Year: 2014
The Sixth Gun: Clear Lines, Clear Story, Clear Brilliance
Comics are one of the few mediums where plausibility doesn’t matter. You’re allowed to take different genres and mix and mash them together into something completely new. No one will question the reality or viability, because comics exist on a little island where literally everything is fair game. Comics are just words and pictures—you can do anything with words and pictures. … read more
Aesthetic Perfection @ Area 51 06.04 with Panic Lift, Surgyn
Aesthetically and Audibly Pleased by the Til’ Death Tour. … read more
Celebrating Pride: Mayor Ralph Becker Holds Wedding Reception for Same-Sex...
With warmth and a welcome greeting, the wedding reception held on Sunday was a sincere gesture to let those couples know that their union is a blessing worth honoring. … read more
Ring Rats Anonymous: UCW-Zero TV Taping @ UCW Arena 05.31
Signs with South Park characters on them to those who trekked out, and a 30-hour loop of Michael Cole explaining how to use the WWE app to those who didn’t. … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day Three @ Railyard Community Art Garden...
Crucial Fest Day 3 @ Railyard Community Art Garden with Cult Leader, Parallax, Name, Teeph, Reproacher, Borasca, Rail Spike, Oldtimer and @ Bar Deluxe with Eagle Twin, Kowloon Walled City, Helms Alee, Making Fvck, Oxcross … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day Four @ The Shred Shed
Crucial Fest 4: Day Four @ The Shred Shed with Heartless Breakers, Eons, Call of the Void, Abrams, Die Off, Done, Light/Black … read more
E3 Day Zero: Press Conference Madness
Day 0 of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is comprised of back-to-back press conferences from gaming industry giants, showing off their latest wares to the public. As the conferences rolled on it became quite apparent that gaming is in a weird transitional state more so this year than any year before. … read more
E3 2014: Take-Two Interactive
Last year, E3 attendees got a peek at what next-gen games were going to look like. This year, we’ve gotten a peek at what next-gen games can actually do. With many developers cranking out content that can be played on both iterations of the Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo Wii, there’s an obvious limit to what they can accomplish. … read more
E3 2014: Square Enix, Natsume, Sega and Nintendo
This is my first E3—it’s big, it’s loud and it is a lot of fun. Today was mostly about exploration for me: getting the layout down, finding all the games I want to play and checking in with a few of my favorite developers and publishers that I just couldn’t resist. … read more
Pride Festival Recap
Love equals love. That was the theme at this years Pride, and it couldn’t have been more fitting. The theme calls back to the 17 days—from December 20, 2013 to January 6, 2014—when same-sex couples could legally marry here in the state of Utah after Judge Robert J. Shelby struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional, and it draws attention to the current legal limbo same-sex couples have been stuck in as the appeals process against Judge Shelby’s ruling slowly grinds forward. But the love equals love theme does even more than that: It also calls to how things should be, how everyone should be treated and how important equality truly is. … read more