What is happening to the Moon?

[Amaterasu]

No but the BAD part is we taste like BACON...even worse...I LOVE bacon. 

Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon

But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.

http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie/

They say Humans are very close to porcine creatures...  That's why They have used pigs' organs in some transplants.

[ArMaP]

Nothing is happening to the Moon, it's just a question of how we look at it.

When we say that the Moon should appear with a specific shape (like a crescent),  we are talking about how the Earth "sees" the Moon, not how we see it, the difference being that we are perpendicular to the Earth's axis, so we look at the Moon from a different point of view.

Try this: lay on the ground (or imagine that you lay on the ground), with you head pointing to the north and your feet to the south, look to your left (east) and watch the Moon appear over the horizon. If the Moon is on it's crescent phase it will look like this:



The north pole of the Moon is pointing in the same direction as the Earth's north pole.

Now, some hours later, when the Moon is on it's highest point above the horizon, repeat the operation: lay on the ground with your head pointing to the north pole. You will see the Moon is in exactly the same position as when it appeared, a "normal", "D-shaped" crescent.

Do the same thing when the Moon sets, lay on the ground with your head pointing to the north pole, look to your right (west) and you will see that the Moon is in the same "D-shaped" position.

If, when you do all of the above, you will also look at the Moon when you are standing up, it will look like this

when appearing over the horizon, it would look "normal" when at it's highest point of it's path, and it will look like this
when setting.

Try it (or just think about it) and you will see.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

ArMap; You are right, it's all about perspective.
But i normally look at the moon w.r.t. the horizon, that gives me a reference point.
Normally it looks exactly like that animation in the OP. In my photo, taken in the Med, is also with a flat horizon, and the crescent was tilted about 45 Deg, which i would consider to be within reason as 'normal'.
I have, in 47 years, never seen the moon w.r.t. horizon as being completely U shaped, or an inverted U. That's what makes that Brazil photo stand out (if it isn't faked).

But, since any change in the moon's orbit (or angle) would have a drastic effect on our tides, it's in the tides that we have to look for anomalies.
So, anyone want to look at tide-tables for the last year or so, & give us some answers?
I would, but i'm busy with 5 different projects at the moment