If you frequent comic book, toy, game or TV/movie conventions you’re bound to run into people playing their favorite genre characters.
Some of their costumes get quite elaborate and a few a little too revealing.
Photographer Alvarado takes Cosplay to the next level with his Cosplay Pin-Ups book published by Schiffer Books.
Inside Alvarado showcases is gallery of photographs where he has taken beloved characters from the above mention genres and added more than a fair share of cheesecake and sex appeal.
He stages some truly exquisite photographs and by careful manipulation in Photoshop and other photo-editing programs gives the photos a sleek, almost cartoonish look.
Some of the models are interviewed and spotlighted. The resulting photos are reminiscent of the old WWII pin-ups girls kicked up a notch.
As I’ve mentioned numerous times before I am a big fan of TV shows and movies. I love all types: comedies, dramas, musicals, Westerns and suspense-all of them have their high and low points.
But, if it were not for the theatre, more specifically Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, TV and movies as we know them would not exist.
Without play production many of the superstars of TV and film would be absent. In fact, many of the top-selling TV shows and movies are derived from plays.
In Fraver By Design readers are given a gallery tour of five decades of theatre poster art from Broadway, Off-Broadway and beyond--as created by Frank “Fraver” Verlizzo.
What a great compilation of historical fact -filled fun and insider information, production notes and best of all: full-color theatre poster recreations of some of the greatest play productions of all time.
When I was a kid every little boy carried a pocket knife with him. I carried one as far back as I can remember. I even gave a Show and Tell of my knife collection when I was in sixth grade.
That would never happen today-for a number of reasons.
Every little boy enjoys knives. There’s something aesthetically and eye-pleasing about their functional designs.
In The Gentleman’s Pocket Knife the complete history and construction of the world’s most beautiful models are given their just due.
Author Stefan Schmalhaus presents a stunning, full-color photo gallery of some of the most beautiful and innovative pocket knives ever created, from all over the world.
Readers learn how pocket knives are manufactured, their long history and get to see the different types of pocket knives, along with their multi-functions.
Single blade to multi-utility use, they are all represented and showcased in this beautiful, new hardbound book highlighted with spot varnish full-color photos on its cover.