April 28, 2012 at 11:26 am

The Woman Made from Willow Branches

The Woman Made from Willow Branches

Artwork by OLGA ZIEMSKA Olga Ziemska is a sculptor and public artist that lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio in a studio by Lake Erie. She is a recipient of many prestigious grants and awards including a Fulbright Fellowship in 2002 and a Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2009. In 2007, Ziemska was selected…

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April 28, 2012 at 10:13 am

Being Cool [Comic Strip]

Being Cool [Comic Strip]

COMIC BY BILL WATTERSON See all Comic Strips of the Week

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April 27, 2012 at 10:25 pm

Picture of the Day: Snow Chapel in the Czech Republic

Picture of the Day: Snow Chapel in the Czech Republic

SNOW CHAPEL IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC Photograph by RADEK CAMPA @ Panoramio.com Radek Campa took this stunning photograph of the snow-covered chapel of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, located in the village of Trojanovice in the Czech Republic (population of 2,237 as of 2009). Trojanovice lies beneath the Beskydy mountains of Norici 1047…

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April 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Riding in the Back of Pickup Trucks – A Bird’s-Eye View

Riding in the Back of Pickup Trucks - A Bird's-Eye View

In this series by photographer Alejandro Cartagena entitled Car Poolers, we get a rare view into how car-pooling is practiced by workers in Mexico. Alejandro sees it as an acute observation to overgrowth issues in Mexico, where suburbs are being built in far away lands with no proper public transportation to the urban centers.…

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April 27, 2012 at 11:47 am

Music Video Recreates Waveform Using 960 Vinyl Records

Music Video Recreates Waveform Using 960 Vinyl Records

Photograph by Ben Jacobs for Us Studios Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor of Us, a multi-disciplinary design & direction studio, created this awesome music video for Benga’s latest single, I Will Never Change. The video recreates the actual wavelength for the song using 960 individually cut pieces of vinyl. Check out Christopher and…

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April 27, 2012 at 9:28 am

The Shirk Report – Volume 159

The Shirk Report - Volume 159

Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 25 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Enjoy! THE SHIRK REPORT 2.0 IS HERE! IMAGES WILL NOW APPEAR RIGHT BELOW THE TEXT LINK. TO HIDE THE IMAGE, SIMPLY CLICK THE TEXT LINK…

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April 26, 2012 at 8:01 pm

Picture of the Day: A Sunset Eclipse

Picture of the Day: A Sunset Eclipse

A SUNSET ECLIPSE Photograph by GIL NARTEA In this beautiful capture we see two children gazing at a partial solar eclipse over Manila Bay in the Philippines back in 2009. As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon…

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April 26, 2012 at 4:48 pm

The Largest Land Vehicle in the World

The Largest Land Vehicle in the World

Photograph via mejjad The $100 million Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA’s Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo…

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April 26, 2012 at 1:59 pm

21 Amazing Transformations by a YouTube Makeup Queen

21 Amazing Transformations by a YouTube Makeup Queen

With over 600,000 subscribers and 100,000,000 video views, Promise Pham is a YouTube makeup sensation. Her first viral success was a makeup tutorial video for Neytiri (from the movie Avatar) back in 2010. Since then she has exploded in popularity, amassing over 100 million views on YouTube from only 74 videos. Her newfound fame…

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April 26, 2012 at 10:09 am

50 Glorious Moments on Seinfeld

50 Glorious Moments on Seinfeld

Nine seasons, 180 episodes and 10 Emmy awards. Seinfeld will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest television sitcoms of all time. Although the final episode aired almost 15 years ago (May 14, 1998), the show has endured and is now in syndication. One of the great remaining pillars for fans is their…

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