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…
THROW AND GROW Photograph and Design by Suck UK FLOWER POWER: Gardening’s gone guerilla – You’ve seen them, you may have looked away, but you’ve seen them. Those forgotten areas of the estate, left to fall apart and fall into disrepair. The municipal scrubland where nothing can grow… Or can it? Turn the concrete jungle…
Photograph and Design by TrustoCorp ‘Do This’ — ‘Don’t Do That’ — ‘Over Here! Not Over There!’ This is the language of the Street Sign. Put up by that proverbial Man to tell you how it is or else… Enter TrustoCorp. a New York-based entity that strives to inject a little humour and social commentary…
VINTAGE COOL Photograph by The National Photo Company Collection This beautiful photograph is from July 15, 1921. Cool kids hanging out on the treetop table at the Krazy Kat Club/Restaurant in Washington. via Shorpy: Avant-Garden 1921 Every day at 5pm the Sifter will post the picture of the day PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL…
HOLE-Y CRAP! Photograph by Gobierno de Guatemala Do not adjust your eye sockets. For once, this is not some kind of Photoshop tomfoolery, nay, this is a sinkhole in the Zone 2 of Ciudad de Guatemala. The Flickr account is property of the Government of Guatemala so I’ll go on a limb and say it’s…
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…
THE WORLD IS YOURS Beautiful digital art by Jerico Santander on Behance Totally reminds me of the classic Nas track, ‘The World is Yours’, off one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time: Illmatic. The video is budget but the song is pure 90s hip hop bliss. Every day at 5pm the Sifter…
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