THE CURRENT By Zac Dunn Published Issue 124, April 2024 Encapsulating the ocean’s motion Krill spilling into harbors Guarded by monolithic stone towers Driven skyward with roots of MAGMA Foothold upon the edge of the precipice So deep its boundless immensity only hungers To know more water and bones To nuzzle and rest upon the […]
Published Issue 123, March 2024 One of the era’s most prolific conceptual artists and composers Mark Mothersbaugh has been making postcard art every day for the past 50 plus years. And this is on top of composing and scoring over 150 films, television shows, video games and hundreds of commercials and interactive pieces through his
BEYOND THE VEIL OF FLESH By Zac Dunn Published Issue 123, March 2024 The cryptos conundrum of existence, belief, genetics and context. What lies beyond what our eyes can see? Is it something that must be certain? Is it something that is actually there at all? When we first ventured into the forest to forage
Published Issue 123, March 2024 On a cold January eve, we — the Birdy crew — made our way from Denver to Boulder Valley Ranch trailhead right as the sun was setting with one mission: to stargaze. We found a nearly empty lot except for a large van decorated with glow-the-dark stickers and dim red
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Just Another Vortex By Joel Tagert Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 123, March 2024 Hi there, excuse me! Are you from around here? Just so. I am Josson of Thain, protector of the Westerling Woods. You mean all this burned area here? Just so. Great! I mean, not great that your home
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Quiet The Roar By Graham Franciose Index of Issue 123, March 2024 Quiet The Roar is a 7” x 9” watercolor and gouache painting on Rives BFK cotton rag Graham Franciose grew up in the forests of Massachusetts. His work reaches back to those times of exploration and imagination, where anything was possible. His whimsical,
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 123, March 2024 Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Translated by Jennifer Croft (2023) The immensity of Mount Everest and the consuming shadow of imperialism are melded with the micro-story of an ascent gone awry in Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s latest novel. Two Sherpas are guiding a young Englishman
Cairns Birdwing Butterfly By Mandy Heck Published Issue 123, March 2024 Mandy used Prismacolor colored pencils to draw this Cairns Birdwing, orthoptera euphorion. Check out her live drawing process of this beautiful creature on her Instagram. Mandy Heck of Abundance Illustration lived in the valley of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. Her studio overlooked
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 123, March 2024 New Standards Men – Against Our Vanishings Comprised of two extended tracks, “Thundercloud in Aquamarine” and “Boney Lunar Dust,” this most recent release from New Standards Men with contributions from Iowa-based avant-garde jazz duo, Sex Funeral, seems to begin each piece with bleak, deep
Meow Wolf Artists In The Colorado Wilderness By Elise Trivers Published Issue 123, March 2024 The art you’ll experience at a Meow Wolf exhibit is created through a deeply collaborative process with our local communities. Starting years before the first guests pass through our doors, it becomes a beautiful melding of minds. In Denver, we’re
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