As technology advances and the video game industry continues to grow, the immersive worlds that developers create become more ambitious and expansive with each release. In an effort to celebrate the ‘passion and talent behind the world’s most exciting video games’, Dead End Thrills was born. What started as a Flickr group (that boats…
ANTELOPES IN THE MIST Photograph by LEE BOTHMA Website | 500px | Facebook In this beautiful sunset photograph by Lee Bothma, we see a group of Springboks in Kgalagada Transfrontier Park in South Africa. The springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized brown and white antelope-gazelle of southwestern Africa. It is extremely fast…
In a project entitled Tales You Lose (Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr), Brazilian artist and designer Andre Levy paints an array of pop culture portraits onto various coins from around the world. It’s interesting to see how a little paint and imagination can transform the same coin into a multitude of different characters and people. Below…
THIS DOUBLE RAINBOW IS PERFECT Photograph by Wes Eisenhauer | Soulcrate Music Submitted to Reddit earlier this week, photographer Wes Eisenhauer took this amazing capture of a near-perfect, end-to-end double rainbow. The post promptly made the front page and has already been viewed 1.2 million times on Imgur. Eisenhauer captured the double…
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 25 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles typically originate from Twitter, RSS and email; videos come from a variety of sources. Any suggestions? Send a note to submit@twistedsifter.com!…
THE 2013 PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER Photograph by DAVID KINGHAM Blog | Flickr | Facebook | Google+ | Twitter Seen here are the prolific Perseids meteor shower captured on the night of August 13, 2013 by photographer David Kingham. According to Wikipedia: The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches…
Daniel Edlen is an American artist best known for his ongoing series of vinyl artworks. Using white acrylic paint and a unique style of pointillism, Edlen paints amazingly realistic portraits of musicians directly onto vinyl records. Edlen, whose favourite band is the Beatles and favourite album is After Bathing at Baxter’s by Jefferson Airplane,…
In Greek mythology, Medusa was a monster with the face of a human female and a head of venomous snakes for hair. Gazing directly upon her would turn any creature to stone. In northern Tanzania, Lake Natron has had similar effects—on birds in particular. As part of his latest book, Across the Ravaged Land,…
FIFE CABIN, ZION NATIONAL PARK Photograph by John Fowler | lumenetic.com In another fantastic capture by John Fowler, we see Fife Cabin at Taylor Creek in the Kolob Canyon Section of Zion National Park in Utah. According to the Washington County Historical Society and zionnational-park.com: Arthur R. Fife, a Professor of Geology…
Photograph via Green Renaissance on Facebook The story of Glass Gem corn begins with Carl Barnes, a half Cherokee, half Scottish-Irish farmer living in Oklahoma. According to nativeseeds.org, Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding and excelled at selecting and saving seeds from cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. In 1994, Carl met…
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