Here are three fantastic inforgraphics that will blow your mind. While the visuals help explain the sheer size, depth and temperature of things on our planet and in our Universe. You might feel slightly less significant 🙂 Relatively speaking… SCALE: FROM THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN TO THE DEEPEST OCEAN TRENCH Source: Karl Tate from Our Amazing…
GANDALF WAS HERE Photograph by Photon Tamer Photographer’s Description: This is a infrared shot, using a Hoya R72 filter. Exposure has to be evaluated by trial and error because the exposure meter of the camera is completely ineffective with an IR-filter. The green color of the foreground is Photoshopped. via Photon Tamer on Flickr Every…
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Photograph by Lifeskater In skateboarding, the kickflip is the defining move that separates the beginner from the skater. First comes the ollie (love), then comes the pop-shuvit (marriage), and then comes the kickflip (baby carriage). Landing your first is one of those ‘great’ accomplishments and truly rewarding. Below you will find a brief history of…
Remember Jenga? The game of wooden blocks, steady hands and wobbly structures? Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a space that closely resembles the classic childhood pastime. Through strict use of only 350mm (14 inch) beams, Fujimoto has created a fascinating space where inhabitants ‘discover, rather than be prescribed; the functionalities of the space’. Photograph…
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COMIC BY PHIL SELBY @ THE RUT SEE ALL SATURDAY STRIPS
Welcome to the Friday Shirk Report where you will find 20 images, 10 articles and 5 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 20 IMAGES – This is what happens when…
2008 IAPLC Grand Prize Work – Cheng Sui Wai, Hong Kong Last year the Sifter discovered the thriving sub-culture of aquascaping. Think of it as gardening under water. Through an artistic arrangement of aquatic plants, rocks, stones, driftwood etc. these ‘aquascapists’ create incredible works of living art. Since 2001, the International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest…
BOATING ACROSS THE COTTON SEA Photograph and Design by Phildesignart Now I don’t know which shirt I want more. This one or that one? Phildesignart via JohnnyCat Every day at 5pm the Sifter will post the picture of the day PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’ GET FEATURED! CLICK HERE TO…
Photograph by AP Photo/Gerald Herbert As of June 1st, 2010, at least 20 million gallons (75.7 million liters) of oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. This has been a complete and utter disaster for BP in every sense. The timing, the location (i.e., it didn’t occur on the borders of a developing nation),…
STREET PARTY! Photograph by DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images Argentinians gather along 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires to attend the bicentenary parade in Buenos Aires on May 25, 2010. Two hundred years ago, in Buenos Aires (then capital of a Spanish colony), a week-long series of revolutionary events took place, known as the Revolucion de…
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