procession 2

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

New oil paintings, for an Art Party at the Cre8ery this Saturday.
Inspired by several dreams, of a procession of creepy blonde girls with pink pope-like hats. The mounted animal heads are a theme carried over from a larger painting I’ve been working on.

silver jewelry

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

Holy- I just checked my comments that I thought were disabled but I guess not. There were 700 freaking spams! God, I don’t even know how to work around this. Email me if you want to get in touch I guess.

Anyways. I’ve finally gotten around to posting some photos of the jewelry I made. Click on the image to see more on my Flickr stream. I made several silver pieces, 3 pendants and 1 ring. All silver, the two in the photo were originally carved from wax and the other are organic human hair castings. I came up with idea to do hair jewelry from the Victorian Mourning hair jewelry that was all the rage in the 1700 and 1800’s.
I decided to cast the the braids in silver, though, instead of retaining
the actual hair. But I think it serves the same purpose, that a part of you can out-live your time on this world and be worn as a reminded for your loved ones. I think the silver is less creepy than hair, although many people in my class were creeped out by me for sure. They liked the end result, they just had trouble understanding what I was doing. A couple of people told me I should use horse hair because it would show up better, which is true. But the point is to use human hair and retain a piece of that person for eternity. So I felt like a fucking goth-kid explaining that.

I carved the ring and memento mori skull pendant from wax. I wish I had done more carving, as I took to it and found it easy and fast. If I take any more classes I will definitely focus on that. It just sucks that its so expensive, buying silver and all the supplies,not to mention the class itself.

Should have some new stuff coming soon. I have a stack of awesome Halloween costumes I want to make for the season. I need to buy some new supplies for that too but we just ripped out the most awful carpet in our office, so it looks like we have to buy some flooring.
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I will be placing my headless costume and She-ra and He-man costumes on ebay for auction closer to the Halloween season. This will most likely go down in September or early October. I will also be creating a couple more headless costumes.

She-ra costume
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WEE BEASTIES SPIDER #17 HUNTSMAN (Sparassidae)

Originally uploaded by zero g.

The hypnagogic state is that state between being awake and falling asleep. For some people, this is a time of visual and auditory hallucination.

Apparently, seeing spiders is quite common for people who experience hypnagogia.

In Michel Jouvet’s book, The paradox of sleep, the story of dreaming, he explores his discovery of Paradoxial Sleep as an additonal state of the brain. His experiments discovered that a part of the brain controls muscle and body paralysis when we sleep and dream. If this area of the brain is affected, the body will be able to act out in the dream state.

This thread is very interesting to those experiencing spider hallucinations.

I have decide to pass the time by evaluating some of Marie Antoinette costumes that other people have made.

Now, I should state that it appears that this particular costume hasn’t been attemped often, at least according to Google image search. SO, I do give these folks props for trying, and I did use their attempts as a launching pad for designing my own costume. But seriously, check this out:

I found this photo early on in my search, and clearly I had to save it as a reference. First off, this is obviously a dude. So it’s already pretty hilarious. I can’t decide which part I love more, the fact that he kinda tried to hide his face but not really, or the head with the convenient holding stick. Its too great for words. You can see that the general idea of the costume is up the same alley as mine, but this guy made it retarded by incoorporating a fake head an dbeing super ghetto. This brings us to the next costume:

Much better attempt. This costume seriously kicks the first ones ass. And this is more along the lines of what I’m doing. Although, I’m only making one fake arm. For as good as it is though, there are several areas where this costume is weak.

Firstly, I would say the hands. They look Muppet-ish. In my case I’m using long gloves, thereby avoiding the whole flesh coloured thing. Also, there is no structure to the arms, they look floppy and fake and they take attention away from the head. By using a wire skeleton, she could have created a more posable arm and hand.

Secondly, the costume is not near gruesome enough. Its a decapitated head! There should be more blood for christs sake! Refer to my costume for blood and chunks of bone.

Thirdly, there is no attempt to create a waist on the dress. This would fall somewhere around the lady’s actual shoulders. This would again help the illusion. Its also too easy to see her boobs beneath the fabric. Again – distracting.

Lastly, her hairs are wack. Sorry, but its true . It would have been wothwhile to get a wig or at least white hair spray. The baby powder look is not cutting it. Also, no cool make-up either. She could’ve taken it to the next level with more attention to detail.

There you have it. Nice try guys, you paved the way for future generations! Once my costume photo is posted it will be open for constructive criticism too.

Portrait Sessions:
A series of mashed-up found photos.
Nicole Magne 2006
photo collage
various sizes

farmer

Originally uploaded by FoundFlix.

I found these photos a couple of years ago. They’re rejected studio sessions in small towns in Manitoba. I have a gazillion of them, but these are some of my favs. I am thinking that I will be working on a show I’ll take to Toronto next year. I have to look into the legality of it all first. We’ll see what happens.

shotgun art

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

“A freaking 12 guage! What do you think?!?”

office decoration

Originally uploaded by nicemag.

I’ve defaced one of my paintings in an attempt to win some hard cash at my office. We’re having this silly decoration contest, and I get so competitive. I have yet to think of a name for my “creation”. That raccoon looks so pissed to be wearing that outfit.