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…
THE GIANT WELL IN NATWARGHAD, INDIA Photograph by AMIT DAVE/REUTERS People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. (Reuters/Amit Dave) Gujarat is a state in western India with a population in excess of 60 million.…
Photograph by LAMBORGHINI In production from 1974 to 1990, the Lamborghini Countach is one of the most iconic sports cars of all time. It pioneered countless design aesthetics such as: the wedge-shaped, sharply angled look seen in countless sports cars of today (including most of Lamborghini’s models since); the ‘cabin forward’ concept which…
EPIC HOBBIT REUNION Photograph by SARAH DUNN for EMPIRE MAGAZINE It’s hard to imagine the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed (in its entirety) over a decade ago! The $285 million epic took eight years to complete, culminating with the release of The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. The films…
THE ERIE CANAL OFFICIALLY OPENS – OCTOBER 26, 1825 Photograph by Clifton Park Collection The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from…
BANKSY STRIKES OCCUPY LONDON PROTESTS Photograph by JASON REEVE PHOTOGRAPHY You know times are tough when rich Uncle Pennybags from the iconic boardgame Monopoly is begging for change! This photograph was taken by Jason Reeve on October 24, 2011 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It’s interesting to see the word ‘Tox’…
Halles Avignon – Provence, Cote, d’Azue | Artwork and Photography by PATRICK BLANC Born June 3rd, 1953 in Paris, France, Patrick Blanc is a botanist and creator of the vertical garden. A scientist, working for the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) since 1982, Blanc’s vertical gardens have taken him around the…
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY Photographs by Zheng Duo/Color China Photo/AP Images A worker installs the Chengdu city model at the Chengdu Planning Hall in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Following the four state-level new development areas, including Shanghai Pudong, Tianjin Binhai, Chongqing Liangjiang and Shanxi Xixian…
Photograph by DAVID CWIERTNIA Born in Prague, Czech Republic, artist David Cerny’s incredible 25-foot stainless steel sculpture, Metalmorphosis, was his first permanent public installation in the United States. It can be viewed at the American Asset Corporation’s Whitehall Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. See below for some terrific captures by various photographers…
GLOW IN THE DARK FUNGUS Photographs by YLEM Panellus stipticus, commonly known as the bitter oyster, the astringent panus, the luminescent panellus, or the stiptic fungus, is a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family, and the type species of the genus Panellus. A common and widely distributed species, it is…
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