A quick behind the scenes take and beauty video from Auxiliary Magazine editor and frequent photographer for the magazine, Luke Copping.  This is from a small piece that can be seen in the upcoming issue, due out February 1st.

Jessica Louise’s Skull Charm Bow

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Jessica Louise may be best known for her cute tops at the mall store Hot Topic, but she has a lot more adorable items in store for you at www.jessicalouise.com.  I have to admit I want to own 90% of everything she makes, yet the Skull Charm Bow in black and white stripe really needs to belong in (my) everyone’s accessory collection!  My favorite part of the hair bow is the expression of the skull, its mouth looks like it’s sewn shut like a voodoo shrunken head.

Pair the Skull Charm Bow with a black cocktail dress or dress up an everyday outfit with a little cute and creepy couture!  The price is excellent at $8, so you can treat yourself to two, one for each side of your lovely head.  Get into Jessica Louise’s designs, you’ll thank me for it!

The Skull Charm Bow is available online at www.jessicalouise.com.

- Meagan

With the current trend of fantastical films on the rise, so many people seem excited for the upcoming Tim Burton helmed Alice in Wonderland but neglect that a true master of the wondrous and surreal, Terry Gilliam also has a remarkable project on the way. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, from description alone, sounds like an amazing production. The remarkably talented Heath Ledger’s final film before his unfortunate passing left the film uncompleted. Gilliam, rather than end the project like he was forced to with this previous production The Man Who Killed Don Quixote seems to have transformed Dr. Parnassus into a fitting tribute to a talent that was snuffed too early. The dreamlike qualities of the film allowed for a unique technique to be employed in its completion, Ledger’s friends would be cast as a transformation of the same character as the film moves through alternate realities. Gilliam then cast Johnny Depp, Colin Ferrel, and Jude Law as reinterpretations of Ledger’s final role to complete the film. But having four dynamite talents playing one single character is not nearly where it stops. You also get Christopher Plummer in the titular role, and perhaps, in the most appropriate piece of casting ever, Tom Waits as the Devil. Wrap all of this up with Gilliam’s signature surreal visions and whimsical nature, and you have a movie that I am literally drooling to see.  Check out the trailer below.

- Luke

Auxiliary Magazine will be at Kinetik Festival 2010!  Kinetik is one of the largest industrial/ebm/noise festivals in North America.  Every year it takes place in Montreal, Canada in mid May.  This year Auxiliary will be setting up shop along with a bunch of other great alternative fashion and music companies.  Some of this years headliners include Leather Strip, Combichrist, Hocico, Covenant, Rotersand, 16 Volt, and Chemlab.  Tickets are now on sale, and the first price increase goes into effect January 12th.

Make your plans now, this is an event not to be missed.  And be sure to stop by our table and say hi!

view the full lineup at www.festival-kinetik.net
buy tickets at www.festival-kinetik.net/store.htm

- Jennifer

Cyberoptix Tie Lab’s Crash print tie

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Happy Holidays!  Winter Solstice!  And all that December goodness!  Now that you’ve opened all your gifts and received that hideous reindeer tie from Grandma Martha, you can return it and get yourself a tie that doesn’t suck.  Cyberoptix Tie Lab presents Crash, a spider web pattern that simulates broken glass. What can I say other than it’s awesome!  The fact that this tie was inspired by the Normal’s song “Warm Leatherette” makes me want to wear it myself.  (For all of you who don’t know this song, go to iTunes right now and download it!)

The New Year is upon us and you’ll be invited to many parties, so this tie hits all the right notes to strike up conversations and help you to look suave as you’re ringing in 2010.  Ties aren’t just for formal occasions or for that 9-5 job, ties can be worn for an everyday look as an accessory.  Gasp!  Yes guys, you can accessorize!  Pair this snazzy tie with a nice button up, jeans, and a pair of converse for a sporty day look and then throw on a sport coat and change those shoes to boots and viola! you’re ready for a night on the town.  It’s easy and breezy and you need this tie because, “every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed man.”

The Crash tie is available online at www.cyberoptix.com.

- Meagan