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
Body and Soul By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published as the Back Cover of Issue 126, June 2024 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 of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found
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Published Issue 125, May 2024 Fern Roberts – A Multitude All at Once Some of the musical touchstones for this latest Fern Roberts album are easy enough to trace in the introspective and existential pop of The National, the atmospheric and gritty post-punk of Arctic Monkeys, and the spare delicacy, emotional immediacy and attention to