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Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to rooftops to make homebrew and reclaimed empty lots as community farms, never mind the property owner. Yet here in one of the more thoroughly tilled cities in America, subversive has come full circle: the federal government plans to plant its own bold garden directly above a downtown plaza. As......read more
Every week, we're told, one skateboard factory produces enough waste material to fill a city bus. With Skateback, a stylish iPhone case made from skateboard wood waste, Portland-based design companies Grove and MapleXO are doing their part to put a dent in it. And the collaborative effort is no run-of-the-mill design. Available in three colorways--vibrant, calm, and neutral--the striped......read more
Launched in 2011, handmade homeware brand Nell & Mary makes a limited collection of goods for the home, all thoughfully designed and crafted from their studio in--where else?--Portland, OR. Among the company's eco-friendly textiles is a line of tea towels made from reclaimed overstock fabric and printed with original N&M artwork. Mushroom lovers will adore the Morels......read more
Made from natural ingredients, Portland General Store's personal care products harken back to a time when things were made in small batches, by hand. This old-fashioned wet shave soap is one of our PGS faves. With a slight, masculine scent of whiskey, the soap is blended with bentonite clay, a powerful healing clay that absorbs oils and toxins from the skin, providing a natural and luxurious wet......read more
Perennial SHFT fave Portland General Store makes finely crafted, sustainable bathroom products using no fragrance oils or chemical additives. The company's rough-cut Turkish Fig Bar Soap features rhassoul clay, which has been used in beauty and body care since ancient times. With a subtly sweet scent, the clay-enriched soap helps to reduce dryness and flakiness, while......read more
Portland General Store's Whiskey Aftershave is infused with a light whiskey scent, "reminiscent of an ol' yachtsman relaxing below deck at the end of a long day on the wild ocean, a favorite Scotch in hand." Right, okay. Actually the scent is really good, and although it's definitively masculine the list of ingredients is decidedly not -- sea kelp extract, blue-green algae, organic aloe......read more
There's something innately visually satisfying about basic shapes. Squares, triangles and circles seem to speak to something primal within our brains that makes our synapses do a happy dance. Or at least that's what this collection of mixed media works from Conrad Crespin does for us. The Portland, OR-based artist and designer applied basic red forms to old black-and-white photographs to......read more
Here's a mindmelting new video for "OJ" from AU, the Portland-based experimental pop duo. Directed by takcom (aka Japanese motion designer Takafumi Tsuhiya), the visuals feature a flurry of warping and dripping images that reflect the tune's ticking percussion and textures. Tripped-out, psychedelic stuff -- Takafumi definitely did the track justice with this one. AU’s newest album......read more
In an announcement that will surprise approximately nobody, Portland has been named America's Top Bike-Friendly City in the 2012 rankings from Bicycling magazine. Bike culture reigns supreme in the Pacific Northwestern city, which boasts 180 miles of bike lanes and 79 miles of off-street bike paths. Always quick to embrace cyclist-friendly innovations, Portland was the first city in the United......read more
Fort Worth, TX-raised, Portland, OR-based photographer Delaney Allen is attracted to nature's transient moments. Training his camera on tracts of fog, mist, clouds or smoke, Allen freezes the ephemeral haze in its tracks. "If you are using smoke, water and clouds as a subject matter,” Allen says, "you may never be able to see it in the same way." Allen's smoky......read more
