Photograph via cafeteriafraiche on Reddit As the deep freeze spreads across Europe, one country that is embracing the cooler weather is The Netherlands. With temperatures dropping to around -7 degrees Celsius (19 degrees Fahrenheit) earlier this week, many of Amsterdam’s iconic canals have frozen over, allowing residents and tourists to skate the city’s…
PUTTING THE SIZE OF A WHALE IN PERSPECTIVE Photograph by Michael Swaine @ AbovePhotograph.com.au Everyone knows whales are huge. In fact, the Blue Whale is the largest known animal to have ever existed (source). Roughly the length of a basketball court, these majestic creatures are a sight to behold. In this startling…
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Photograph via JIM DENEVAN @ JIMDENEVAN.COM Artist, surfer, chef; Jim Denevan is a man of many talents. The 50-year-old is best known for his colossal temporary land art, using natural materials to create massive scale drawings on earth, sand and ice. His sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape are the…
MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND Photograph by Reuters/Denis Balibouse A boy sits in front of an ice covered car in Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland, on February 5, 2012. Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday and brought widespread disruption to transport services, with warnings that the chilling temperatures would remain…
DAFT STEAMPUNK! Photograph by LJinto on Flickr Photograph by LJinto on Flickr Awesome Daft SteamPunk cosplay spotted at last year’s DragonCon and captured beautifully by photographer LJinto. Comments on Reddit have identified one Vincent M. Dantes as the creator of these amazing costumes. The Sifter salutes you kind sir. I had…
If you know the Sifter, you know I have a mild obsession with animated gifs. To me, they are tiny bundles of image-based, Internet joy. Videos masquerading as images? It’s madness! Moving forward the Sifter will feature various collections of animated gifs popular on the Internet. They won’t always be new and you’ll…
With the advent of powerful desktop publishing software like Adobe Photoshop, digital image manipulation has become mainstream. However, even before the invention of such software, doctored and tampered photos were used to alter perception and shape history. Fourandsix.com has chronicled these occurrences in their brilliant series, ‘Photo Tampering throughout History‘. Below you will find…
ALI VS RYU Artwork by COMBO Artwork by COMBO Awesome street art by Combo. Love it!
Artwork by BLOOP – Tumblr | deviantART Graphic designer Andres Romero aka bloOp, created this wonderful series of superheroes and villains as minimalist art posters. Posted a couple weeks ago on Reddit, bloOp explains his initial inspiration came from fellow designer Marko Manev and his own minimalist superheroes poster series. You can find…
SHANGHAI SKYLINE AT NIGHT Photograph by JAKOB WAGNER on Behance This stunning photograph of Shanghai at night is part of photographer Jakob Wagner’s Nightscapes series on Behance, it was taken in 2011. If you haven’t seen it already, check out this startling photograph that shows the development Shanghai has undergone since 1990.…
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