Event Featured Gallery Therapy With a Baseball Bat

November 25, 2010 - 3:15 pm

Titmouse invited me to their annual Smashing Party and there was no way that I was going to turn down that invitation.  I’ll admit, I’ve heard stories of past bashes, so I thought I knew what I was in for.  When I walked through the entrance gate and was cleared by security, however, I realized that this might turn out to be a bit more extreme of an evening than I was prepared for.  At the door, I was handed a waiver to sign, given an official SMASH t-shirt to add to the souvenir collection, and provided with a paper face mask to block “all the dust and debris.”

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Sanrio 50th Anniversary Party Cutes You to Death

November 18, 2010 - 11:28 am

We know to expect impossible cuteness and limitless merchandizing ideas from Sanrio, but what happens when they decide to throw a really big birthday party? A nationwide furor, of course, with parties in Miami and LA, where the Small Gift art show and events spectacular are held! The celebration kicked off with a private VIP event, held at Santa Monica’s Barker airplane hangar.

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

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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Gallery Music HARD Haunted Mansion

November 2, 2010 - 12:36 pm

Every couple months in Los Angeles, a few thousand people have a quaint get together titled simply, “HARD“. It is here were they are entranced by the finest envoy of eclectic electro this side of the Mississippi. Well, unless HARD is on rotation in New York.

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Music CMJ At Red Bull Space NYC

October 28, 2010 - 11:02 am

Cut Chemist at Red Bull Space CMJ party 2010

So last week was the CMJ Music Marathon (more commonly known as just “CMJ”) here in the NYSheezy. Established in 1980, CMJ (“College Music Journal”) is an annual, week long music festival held in various venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for selected artists and bands to, essentially showcase their material for industry people, particular those with a focus in the college markets.

The Red Bull Space was the talk of the town on Thursday night with the invite only Cut Chemist album release party for Sound of the Police with special guests DJ Spinna, Telephoned and Jasmine Solano. Cut Chemist was solid and did not disappoint although I have to say, Jasmine Solano was the highlight for me personally. She’s remarkably talented; has such a great energy on stage; plus the fact that she hosts a monthly party called “Electric Punanny” is rather punchy (and awesome).

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Fashion Featured Gallery Fashion’s Night Out ChinaShop Style

September 13, 2010 - 3:43 pm

So there were about three million and a half events going on last Friday night in NYC, all in the holy name of Fashion’s Night Out. Some of those other parties may have been a decent time, but our very own ChinaShopPop party at Red Bull Space in Soho totally ruled!

David Hockbaum's sculpture

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Music Raver Chic At The Electric Zoo

September 9, 2010 - 2:06 pm

Electric Zoo

If you thought raver style went out with the 90’s, you are wrong. It still exists and is going strong, as exhibited this weekend at New York’s Electric Zoo.  There was a strong showing of the favorites– tons of neon, beaded bracelets and so, so much glitter. But it seems 2010’s ravers are taking it to the next level by mixing current trends with old electro staples.

Electric Zoo

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Fashion Featured The Classic Glamour Dolls

August 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Classic Glamour Dolls

When you have a big event coming up and you are female, it’s inevitable that you want your hair and make-up professionally done.  It just perfectly accents a night out on the town, a wedding, a red carpet ordeal, a high school reunion, or any situation where the goal is to shock and awe with your looks.  One thing to consider is that when you hire hair and make-up people, they are in your house for a long time.  I got my hair and make-up done for my wedding and spent a good 3 and a half hours bonding with my lady.  She was nice, but there wasn’t anything unique about her and I found myself resorting to the ‘go to’ questions: Isn’t the weather nice?  Where are you from?  How long have you been doing make-up?  We got through it, but there were a lot of moments when the concept of ‘silence is golden’ keep fluttering into my head.

I recently stumbled upon the perfect solution to my quest for make-up/hair artists with finesse, the Classic Glamour Dolls.  Specializing in preparing you for everything from photo shoots, to performances, red carpet appearances, film, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthdays, and special events, the Classic Glamour Doll “Team” consists of a group of make-up and hair artists whose motto is to bring you “Make-up and hair with a Hollywood flair.”  The gals live out the 1920’s to 1950’s glam eras and show up to get their clients event-ready fully decked out in an old school Hollywood get-up that Fergie would describe as the definition of G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S.  When I witnessed them in action, they explained to me that the look must always include: red lipstick, fake eyelashes, cat eyeliner, flowers or big jewels in the hair, very clean and shapely defined eyebrows, and a victory roll in their hair – obtained with hot rollers, curling irons, lots of hair spray and “thousands and thousands of bobby pins,” and of course fun rockabilly-inspired clothing.

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Music Major Lazer: Guns Don’t kill people, Ladders Do

August 10, 2010 - 1:35 pm

Major Lazer

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Standard for portable ladders contains specific requirements designed to ensure worker safety when using portable ladders. #1926.1053(b)(4) States: Ladders shall be used only for the purpose for which they were designed. Shit! I swear, if any of you tell Skerrit Bwoy from Major Lazer that OSHA may frown upon his leaping through the air from said ladder and into the crotch area of his lady friend, I will turn this car around and no one will be getting a drop of MDMA. Not even you DJ Diplo.

Major Lazer

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Featured Gallery Music All Eyes on Flying Lotus: Hard Fest 2010

August 10, 2010 - 1:21 pm

I have photographed Steven Ellison, a.k.a Flying Lotus, 5 or 6 times in the past 2 years.  It was during the first set of his which I photographed that I noticed Flying Lotus had certain, “tell”, as they so call it in poker. Just before the baseline is to drop through the floor, into the basement and most likely end up in the water table, he would pause as if floating Wylie Coyote style in mid air. Just hovering there above his Eve bitten clamshell which contains the soles of well worn Samiyam 8-bit beats and most likely photos of a black tee clad Thom Yorke.

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