Tag Archives: Characters

Characters Gallery Hungry? Halloween Never Tasted so Good (HARD Characters Gallery)

by Mike Bucher and E.M.S.
November 1, 2011 - 1:08 pm

Boo! Did I get you? Well, either way, we all know that “it,” Halloween, only happens once a year and I think we can all agree that it brings out the kid in us. There is something great about dressing up and slamming sugar that never gets old, no matter what your age… plus we only get so many chances to let the weird out nowadays…

While exploring this past weekend’s HARD Haunted Mansion festival, ChinaShop managed to capture some weirdness as well as some of the kids in costume to share with you hoping it will keep your sugar buzz rolling a few more minutes. Enjoy, tallyho and happy Halloween.

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Featured Gallery Music Capturing “The Look” of Culture Collide

by Dustin Downing
October 13, 2011 - 10:15 am

SCREEEEeeeeeECH!!!, my tires squeal to a stop with what I hope is that cool reverse looking strobe effect you get on movies. “Holy shit! I gotta let you go there’s a clown outside,” I yell into the smog lit sky hoping enough of it would somehow bend around my face to terminate the conversation taking place inside that space age earwig The Man makes me wear whilst driving. It falls to the floor.

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Fashion Gallery Bamboozler Babes in Boyland: New Jersey 2011

by Barbie Brady and Joe Gall
May 11, 2011 - 11:17 am

If you want a snapshot of America on any given summer just take a sampling of the trends set at its festivals. Bamboozle just occurred in New Jersey this past weekend and I tasked the talents of photographer Joe Gall to capture the people and mayhem of the scene. Check out the awesome that is an ever fashion forward Jersey scene…no seriously.

Porcelain Black AKA Alaina Beaton

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Event Featured Gallery The Freaks Come Out At Night: Holly-ween 2010

by Dustin Downing
November 3, 2010 - 11:18 am

Each year on Oct 31, the freaks take over the streets of West Hollywood and turn Santa Monica Blvd into what is quite possibly the King Kong of all costume parties.  This year, ChinaShop was there to capture the Chaos.  Take a peak (if you dare).

Halloween in West Hollywood

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Event Gallery The Costumes of WeHo’s 23rd Halloween Carnival

by Zoetica Ebb
November 2, 2010 - 12:34 pm

In LA, you get quite a few options at Halloween-time, ranging from low key to BA-BLAM. There are the neighborhood dives with drink specials and scary movies on the telly. There are the swanky clubs, the “balls”, the costume parties in the hills. There is the Hollywood Forever cemetery’s Dia de Los Muertos festivities, the spoooky Griffith Park hay rides, and the haunted houses, too. All this is well and good, but if you want to catch some serious Halloween spirit, the annual West Hollywod Carnaval the the ultimate in fun.

WeHo Carnival 2010

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Comic Books Gallery Chicago Comic Con: Characters of all Kinds

by Max Herman
August 27, 2010 - 2:40 pm

“It’s a strange existence,” actor Jake Lloyd bluntly tells the Chicago Comic Con crowd about working the convention circuit. Lloyd, best known as playing young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), has largely grown out of acting and moved onto other endeavors (film editing) hence why talking about a childhood role can be so awkward. Yet Lloyd remains an avid Star Wars fan and will be forever connected to what comic con fans love: iconic characters.

Chicago Comic Con

The tens of thousands of attendees who poured into the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center August 19-22nd in some way were all looking to embrace the heroes and villains they grew up with. And this includes attending panels with actors like Jake Lloyd, buying dirt-cheap vintage comics, picking up a T-shirt, or recreating the characters themselves in costume. Regarding the latter, homemade Iron Man and War Machine costumes were just a sample of the incredible cosplay seen at “The Con.” A female take on a beat-down Kick-Ass also remains ingrained in my mind with her all too real make-up job.

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Gallery Music Sex, Drugs, and Sunglasses: Hard Fest 2010

by Dustin Downing
August 9, 2010 - 1:07 pm

A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli.  Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject.  The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash.  The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…

party with sluts

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Comic Books Gallery The Girls of Comic-Con

by Zoetica Ebb
July 28, 2010 - 9:15 am

While The Con of Ages is now over and we’re home safe from the crowds and the smells, there is much to fondly look back on. Everyone can agree on one specific, delightful aspect of this event: costumed laydeez. Whether it’s the legions of Sailor Moons or the armies of Harley Quinns, there’s something irresistible about cute girls in costumes, especially when said costumes look like they took several days to make. As far as I’m concerned, the more DIY and elaborate the look, the better. After all, Comic-Con comes once a year.

(The ever-present naughty schoolgirls are also acceptable.)

To bring you this gallery, I spent much of my Friday and Saturday looking for dressed-up girls to document. Like shooting fish in a barrel, you say? Not so! It’s not easy to locate, stop, and pose amidst thousands of humans, all out on missions of their own. Still, my camera and I persevered. Enjoy!

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