Welcome to the Friday Shirk Report where you will find the 20 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Enjoy! *For those that prefer the links open in a new tab/window, try holding the CTRL key whilst clicking a link with your mouse Stay…
HOLLAND DAZE Photograph by ADAM SALWANOWICZ Stunning shot of a beautiful country by Adam Salwanowicz. Colours, clouds and windmills what more could you want! via Adam Salwanowicz @ deviantART
Caterpillar 30x Magnification (5mm width) | Photograph by OLIVER MECKES Electron microscopes help bring nanoscience to life, providing a level of detail to scientists that was simply not available mere decades ago. The FEI Company is a worldwide leader in electron microscope technology. Below you will find a small collection of images from scientists…
CANNONBALL! Photograph by ROMINA AMATO / RED BULL Third-placed Alain Kohl of Luxembourg dives from the 27.5 metre-high (90.2 feet) platform at the fourth stop on of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. (June 19, 2011) And these guys aren’t just diving, they’re pulling off an insane amount of flips and…
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS EMBARKS ON MAIDEN VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A WESTERN ROUTE TO THE EAST INDIES – AUGUST 3, 1492 Columbus lands on the New World at San Salvador | Artwork by Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and…
QUEEN SOFIA PALACE OF THE ARTS – VALENCIA, SPAIN Photograph by DAVID ILIFF The Queen Sofía Palace of the Arts (Valencian: Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Spanish: Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofía) is an opera house and cultural centre in Valencia, Spain. The theatre opened on 8 October 2005. The…
André Chénier Stage 2011 | Photograph by Bregenzer Festspiele / KARL FORSTER Since 1946, the Bregenz Festival ‘Opera on the Lake’ in Austria has been home to some of the most incredible outdoor stages ever built. Set on the gorgeous Lake Constance, the 6,800 capacity ‘Seebuhne’ Stage has been the setting for some of…
SUDDENLY… A BEAR! Photograph by PAUL NICKLEN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Photographer’s Description: In a forest dominated by second-growth trees (in British Columbia), a young [Kermode] bear settles into a mossy day bed at the foot of a giant, old-growth western red cedar. Bears use such day beds to rest and sleep after…
Photograph by JASPER JAMES World-renowned photographer Jasper James has recently published an incredible photo series titled ‘City Silhouettes’. Over the past decade, James has lived and worked in New York, London and Beijing (his current home), covering assignments around the globe for some of the worlds leading magazines, design and advertising clients. Jasper’s work…
SPACE GRAFFITI Photographs via Google Earth Forget Banksy, 63-year-old billionaire sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan has gone big. Visible from space… big. Scrawled on his private island Al Futaisi in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates, HAMAD measures 1,000 meters (0.6 miles) in height and 3.2 KM (2 miles) in…
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