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Been slacking on crazy stories and stuff cause my life has taken a (positive/busy) turn but I promise I got some good stuff for you. Let me hit you with a quick one... *editor's note: It was not a quick one and I went on a very R-Rated tangent in the middle of the story so trigger warning or something. My friend Stevie came to visit NYC for a few days and stayed with me, but then she just never left. She didn't stay with me that whole time she was staying in a hotel between crashing with friends and she was just drinking a ton and one night we went out and she went into this sex shop and bought a whip cream canister and a bunch of N2O cartridges to do whip its. I hadn't done them in years but I did a couple with her and it was kinda fun and I didn't really think about it after that. A few weeks later she decided her drinking was too much and she just got on a flight and went to rehab. She didn't even take her stuff with her. For some insane reason she left her stuff with a girl that neither of us knew that well. I had gone on a single Tinder date with her and somehow I introduced them. Anyway, that girl was like "Stevie wants me to mail her all her shit, but I am not dealing with that". Of course I took care of it because I am way too nice of a person and I felt like I owed Stevie for one of the most insane experiences of my life: She got a Times Square hotel on New Years Eve that was a block from the ball drop. I had lived in NYC over a decade at that point and had never done any of that touristy shit but I wanted to hang out with her. Our plan was to watch it from the street, but the hotel windows opened so we could just see it drop from the window. You could just look out and see all the people down there waiting in the cold. I had an idea. She bent over stuck her torso out the window and I closed it on her and we had sex while she was just looking out at the crowd and watching it turn midnight. I was hiding behind the blinds so no one knew what was happening from below, but yeah it was insane. Sorry back to the story.... She called me from rehab and we went through her bag to take out stuff so it would be cheaper to mail. We pulled out her stripper heels and some warm clothes she wasn't gonna need in Florida and her whip cream canister. I didn't know what to do with it so I just put it in my kitchen. Fast forward three years and the pandemic happens. I am quaranting with a girl who I liked but all of a sudden we were spending so much time together and it was maybe too much. We were so bored and one day when we were ordering our groceries we saw the local bodega sold N2O canisters so for some reason we bought a box and did them, and then a few days later did it again and all of a sudden I am doing whipits like a high school student or something and that's when I knew I had to maybe stop seeing this girl. Ultimately I ended stuff with her and threw away that canister when I moved. That girl is now a tattoo artist and seems to be doing okay. Stevie actually got sober, and also religious and blew me off last time we made plans so we stopped talking, but hoping she's doing okay too. The end of this story that suddenly got way too long.
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For one I am gonna tell some stories about someone else instead of myself. This is my friend Keith. We had a falling out years ago but he was one of my closest friends for a decade. He was maybe the funniest person I have ever met. He also had some anger issues. He wasn't much of a fighter, the one time we fought I knocked him down with one punch, but he had a lot of rage. One day we were all hanging out on this pier on the Potomac River in DC and this couple was enjoying a romantic evening. And of course being dumb teenagers our little crew started messing with them. The guy on the date wanted to impress his lady and tried to step to us and Keith just stood up and said calmly "There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of us, and I will personally bite your fucking balls off." The guy quickly got the fuck out of there. (More Keith stories below 👇 )
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Since I am headed to LA today I figured I could drop an LA storytime. This one might be a long one but people are always asking how I got into photographing the adult industry so you might like this one. You are gonna wonder where it's going but it gets there in the end... It starts in 2009 in line for a party -- a party I should not have been in line for. I was freelancing for VICE Magazine at the time and they had tried to hire me to shoot a party they were throwing in NYC, but I couldn't make it because I was in LA. I didn't know it at the time but that exact same party was happening in LA and my friend Jessie (on the right in the photo) wanted to go. She was sleeping with this well known drummer who happened to be DJing the party. We assumed he would get us in, but by the time we got there he was on stage and couldn't text us so I am texting my editor at Vice while we wait in a VERY long line. While we are waiting we start talking the people in front of us in line...
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When I was a freshman in high school I started "the punk rock club" at school. We didn't have anything to do, so the school told us we had to join other clubs if we didn't find something to do. I wasn't joining the chess club or whatever so I came up with the idea of starting a punk zine. A year later we started a punk record label and had some surprising success locally for such young dumb kids. One of the bands on that label was called The Infertil and I was photographing a show for their album art. Some guy in the front row was talking shit and trying to disrupt things and spit on one of the band members. The drummer Will jumped over his drum set and attacked the guy. The rest of the band jumped him and started fighting with his friends. I was standing there with a camera and I didn't want to miss the action, but I wasn't about to let my friend's fight alone. So as I'm taking this photo, I'm also kicking the dude who wound up at my feet.👇
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