In honor of HBO’s re-release of The Wire—completely remastered in 16×9 full-frame HD—Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin Fenton has been taking requests from people on Twitter and taking photos of present-day locations from the critically acclaimed television show. https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/548503994906464256 All 60 episodes are currently being marathoned on HBO Signature and HBO Go…
Birdbox Studio is an award-winning animation house based in London, England. For their clients and friends this year they created an incredible animated Christmas card with a neat little surprise at the end. What an awesome card design!
Watch Joe Riquelme, an iPhone app developer from New York, surprise his parents by paying off their entire mortgage for Christmas. The thoughtful gesture brought his parents to tears; it was his way of saying ‘thank you’ for raising him and his siblings and putting them through school. You can see their genuine reaction…
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 25 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles from Twitter, RSS and email; videos come from everywhere. Any suggestions? Send a note to submit@twistedsifter.com 25 IMAGES – Friday 😉 –…
Photograph by @therock on Instagram Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson tweeted and Instagrammed the photo above earlier this week, wishing everyone a happy holidays. The popular action star first tweeted the original photo this past July and the image quickly went viral. Happy Holidays everyone! via Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson on Instagram …
Contemporary by Angela Li recently presented Li Hongbo’s solo exhibition – Shadow of Knives, a brand new series of metal sculpture and installation works by the Beijing-based artist. The initial concept of this metal series came to Li back in 2007, the same time as he developed his extremely successful expandable paper sculptures series,…
A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominos of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts with a tiny push and knocks down an impressively large domino. Learn the science behind this fascinating experiment.
Watch five Airbus A350-900s (valued at $295.2 million each) take to the skies for a one-of-a-kind formation flight. The Airbus team successfully executed a number of challenging formations and maneuvers including the: diamond formation, low pass, echelon formation and arrow formation
Photograph by Cephas on Wikimedia Commons Seen here is an Eastern chipmunk with cheeks filled with food. The cute critter was spotted in the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area in Quebec, Canada. The eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) is a chipmunk species found in eastern North America. A small species, it reaches about 30 cm…
Apparently snails will eat every part of a carrot except for the skin and all of the flesh of a celery aside from the stringy bits. What remains is pretty interesting to see, especially the carrot! Reddit user jasamaha8 took some fascinating close-ups so we could see the remains after the snails in his…
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