Watch Expedition 38 crew members Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio give a brief geography lesson as they hurtle through space at 27,600 km/h (17,100 mph) onboard the International Space Station.
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 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 McHugh & Co, London At a mere 84 inches wide, this house in north London has just been listed for £235,000 ($383,500 USD). According to the Guaridan, the two-bedroom home appears to be squeezed onto what was once a driveway between two more ‘conventionally sized’ homes. Pickings are slim in this particular…
This. Is. BAYHEM! When Michael Bay directs animated gifs, explosions happen. Lots of them. A recent reddit post by jerip123 entitled, Unecessary Explosions unearthed a subreddit called /r/michaelbaygifs, described as ‘gifs, Michael Bay style’. I’ve also embedded an excellent video by Tony Zhou that explores ‘Bayhem‘ — his style of camera movement, composition and…
In 2013, photographer Rebecca Litchfield was commissioned by Carpet Bombing Culture to photograph the abandoned buildings and areas of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states. Litchfield’s journey took her through ten countries in Eastern Europe to capture what was left from the collapse of the Soviet Union. The result was Soviet Ghosts,…
Watching cubes of Jell-O bounce in super slow-motion is strangely mesmerizing. It’s just. so. jiggly! Filmed at 6,200 frames per second by Ryan Matthew Smith The song is Paris by Lasers
Photograph by Wollex at the German language Wikipedia Seen here (taken 2 July 2004) is the shipwrecked American Star (formerly SS America) at Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 and designed by the noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54…
This awesome timelapse by Stephen Locke shows a shelf cloud on the leading edge of a thunderstorm rolling through Kansas City on 29 August 2014. A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal, wedge-shaped arcus cloud. Shelf clouds are typically attached to the base of the parent cloud, which is usually a thunderstorm, but could…
Chinese artist Hua Tunan (featured previously) is back with more incredible splattered ink portraits. Born in 1991 in Foshan, Guangdong, China, Tunan blends traditional Chinese art and Western graffiti into his own unique style. The painter and graffiti artist has done both commercial work for global brands as well as ‘noncommissioned’ street artworks that…