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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Living the Alternative

Above and Beyond the Average Ink

September 11, 2013

Getting a large amount of ink generally means the person it is attached too holds the art form in high esteem. However, no matter how large the first, second or third tattoo they got is, it takes a whole...

Not Your Normal Street Art

September 9, 2013

New York based, Australian artist Ian Strange has created a new take on what is commonly thought of as street art. Strange set out with a camera crew to paint and even burn houses throughout America...

A Handmade Commodity

September 9, 2013

The recent decades have seen a decline in handmade goods being sold on the large scale. On the whole, man has been replaced by machine and the unique swapped out for the accuracy of a template. However,...

The Polyamorous Closet

September 9, 2013

While recent progress for LGBTQ community has been made, some members of other alternative communities feel left out of the increasing social acceptance outside of the common, hetero-normative relationship...

The Demand for Alternative Medicine

September 9, 2013

In recent years alternative medicine, or at least the idea of alternative medicine, has grown in popularity. So much so that the practices that fall under this umbrella are becoming more sought after,...

Moonshine: Not Lost to the Past

September 9, 2013

At the mention of moonshine most people, more often than not, conjure up an image of prohibition-era stills and back country liquor sales. However, while we are out of the age of prohibition, the culture...

Tents for the Hipster Nomad

September 9, 2013

If you're always on the go and feel like it is a hastle every night just to get home then it may be worthwhile to look into Justin Gargasz's wearable shelter line Sans Shelter. According to Core77,...

Stanford Students’ Bright Idea

September 9, 2013

Students at Stanford University in California have reinvented an object found in nearly everywhere in everyday life: the light bulb. The redesigned light switch, called Start.Home, was created as an...

The Cooperative Lifestyle

September 9, 2013

In a city like Fort Collins where there is the ever-present U+2 policy it can be hard to imagine living in a single house easily with upwards of 12 people. However, that is the everyday environment for...

The Dangers of Home Tattooing

September 6, 2013

Professional tattooing guarantees a certain level of artistic and medical safety. However, there is an increasingly large number of people doing tattoos from their home without training. The practice...

DC Proposes 24-Hour Waiting Period to Get Body Art

September 6, 2013

In an effort to create a more responsible tattooing and piercing community, officials in Washington D.C. have proposed a mandated 24-hour waiting period before customers are able to get body art. According...

Reinventing and Renovating the Water Tower

September 6, 2013

If modern houses are becoming to mundane for your architectural needs, it may be worthwhile to draw some inspiration from io9's compilation of multi-story water towers that are being renovated as loft-esque...

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