April 5, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Kristi Malkoff is a Canadian visual artist and travel addict. She attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design and received her BFA graduate from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver in 2005. In her series titled Money Pieces, Kristi uses an assortment of colourful currency from around the world, folding and manipulating…
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April 5, 2012 at 9:07 am
Yesterday (April 4, 2012), Google posted their augmented reality vision of the future to YouTube in a video simply titled, ‘One day…’. The video (below) has already racked up half-a-million views. A team within the Google[x] group started Project Glass, which strives to help you explore and share your world putting you back…
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April 4, 2012 at 5:46 pm
GREAT PLACE FOR A HAMMOCK Photograph by Kiattipong Panchee What a great place to read a book or take a snooze. And if the sun is too intense, well you’re not too far from the water 🙂 This is just one of the many beautiful views in the marvellous Maldives. One day…
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April 4, 2012 at 12:24 pm
A Picture COMIC BY JIM BENTON @ JIMBENTON.COM A Video Written and Performed by Taylor Mali Teachers Make a Difference
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April 4, 2012 at 10:41 am
Our world is full of creatures big and small, short and tall. Below the Sifter looks at 15 of the largest animals in the world, classified by various categories such as mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians etc. There’s an incredibly detailed list of some of the world’s largest organisms (including plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.)…
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April 3, 2012 at 5:42 pm
THE STUNNING GREEN VINE SNAKE Photograph by SUHAAS PREMKUMAR for National Geographic The Green vine snake (Ahaetulla nasuta), is a slender green tree snake found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is diurnal and mildly venomous, normally feeding on frogs and lizards. Green vine snakes are slow…
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April 3, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Pedro Campos (46), is an incredible hyperrealist painter from Madrid, Spain. Using oil paints he recreates incredibly realistic still life shots that many might mistake for a photograph. He’s worked in a variety of creative fields from interior decorating, illustration (at an ad agency), to art restoration on furnishings, paintings and sculptures. He actually…
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April 3, 2012 at 9:44 am
Sometimes it’s important to remember that every musician starts as an amateur. All of the mega music stars below may appear larger than life but many (not all) went through some awkward years, they took the same yearbook photos you have and at one point they weren’t the famous celebrities you see today. Here’s…
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April 2, 2012 at 8:00 pm
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS Photograph by Pixel9ine/Andre B How awesome is this graffiti piece? This was posted back in 2007 to a forum/messageboard called Photography-on-the.net by user Pixel9ine, and it resurfaced today on Reddit. The piece is actually located in the Sifter’s hometown of Toronto, Canada! This was taken from the Bloor Street viaduct looking…
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April 2, 2012 at 4:58 pm
In the Sifter’s sixth installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series, we follow up from part 5’s Classy High Quality Gifs with a special Presidential Edition. We may have to do a follow-up post with Mr. George W. Bush so both parties are properly represented, but for now, here’s 18 awesome gifs of…
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