Nick and I have been meaning to schedule a shoot for almost a year (been doing a lot of those lately), and we did this one just a day before he got a large portion of his face tattooed. We shot these after the Presets show on Thursday and then it was approximately a million degrees too hot out for me to want to sit down and go through photos.

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But the A/C is on tonight and so I got to it. Between the tattoos, his scars and that cigarette, I know approximately one hundred girls and dirty-minded gays for whom Nick is a late night Williamsburg dream come to life. I also believe that most of the Gawker girls will secretly love him. Next time you guys put it to a vote, can I have some choice in the nominees?

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Stephen and Michael, party hosting duo Kids With Snakes (who, incidentally, are on the bill for my birthday party on the 14th), and I have been meaning to set up a shoot for about a year now. We see each other all the time but it’s been super difficult to schedule something where all three of us (and all my equipment) could be in the same place at the same time. So last weekend it just all sort of came together at the last minute, and we shot in Stephen’s yard and apartment in Williamsburg.

They and I have something in common, which is that there are lots of people who don’t like us. Plenty have good reason (we admit it), and plenty have no reason at all. It doesn’t really matter because we all have lots of love in our lives and we have amazing times with our friends. But, you know. There’s always a special bond between respective recipients of ‘net hate. I think that’s part of why Sarah and I get along so well.

Anyway, for being photographed so often by everyone, and despite having no problem taking their clothes off outdoors, the boys are still shy in front of a camera. So it took some time to warm up, but I really love a lot of the shots we were able to get.

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Upstairs with Cameron and Romina
May 30, 2008

Kill Shop Kill Look Book

Trash at 40C
May 23, 2008

Carolina! You may remember her from her wrangling talents, and you can watch the Logo Awards on June 7 to see her dance like a maniac for Cyndi Lauper.

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Yesterday she and I hopped into a car (she lives like ten feet from me) and took ourselves to Williamsburg, where I photographed her in a bunch of Christian’s stuff. Dear Google: Christian would like you to know that these clothes are all designed and made by Christian Siriano. Also, he cut my hair again and now I feel ten times better about myself, even though today is day two of this shirt that I am currently wearing.

First of all, Carolina’s gorgeous. The whole time we were shooting my brain was saying ‘wow.’ Second, the clothes are amazing. That gold shirt is the one he wore to the Sex & the City movie premiere a couple days ago (which, by the way, he made in a few hours the day of), and the fuschia poofy dress is the one that Holly wore on Make Me A Supermodel. The big black belt was a rare Beacon’s Closet treasure of a find. I’m so happy to have so many inspiring people around me all the time! Summer begins.

Tomorrow Christian and I get to go see The Eagles with Lucy Walsh! That’s kind of amazing all around. But today is an interview day. Before the day is done I vow to have completed my outstanding Q&A’s! Why do people want to know what I think about anything? I’ve had questions sitting in my inbox for a while for three different things; one of them is 25 questions long and clearly they are only going to print like three of them… I’m going to just suck it up and start typing my answers… now!

I took Alicia’s picture a few months ago at a party, and pretty soon after that we found each other online and got in contact to spew accolades at each other. So when she came back into town after a trip to Italy (she’s from Kansas City), we met up to discuss her music, my music, her travels, and my… back yard. I had a great time just fucking around and hanging out. No pretension or awkwardness, really, for relative strangers.

We had to reschedule the visit from earlier in the day to 7pm, and then when she arrived she had to sit around for an hour listening to a (really hot) dude explain to me and Anna our parts in a movie that we’re going to do this summer. But it actually all worked out for the best, because when everybody left it was getting dark outside and we went to the back yard to do photos, and they started to come out great.

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Beautiful Bodies, “Touch Me”

Her band, the Beautiful Bodies, is really good. I really like “Touch Me” on their MySpace. It’s only a matter of time before this song gets co-opted for an iPod commercial or something. She also sings a bit on some of the new Republic Tigers (who I love) album, who were why she was in town this weekend (they were on Letterman). Their album Keep Color is like Nada Surf and Interpol and Stellastarr had a threewaybaby.

The Republic Tigers, “Buildings and Mountains”

It seems that between Alicia and the Republic Tigers and Ssion and the 20 or so transplanted club kids with more original style than I’ve seen around here in a long time that Kansas City is the New New York.

I’ve been having a rough time lately! And I’ve been pretty consistently pissed and depressed and uncomfortable for a week or so, but I’ve been making a big effort to shake it off and try and be nice, or at least neutral, so let me just vent right now and let out a virtual shout and holy shit I need a vacation! I hope my friends can deal with me.

One thing that’s made me feel a lot better has been working on a remix of one of my favorite artists. This time it’s Alan MX, who I am really completely in awe of. He’s become a friend over the last few years, and I’ve been bugging the living shit out of him to get me the track pieces for his song “Captain America Video.” He finally sent everything to me a couple days ago and I dove right in; I’m about half done with it and I can’t wait to finish it and send it off into the world. He’s so awesome. I love it. This remix, I know, Sarah’s going to hear it and be like HOLY SHIT.

Speaking of Sarah, on her rooftop last weekend I took this picture of Kathy while I was doing all the other stuff and Sarah was at Bamboozle. It was almost an accident and I don’t think Kathy even likes it, but I do. So here:

And here are some more of some of my favorite girls. Alana and Kate and Joanna came over last Friday evening to pre-game and dress up and bitch about people. I want to do that everyday with them.

Today Uma Thurman is filming scenes in nerd glasses outside the door and making it hard for people to get in and out of the building. I have grown to hate seeing the Haddad’s catering trucks these days, because it means some famous person is eating better than I am and getting in the way at the same time.

Jose is a dancer and we did some photos on Sarah’s rooftop on Saturday. It threatened to rain but luckily it didn’t. I had some expensive stuff up there. My friend Nancy introduced me to Jose and suggested we do some press photos of him, and since I already had a shoot planned that day we got together while everything was still set up.

Click above to see him break dancing on the ledge of the roof. For real.

I own that plaid sweater now. Isn’t it wonderful? I hope we have just a few more chilly days before summer so I can wear it.

The thing I mentioned yesterday was nothing really serious, but thanks for the messages I’ve gotten. I just am prone to kidney stones (hooray!) and am now experiencing my second, along with some other medical fun. They move slowly through me so I just have to spend a few weeks being uncomfortable and in random stretches of pain. Last time toward the end I was really sick and throwing up blood and being generally apocalyptic so I hope that doesn’t happen this time. But enough about me! What do you think about my body making rocks and then sending them through my guts to cut and get stuck along the way?!

Ruff Club at the Annex
May 2, 2008

Club NME at the Annex
April 3, 2008

I shot Sam at Izquierdo Studio, where he works on costumes and elaborate outfits for all sorts of things. Movies, events, the gigantic wings that the models wear for the Victoria’s Secret runways… basically I seem to know more than my share of people who make things that Heidi Klum puts on her body.

As we walked in he told me not to mind Wes Craven, which I took to be a metaphor for all the dark masks and wings all over the walls. But seconds later we were setting stuff down and getting situated in a room where Wes Craven was sitting in the corner, looking over and approving some things for his next project. Kind of humbling to have my rinky-dink little camera and light bulbs on stilts in the presence of a guy known around the world for his cinematics.

My favorites are the first two below. And he’s wearing Tyra’s wings in the last one. They must have some lingering mojo because he sprouted a heavy mane of stick-straight brown extensions and a monster ‘tude the moment the wings touched his body. And no matter what anybody was talking about, he found a way to bring up some unrelated story about himself.

Geneva’s birthday at the Chelsea Hotel, Room 103
April 5, 2008

The Factory, a night of collaborations by Spirit Music Group, on Park Avenue
March 28, 2008

Stolen Transmission at Hanger Bar
March 28, 2008