http://www.ericamagrey.com/news News and musings of artist ERICA MAGREY Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:25:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just wanted to share some information about a recent costume design project I did for a Swiss artist named Katja Loher. Katja's recent work involves video projected onto weather balloons and shown inside video sculptures, respectively called video planets and miniverses. The video depicts activity from a birds' eye view, ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=319 Several of my videos are featured in an online show that opens today at No Commercial Value (.org) called The Lounge, curated by Natasha Chuk and Cat Mallone. The show will run for two weeks. Please check out the show description below! This show is a presentation of work by six ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=317 photo courtesy of Kelly Sepulveda For those of you who haven't been blessed with at least one viewing of Troll 2, allow me a brief introduction: it's a mesmerizing, god-awful, hilarious, bottom-of-the-barrel budget film of rare form. As kids, my brother Aaron and I screened it over and over, rewinding the ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=304 Lo and behold, the long-awaited sequel to An Opportunity for Social Engagement has arrived. Join our alien friends as they get down in the outer reaches of space. As always, the characters are played by myself and by Collin Cunningham. Watch the video on my youtube channel, Mags to Riches. View the ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=303 While browsing Youtube's fine selection of Grace Jones videos the other day, I came across this nugget from Italian TV show Stryx in 1978. It features Grace performing her song Fame while trapsing about in a heavily smoke[machine]-filled set and cavorting on leopard print divans. Note the tone set by ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=302 More handmade boot pics below - but first a brief history: I decided I wanted to make a pair of boots about two years ago, as I was inspired by the book How to Make Your Own Shoes that I posted about HERE. As suggested in the post, I did ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=301 The Kate Bush Dance Troupe performed at The Kitchen November 5, 6, and 7 as part of Chase Granoff's piece The Art of Making Dances. Chase's piece featured himself and Jennifer Sullivan as the main dancers as well as a group of dancers who performed during several segments. Our contribution ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=298 A few days after I posted about the two previous Symphony of Science videos I saw this third installment in the series. (It's all very confusing to me because I feel like I saw them a year ago and wrote a post about them and then fell into a time ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=297 This year I had an idea for a costume a few weeks before Halloween and decided to throw it together to become some sort of space rocker, a slight variation from my normal Halloween attire. I originally envisioned this costume being long-sleeved and totally covering the wearer in striped material, ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=294 I've participated so far in two art runway shows that Jennifer Sullivan organized. Last May she mounted Recession Runway hosted by NADA at Bumble and Bumble, and I showed off the costume I created for my performance last March in Wisconsin. After wearing it a few times, I practically forgot ... http://www.ericamagrey.com/news/?p=289