to see the new shots. I talked to a kid who was on work release and told his parole officer he was “working” the festival. The last time I saw him he was drunk driving a limo through the festival grounds. And I talked to a lot of interesting people who came from all over to be at this festival for the best five days of their year.

This gallery also has some nude juggalette photos in here so it’s properly not safe for work but those photos will show up again in the massive NSFW gallery I am going to be posting of nothing but naked juggalettes tomorrow. Every year that is by far the gallery that gets the most traffic so get excited about it. I still have one more gallery to post later tonight but until then…

Click here to see all my favorite portraits of juggalos at the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos.

The Gathering of the Juggalos is a yearly music festival in Cave In Rock, IL created by the Insane Clown Posse that I have now photographed three times. Every year it produces some of the best photos I have ever taken. To see my complete GOTJ archives please click here.

The big news out of the Gathering of the Juggalos is that the Insane Clown Posse is going to sue the F.B.I. I am sure people read some Tweets or saw a headline and laughed and went on with their day, but the truth is this is some weirdly serious shit. The F.B.I. added juggalos to their gang watch list. When I read about that before I kept thinking how stupid that shit was, but in reality it has had some serious impact on peoples lives. Make fun of juggalos all you want but they are fucking people with families and jobs and they are being fucked with on levels I could never imagine.

ICP had a big seminar where they announced the news. They told everyone about new shows they are doing and a couple of documentaries and all the fun stuff going on with ICP. And then at the end they started talking about how the F.B.I. is fucking up their business and their fans. Being on this watch list means ICP shows are gang activities. If they can find a venue to host one of their shows they have to pay extra insurance on it. Their merch is considered gang gear and can be confiscated. Many stores like Hot Topic have stopped selling their stuff. But on a serious, human rights violation, fascist level peoples lives are being fucked with. People are showing up at their parole officers with a little hatchet necklace on and having their paroles violated. Juggalos are getting pulled over 2-3 times a week for having ICP stickers on their car. Soldiers are being dishonorably discharged for having ICP CDs. ICP decided the only way to fight the law was to use the law and they announced they are suing the F.B.I.

After the announcement the seminar tent was electric. People stood up and cheered. It was honestly touching. I felt like I was in the middle of a movie where someone makes this big speech that changes the course of a war or something. It was sort of amazing. ICP introduced one of their lawyers, Farris Haddad, who was actually a juggalo growing up. And he set up a trailer where any juggalos could come tell him their stories. I became friends with Farris over the next few days and he told me some amazing and sad stories about things happening to these people.

After the announcement I went over to Farris’ trailer and talked to some of the juggalos waiting outside. I heard a story of someone who got sent to prison because they had violated their parole by associating with gang members by friending a juggalo on Facebook. I talked to a guy who had been fired from his job in private security for coming to the Gathering. I talked to people who had lost custody of their kids over this and people who had been arrested and had their tattoos documented and added to gang lists. My friend Kev Buc who came to the Gathering with me told me that he was pulled over once for something little and they photographed all his tattoos and added him to some gang list because he has a Twiztid tattoo. Kev is not some redneck drug dealer or something. He runs Mishka’s NYC flagship store and blogs. I assure you he is not a gangster.

Long story short this juggalos as a gang thing is bullshit. They are just kids who like a band. A lot of these people sell drugs and probably do some dumb shit and end up getting arrested, but that’s just cause the music is popular with poor uneducated kids, but this shit is clearly not organized and them committing crimes has nothing to do with ICP. So I really hope ICP wins and gets juggalos off the F.B.I. gang list.

If you have been fucked with by the cops because you are a juggalo go to juggalosfightback.com. If you want to know more better written, better researched info about all of this read my juggalo anthropology partner in crime Camile Dodero’s interview with ICP on the Village Voice.

I also posted the video of the announcement below the photos. I am in it a lot. At one point you can see me picking my nose which is not a good look but in my defense that place is super dusty and all my boogers looked like rocks.

Now click here to see all my pictures from the Insane Clown Posse’s announcement that they are going to sue the F.B.I.

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The Gathering of the Juggalos is a yearly music festival in Cave In Rock, IL created by the Insane Clown Posse that I have now photographed three times. Every year it produces some of the best photos I have ever taken. To see my complete GOTJ archives please click here.

Right now I am on the way to Cave In Rock, IL. Wait, let me take that back. Right now I am in a cheap motel by the airport in St. Louis but by the time this post is published I will be on my way to Cave In Rock. This little town of 400 people is in the middle of nowhere. It’s three and a half hours from St. Louis and three hours from Nashville. To get there you have to go down dirt roads and take a ferry over the Ohio River. But once you get there and past the state troopers doing random searches of everyone you get to the magical Dark Carnival that is the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Insane Clown Posse is throwing their annual music festival and it has become by far my favorite thing to photograph every year. It’s the craziest fucking thing I have ever been to with five straight days of absolutely no rules, naked fat girls and huge bands opening up for bands most people have never heard of. How often do you get to see George Clinton or Ice Cube open up for Dark Lotus? Exactly. Wild shit.

After two years of shooting the Gathering for the Village Voice as an outsider this year I have actually been hired by the festival to shoot so I should be bringing you guys some unprecedented access to the weirdest music festival on earth. The problem with Cave In Rock is that there is no cell phone service and my only link to the outside world might be the wifi set up back stage at the festival. Other than that I might be cut off completely.

It’s not certain but I would assume that I will not be able to update my site again until next Tuesday but when I come back it’s going to be so much madness over and over again until you never want to see a 400 lb woman in clown make up naked ever again. Crazy right? In the mean time I will be doing my best to Instagram, Tumbl and Tweet my experiences every chance I get even the slightest bit of Wifi or cel service. So follow all that shit and until then check out my past adventures at the Gathering of the Juggalos by clicking here.

Until then, I have only two words for you: Whoop Whoop.

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Guess what’s back muthafackos? Insane Clown Posse in NYC, juggalos return to Driven By Boredom and everything is right with the world.  ICP brought their American Psycho tour to Hammerstein Ballroom. They didn’t sell it out like they did the much smaller Gramercy Theater last time they were in town but it was still packed with juggalos, juggalettes and a few hipster kids there to gawk at actual real life ‘los and ‘letts.

My juggalette life partner Village Voice staff reporter Camille Dodero and I showed up too late to catch the Wolfpac who put on an insane show that was a five AM highlight of the Gathering of the Juggalos. This guy Big Hutch played next and juggalos did not give a shit about them. They did some sort of half N.W.A. cover so I support that. Psychopathic artist Blaze Ya Dead Homie was up next and juggalos do give a shit about Blaze. He was recently arrested with the next act Twiztid for felony weed possession a few tour stops back so that’s a thing. Twiztid I listened to back in 1998 and every time I wear my Twiztid t-shirt to one of these juggalo events someone tries to buy it off me. I also got to hang out with them for a while during this interview and they actually seem like really good dudes so I am officially pro Twiztid.

The Insane Clown Posse of course headlined and I am pretty sure they played the same show at the Gathering of the Juggalos but it was a pretty different thing indoors and without 20,000 juggalos hanging out in a field surrounded by carnival games. It was still pretty wild and most of the hipster kids who looked pretty bored most of the night started to get pretty into it. I ran into my old friend Charlotte there and she and her friends seemed to be having a lot of fun. Two of her super cute friends were really into it so I taught them juggalo gang signs and they ended up covered in Faygo. I don’t think the dudes they were with were trying to get their snap backs wet but I am sure they had more fun than they thought.

The thing about ICP is that even if you go there to make fun of people it is kinda impossible not to have fun when ICP starts throwing Faygo and it sort of seems like the world might end. Plus juggalos are fucking nice as hell. Nik from Monkeys on Crack drove me home and bought me food on the way. I also recognized by a bunch of juggalos and they all seemed like big Driven By Boredom fans. So fuck it, I got Family love, whoop whoop, etc. See you all at the next Gathering.

Click here to see all the fucking insane (and slightly NSFW) photos from the Insane Clown Posse from the American Psycho Tour at Hammerstein Ballroom.

PS. I have some exclusive pics of ICP and Twiztid from the Gathering of the Juggalos that I never posted that I am gonna get up tomorrow of Saturday so if you are a juggalo or a fan of my juggalo photography come back soon!

It is pretty much time to conclude my Gathering of the Juggalos coverage although I do have some nice portraits of ICP and Twiztid I will be putting up once Camile Dodero’s interviews with them come out in the Village Voice. But in the mean time I want to leave you guys with everything else I haven’t posted so far.  I put up all the bands, the tits, the wild events and the tattoos, but the one thing missing from my coverage of the Gathering of the Juggalos is what makes it more than just a gathering… the juggalos (and juggalettes).

Here are nearly 300 photos of people hanging out and kicking back and enjoying the best weekend of their year. Cave in Rock is Mecca for Juggalos and this is their yearly pilgrimage. I don’t really have anything to say that hasn’t been said but I have a feeling I will be back next year.  Enjoy this massive gallery and let’s have one more Whoop Whoop before we move on…

Whoop Whoop. See you in 2012 ninjas.

Click here the rest of my photos from The 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos.

For more Gathering Of The Juggalos coverage please check out the Driven By Boredom GOTJ archives.

This is probably the craziest post of my Gathering of the Juggalos experience. Yeah the juggalette porn is epic but this post is a combination of several really weird events they have that when joined together Voltrons into a post filled with nudity, fighting, and Michael Jackson.

Last year I broke the events section up into a Juggalette Oil Wrestling section and a Juggalette Wet T Shirt Contest and an epic W Fuck Off post… but this year I tried to shoot a lot less so I wouldn’t have to spend a month uploading GOTJ pictures. So I took it easy, still got a bunch of wild stuff and shoved all of this stuff into one monster sized gallery.

In this gallery you have:

• Shots from Slick Chix oil wrestling aka fat naked girls covered in oil
• Pictures W Fuck Off Radio filled strippers and dudes fighting
• The Juggalette Lingerie Contest which is pretty much just juggalettes dancing on stage
• And lastly shots from the ICP hosted BBQ where Prince and Michael Jackson impersonators battled

All of it is totally insane and amazingly NSFW.  You need to check out this gallery because it will probably change your life. I mean how much do you want to see Ron Jeremy host a contest where a pregnant juggalette gets naked and uses a tent pole as a stripper pole?

Click here to see the entire uncensored gallery of the insane events at the 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos.

For more Gathering Of The Juggalos coverage please check out the Driven By Boredom GOTJ archives.

Right now I am in Louisville, KY with Prince Terrence and Dances With White Girls. We got the Kentucky Derby tomorrow and I am fucking exhausted.  We have been at it all day and we gotta go do some more stuff in a minute and I need to take my first shower in four days.  That being said I need to get these juggalo cruise photos up so let’s get it on… quickly…

The after party for The Insane Clown Posse’s NYC gig was on a fucking boat. Seriously. We were on the Jewel Rocks Off Cruise on the East River. We were on a boat for four hours with ICP and a bunch of juggalos. Mike E Clark and DJ Clay were DJing all night.  You might know DJ Clay as the male host of the Gathering of the Juggalos infomercials.  There was also free food. In fact at one point people started moshing and the bouncers had to stand in front of the food so no one knocked over the tables. I asked the biggest bouncer “When you were a little kid did you ever think you would be guarding hot dogs from insane clowns?”  He laughed and then shook his head and said “I just go where the money is..”

Anyway, as crazy as this whole thing was you have to give it to a band like ICP to do something like this for their fans.  All these kids got to hang out with ICP, get autographs, get pictures with their heros and a bunch of free food all $17.  You don’t see too many bands do stuff like that for their fans.

Anyway, click here to see all my photos from the Juggalo Midnight Cruise.

To check out my ICP photos from the Gathering of the Juggalos click here.