Cool

The cement factory conversion by Ricardo Bofill in Barcelona, Spain is one of the most interesting the Sifter has seen to date. With over 30 silos, multiple buildings and towering ceilings throughout, the space is incredibly raw and presents countless design challenges. Now a multi-purpose facility with an office, residence, exhibition space and more, this is an incredibly unique property with equally an equally dramatic landscape and views of the beautiful Barcelona. Enjoy!

These are some cool shower curtains. Some of them are creepy and some of them are very funny. Which one is your favorite? Pretty awesome home decor don't you think.

Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's Asian Cairns project proposes a new look for China's urban environments, offering an eco-friendly alternative known as farmscrapers (in lieu of skyscrapers). With China's urbanized population growing, leaving fewer and fewer countryside inhabitants, there is an inevitable increase in energy consumption and, thus, an environmental concern. Callebaut's project seeks to restructure the city of Shenzhen by placing his innovative vertical farming towers as a positive response to the impending environmental issues.

Launched in 2009, Paperless Post is a New York-based company that has quickly risen to become the one-stop-shop to send well-designed online (and paper) invitations and cards. Founded by sibling entrepreneurs James and Alexa Hirschfeld (who were just 23 and 25 years old at the time, talk about inspiring), the company has been wildly successful and, to date, boast 2 million users that have collectively sent over 75 million cards.

Watchmen is a series by Paris-based photographer Lionel Bayol-Thémines that presents a number of masked men and women looking over an expanse of land and sea. The calm collection of images give us a taste of a less explored scene of elusive superheroes taking a moment to breathe in their natural surroundings and reflect on their lives.

A compilation of the most hilarious and the most awkward Easter photos.

The Beautiful Kanopi house is located in a sandy cove on Jamaica’s Blue Lagoon. This would be one fantastic place to live. Check out these stunning pictures. This makes me want to take a vacation.

A selection of photos of very cool underground homes. Wouldn't these be fun places to live? I want one!

Life of gypsies as seen by the German photographer Joakim Eskildsen who spent several years living with gypsies in the different countries of Europe and in India.

The space was originally intended as a place for Walt Disney and his family to stay at when they visited the theme park. Take a journey inside. Would you like to stay here?

A collection of very cool fashion cinemagraphs. Gif's are the new way to sell fashion. Slight movement adds to the style. Check it out.

Here are people who modeled for your favorite Disney characters. These fictional disney characters are put in a new light next to these real life men and women.

A compilation of awesome thing from all around the world.

I have no idea why she did it, but the photos are nice. While Shaving her head she reenacts scenes from famous movies.

Hey, we have found and endless source of chocolate! Well, almost. Take a look at this nice trick and learn how you can impress your friends.

A Joker livens up his journey to work — by transforming an unsuspecting commuter into US President Barack Obama and funny Characters. The unknown snapper folds a copy of The Sun and then sneakily takes a picture on his smartphone to create the hilarious images.

Here is the Boeing 747 from the 2005 War of the Worlds movie. The plane was bought by Steven Spielberg for $2 million. Then it was demolished and left lying as if it fell down on the houses. Impressive.

To most men, nothing is sexier than a cute girl in a miniskirt. However, for most girls, few things are more irritating than constantly having to pull down that miniskirt that keeps riding up after every stride, and constantly having to make sure your lady parts aren’t on show for the world to see. The male reporter, Hatopon, who is no stranger to crossdressing, tried on a miniskirt to see what it’s like. The following is a list of the things he realized after wearing a miniskirt for the first (but probably not last) time in his life.

British film student Richard W. Scott imagines what the comedy film, The Hangover, would be like as a horror film.

"This was created as part of an experimental investigation into the power of post-production techniques on a movie’s genre (university undergraduate dissertation)."

I wish the more streets were filled with this kind of art, wouldn't it cheer everyone up? Russia-based artist Alexey Menschikov creates whimsical street art that is populated by cartoon and pop culture characters. Take a look!

Check out this stunningly colorful photos of waves along the coast of Southern California captured by Santa Barbara based photographer David Orias. To capture the unusual bands of color, Orias takes long exposure photos of the waves in early morning light. Cloud cover, wildfire smoke, and other atmospheric conditions cause variations in the colors. Beautiful!

Human sardines? No it's an art work by Italian artist Angelo Musco who creates incredible large-scale photographic compositions that are made up of thousands or even millions of human bodies. The time-consuming process of creating each piece starts with photo shoots of nude volunteers. The models are isolated in Photoshop and then added to Musco’s compositions. The final works, some of which have required two years of post production, can be upwards of 40 feet wide and 12 feet tall.

This man's unique skill is a dream of every hipster. The guys at the prank  youtube channel "whatever"  were filming a video and afterwards ran into a homeless man named Clydesdale who has a curious talent for making his mustache dance. The guys at whatever have started an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to financially help Clydesdale out.

You can use programs such as Coagula and Metasynth to convert images into audio files and then use a spectograph which allows us to visualize sound spectrum, to see them! How awesome is that? Check this music picture gallery out.

It is time to get out and get healthy. Here are some motivational photos to help you get started this weekend. Take it one day at a time and get yourself healthy! A little motivation can go a long way. You can do it! Start living a better life.

As far as internet photo trends go, this one is certainly more fun than planking, Eastwooding or milking (don’t Google that one at work). Hadoken-ing, for lack of a better name, is a trend gaining popularity among Japanese students. Basically one person reenacts the “hadoken” attack from ‘Street Fighter,’ and everybody else plays along by jumping in the air. Some folks think it’s actually an homage to kamahameha from ‘Dragon Ball Z.’ Whatever it’s referencing, it is about a zillion times more entertaining than teenagers dumping a gallon of milk on their heads. Take a look for yourself.

Easter’s right around the corner, so it’s time to get into the holiday spirit. Create some awesome eggs, stuff yourself with Peeps–whatever floats your Easter boat. If none of this prep works for you though, we say take a cue from these Easter bunny babies. They’re adorable and totally in the spring mood, and seriously– could it get any better?! The best part is it doesn’t matter if you celebrate the holiday or not, because bunny munchkins are simply the cutest. Check ‘em out below!

You have to hand it to Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini – he has a wonderful imagination. His latest series titled “Cardboard Ladies” features a collection of regal portraits of (yep you’ve guess it) ladies wearing cardboard. There’s certainly a nod to the style from the Italian Venetian Era and even a nod to whimsical fashion on display in Alice In Wonderland in his work. Personally we can’t wait to experience the next series of iconic images that his mind conjours up.

Like all great artists, Cecilia Paredes gets lost in her work…literally. Similar in style to Liu Bolin (another invisible artist) Peruvian artist Paredes fuses together a combination of breath-taking costumes, patterns, body-paint and countless materials to literally make herself become one with her artwork. Inventive, dedicated and requiring a tremendous amount of skill – the following portraits of her work are as mesmerising as they are intriguging. Of her motivations Cecilia says:

I'm a huge fan of UK illustrator Hattie Stewart (after becoming an internet crusader, you become a huge fan of a bunch of artists) and her transformative work. Her idea is simple, to take those everyday cliché fashion / style magazines and rework their covers into an incredible blur of pop culture chaos – previously stunning Photoshopped models morph into dark & menacing characters. Check out more of her brilliant work here and prepare for eye-candy overload!

Take a touch of Michel Gondry, a hint of Floria Sigismondi and sweeping glance towards David LaChapelle and you’ll close to experiencing the world of the mysterious and enigmatic photographer known simply as The Turk. In his latest collection, he’s created a world where the abandoned, forgotten and discarded circus performers of the past insist that the show must go on. They’re all part of the fictional Salbatar Circus and as you’re about to see from the images below, their stories, roles and acts are all rather miserable and downtrodden – their glory days long gone.

Taking some of the most iconic scenes from video games, movies, art and even fairy tales – Ben Chen not only illustrates them in such a beautiful manner he does so with a sharp wit and genuine sense of humour (I actually found myself chuckling over the death of Super Mario….)

Here’s a story to put a smile on your face. An elderly gentleman (in the truest sense of the word) by the name of Anthony Pisano owns a curious little vintage shop in the back streets of Manhattan…..at least everyone thinks it’s a shop. It’s brimming with a kaleidoscope of treasures, collectibles, knickknacks, trinkets and vintage items – all safely guarded and watched over by his lifelong friend and resident cat. But it turns out that nothing inside is for sale and that the shop itself, is merely his home which he invites people into so that they can explore and put their curiosity at ease. Here’s what the film-makers say about the entire experience:

Looking for some easy pranks for this April fools days? Here are some simple ideas of jokes you can pull off on your friends or family. Some are more evil than others. Some are time consuming while others are incredibly easy. Remember only pick on someone your own size! Have a fun and safe April Fools Day!