Just So You Know, This Letter Would Have Been Tear-stained If It Wasn’t Written Digitally (And Other Fun Facts About How Sad My Life Is) By Brian Polk Art by Ray Young Chu Published Issue 129, September 2024 Have You Ever Apologized For Some Terrible Thing You Did More Than A Decade Ago, And The […]
Fascinating By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Published Issue 129, September 2024 “Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose and excluding that which is painful.” 🖖 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute
Published Issue 129, September 2024 A divine peek into one of the biggest installations at the upcoming Meow Wolf Houston. The iconography of cowboy culture unfolds into vast vistas of possibility and freedom … Plus some pretty excellent boots. Western style and its corresponding hats, spurs and chaps are experiencing a moment in pop culture:
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Mark Mothersbaugh at SXSW with Birdy Issue 027 + From The Postcard Diaries – June 14, 2024 By Mark Mothersbaugh Published in Issue 129, September 2024 Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has
The Lonesome Pigeon By Zac Dunn Art by Kid Koala Published Issue 129, September 2024 One Hundred Pigeons by Kid Koala is acrylic & plastic eyes on canvas measuring 48″ x 48″ x 1.5″ The flock stalk in fluctuations upon Filthy porous surfaces of perverse waste, While fancy footwear clamoring by in flippant haste, Tasting
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CobraBy Jonny DeStefano Published as the Index of Issue 129, September 2024 Jonny DeStefano is the co-owner and co-founder of Birdy Magazine. He is also the founder of the comedy activist space Deer Pile. His favorite color is red, he loves shark attacks, hockey and upright bass. Check out Jonny’s August interview with collage rebel Dave
Jealous Sunbeams By Daniel ‘DL’ Landes Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 129, September 2024 ✨ For Alicia Cardenas ✨ A long steady gaze at nothing in particular is better than prayer. A slow walk, side by side with a friend in silence, is a dream within a dream. Life does not pass
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 129, September 2024 A Shoreline Dream – Whitelined The songs on this seventh A Shoreline Dream album sound like Ryan Policky and Erik Jeffries mined through the ambient despair and melancholy of recent years to infuse the songwriting and production with a hopeful vitality. It certainly doesn’t
X-ray Cow By Moon_Patrol Published Issue 129, September 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally published Issue 106, October 2022 Moon Patrol is a Northern California-based artist. Taking themes including ’80s cartoons and video games, classic pulp illustrations, and comic book narratives, Moon Patrol remixes these many and varied cues using a collage technique he compares
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 129, September 2024 Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, Translated by Heather Cleary (2024) In an era that might seem overwhelmed with plague, epidemic and contagious disease, fiction and reality, Fernanda Trías puts her twist on the genre in her second novel translated into English, Pink Slime. A toxic