Stream of Thought By Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 127, July 2024 Nick Flook aka Flooko is “the O.G astronaut painter” and takes his fans on adventures through original acrylic paintings and animations. This Toronto-based artist specializes in surrealism, space-themed work and impressionistic city and landscapes. See more of his work on his site […]
Dioramas & Dynamic Memories with Mister Christmas By Amanda Shafer Published in Issue 127, July 2024 Denver-based artist, Mister Christmas has a deep and rare understanding of the nature of memories — that we don’t remember things as they were, or even as we were. You pull up to an unassuming, industrial office building south
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Submarine JackBy Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 127, July 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 July 2o24 Front Cover, Toho Summer, and his last
Published Issue 126, June 2024 Northern California collage artist Moon Patrol has a mind like an event horizon, a surreal point of no return for his creative visions and thoughts. But unlike Einstein’s theory of black holes, his concepts do in fact return, and more impactful than before. Beginning with an idea session, he utilizes
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Just Like The Rest Of Us, I Forget All My Good Ideas By Brian Polk Art by Ray Young Chu Published Issue 126, June 2024 I Bet When Mr. T Is Feeling Depressed, He Self-pities The Fool Based on the public persona of Mr. T, I can’t imagine the dude gets depressed all that often.
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In the heart of Denver’s Capitol Hill, you’ll find Off The Bottle Refill Shop, the neighborhood’s minimal waste refillery. Housed on the corner of the historic brick building on 13th Ave and Sherman, guests are welcomed in by a vibrant outdoor mural and artful windows lined with hanging sea glass bottles and a bounty of
Published Issue 126, June 2024 Suddenly aware of bells ringing in the night, Itsuro sat up, staring toward the sound. As he listened another bell joined in, and another — bells from many temples being struck ceaselessly. Minoru, unbelievably, was still snoring. Itsuro jumped up and started flinging on his clothes. “Wake up, baka!” Minoru
Samurai March By Dan Moran Published Issue 126, June 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally published Issue 062, February 2019 Samurai March is a 8.5″ x 11″ ball-point pen piece created in 2014. Dan Moran is a self-taught artist who’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, since before he could read or write.
The Hunt By Levi Himes Published Issue 126, June 2024 The faintest tinge of blue was beginning to seep into the night. Stars still shone high in the sky, clouds of a remnant storm barely shadowed their view of the earth below. Dew was finalizing its settlement upon every available wild surface. Wind whistled through
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 126, June 2024 Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen (2024) Accidentally created in 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, LSD is often seen as one of the drivers of the culture shifts of the late 50s