Accusations, Recriminations, Lamentations, Imputations By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Once A Year For My Birthday, I Allow Myself 14 Minutes Of Uninterrupted Happiness It’s a gift that I very much look forward to receiving, though last year I only gave myself 13 minutes because it started to fucking rain. Do What You Love […]
Humidor of human filth By Zac Dunn Art by Jason White Published Issue 102, June 2022 The most magical man Lives on top of boxes but Wants desperately to understand The circumference of the meridian Goal posts smoke and cold ropes Evoke similar waves and places We’ve already been Splice the marmaduke Clutching gleaming things
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No Escape From the Storm By Joel Tagert Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 102, June 2022 The storm kept coming. The first time Kadi and Aliya were in the drive-thru of a Burger King in Fruita, Colorado. Kadi was behind the wheel of her car, a 2003 Ford Taurus she’d bought for eleven hundred
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Technical Difficulties Please Stand By By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published Issue 102, June 2022 Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found in pop culture, sci-fi,
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Worlds Collide By Peter Kornowski Published Issue 102, June 2022 I remember always having a passion for creating … drawing, painting, design, carpentry, music; they’re all outlets for my creativity. I love bringing the imagination to life and sharing with others. Making things, and knowing how things are made, has always felt good to me.
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 102, June 2022 Bryon Parker – 3 Consecutive Championships Bryon Parker uses an almost processionally repetitive drum beat to frame the narrative of “Alma Mater.” Its tale of the low-aspiration-having virtues celebrated by people who don’t know better, for whom being the captain of the high school
Animal Cloud By Moon Patrol Published Issue 101, May 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 to “Kid Koala’s turntable albums, and in part by
By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 102, June 2022 George’s mower hummed across the Sky Line — an elevated park once known as the High Line, but rebranded in the 2040s when it was expanded over all four boroughs (Staten Island having been sold off to New Jersey, a change few New
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Art + Party: MCA Denver Celebrates Denver’s Creative Teen Community By Tai Bickham Photos by Adrienne M. Kendall & Christopher Perez Published Issue 102, June 2022 MCA Denver invests in exhibitions and programs that challenge conventional thinking around what makes a museum a museum. This dialog between the museum and its audience is baked into the mission of
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Camper Cat By Ray Young Chu Published Issue 101, May 2022 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 040 Ray Young Chu’s background starts with his grandfather being taken away by North Korean soldiers for being a preacher when his dad was six. They never saw him since. This back history has contributed to Ray’s continuous