Ben & Jerry’s recently announced their newest limited-batch flavor, Schweddy Balls, an ode to a classic Saturday Night Live sketch called ‘Delicious Dish’ starring Alec Baldwin. Boston-based artist and graphic designer John Defreest (aka Jonny etc) decided to have a little fun with Ben & Jerry’s goofy and popular ice cream flavors/labels to…
LSD (ACID) FIRST SYNTHESIZED BY ALBERT HOFMANN – NOV. 16, 1938 Skeletal formula and ball-and-stick and space-filling models of the lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) molecule, C20H25N3O by Ben Mills Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in…
Photograph courtesy of The Library of Congress These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1940 and 1944. The…
CLOUD COVERED ISLAND OF LITLA DIMUN Photograph by SPUMADOR on Flickr Photograph by ERIK CHRISTENSEN Cloud goes up. Cloud goes down. Litla Dimun is a small island between the islands of Suouroy and Stora Dimun in the Faroe Islands. It is the smallest of the main 18 islands, being less than…
Photograph by NOAA/NASA GOES Project The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the United States’ largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. They are also home to some of the most…
TOKYO METROPOLIS FROM ABOVE Photograph by PANIC_SWITCH on Reddit Stunning aerial photograph of Tokyo, Japan as seen from a helicopter. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. The prefecture is part of the world’s most populous metropolitan area with…
Image compiled by Christophe Courtois Siberian blogger Christophe Courtois has compiled an amazing list of funny move poster cliches. These classic design techniques have been employed for years, it’s just fun to see them all together in one post. On Christophe’s blogs you can find many more examples but below is a list…
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…
Photograph via New York by Gehry At 76 floors and 870 feet tall (265m), New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design…
Art Direction and Photography by LEON KEER Planet Streetpaining is a collaboration of street artists based in the Netherlands. As Planet Streetpainting’s art director, Leon Keer is always fascinated about what history reveals. He tries to connects the historical events with current issues in this society. For the Sarasota Chalk Festival he has…
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