Grease Not Gas helps people convert their vehicles to run on vegetable oil, and also powers the Grease Bus, which shuttles skiers and snowboarders to Mt. Hood Meadows for just $10. Check out a cool interview with GNG founder Mike Parziale here.
Flouncy, flirty handmade tops and crazy, bad-ass boots from a label that lives up to its name.
This Sunday, 38 independent clothing designers take over 28 rooms at the Ace Hotel forContent 09. Wander at your leisure while taking part in the fashion, drinks, live music and accompanying art installations, all presented as the debut event from How We Develop.
Todd Selby hit Georgia, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Tahiti, Minnesota and Florida to photograph athletes in their homes for Nike 6.0. From the looks of it, everyone he shot leads a pretty sweet life.
Pretty Sneaky lets you indulge in one of this season's biggest trends—fair isle—from head to toe.
These handcut stickers from Nowvember include four red hearts and 12 awesome dudes. Stick one over what's his face in your yearbook.
Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman who spends the fishing season on the Bering Sea. Currently, you can catch (haha) his work on display at the Soho Dunderdon store in NY.
For her latest project, jewelry designer Stephanie Simek asked five different musicians to create original songs, then packaged those songs on a cassette tape wrapped around a steel pendant. The song can only be heard if the necklace is taken apart, but each locket comes with a CD that contains all five versions. Sounds pretty good.
Sometimes you decorate your walls with pictures of people you love, but Berkley Illustrations wants you to decorate your walls with pictures of animals dressed as people. You can choose from birds dressed as businessmen, T-rex dressed as a cowboy or settle for some magnets or buttons.
Now with this limited-edition T-shirt gun, you, too, can make like a collegiate cheerleader and shoot T-shirts out into your adoring crowd. For only $1,500.
Gossip's much-hyped Rick Rubin-produced album isn't available in the States until 6/23. And while many die-hards saw Rubin's involvement as just another example of mainstream co-opting indie's best acts, if the first single, "Heavy Cross," is any indication, they've hit this one out of the park. Sweaty, beer-soaked dancing, anyone?
An exhibition curated by design studio Pattern People, Beneath the Surface: Flora, Fantasy & Fable in Modern Surface Design opens May 1st at Nemo, with works by Mike Perry, Deanne Cheuk, Kinpro and Timorous Beasties.
Curated and published by Bryan Dalton and Alex Harris, Hippy Shit is a bi-annual "pyschedelic field-trip." The first issue includes contributions from A Nice Idea Everyday, Rainbow Dropshadow, Hort and Feel Good Anyway.
Listen to vinyl and buy it at the same time this Friday at It's a Beautiful Pizza, where Hall of Records hosts its vinyl swap/sale featuring a collection light on its feet but heavy on rare soul, funk, breaks.
Plazm is a working design collective with clients such as Nike and MTV, and it still finds time to produce an incredibly high-quality art and literature magazine. For those really interested, there's a video on their website of every page they've ever published (28 issues over 15 years), as they are turned by the hand of an intern. Here's hoping someone bought the intern lunch that day.
Joanna Bean's feather mobiles are beautiful and delicate, yet so simple you look at them and think "Why didn't I do that?" But alas, you didn't and Bean did, so just buy one.
The collaboration between local emcee Luck-One and producer Dekk is a beautiful one indeed, and the EP is full of jams as fresh as an afternoon buzz on the first spring day.
Alela Diane's melodic voice is the equivalent of a Xanax and a warm bath: a powerful chill-out. Catch her currently on tour with Portland's current favorite sons, Blitzen Trapper.
Engrave Your Book's new artist series of reusable Moleskine notebook covers includes designs by Amarillo, Cole Gerst, Cin and Jesse Hora and will make your notebook a prized possession even if all you ever get around to writing is a grocery list. (Via Sub-Studio Design.)
