WARNING: This post is long winded, personal, and of no interest to anyone who is not obsessed with me. Please skip to the video at the end unless you really enjoy me ranting about my life. That being said, the video at the end is amazing. Now back to your regularly scheduled post:

Seriously, there is nothing really much to say about this video. I am pretty speechless… or maybe not:

I will say that I see videos on the internet all the time that really inspire me to waste huge amount of my time doing something ultimately meaningless, but amazing none the less. It sort of makes me think that I lack creativity. I wish I could me more inspired more often. Every since I got back from Texas, and especially since I got back from Florida I have been increasingly less motivated. I didn’t get out of bed all day yesterday. I think it is partly due to the fact that I had so much fun partying for a living that it is really horrifying to come back to no job and tons of shit to do and instead dealing with it I just sit in my house. Not that this is really any of your business, but I am always pretty open on this site. I recently went of anti-depressants for the first time in over a decade. Now, I don’t think I am any more depressed than I have been, but I have been very unmotivated and tired and stressed out. I am not sure if I should go back on them or not. Who knows? I have a lot of ideas in mind for this site, and things I want to accomplish in my life and none of them are getting done. I think I am just really stressed about not having a job for so long and finally having to get one. I know I keep saying that, but it is very hard to find a job that will allow me to keep doing my site and keep going out of town to shoot parties I actually get paid real money for. I want to make a living at this, and I have been for the past 6 months, but I have been steadily losing money and I am about to go into my savings account to pay for broken cameras and then I will be pretty much cashed out assuming I don’t get a job at Cochella or some big event soon.

Now I know I have been ranting and complaining about shit which I hate to do on this site. People don’t like to read it, and it turns them off to my site. It also makes me feel like this site is nothing more than a live journal or something, but it is reasonably therapeutic. I saw that video, and I keep thinking about motivation. Those kids had the motivation and desire to make the below amazing video despite what a complete and total waste of time it was. I had motivation when I managed the Gaskets, and I had motivation to do this site, but sometimes I just feel like I am just shitting out posts just so I can say I did my work for today. I think I should be working on a few great posts and have a separate page for the photos. Or something. I decided I wanted to do many posts a day because I thought that it would be easier than doing three big posts a week, and it is… but the problem is when I do a lot of posts, the really good ones are gone in a few days… and people don’t comment on posts and there is no discussion. I need to do something about that somehow…

Anyway, my last mention in this rant was about the Wire. I finished the series last night. It may be one of my favorite shows of all time. The last season was all about journalism, and it just made me really wish I shot photos for a newspaper. I wish I did documentary work. I got in photography to document the DC punk scene. I became a band photographer from that. I tried to document the drug culture I was around in high school because I loved photographers like Larry Clark and I was around this stuff, but photographing people doing extacy and smoking weed is not quite as visual as people shooting meth. So I just stuck to the band stuff until I got bored with that and just started shooting portraits of my friends… and of course naked people for sport. I never really considered myself an artist, and I never wanted to be. I don’t want to say anything about my work, I just wanted to capture what is around me. I wanted to shoot my friends because that’s what I was around. I shoot parties, cause I go to parties. But now I think, maybe I am just going to parties to take photos because I have this site. I am okay with that, I still have a lot of fun, and my work has gotten much better… but what now? I guess the point is I really regret not doing real documentary work. I mean, I can view this site as an account of down town NYC in the mid 2000’s, but I just wish I was out there telling a story and showing people something they can’t see on 10 different websites. I need to take inspiration from people like VBS and the Magnum photographers that I dreamed of being. Even when I just shot band I always dreamed of winning a Pulitzer, not shooting the cover of Rolling Stone. I just feel I have wasted a lot of time doing bullshit photography and I am not sure what I can do about it at this point. I guess I am just going to have to find some way to tell some story some how and get inspired by something.

And now that I wrote it all down maybe I will actually do it. These guys below did.

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Seriously… last night was fucking nuts. Pictures tomorrow… at least some of them. I am back in New York and fully recovered from my stab wounds. For now I am going to sleep and not waking up until tomorrow. I am turning my phone off so leave me the fuck a lone.

See you tomorrow.

Hello.  My name is Thadd.  I am the webmaster of Drivenbyboredom.  Igor asked me to fill you in on what happened to him last night.

Last night in a club in Orlando, FL Igor took some topless photos of a girl.  On his way out of the club Igor was stabbed in the side by the girls exboyfriend.  Igor had some internal injuries, but had a successful surgery and should be fine.  According to Igor, he is going to have to have some more surgeries over the next day.  I am now in contact with his family and they are going to keep me updated so I can keep you guys updated.

I am sure he will be fine, but wish him luck anyway.

Also, if you are wondering, the police did catch the guy who attacked him.

Holy Jeezus. I have had a pretty crazy few days. I just got off a 6 hour bus ride and I am getting rushed off to some party in Orlando. I broke ANOTHER camera… this time my Yashica film camera. But at least it was broken in a fantastic fashion. We trashed the penthouse at the hotel in amazing fashion while listening to old hardcore music. I have pictures of the devastation. It is fantastic. I really have to rush off now, but I have crazy stuff to talk about and photos to show.

In the mean time, I just wanted to show you my new tattoo.  I decided that if I was in Miami I would get a Miami Dolphins tattoo. Despite my absolute love of the Dolphins, I am not quite lame enough to get a football tattoo, so I decided I would get Dan Marino’s number which luckily for me is the number 13, which is totally rock and roll. So I got like a hard core rock and roll 13, that happens to be aqua and orange. I also got my arm filled in a bit so it looks more sleeve like.

It ended up being a lot better than I thought it would be. I can’t find the guys card who did it but in a few days I will post a better photo with a link to his portfolio. I know the card is in my bag somewhere. Anyway, good dude, funny tattoo.

I haven’t really taken any photos this week because I was sort of burnt out from SXSW and I had so much content to post.  I was going to shoot last night, but for some reason I just ate some BBQ instead.  I was going to go out tonight, but I have a flight early and I still have a ton of shit to do, so yeah, no partying tonight.  I just wanted to say that if you are in Miami or Orlando and I know you, you should let me know so we can hang out. If you are a cute girl and want to get naked, please let me know twice as much.  What?  I have not bought my return ticket yet, but I think I will be back the 3rd, but it could be earlier, or maybe a day later max.  I don’t know how I am getting to Orlando or when or where I am staying at any point.  I have a place I think I am sleeping tomorrow night, but after that I have no fucking clue where I am going to sleep  I don’t know why I keep leaving New York without having a place to stay but it has worked out pretty well so far.  Wish me luck.

Totally unrelated, while looking at my external hard drive I found this out take from a photo shoot I did with current New Yorker Nick The Duke, on the day I met him in Richmond, VA 5 years ago or something.  He was hanging out with a friend of mine, and I just happened to have a hot dog suit that I had to return to the costume shop and I convinced him to model the suit for me.  Amazing.

Sorry for the total lack of content. Last time I went out of town I was all prepared with Auto Updates and stuff. Next time I leave town I’ll try to be on top of shit. SXSW is over and despite the bullshit and the broken camera I had a blast and have a bunch of weird stories to tell about the trip. I took nearly 3000 photos and am probably going to upload half of them over the next week. I get back tonight at midnight, so Tuesday I go back to work. I think I have about 8 updates worth of stuff to go up at probably 2-3 a day. No naked people though. Lots of boring photos of DJs though. I spent 5 hours last night organizing photos and I still have to go through them all and put them in to separate categories to make sense of them all. I don’t have to leave until 5 tomorrow, plus an 8 hour trip back to NYC, so I should have a lot of time to work everything ready to go by Tuesday.

On the bright side, I found out that since my camera is so old I can get one used for less than I paid for my flash. This experience did stress to me the importance of having a back up system, so I think I am going to get a used D70 (my current camera) and then use the money I made from this trip and the money I hope I will be making from Winter Music Conference to buy a D300 or something. I got to play around with a Cannon on Friday and and then I shot with a different Cannon on Saturday and I have to say that I am pretty happy sticking with Nikon.

Anyway, so you can have something to look at, my friend got his name shaved into the back of his head by a drunk hair stylist at a bar on Friday and we had a long conversation about hair design videos on YouTube. What I noticed about these videos is that while some of these hair cuts are fucking amazing, all the videos about them have the worst fucking music on earth as the soundtrack.

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So today my camera broke. Like for no reason, out of nowhere. Something in it just said no more. I had to rent a camera and I am pretty fucking destroyed. I think it is going to cost an insane amount to fix it, so I will probably just get a new camera… maybe the D300. I have no money for this, but this gig is paying well and I think I got a job shooting Winter Music in Miami so hopefully that will cover the new camera, only… I need it BEFORE I go to Miami, so I will probably be selling some shit soon.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE! If anyone in NYC has a Nikon D70 or 80 or D1x or anything like that they never use and would let me borrow until I can get a new camera I would be extremely grateful and I could probably toss you a bit of $.

Anyway, right now I am on my friends computer and having an allergic reaction to his cat. And he just played a the worst show of his career (and once I saw him get in a fist fight on stage with his drummer) and he was pissed off all night. And then he and I tried to get into the Blender party but it didn’t happen, so instead we just walked in to the VIP part of the Blender party and I ran into Drop The Lime and took pictures of Kid Sister throwing peanuts into Diplo’s mouth with my film camera.

Point is… I have shot over 2000 images so far and will figure out how to get them up on here once I get home. I have Sunday free so maybe I can get some updates going on. Also… I might have a photo published in People Magazine… so here’s hoping.

In the mean time watch this stupid extremely old video of Pikachu singing Mindless Self Indulgence. MSI are horrible, but this video is amazing. I was in love with it in like 2001 and I just heard the song for the first time in at least 5 years yesterday and I had to watch it again… so now you have to too. Or not. Whatever.

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So, updating from now until Monday is unlikely at best. I was staying at this girls house that I met in Austin two years ago. We hit it off so well and she came and visited me in NYC and then we hung out at SXSW last year and we talk via the internets all the time. She picked me up from the air port and I was so fucking excited to see her. We went straight back to her house and made out and were all cute and I was totally excited. She told me she was coming to NYC for an internship this summer and it was awesome. So then I shot this party for 14 straight hours and she didn’t come pick me up and I had to get a ride with these three random girls I met. They took me to this house party where I ran into Cobra Kai, and Jackson and Flick Master Flash and a bunch of people I know from Austin and friends of my brother and Terrence and my friend from NJ and Clayton from Everyone Is Famous and Diplo was swimming by a pool and people were jumping off the roof into the pool and it was amazing… but I was exhausted. Then we got back to my friends house and their friend came over and they smoked weed while I looked at all the photos I took. Then my friend was like “I need to go to bed” and I was like “I’ll be right there.” And that’s when she told me that the guy who brought the weed was going to be sleeping with her tonight and I would be on the couch. I was completely fucking enraged. I was so fucking hurt as well. So I had to sleep on the couch right outside their room while I heard them talk and giggle and moan until 7 fucking AM. I couldn’t sleep at all. In the last three days I took an 8 hour plane trip, shot a 14 hour party, and have slept a max total of 5 hours. I want to die, but I have to shoot all day then party all night.

Anyway, point is, I am obviously not staying with that girl anymore and I am now at my old roommates place and he does not have wireless internet. So I am on his computer, but I don’t have access to mine. So I can’t really do this or any update right… hence the lack of content and even links.

Hopefully I will figure something out, but right now shit is totally fucked up. See you as soon as possible. Fuck.

I am going to the South By Southwest Music Conference today.  I will be there until basically Tuesday because of how expensive it was to fly out on Sunday.  I am going to be shooting the Dim Mak/ BPM Magazine/ Magnum PR parties at the Sansa Playground.  I have no idea if I will be able to get anyone in to this party, but if you are going to be at SXSW email me at igor(at)drivenbyboredom.com because I am going to be free Friday and Saturday nights as well as all day Sunday and I want some fun stuff to do that does not require a badge/wristband.   I need to party forever.

As far as what this all means to my site… I can almost assure you that there will be no updates on Thrusday as I am going to be working a 14 hour say.  Friday and Saturday I may have some time to update and depending on where I am staying hopefully I can get some photos up Sunday.  I would say that things are going to be VERY slow around here until I get back, but I will do my best to keep you updated and full of wonderful content.