World’s Strangest

Not one. Amy Shackleton applies wet paint to a canvas and then elevates and turns it so that the paint runs in the direction that she wants. After many carefully staged pourings over one or two weeks, she’s made a complete, coherent image. Her technique seems to work particularly well for nighttime scenes. You can view [...]

Now you’re not only able to check out Scott and Shackleton’s Abandon Antarctic Huts, you can also see photos from the actual expedition – in color. These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Endurance’ voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official photographer on [...]

The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust is restoring the shack used by explorer Ernest Shackleton during his Anarctic expedition of 1907-1909. In 2006 they discovered two cases of whisky, but only recently have they been able to free those crates from the ice. Then they discovered another case of whisky and two crates of brandy! [...]

Crates of whiskey from 100 years ago have been uncovered below Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica. A number of crates of Mackinlay’s Scotch whisky …