Photograph via The Bedford Located in Chicago’s Wicker Park, The Bedford recently reclaimed an historic private bank from 1926 and transformed the place into an incredible supper club. The 8,000-square foot (743 sq. m) lower-level space features terracotta, marble and terrazzo, all reclaimed and restored from the original bank. Oh and it has…
Artwork by TILT | Photograph by Benjamin ‘Big Addict’ Roudet Every year at the Au Vieux Panier Hotel in Marseille, France, five special rooms are handed over to artists to do as they please. Now in it’s third iteration, one of this year’s rooms is starting to make a buzz. Dubbed the ‘Panic…
DRAGON FALLS, VENEZUELA FROM ABOVE Photograph by Dmitry Moiseenko @ AirPano.ru In this incredible capture by Dmitry Moiseenko, we look down the jaw-dropping Dragon Falls in Venezuela. Known locally as Churun Meru, it’s apparently about 10 km south of Angel Falls in the same valley. This shot is from May 2011. The…
Photograph by Ansel Adams via The Library of Congress Manzanar (which means ‘apple orchard’ in Spanish), is the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California’s Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine…
ALLIGATOR STREET ART Artwork by ROA ! Crikey! Hugely awesome piece by street artist ROA in Atlanta, Georgia for the Living Walls Conference. Couldn’t tell if this was a croc or alligator, thoughts? ROA ! on Flickr via jjrs on Reddit SEE MORE ‘PICTURES OF THE…
In the Sifter’s third installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series, we look at all kinds of amazing. Every day somebody in the world does something amazing and it will bring joy and delight to those fortunate enough to witness it. Here are 20 kinds of amazing, forever immortalized in animated gif glory.…
Photograph by Cburnett on Wikipedia Melanism is an undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism. The word ‘melanism’ is deduced from a Greek word that means black pigment. Pseudo-melanism, also called abundism, is another variant of pigmentation, characterized by dark spots or enlarged stripes,…
The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival held before Lent every year and is considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first festivals of Rio date back to 1723. The carnival parade is filled with people and floats from…
GALACTIC MONSOON Photograph by BRET WEBSTER The incredible photograph above was recently featured as the Earth Science Picture of the Day. It shows the Milky Way stretching across the desert sky and a distant monsoon thunderstorm on the horizon. It was captured just outside of Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah.…
Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen | Photograph by Steamboat Aerials In this wonderful winter project, artist Sonja Hinrichsen led a team of 10 snowshoers to create a giant piece of land art in the fluffy snow of Steamboat Springs on Rabbit Ears Pass. The patterns are reminiscent of crop circle patterns, with concentric circles…
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