People are hilarious, and can be incredibly stupid. Thanks to the internetz, we now can watch this hilarity and stupidity unfold in myriad ways throughout the year. We’ve got rappers of all shapes and sizes, people getting hurt and basically being the complete morons we’ve come to expect from our…
In the ad industry’s constant flurry to be creative and original, boundaries are pushed — and sadly, every once in a while an animal is creepily made to look and act like a human. While anthropomorphism is almost always a bad idea — except in Japan, where there are more…
Celebrities don’t really owe the world anything. They do what they do and we treat them like royalty for it and ask nothing in return, except these days for maybe a tweet every couple hours to let us know what they are doing and thinking throughout every day of their…
Film has the power to change perceptions and widen worldviews, often giving us a new perspective on life and transforming our communities, hopefully for the better. That is the goal of A Small Act: Film Screening and Conversation With Director Jennifer Arnold, organized by Facing History and Ourselves, part of…
Bailey Ferguson is hard at work in the world of art and design, trying her hand at any and all media. She’s been a painter’s assistant, a design intern, a freelance painter and chalk board artist, and she’s currently a member of the Pirate Contemporary Art Co-op, a photographer, a…
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn’t prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it’s prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like playing Wack-a-mole: the second you hit one, another one rears…
In the modern world, advertising is one of the most powerful tools available to get one’s message out to the public. Urgent issues are spread wide through our wonderful super technology. But just because you can send a message out to millions of people simultaneously doesn’t mean it’s going to…
The study by Wageningen University has been inconclusive, and more tests are needed before everyone panics and shuts down all wireless networks causing business and pleasure across the world to come to screeching halt. Let’s not overreact here, but all variants of deciduous trees in the Western world seem to…
Every once in a while, crowded train stations have been known to break into song and dance and then disperse as if nothing happened. Large groups of people freeze for a period of time and then continue walking with onlookers amazed. Choreographed ninja fights happen out of the blue for…
Flash mobs are groups of people coordinated through the Internet who meet in public, do unusual things and then disperse like nothing happened, making the event appear magical to onlookers. Today, on the busiest shopping day of the year, the magic will have a festive feel in Cherry Creek North…
Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn’t want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Magazine and DVLP clothing, among others,…
Stupidity abounds in our daily lives, and the internetz have only exacerbated its abundance. Commercials hold a rather large market share of the overall world stupidity index, and since beer commercials own a significant amount of broadband real estate, by extension they also are responsible for much of the stupidity…
With all the rhetoric surrounding the danger of fatness in America, it’s surprising to find that, according to a recent GlobalPost article, the USA isn’t the fattest country in the world. In fact, based on body-mass index (BMI) ratings by a World Health Organization study, only 79 percent of Americans…
The challenges of independent filmmaking are many, from scriptwriting to planning around multiple people’s schedules to finding funding and finding distribution, the list of hurtles to jump goes on and on. In fact, it’s rather amazing when a film is actually made. The Bug Theatre, a venue for local indie…
In what is possibly the most egregious use of an Internet poll to date, a couple from Minnesota is allowing people to vote on whether or not the woman should have an abortion. The simple fact that this couple is holding this poll, on the site birthornot.com, already places them…
It’s the day we’ve all been patiently waiting and preparing for the entire year. The one day when we can come together as a people, not just as Americans, but also as human beings, and celebrate the magnificent beauty and potential of the human imagination. Yes, today is Guinness World…
Fashion Denver’s in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is learning English and making…
What do you get when a popular game company swallows its pride and asks the anonymous users of 4chan’s video game forum why they didn’t like the new Call of Duty? You certainly don’t get a courteous discussion of the merits of the game along with some constructive criticism. No,…
Advertising is all around us — and thanks to the Internet, we can see all the weird stuff other countries are doing — telling us what to value and how to act, offering us insight on how to be better human beings (wink), or just making us laugh at ourselves…
At Plus Gallery last night, art lovers sat silently together in the dark, waiting for the next 16mm projected film to surprise and astonish. It was the ideal venue for the third Win Wear showcase, Into the Avant-Garde: Landscapes, with an intimate atmosphere and a large white wall to serve…
When it comes to advertising that is geared to deter someone from something, the most effective — and most often chosen — tactic is to use images that scare the shit out of any would-be buyers or doers. This is often seen in political ads and AIDS awareness ads, and…
Local artist Axel Geittmann’s paintings take viewers into a surrealist world of psychological landscapes, exploring complex emotional territory by combining gestures of realism with an essence of the other-worldy. Mostly painting with acrylic and spray-paint, Geittmann fuses traditions and viewer expectations to create a haunting mythology all his own. We…
