Image compiled by Christophe Courtois Siberian blogger Christophe Courtois has compiled an amazing list of funny move poster cliches. These classic design techniques have been employed for years, it’s just fun to see them all together in one post. On Christophe’s blogs you can find many more examples but below is a list…
NEVER FORGOTTEN – THE LOCHNAGAR CRATER Photograph by MIKE ST MAUR SHEIL The detonation of buried mines that formed the Lochnagar crater July 1, 1916 The Lochnagar mine crater on the 1916 Somme battlefields in France is the largest man-made mine crater created in the First World War on the Western…
Welcome to the Friday Shirk Report where you will find the 20 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral 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 Stay…
COLORFUL VINEYARDS OF CHIANTI CLASSICO IN TUSCANY Photograph by FABIO MUZZI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Chianti is a red Italian wine produced in Tuscany. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco; however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most…
Photograph via New York by Gehry At 76 floors and 870 feet tall (265m), New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design…
TYRANNOSAURUS SEX Photograph by MARIO MODESTO You thought that was a typo didn’t you? But oh no, the headline is correct and this exhibit is very real. You can see it for yourself at the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain. And in case the skeletons cast in a mating position weren’t…
Art Direction and Photography by LEON KEER Planet Streetpaining is a collaboration of street artists based in the Netherlands. As Planet Streetpainting’s art director, Leon Keer is always fascinated about what history reveals. He tries to connects the historical events with current issues in this society. For the Sarasota Chalk Festival he has…
THE GREAT BOSTON FIRE OF 1872 – NOV. 9, 1872 Photograph by Joshua Smith The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston’s largest urban fire, and still ranks as one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in…
EUROPEAN BEECH TREES OF MARIEMONT, BELGIUM Photograph by JEAN-POL GRANDMONT Stunning capture of European Beech trees in Mariemont, Belgium. Mariemont, also Morlanwelz-Mariemont, now in the municipality of Morlanwelz, Hainaut, Belgium, is a former royal estate and hunting park created in the 16th century by Mary of Hungary, from whom it took its…
Photograph by Bill and Ben and Little Weed The Jeita Grotto is a compound of two separate but interconnected karstic limestone caves spanning an overall length of nearly 9 kilometers (5.6 mi). The caves are situated in the Nahr al-Kalb valley within the locality of Jeita, 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of the…
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