In a quest to redefine the traditional shopping experience, Monika Biringer and Max Feldman opened Common People in January 2010. The carefully curated concept store merges high-fashion, art, design, music, and food for a well-rounded yet totally unique shopper experience. This is what Monika had to share with us: COMMON PEOPLE Emilio Castelar 149 Col. […]
Shooting a gun underwater sure does look cool, but seems essentially useless until you see the result: flower-shaped hollow-point bullets. There really is beauty in everything. Learn more from firearm expert Andrew Tuohy at his blog vuurwapenblog.com
“Classic” is an adjective that has always resonated well with us here at Shwood. Few contemporary bands have been able to epitomize this sound as precisely as Australia’s Tame Impala, so it’s been quite difficult to take their sophomore LP “Lonerism” off repeat since its release earlier this month. Maintaining a balance of equal parts hard rock riffs with […]
Experimenting with nature can mean a lot of things, but French artist Frédéric Fontenoy took it somewhere we’d never think to venture, and it’s actually really cool. If you can’t quite tell what you’re looking at, the Alkama series was created by mixing blood and milk (yes, you read that right). Once you get past the […]
If you caught the debut video of the MAKERS series, you may have noticed that fellow Portlanders Typhoon lent us the song “Summer Home” from their latest EP, “A New Kind of House,” for the background track. While preparing to release their follow-up LP, the band has premiered a cinematic teaser trailer of the upcoming album […]
