Distortion3: Just A Visual Playground
DISTORTION3 By Just A Visual Playground Published Issue 082, October 2020 Just A Visual Playground is a designer and visualist.
Gojira: Peter Glanting
GOJIRA By Peter Glanting Published Issue 082 October 2020 GODZILLA (ゴジラ, GOJIRA) Like so many of Godzilla’s friends and foes, Godzilla themself comes from mysterious origins. In the words of Wikipedia: “generally depicted as an enormous, violent, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation.” You can’t say fairer than that. MOTHRA (モスラ, MOSURA) When
Spidey Sense: Tyler Davis
SPIDEY SENSES By Tyler Davis Published Issue 082, October 2020 Tyler Davis was born and raised in beautiful Boulder, CO where he spends most of his time making art and being creative while enjoying nature with his bulldog, Amy. At an early age, people in his life always nurtured his artistic side and encouraged him
CITIZENSHIP: A PRACTICE OF SOCIETY by Tai Bickham
CITIZENSHIP: A PRACTICE OF SOCIETY By Tai Bickham In October, MCA Denver’s much antisipated exhibition, Citizenship: A Practice of Society, curated by Assistant Curator Zoe Larkins, opens to the public. The exhibition features multiple contemporary artists from across the country whose work addresses poignant issues facing America. We sat in our respective homes and video
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October Birdy Book Club: Hana Zittel
BOOK CLUB By Hana Zittel Published Issue 082, October 2020 Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell (2020) In Samanta Schweblin’s very near future, the newest tech trend does not come in the form of an app, tablet, or wearable gadget, but an adorable electronic creature that roams around your home like
FEARSOME FOREST CREATURES: THE SLIDE ROCK-BOLTER by Lauren Shults
FEARSOME FOREST CREATURES: THE SLIDE ROCK-BOLTER By Lauren Shults Published Issue 082, October 2020 Nestled in the Coloradan mountains, just a stone’s throw southwest from Telluride, is Lizard Head mountain, home to the only native cetacean of Colorado: the Slide-Rock Bolter. The land-locked leviathan bolts down the mountainside and takes what is harming its home
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Damn It, Big Bottle of Wine, You Were Suppose To Last All Week! By Brian Polk
Published Issue 082, October 2020 Listen, big bottle of wine, you failed me. You were supposed to provide me with days of alcohol goodness with your plentiful liters of abundance. But instead, you lasted only three hours — two if you don’t count the 30 minutes it took to get you home from the liquor
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MOLLY BROWN HOUSE’S VICTORIAN HORRORS by Ryan Dunn
MOLLY BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM’S VICTORIAN HORRORS: RETURNS FOR ITS 27TH HALLOWEEN By Ryan Dunn Published Issue 082, October 2020 One of the oldest and most beloved Denver Halloween traditions will continue on this year despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Victorian Horrors, an annual celebration of Gothic literature held at the Molly Brown House Museum in Capitol
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INKWELL SPIDER by Lance Inkwell
INKWELL SPIDER Lance Inkwell Published Issue 082, October 2020 Best of Birdy | Originally Published Issue 058, October 2018 Lance Inkwell is a Denver-based cartoonist dedicated to making your day a little more enchanted with art. Illustrator for Studio MDHR. Follow Lance on Instagram and check out more of his work at Lance Inkwell Studios.
October Queen City Sounds by Tom Murphy
QUEEN CITY SOUNDS By Tom Murphy Published Issue 082, October 2020 DYAD – DORMANT Charles Ballas and Jeremy Averitt are perhaps better known for their participation in acts like Howling Hex and Esmé Patterson‘s live band respectively as well as their production work for Echo Beds. But DORMANT from their long-running collaborative project DYAD showcases their