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GLACI E R MAGAZI N E
CONTENTS
REGULAR FEATURES
PHOTOGRAPHY STORIES
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Francesca Secolonovo // The
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Giedre Sviderskiene // Clean
Darker Side of Love
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Shana Carrara // A Blank Slate
Fairytales
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Nichelle S // Let the Galaxies
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Cassidy Scanlon // Sea Nymphs
Unfold
Contributors & Team
MUSIC
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GLACIER
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Interview with Theset
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Saskia Kivilo // Smoke and
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Keegan Kapugal // Don’t...
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Interview with Manuel de la
Mirrors
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Angela Michelle // You, Me,
Fuente Banos
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Gerald Larocque // These
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Lungs Won’t Salvage Me
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Alison L // Expectations
Chicoine
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Bourgeoisie with
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Poetry by Rachel Narvey
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CONTRIBUTORS & TEAM EDITOR IN CHIEF EMILY TRAVER
INTERVIEWEES Manuel de la Fuente Banos // manuelsart.com Nicole Chicoine // nikkichicoine.com flickr.com/jesuisnikki Theset // facebook.com/theset
FEATURED WRITERS Rachel Narvey
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS Alison L Angela Michelle // ravenredphoto.com Cassidy Scanlon // bisousmonamour.blogspot.ca flickr.om/bisousmonamour Emily Jane Morgan // ejp.4ormat.com flickr.com/emilyjane-photo Francesca Secolonovo // flickr.com/50365329@N00 Gerald Larocque // http://www.geraldlarocque.com flickr.com/worthlessphotography
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Giedre Sviderskiene // armana.500px.com
Keegan Kapugal // keegankapugal.com Nichelle S // javertime.500px.com Saskia Kivilo // cargocollective.com/saskiakivilo flickr.com/saskiakivilo Shana Carrara // shanacarrara.500px.com
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PHOTOGRAPHY Julia Marcello
THESET [AN INTERVIEW]
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PHOTOGRAPHY Pauline Nguyen
Glacier sits down with Martin of ing that was kind of funny, because with your family taking your asTheset to talk new projects, tour- we only had about three weeks pirations of being in a band seriing, and his advice for bands on to practice. We named ourselves ously? their way up in the world.
Theset as a bit of a joke, the fact MARTIN: I do see that in a lot of that we only had that one set go- new bands! For us, we’ve been
GLACIER: Can you give us a brief ing when we got together. But the very lucky that we’ve all had a lot history of the band?
band really did end up clicking after of support from our parents... Our
MARTIN: We’re actually originally taking on that project.
family and our friends have been
from the west coast of Canada, in
so great. My grandfather was ac-
Victoria, BC, and we only recently It’s kind of funny, the one member tually a country music songwriter, moved to Toronto. We started out who originally brought all of us to- so my parents have grown used before any of us considered being gether ended up leaving the band to it being a part of the family. in a band, really. A friend of ours immediately after. But over the last asked if we wanted to open for a few years we’ve gone from a little GLACIER: There’s been a lot of band called The Reason in Victoria, unknown band in the west coast buzz regarding piracy lately. As
“We’ve been very lucky... Our family and friends have been so great” and one of our members wanted to touring across the country, play- or bad? to open for the show so badly ing everything from a legion hall MARTIN: To me, it’s not a black that he decided to put together with what, 5 people to audiences and white issue. But whether it a band. So he sort of tracked all of 2 000 people. We just tried to is good or bad, it’s kind of a fact of the members of the band down build a name for ourselves before of life at this point and no matand put us in a room together, and moving to Toronto.
ter how many legislations they
luckily we all really clicked musi-
pass, or how many sites they
cally. We started writing right off GLACIER: Before Theset saw more shut down, it’s going to happen. the bat, and we did end up play- success, did you have problems So I mean, you do kind of have to 009
work with it and just use it to your right now, it’s already com- “What is this!”, but we’re all readvantage. If somebody’s a true ing together so well and we re- ally happy with how it’s going. fan of your band, they’re going to ally can’t wait to introduce it. come to your show and buy merch
GLACIER: It sounds like your band
and all these things anyways. And GLACIER: Is your new album in a has a much more relaxed approach if somebody’s not necessarily a different direction from your previ- to writing than a lot of groups; do die-hard fan, they still get to check ous work?
you prefer writing over touring?
your music out and maybe show MARTIN: Definitely a different MARTIN: Myself, and some other their friends or something. We sound. I know that a lot of bands say members of the band, we are used don’t do it for the money anyways, that, “Oh, this album is WAY crazi- to the same thing: Write a couple that’s always important to keep er than anything we’ve done!”, but songs, get on the road! I think we in mind – there’s better ways to it really is a new take and it’s really played almost 400 shows in those make money than being in a band! exciting to try something different. first few years. So obviously that’s For us, our first three records – all shaped our attitudes, and we just GLACIER: I know that you recently independent releases – you could love it. But we do love recording
“Write, write, write, and be true to what you want to do” played
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success- really tell that we were still devel- too, it’s another experience. The
ful show in Toronto; do you oping our sound, still finding what whole process is great for different have
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MARTIN: Not in the immediate things have changed; moving, new feel at home on the road. But then future, that was a sort of one-off, members, it’s a really different ex- I know that our guitarist, he’s honinformal thing. One of our friends perience and it’s a great feeling to estly such an asset for the band plays there so it was more of a be able to show something and be and he hasn’t really dipped his feet break from writing our record proud of it. We sampled some stuff into the heavy touring yet.
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PHOTOGRAPHY Pauline Nguyen
GLACIER: Do you have any advice stick to what feels right to you, and that you write a lot of it! Write, for bands that are just starting out? don’t try to jump on a trend or any- write, write, and be true to what MARTIN: Absolutely, I would say thing. The most important things you want to do with your sound. that the most important this is to are that you write what you love, ▲
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PHOTOGRAPHY Giedre Sviderskiene
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OF FAIRYTALES
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PHOTOGRAPHY Emily Jane Morgan MODEL Georgina Wade MUA Clare Barber STYLING & WARDROBE Kee Boutique HAIR PIECES BY Pearls & Swine
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PHOTOGRAPHY Cassidy Scanlon MODELS Joy Risk & Maddie Decter MUA Cassidy Scanlon STYLING Maddie Decter
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THE DARKER SIDE OF LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY Francesca Secolonovo MODEL Brenda @ Lenis Model Management MUA Helena Sibley HAIR Luca Gallina STYLING Magdalena Marciniak ASSISTANT Joanna Gregory
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PHOTOGRAPHY Shana Carrara MODEL Giulia Spinato
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LET THE GALAXIES UNFOLD PHOTOGRAPHY Nichelle Singer MODEL Bryanna @ I Model Management MUA Mo’mi Dawodu
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THESE LUNGS CAN’T SALVAGE ME
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EXPECTATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY Alison L MODEL Erika Perry
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PHOTOGRAPHY Keegan Kapugal MODEL Madison Annebella MUA Shae Lea
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YOU, ME, AND THE BOURGEOISIE PHOTOGRAPHY Angela Michelle MODELS Marie Ericsson & Nicole Burg MUA Elizabeth Giguere HAIR Beth Stubbs BODY ART Lisa Tingle CLOTHING DESIGNER Laura Varela
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NICOLE CHICOINE
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20 year old photographer from Vermont, USA
GLACIER: What equipment do you use? If you had an unlimited budget, what would you buy next? NICOLE CHICOINE: Right now I’m currently using a Nikon D3000 and a 50mm f/1.8 lens, it’s the most basic dslr of Nikon you can get, and I started conceptual photography with a point a shoot camera that had manual settings on it, so I’m not very picky as far as equipment goes. I have a Manfrotto tripod that I take everywhere with me. If I could buy any camera it would be a Nikon D3X with a 35mm f/1.4 lens, it’s my dream! GLACIER: Why do you prefer to shoot self-portraits as opposed to using models? NC: There’s something so magical about exploring your own feelings and thoughts with your own body. All concepts I think of never include anyone else other
other than me, unless someone else is in the photograph with me. I like to show my own perspective of life as it is, and also how I wish it could be. Also, I really just enjoy being in front of the camera and editing photographs. GLACIER: Do you produce any art other than photography? NC: Painting was my main art form before I got into photography. Here in college I’m required to take many different art classes, so I’ve done just about everything: painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, graphic design. I’ve also just started my own inspirational photography magazine titled “Golden Age Magazine” and I participate in my college’s dance ensemble and am in a dance performance twice a year. (continued...)
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GLACIER: What do you want a viewer to take from your photography? NC: All of my different photographs portray different emotions, but I guess I just want people to at least feel like they are in some way connecting with my own personal emotions within my photographs. I want people to know that we are all just human and all feel the same emotions; every emotion that you feel is also capable of affecting anyone else. GLACIER: Do you have a favourite photograph? NC: My personal favorite photograph of my own work would probably be Lover’s Dream (opposite page, top left). I’m deeply connected to the idea and concept behind it. The idea came from a portrayal of my boyfriend and I’s relationship, and I decided that we were both dreamers and had our “heads in the clouds” about the future...we have always been known to dream too deeply about what is to come instead of living in the now.
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Where do you draw inspiration from? I’m really inspired by paintings, surrealism, photographers on flickr, and more recently... the beginning stages of photography. I actually spent the whole day going through Tim Walker’s website and it literally blew my mind away. I’ve never been so inspired. Some notable photographers who continue to inspire me are: Rodney Smith, Tim Walker, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, Brooke Shaden, Lissy Elle, and Sarah Ann Loreth. ▲
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MANUEL DE LA FUENTE BANOS 34 year old digital artist from Valladolid, Spain
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GLACIER: What software and equipment do you use? MANUEL DE LA FUENTE BANOS: The software that I use most frequently is Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Paint. My basic equipment is a 27 Imac” & Led Display, Mac Book 13 Pro” and Wacom Intuos 4L. AI also sometimes use brushes, paints, and pencils, amongst others elements. GLACIER: Do you produce any other forms of art? MDLFB: Yes, also I am photographer. The discipline is part of my way to express to me, is another way to illustrate my ideas. I sketch all works, and soon decide that disciplines it express better what I want to communicate. The photography, I can say, I use it when I want to leave clear more the sense and meaning than I mean.
me, touches to me and is near me. And even those distant things that can be felt like your own. The woman that I love, the beauty of the muses, my enemies, that whom I detest and I would make the opposite in that position, it all can influence to me to ignite an idea and inspite a sketch. An expression, a concept, a critic… Always I am receptive, I like that the inspiration find myself working, so I do not have another option that to create and to create.
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GLACIER: Do you prefer digital or traditional art? MDLFB: The two, why to have left I with only being able to use the two? The mixture is the future. According to what it wants to communicate and to express, I use more of one technique than of the other, or the same of the two techniques. I am of the old school and all my studies were based on traditional I also write poetry, this goes united with my illustra- techniques. tions within books. I am autopublished and edited a digital book entitled, “The Crystal Man”. You can GLACIER: What are you most proud of about your art? download it via my web and my Issuu page (links pro- MDLFB: My ability to not have a fixed style. It leaves vided in Contributors). This month I also publish my me able to grow, creating new forms and techniques most recent project, “The Silence of the Fear”. It will to express myself. One of the best things about this again unite my illustrations and poems. work is to be able to learn and to grow constantly. Not to remain all along making the same style and By means of my first published book, “The Crystal technique. And by all means I am proud that people inMan”, I have also created an EP of music featuring clude my works and understand what I want to comseven poems from the project. I have to thank Jaime municate. Pelillo, a guitarist and friend, for being interested in my poetry and composing music around my wordss. The GLACIER: How would you define “art”? EP was performed at the first exhibition of the digital MDLFB: The art is what it lasts in the time and to the book. You can also hear this on my website. time in itself. That stays like art over the fashions, the styles and the forms to think during the passage of On top of everything I have worked in video, as script- the different times from which survives. The art that writer and director of an art & photography video, for becomes immortal. So that nobody has the capacity a rock band from my country, Spain. Like a designer of to decide that it is art, it is the work that by itself will toys, who can do anything from paper toys to wooden speak and say if it is or it is not art during the course toys. It’s as if I was really a Renaissance man! of his trip in the time. I hope that my works are able to last to the trip and the time. ▲ GLACIER: What inspires you to create a piece? MDLFB: The love, the decay, the sadness, the death, the life inspires to me, everything what it surrounds
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RACHEL NARVEY
There’s a forest fire in you, and I want to see you burn But here you are, cold as frost and every time the dice plead it’s my turn I take a chance and can’t repay the cost of all the pretty flowers, we are indebted to the escape we find when we dream of you our gasoline veins scorched cutting branches in our skin your light our detonation, wired and tied yours, but you would never choose to take us
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sleep is no escape, and you’ve snaked your way into every nightmare I shake a fantasy, catastrophe painted in colours of passion and you connected to me in ways I don’t dare pretend to see
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devoted to an illusion, no matter how untrue hero worship, you can call it what you will but no matter, I’m proud when I call on you so brilliant and bold, my saviour still before you, I was velveteen drawn to nothing and a slave to no dreams but without aim, you hit home without wanting, you struck me eyes wise, having learnt the worlds corners your ears privy to times secrets all the rosy flowers careen when you sway they watch you move and drink each word you say I am more drastic because of you and the curses I utter taste forbidden in my mouth they are for your ears, like diamonds they glisten begging, I whisper: listen, listen
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I am weaving a net I have fashioned for your skin, every ruby river a mark of my sin my chest rising, my hands taking breathing out and breathing in give me the salt of each crease of each limb the action that damns us both from within an endeavour you’ll never desire a confession that leads to chagrin
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but I never tire of your eyes like opals avoiding my gaze, your heart a jaded amber blaze, each secret you keep a maze that I can never navigate, and how you don’t belong to me, the way I’ve fallen easily, each night I paint and write and rant, your smile that always does enchant the girls, the women, every type, who dream of you in darkest night, who long for you to cease to fight and succumb to each perverse delight, who speak to others many lies, of how they’ve seen past your disguise, of defying being human, flawed, when watching you feels close to God, and heresy feels rather wrong, but somehow it is right to tread your wake, and every breath you take a prize that one might catch if one does try much harder than once asked
of all those you’ve loved how could you love me? everything you do makes me a liar well, I’m content to watch you dance to the beat of forever forest fire there’s a storm inside you, and I want to see you rain and here you are, clearly lost which proves with time I just might gain the fact that once unheard is twice crossed
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