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photo by Naomi Culleton Move over kitties! It’s time for some “Dog Beards” action in this scruffy canine equivalent of the popular photo meme “Cat Beards.” You can view more photos of people sporting a dog beard by searching in the Instagram tags #DogBeard and #DogBearding. photo by Laura Blanc photo by Lachie Stewart photo by Gordon Tarpley photo by murdobeans photo by Serenity Storrow Vetter photo by Laura-Chase McGehee photo by galactic_firefly photo by Shovebug photo by Amanda Mottola photo by SNARK Films photo by Dustin Seales photo by Spencer Lane

The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force has dubbed a crew of bank robbers the Trick or Treat Bandits because surveillance footage shows one member holding a pillowcase like a goodie bag. ...

Things are smoking again on the banks of Bear Creek off highway 74 in Kittredge. Darryl Swarts and three friends, all from Ann Arbor, Michigan, bought the former Dick's Hickory Dock in February...

Looks like Yankees star Derek Jeter is finding creative ways to have fun during his stint on the disabled list. The hobbled shortstop was photographed leaving a Greenwich Village Starbucks yesterday with a coffee cup suspiciously marked "Philip." Did Jeter steal someone's Skinny Flavored Decaf Latte? Is this Derek's secret alter-ego to avoid coffee confrontations? What happened to Johnny Drama??? [ more › ]

Photographer Rob Whitworth has created a number of beautiful time-lapse videos that have received huge numbers of views online. This past April, Whitworth had the opportunity to take his skills to the city of Da Nang, Vietnam to document the Danang International Fireworks Competition 2013, one of the world’s “biggest and best” firework contests. The video above documents the two nights on which the competition was held, and it also includes some glimpses of the day in between. There were 3 firework displays on the first night and 2 displays on the second. Leading firework makers from around the world — or more specifically, the US, Russian, Japan, Italy, and Vietnam — showed off their latest and greatest fireworks in the skies above the Han River. On the third night of the competition, the winning team is awarded the DIFC Trophy. This year it was the team from the United States that took home the prize. Here is a selection of the long-exposure photographs captured by Whitworth (these are the images that went into making the time-lapse video seen above): You can find more of Whitworth’s photography and time-lapse work over on his website.

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Aric Almirola will be driving the Air Force No. 43 Ford Fusion during Sunday’s running of the Coca-Cola 600. Last season Almirola claimed the pole for the event and led three laps before finishing 16th. Almirola would finish 12th in the fall race at Charlotte. “I’m really looking forward to this weekend. We got the pole here last year, so we have high expectations for this weekend as well. The race is an extra 100 miles, and you can really feel it. When you would normally get ready to get after it with 50 to go there are still another 100 laps to go. It’s hard on the engine shop. It’s hard on the cars. You make a lot of pit stops during a 600 mile race too, so the pit crew has to stay focused all night as well.” Aside from the race being the longest of the season drivers must also deal with a change from day to night. “It will be a challenge racing from day to night. The track is so slick in the middle of the afternoon. You get really frustrated, and it’s hard to figure out what your car is doing and what you want it to do. You can really adjust your way out of where you need to be. It’s important to really have an understanding of what you want your car to be like in the middle of the day to know it’s going to be good at nighttime.” “Memorial Day Weekend is a really special weekend. The Air Force will be on the car, and I couldn’t be more proud to represent them this weekend. We are lucky to do what we love week in and week out, and if it wasn’t for our military, we wouldn’t have that opportunity. I’m glad that we can give back this weekend. I’d really like to get the Air Force in victory lane and be able to celebrate with them.”

After adding Twitter in iOS 5 and Facebook in iOS 6, Apple is continuing its integration of social networking into iOS. The Cupertino, California based company is reportedly going to expand social media use in iOS by adding support for Flickr and Vimeo in iOS 7. This means users will now be able to upload photos and videos directly from their iOS device without having to…Continue reading Apple reportedly adding support for Flickr and Vimeo in iOS 7Related posts:Evidence of Mac OS X v10.6?Aperture 3.1 update includes iLife ’11 compatibility and moreApple and Innovation: A Roadmap to WWDC 2013

This week, Art shares memories and photos from his years covering the Indianapolis 500 [ more › ]