Author: twistedsifter

March 22, 2012 at 2:31 pm

The 65-Foot (20m) Snow Corridor in Japan

The 65-Foot (20m) Snow Corridor in Japan

Photograph by SIEMA @ Panoramio.com The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is an international mountain sightseeing route some 90 kilometers (56 miles) long. The route goes across the 3,000-meter-high North Alpine mountains, the so-called “roof of Japan,” and connects Toyama and Shinano Omachi. You can enjoy the panorama by taking a train, highland bus,…

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March 22, 2012 at 9:08 am

This Airline has the Best Fleet of Planes Ever!

This Airline has the Best Fleet of Planes Ever!

Photograph via Kulula on Facebook Kulula (Zulu for ‘easily’), first took to the skies in August 2001 as South Africa’s first low fare airline. Their fleet consists of one Boeing 737-200 (118 seats), one Boeing 737-300 (136 seats), seven Boeing 737-400’s (162 seats) and two 737-800’s (186 seats). While most airlines have the…

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March 21, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Picture of the Day: The Amazing Strength of an Ant

Picture of the Day: The Amazing Strength of an Ant

THE AMAZING STRENGTH OF AN ANT Photograph by Yu Wu for National Geographic – Your Shot Photographer Yu Wu took this incredible close-up of a small ant biting a branch whilst holding up a rock. The location was only described as ‘beside a river in China’. According to Discovery.com, ants are capable…

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March 21, 2012 at 2:18 pm

Brilliant Light Sculptures by Makoto Tojiki

Brilliant Light Sculptures by Makoto Tojiki

Artwork by Makoto Tojiki Makoto Tojiki is an artist and designer who uses light as his primary medium of expression. Tojiki, a 1998 industrial design engineering graduate of Kinki University, devoted his personal time to experimenting with light while employed as an industrial designer. In 2003, he launched his career as a full-time…

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March 21, 2012 at 9:04 am

25 Death-Defying Photos by Vadim Makhorov

25 Death-Defying Photos by Vadim Makhorov

South Bridge, Kiev | Photograph by Vadim Mahorov @ dedmaxopka.livejournal.com Russian photographer Vadim Mahorov goes to death-defying heights for the perfect shot. While the thrill of scaling buildings, towers and monuments is part of the allure, the dramatic aerial landscapes Vadim captures are absolutely breathtaking. Although many are quick to lump Vadim with…

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March 20, 2012 at 4:01 pm

Picture of the Day: JR & Liu Bolin Street Art Collabo in NYC

Picture of the Day: JR & Liu Bolin Street Art Collabo in NYC

JR & LIU BOLIN STREET ART COLLABO IN NYC Photograph by New York Street Art on Flickr 2011’s TED prize winner, street artist and photographer JR, recently collaborated with the famous Chinese artist Liu Bolin for an awesome piece in New York City’s Nolita district (North of Little Italy). Thankfully, NewYorkStreetArt on…

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March 20, 2012 at 9:18 am

15 Incredible Cloud Formations

15 Incredible Cloud Formations

Roll Cloud, Las Olas Beach, Uruguay | Photograph by Daniela Mirner Eberl The skies have always been a constant source of fascination for humans. One common mass that everyone on the planet has seen in one form or another are clouds. They can come in all sizes, shapes, and colours; and their distinct…

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March 19, 2012 at 5:19 pm

Picture of the Day: The Concrete Jungle

Picture of the Day: The Concrete Jungle

THE CONCRETE JUNGLE Photograph by Edward Burtynsky The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is a stack interchange near the Athens and Watts communities of Los Angeles, California. Though the interchange permits traffic entering the interchange in all directions to exit in all directions (cf. Hollywood Split, East Los Angeles Interchange), the interchange also…

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March 19, 2012 at 3:40 pm

The Animated Gifs Series: Classy High-Quality Gifs

The Animated Gifs Series: Classy High-Quality Gifs

In the Sifter’s fifth installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series, we check in on some artists that are elevating the art form and taking it to classy, high-quality heights. First up are Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg who coined to the term Cinemagraphs to describe their specific style of animated gif. In…

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March 19, 2012 at 9:14 am

Portraits of Native Americans from the Early 1900s

Portraits of Native Americans from the Early 1900s

The Edward S. Curtis Collection offers a unique glimpse into Curtis’s work with indigenous cultures. The more than 2,400 silver-gelatin photographic prints were acquired by the Library of Congress through copyright deposit from about 1900 through 1930. About two-thirds (1,608) of these images were not published in Curtis’s multi-volume work, The North American…

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