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15 years ago a German book publisher reached out to me about doing a book with them. They mostly published books of erotic photography so when I took the lunch meeting with them I told them I wasn't interested in doing something like that. I pitched them on a concept I had called DRINK FIGHT FUCK which was a book of my most insane photos titled after an infamous punk song by the more infamous GG Allin. I would try and desexualize nudity by putting those photos next to fight photos and try and tell a story of just a completely chaotic life, mostly centered around downtown NYC in the mid 2000s. The publisher loved the idea. He told me that the erotic photography was what paid the bills, but he didn't get into publishing to do that. He wanted to make art. He told me he didn't care if it lost money, he would just print it at the same time as a known money maker. I took him at his word and we worked on the book for two years. We had countless calls and made dozens of edits to the book. We hadn't laid out the text yet or designed the cover and we were still going back and forth about a few things, but he was coming to NYC and we were finally going to sign the contract. I should have known something was up when he told me to meet him at an art gallery instead of his hotel room, but when I got there he gave me the news. His distributor wouldn't take the book. He said sex was fine, violence was fine, but sex and violence is unacceptable. And that was just that. Two years down the drain. He didn't try and work with me on another concept or try and find another distributor. He just dropped me and moved on to some bullshit book like Sexy Legs Vol. 3 or whatever. I will say that in retrospect it's probably good that book never came out as it was wildly fucked up and I probably would have been canceled or at least sued at some point for it. Let's just say I have some photos of celebrities in some situations they probably wouldn't want to be made public... But yeah, I still have the edit, and I actually still update it from time to time with new stuff. I don't think I would ever publish that exact book now, but I do think there is a book in there somewhere. My 20s (and 30s honestly) were fucking chaotic, and I do want to tell that story eventually...

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Packing my photo book collection.

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I hate that the Nothing But Flowers book is taking so long but my designer has been too busy winning Emmy's for title design to have time to work on this project pro-bono. The layout has been done for two months so it's just a matter of layout out text and designing the cover when he has time. 📷: @jordannicolette

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Shipping out some books and zines tomorrow, including my newest zine Off The Hook that features these phone themed flicks. If you one something, order tonight: shopdbb.com!

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Since we are still trying to raise some publishing funds for the Nothing But Flowers book I figured we could once again jump on the Zora meta. We released 3 NFTs on there last year, but here's Nothing But Flowers #4 by @drivenbyboredom. https://zora.co/coin/base:0xa27665f778a2f6e2c9e7309c0d32e30d4bfecef0?referrer=0xe2f188f0f1cb473d9a6ce42bfa010a22118381d0

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A little sneak peak at the layout... I print up tiny versions of the spreads and lay them out on the floor to organize. Can you spot your photo(s)?

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I think it's been over a year since I started working on the Nothing But Flowers @photobooks project. We raised about $1500 in $degen tips to publish a photobook about nature overcoming civilization. Nearly everyone who started the project with me disappeared and I would sometimes go weeks without working on it, but I kept going and kept going a little bit at a time and the book is finally locked. Now that my designer friend has the book in his hands, it should still be a while as he's doing this as a favor in between raising a kid and winning Emmy awards for his design work on Severance. But once he is finished laying out the text and designing the covers all that comes next is publication. We still need to raise some money for publication, but hopefully preorders will help with that. Whatever the case, I can't wait for you guys to see it. 📷: @ilovedecay & @banthafodderdan

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Update to the update. Good news: The layout is locked! Gonna put the pages in order this weekend and it will finally be in the hands of our designer. Less good news: Turns out Shutterstock kinda fucked me and it actually cost $53 after taxes to get those two images instead of $28 so I took out $25. Our new total for publishing is $1434.10 but we also have about $100 in our wallets as well. Any tips are appreciated cause we for sure need to raise some more money for publishing.

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Big Nothing But Flowers photo book update. 1) The book is essentially locked. I still need to replace a couple photos with the high res versions and need to figure out the page order, but the actual photo layouts are done. 2) I had been trying to find some very specific images and I couldn't find them anywhere but Shutterstock. I hated doing it but I paid $27.91 for a monthly plan to grab two images off there. One of the hardest parts of this book is matching styles across all the photographers and also working with the lyrics of the song Nothing But Flowers. I had to go outside of our community a bit. 3) I sent myself $28 USDC from the Photobooks account to pay for the one month of Shutterstock. 4) I was trying to have the book published in time for the NY Art Book Fair, but my table request was denied so I don't quite have a hard deadline anymore, but I am hopefully moving into a new house on October 1st so I would like to be done with this book ASAP. 📷: Zoran Divič via Shutterstock

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Another update on the Nothing But Flowers photo book! Right now I am waiting for two high res images and the book should be just about locked! After it's locked I am going to print every page out and put them on my office floor until I find the perfect page order and then send it off to my designer who can hopefully find time to work on it. I gotta check and recheck everyone's credits and write a little intro to the book and send it off to the printer. Still hoping for a September release date, but I also might be buying a house in August so it's possible that throws a huge wrench into everything which is why I am trying to get this off to the designer ASAP! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted work! I can't wait for everyone to see it!

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I got some photos in a new book.

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In 2015 I mad a zine called Fuck LA for the LA Art Book fair. I only made 50 of them, all signed and numbered. They sold out instantly so in 2018 I reprinted the zine again and now that's long gone. I only mention it because I am going to LA this weekend for the first time in like two years which is probably the longest I have gone without visiting LA since 2008. LA was a second home to me for a long time and I even dated someone who lived there for two years. I have taken so many insane photos out there and this zine is DEEPLY NSFW. One of these days I might have to do a third printing. It was kinda my love letter to LA cause I have had some of my best and worst nights there. The idea was "fuck you LA" but also, "I want to fuck you, LA". If you want to see some of the NSFW spreads check out dbbproductions.com.

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Wednesday and Thursday I finally have time to work more on the Nothing But Flowers book. We are so close to getting the layout locked... I can't wait til everyone sees this book.

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If you need a coffee table book of nudes, I got you. I am sure it's a conversation starter...

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