Photograph by Jefferson Bernardes In Porto Alegre, Brazil, there is a beautiful street called Rua Goncalo de Carvalho that is completely blanketed in trees. Over a span of 500 meters (0.3 miles), the sidewalks are lined with more than one hundred Rosewood trees. The trees were actually planted in the 1930s by German…
Welcome to the 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 sifty…
THE WINDOW TO YOUR SOUL Photograph by A Silly Person on Flickr This striking image was posted to Reddit yesterday. Her iris looks fascinating (ok that sounded weird), and apparently the ‘gaps’ or circles in the iris tissue that are so pronounced in this particular eye are known as ‘Crypts of Fuchs’,…
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…
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…
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