#matiere noire

[alcrego]

The vanish of vanity

'Matiére Noire' collective exhibition. Marseille, 2017.

[persolaise]

Sometimes Magic Happens - An Interview With Guerlain's Delphine Jelk

image: Persolaise – I thought about two lovers hanging out in Paris, during the night. I imagined that patchouli is my lover and that I have to tame it, to make it mine. So I added some of the vanilla tincture that we make at Guerlain. We cut vanilla beans into small pieces and we put them in alcohol for 21 days to obtain a tincture. It’s not a sweet vanilla. It’s spicy, a little smoky, woody,…

[davidtejeroaloha]

Paris & Barcelona

Well! It’s been a couple of active months working at the studio and also in Paris for the first time. Going on and ending big projects like this huge lion and also one sitting tattoos too. Starting with this big one, my sincere acknowledgment and respect goes for Eric. He sat like a champ four times with almost no recovery time in between. A serious planning and will power is all you need to…

[desultory-novice]

Bonus Talk: Storycrafting for Noir and Apologies

So, I keep thinking how funny it is how this whole thing started. I had a chain of ideas at dinner one night: "What if the Master Crown really WAS trying to transform Magolor into Dark Matter? Would he be 'Dark Matter Wizard?' But then, what was Swordsman before he was Swordsman? Hmm. There is that one piece of human concept art he has... and you know...maybe it's the retro anime look or the fact that this series doesn't have hardly any humans in it but he looks just enough like Adeleine that one could think they're related-..."

Back then, "Noir" didn't really exist. I just drew up a quick sketch in Adeleine's notebook that I hope looked recognizably like the human DM concept art. He wasn't in color but given Dark Matter's palette, he probably would have had dark hair, and poring through the wiki - I found at least one Dark Matter incarnation with a purple eye. I also had Ado drop a line that her brother was "bad at making friends" because of that one JP guide and that was IT.

But then... I thought it was sad to draw this poor guy only to kill him off in the backstory without even fleshing out what he looked like (and I was afraid Adeleine's pencil sketch made him look blond XD) so I drew up a quick color pic of him, rendering Swordsman's gear as a normal scarf and coat. Before thecrashman said anything, I hadn't even considered the two of them as living on Shiver Star!

As soon as he said that though, everything started to come together...Now DMS was an overprotective brother taking care of his little sister in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Of course he was. No wonder he couldn't bond with anyone. He was straining under the weight of his responsibilities. He's older. He's supposed to be the protector, so he could never bring himself to tell his kid sister about the things he was going through. He focused on her joy to his own exclusion. A destructive pattern. A fatal flaw for this tragedy.

Twitter readers asked after the first comic how Adeleine's brother even became Dark Matter Swordsman, some suggesting perhaps it was because he died in battle against Zero? I thought a big human-led global effort against Zero and Dark Matter seemed too complicated in scope, so my solution was to go back to where this idea started: he would be the same as Magolor - looped in by a bad ancient artifact that parasitized him before he knew what was happening. Only he doesn't have a Kirby to save him...

At this point, I had to give him a name. I wanted something French-sounding, so he sounded good alongside Adeleine, and remembering the origin of Adeleine's name, I thought to choose something in FL-ese. I combed the lyrics of "Welcome to the New World" back and forth in both English and Japanese. (I was lucky as the song is sung as a one-to-one Japanese audio cypher and I speak Japanese.)

It wasn't easy though. I wanted a "strong" word but almost everything in there was about food or naps. XD I finally found a phrase in the Japanese lyrics, "邪魔できない"/"unable to be interrupted"/"unstoppable" and matched it to FL-ese.

Noruruwa. Sounds kinda like "Noir." And with Dark Matter being "Matiere Noire" in French, well, it seemed all too perfect...!

The rest all flowed pretty naturally from there. If our setting is Shiver Star and Shiver Star exists at the same time as the New World, and it resembles our Earth's globe while the New World doesn't, perhaps Shiver is an "abandoned earth"? One with an angry, betrayed populace and two kids doomed by birth to die a cold, miserable death in a place utterly neglected by the rest of humanity.

Now "Noir" had a good reason to seek out the power that would be his undoing. While I'm at it, why not tell the story of how Adeleine gets her brush? That's magical(?) too. It's no Drawcia's Paintbrush, but neither is Dark Matter Blade equal to Galaxia. So now, we've got the idea for "off-brand artifacts" - found in an abandoned exhibit, perhaps? Maybe Noir wants to get Adeleine a present? He grabs the sword on the way out without even thinking because...it's a dangerous world out and he's got a young sibling to look after.

(Although, similar to the Master Crown, it's hard to say whether it was originally entirely his choice to pick it up...or the sword's.)

But wait, why do the artifacts do the bad things they do? Now that I'd introduced the New World into this story, I had Fecto Elfilis/ID-F86 on the table. The concept that the Shiver Starians were sooo angry at the New Worlders when for all we knew, the New Worlders weren't even ALIVE anymore made me think, "Do we really expect powerful, angry psychic Elfilis was passive that entire time? While they were being tortured? What if...they sabotaged everything?"

I'd already speculated that Elfilis and Void are two of a pair, and you can trace their offshots throughout the entirety of Kirby lore. (If you buy into my Galactic Nova is based on Fecto Elfilis theory.) And seriously, at least half those artifacts have led to serious tragedy. Now, we had a reason for Noir to be doomed by the narrative.

I do HC that everyone who has ever had their soul consumed by an Ancient Artifact had some red in their ledger - and so, I conceived of some for Noir. I didn't and don't ever want to write/draw a "humans are a disease" story, which is why 99~100% of anything "bad" implied to be going on in their lives on Shiver Star is entirely background. That was purposeful for several reasons. One was simply to demonstrate the degrees to which Noir was protecting Adeleine. He would build up more stress and more pain and more trauma while she remains the same throughout. Two is I just didn't want to go into detail about what wretched scenario would force Noir to take another person's life, but it is still a part of his character history.

(I write Kirby fan comics after all! I try to stay within the bounds of what I consider acceptable content to show. Best I can ^^; )

Noir was also just pushed to the brink, despairing in his life and the world around him. He wanted more than anything to escape this life. Of course, Artifacts have this funny way of twisting your wishes in the WORST way. (Screams of joy > screams of pain.) So Noir's artifact transforms itself into a collar he can't remove, with an unspoken time limit to do anything his newfound power could do for him - at the end of which, his body and soul become forfeit to the darkness. Now he has lost all escape routes. Even death only delivers him to a fate of serving Zero, robbed of independent thought and choice and memories of the one bright thing in his life.

Adeleine...

Adeleine still needed to escape though. She has to get to Popstar. This was the most complicated part for me to logic out. In the end, I went with the simplest, quickest, and most brutal method of getting that done. Quietly imply that Noir, resigned to his fate, killed as many people as it took to secure Adeleine safe passage off the planet and then lied to her about everything with a gentle smile.

Perhaps it's because the Dark Matter Blade has affected his mind and dulled any emotional responses the normally gentle (if sharp-tongued) Noir would have to harming people (as again, artifacts tend to twist people in the worst possible ways; Noir is verbally abrasive but his nature is defensive. Now he has only violence to rely on to get his wish) but I also think the look of calmness on his face throughout "Brightest Star", in spite of the blood on his hands, is because he's just honestly happy - relieved, for once in his life - to have at least saved Adeleine. He was already consigned to hell, doomed from a simple mistake born from the desire to do good; to protect. (*) But Adeleine doesn't have to carry either his mistakes or his sins.

His was a character who took everyone onto himself. And he succeeded at that. His and Adeleine's past and their traumas will be buried underneath the unending snowfall of Shiver Star...

...Adeleine departs and Noir dies, his human body dissolved into Dark Matter, rising up into the aether right as the first flakes of snow began their long task of erasing all that has happened...

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Rest now, Noir...

...it's The Swordsman's turn.

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(*) I consider Dark Matter Swordsman be in a very small group with Joronia and Max Haltmann as the only sympathetic characters to be permanently dead In Kirby canon. Which is another reason why I crafted Noir's story explicitly to resemble theirs. We had a pair of (potential) lovers whose story ends in tragedy and a father and daughter tragedy but no siblings whose story has ended tragically. By fanon, that's arguably Swordsman and Gooey, but that just made him more fit to be this story's tragic brother figure...

In which case, Noir basically HAD to be someone who had a simple wish (to keep his only family safe) ran afoul of an ancient artifact almost by accident in the midst of trying to do good and suffers an inevitable, horrifying physical and mental transformation that would end with his only option for salvation to be put out of his misery...

Curse you, Dream Land 2! :cries:

[Apologies AU]  “Apologies”  “One Sneeze”  “Summer”  “A Walk in the Snow”  “The Swordsman” “Wonderful Gift” "Damnation" "Salvation" "Unstoppable" "Brightest Star"

[Bonus Illust] “Ugly Scarf”  [Bonus Illust] "That's...Funny..." [Bonus Illust] "Full Regalia" (DMS "Gijinka") [Bonus Illust] "Was I A Good Brother?" [You Are Here] [Bonus Illust] "You Won't Win..." [Relevant] “Vestige” (script-only)

[Bonus Text] Noir Facts!

[Dark Matter Painter AU] "It wasn't supposed to go this way...!" "You're a good knight!" "The Body Remembers"

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LE CLUB MICKEY

Léa Djeziri instagram.com/lea.djeziri

« Une nouvelle aventure extraite de la vie trépidante de Léa Djeziri ! À mi-chemin entre Ocean's Eleven, le Gendarme de St Tropez et le Manifeste du Parti Communiste, ce nouveau thriller HALETANT est la deuxième publication de la collection MATIERE NOIRE, qui propose des histoires qui font un peu peur mais pas trop non plus. »

28 pages Imprimé en riso Couverture en dorure à chaud et letterpress

Édité par Matière Grasse https://www.matieregrasse.fr

Prix : 18€

Détail du prix : Papier - 3€ Impression - 6€ Autrice - 4.5€ Matière Grasse - 4.5€

[theshoegirldiaries]

LOTD: Too Faced Lady Bold Em-Power Pigment Lipstick in I’m Thriving with Lancome Color Fever Gloss in 210 Brun Zarida.  #Scentoftheday Angelique Noire EDP by Guerlain (L’Art & La Matiere).  

[goalhofer]

2024-25 Milwaukee Admirals famous relations

#22 Kieffer Bellows: Son of former Washington Capitals RW Brian Bellows. #2 Marc Del Gaizo: Brother of former South Carolina Stingrays LW Anthony Del Gaizo; Jr.. #10 Jordan Frasca: Brother of Cincinnati Cyclones C Jacob Frasca. #19 Jake Lucchini: Grandson of former New Westminster Royals LW the late Leo Lucchini, brother of Etoile Noire Strasbourg D Jeremy Lucchini and cousin of Savannah Ghost Pirates LW Ross Armour. #51 Jack Matier: Son of former Laredo Bucks D Mark Matier. #16 Cal O'Reilly: Brother of Nashville Predators C Ryan O'Reilly, cousin of Windsor Spitfires GM Bill Bowler and husband of former world championship figure skater Terra O'Reilly. #8 Turner Ottenbreit: Son of former Erie Panthers LW Grant Ottenbreit. #18 Ryder Rolston: Son of former Boston Bruins C Brian Rolston and nephew of Providence College men's hockey associate head coach Ron Rolston. #49 Reid Shaefer: Son of former Roanoke Express LW Jeremy Schaefer and cousin of former Thomas Sabo Nürnberg Eistiger C Colin Fraser.

[charlotteswebbbbb]

The set design of the Courreges FW22 runway by Matiere Noire.

[loeilafaim]

MATIERE NOIRE devient feuilletable

Découvrez-le sur Calaméo, mis en ligne par Ubik-Art C’est ICI Si vous désirez acquérir ce livre, n’hésitez pas ! C’est là.

[persolaise]

Guerlain Tobacco Honey review - Delphine Jelk; 2023

Goodness me, the folks at Guerlain have been keeping busy. Not only have they given us new Shalimar, La Petite Robe Noire, L’Homme Ideal and Habit Rouge flankers this year, they’ve also expanded and re-designed the Aqua Allegoria range, they’ve added six extraits to L’Art Et La Matiere (I hope to bring you some info on these in due course) and they’ve added two eaux de parfum to the latter…

[valentinfougeray]

Valentin Fougeray© https://www.instagram.com/valentinfougeray/

📸 for @matiere.noire.paris _ set & light design >>> MIAOU SS23 X @miaou @faikhadra @christianfeltham @western_promises

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LA FÊTE À LA GRENOUILLE

Léa Djeziri instagram.com/lea.djeziri

« Un thriller haletant raconté et dessiné par Léa Djeziri, la "Stephen King du Haut-Rhin". La Fête à la Grenouille est la première publication de la collection MATIERE NOIRE qui propose des histoires qui font un peu peur mais pas trop non plus. »

24 pages Imprimé en riso Couverture en dorure à chaud et letterpress

Édité par Matière Grasse https://www.matieregrasse.fr

Prix : 15€

Détail du prix : Papier - 2€ Impression - 5€ Autrice - 5€ Matière Grasse - 5€

[lejournaldupeintre]

Matière noire

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[doydoune]

head empty only stars✨

my gift for the secret Santa on the vdf discord! you guys are lovely 💞

[alcrego]

If it moves, it loops.

In Marseille, for Borondo’s Matiere Noire.

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