EXTRA EXTRA !!!!! !!!!!
Hang tight, what the fuck is a solar utopia?
short of a quick google search, I’m really not going to be able to help you out there.
regardless, check out the premier of (12?) films put together by local directors and videographers
Local Creator
A new mural has been spotted throwing up some old-school Seattle realness on the alley-side of T.S. McHughs. Pay your respects to three pink Seattle icons: the elephant carwas sign, the ‘toe’ truck, and the wheedle
Seen in Seattle
if i’m wandering around columbia city with this sticker, you know damn well i’m putting it on the 2’5” tall valve holding back 50 pounds per square inch of water erected for the sole purpose of discouraging objectively hot homewreckers
baarrrffff
BAARRRFFFF IT OUT
baarrrffff has got their own art rag, and these are a preview straight from that zine. in this spread, we feature a pair of poems that confront the push and pull of missing and yearning. Sometimes it’s not about what you have, but what you wanted and what you lost.
There’s also a waffling in the bottom text, a begging for some takesies backsies that invoke the tug of war motion portrayed in the background paintings.
media: acryllic paint, photoshop, and illustrator
Quick Picks
punk and grunge are those genres that are 100% exactly what the world needs at the time. Bam Bam was there for Seattle in 1983, fronted by the badass leather-studded Tina Bell. the aptly named blog pleasekillme threw together a solid collection on their history.
Local Creator
did you ever really grow out of your awkward phase? or did you just get used to it? Rat Queen is asking the real questions in this album. listen on band camp and make peace with your inner post-adolescence.
Artwork by Ana VonHuben
From the editor
oh hey, found it.
apparently solar utopias are “100% renewable energy” zones. that was way harder than it should have been