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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

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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 […]

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Since the first season of IFC’s Portlandia, us Oregonians tend to cringe at the idea of putting birds on anything. However, the phenomenon commonly known as the Chapman Swifts may be the only exception. Each evening in September, crowds of Portlanders gather on the lawn of Champan Elementary School (which embraces its aviary identity, boasting […]

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Rad Portland artist, Shwood Mixtape alumni, and generally great guy, Dorian Duvall AKA Onuinu, released his first full length album today on Bladen County Records. Check it out below and be sure to catch him on his upcoming national tour with Starfucker. Dates after the jump.  

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What exactly is going on here? Oh, it’s just what happens when a squid listens to Cyprus Hill. Apparently, the color-changing tissue that lets squid camouflage and adapt to their environment is controlled by the nervous system and – as much as I’d like to imagine that squid are just partial to early 90’s hip-hop – […]

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