This uplifting video was filmed by Jon Rawlinson with a Canon 5DMKII with a 28-135mm lens. It was taken at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan, and is the second largest aquarium in the world. The main tank, called the Kuroshio Sea, is 35 metres (115 ft) long, 27 metres (89 ft) wide and…
It happened on September 25, 2000. The French media proclaimed it ‘le dunk de la mort‘ or the dunk of death. It was the Olympics in Sydney and Team USA was playing France. A lazy outlet pass was stolen by Vincent Lamar Carter (6’6″ / 1.98m), and the only thing between him and an…
Thirty glorious minutes of news bloopers from 2013. It’s live television, what could possibly go wrong? Let us know your favourite news blooper of the year in the comments below!
Director Greg Wilson teamed up with National Geographic Magazine and the Cincinnati Zoo to capture some of the most incredible slow motion cheetah footage you will ever see. The team captured every nuance of the animal’s movement using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second. The cheetahs shown here reached top speeds…
I compiled this video way back in 2010 (long before Felix Baumgartner’s record jump from space). To date it has been watched over 25 million times and remains the most viewed piece of content that the sifter has compiled 🙂 Feels appropriate that this be the second video in the newest section on TwistedSifter!…
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). At the request of Carl Sagan, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take a photo…
Artwork by DIEM CHAU diemchau.com | Facebook | Blog The Northwest Natives Alphabet Set by Diem Chau is an incredible collection of 52 individually carved crayons representing every letter of the alphabet along with an associated word starting with each letter. The artworks were completed for an exhibition last year at the G. Gibson…
Photograph via Antarctic Heritage Trust nzaht.org | Press Release | Facebook Photographic negatives left a century ago in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans have been discovered and conserved by New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust. The negatives were found in expedition photographer Herbert Ponting’s darkroom and have been painstakingly conserved revealing never…
THE SKY SHADOW Photograph by runrgrl on reddit In this beautiful sunrise capture we see Washington’s Mount Rainier casting an upward shadow towards the sky. The photo was posted by redditor runrgrl, who says the image was taken from Fox Island, near Gig Harbor. The body of water in the foreground is…
Before the start of World War II, the owner of this apartment in Paris fled to the south of France. For reasons not entirely known, she never returned and the apartment remained untouched for 70 years. In 2010 the owner passed away at the age of 91. Her executor discovered the apartment and a…
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