Photograph via JEB CORLISS Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube On September 28, 2013, Jeb Corliss, one of the world’s foremost and best-known wingsuit pilots and BASE-jumpers, successfully completed what he says, ‘was the hardest thing I’ve ever done’. Dubbed the Flying Dagger, Corliss jumped out of an airplane and flew through a…
HOUSE ON FIRE RUIN, MULE CANYON Photograph by John Fowler | lumenetic.com In this fantastic capture by John Fowler, we see the famous House on Fire Ruin in Mule Canyon, Utah. Located in the ‘South Fork’ of Mule Canyon, House on Fire is about a 3 mile (4.8km) round trip to reach.…
Natalia Rak is an artist and painter from Poland. Born in 1986, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. A longtime painter, you can find many of her oil on canvas artworks on her deviantART profile. A couple of years ago Rak started getting into street art murals, doing larger than…
*UPDATE 12/17/2013* THE TOP 100 ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’ FOR 2013 HAVE JUST BEEN PUBLISHED! CHECK IT OUT! At the end of every quarter the Sifter highlights the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘, culminating in an epic Top 100 at the end of the year (check out the ‘Top 100 POTDs for…
THE FACE OF AN ICEBERG Photograph by strummingmusic on Reddit In this photograph by reddit user strummingmusic, we see what looks to be the side profile of a large face on an equally large iceberg. The psychological phenomenon is known as pareidolia (the Sifter has as entire post on this entitled, 50…
To mark Peace Day on September 21 2013, Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, two artists from Bradford, England, set out with hundreds of volunteers to commemorate the 9000 civilians, Allies and German forces lost on D-Day, June 6 1944. The Fallen project took place at Arromanches, a French tourist town that lies along the…
OH MAGOO, YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN Artwork by Pao In this cheerful piece of street art we see the famous cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who was created at the UPA animation studio in 1949 and voiced by Jim Backus. Magoo has even won 2 Oscars for Academy Award for Best Short Subject…
SKYLINE SILHOUETTE AT SUNSET Photograph by THOMAS HAWK Website | Flickr | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ In this stunning sunset photo by Thomas Hawk, we see a silhouetted skyline of San Francisco as seen from Albany Beach. Located on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, Albany Beach is part of…
Florentijn Hofman’s world-famous, larger than life Rubber Duck floated into the harbour of Kaohsiung, Taiwan last week, attracting over 200,000 spectators in a single day and over half a million in 72 hours. The 18 meter (59 ft) tall inflatable rubber duck weighs over 1,000 kg (2,205 lbs). On display until October 20, 2013,…
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